Past activities (2005-2009)
Presentation (presented in English only) since 2005
- "Empirical analysis on value of time and value of travel time savings
for leisure activities of non-work dayLunch Time" presented in lunch
time seminar of transport planning group of IVT, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Swizerland), May 2005.
- "Value of leisure time: comparative analysis between Germany and Japan"
presented at Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt (Germany), October
2005.
- "Urban Rail Planning in Tokyo: From my experience" presented
in lunch time seminar of public transport group of IVT, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland), November 2005.
- "Transdisciplinary approach to sustainable transport planning"
presented at AGS Technical Meeting 2005, Chalmers University of Technology,
Gothenburg (Sweden), November 2005.
- "Urban Rail Planning in Tokyo: policy and methodology" presented
at HES Regular Seminar of Institute for Human-Environment Systems, Swiss
Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland), November 2005.
- "How was the Urban Railway Network Planned in Tokyo: Method and Practice" presented at the headquater office of SBB (Swiss National Railway), Bern (Switzerland), February 2006.
- "Demand and Cost-benefit Analyses for Introduction of High-speed Inter-regional
Rail Service Directly Connected with Shinkansen Network" presented
in lunch time seminar of public transport group of IVT, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland), March 2006.
- "From Trip-based VTTS to Activity-based VTTS" presented in lunch
time seminar of transport planning group of IVT, Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Swizerland), March 2006.
- "Inter-regional Freight Transport Model based on Spatial Price Equilibrium
: Empirical Analysis of Japan" presented at the spcial seminar of
IVT, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich (Switzerland),
September 2006.
- "Travel Behaviour in Urban Areas and Values of Travel Time Savings:
Time Use Analysis" presented at Regeneration Workshop, Centre for
the Study of Cities & Regions, University of Durham (UK), December 2006.
- "Value of time in transportation project evaluation" presented
at the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila (Philippines), December 2006.
- "Problem Structuring in Transport Policy" presented at NISSAN
Workshop in IPOS (Intensive Program on Sustainability) 2006, Sajima Marina
(Japan), December 2006.
- "Project Evaluation in Urban Public Transport Investment" and
"Urban Railway Planning in Tokyo" presented at the Urban Public
Transport Colloquim II (organized by Japan International Cooperation Agency:
JICA), Tokyo, January 2007.
- "A Direction to Medan 2030" presented at the International Workshop
on Urban Development and Environment in Medan 2030 (organized by cSUR),
Medan (Indonesia), March 2007.
- "The Variation of Value of Travel Time Saving over Travel Time: Theoretical
and Practical Analysis" presented at the Department of Civil Engineering,
National University of Singapore, Singapore, March 2007.
- "Practical problems in travel demand modeling and and economic evaluation"
presented at the School of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the
Philippines, Manila (Philippines), April 2007.
- "Urban railway planning in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area" presented
at L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana (Kazakhstan), April
2007.
- "Inter-urban highspeed local railway operation directly through Shinkansen"
presented at Kyzylorda State University, Kyzylorda (Kazakhstan), April
2007.
- "Case study of the Philippines" presented at the Final Workshop on Aid Effectiveness to Infrastructure: A Comparative Study of East Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, Headquarter, Japan Bank for International Cooperation (Japan), December 2007.
- "Problem structuring in transport policy" presented at NISSAN Workshop in Intensive Program on Sustainability (IPOS) 2007, Sajima Marina (Japan), December 2007.
- "Value of travel time savings of urban private travel: Comparison
of Tokyo and Karlsruhe " presented at Danish Transport Research Institute,
Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen (Denmark), February 2008.
- "Public transport for sustainable transport system"presented at ASEAN-Japan Urban Bus Transport Expert Group Meeting (AJLT-6 Urban Public Transport Policy Framework, Batam, Indonesia), February 2008.
- "Value of time in developing countries" presented at Department of Civil Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok (Thailand), March 2008.
- "Urban railway master plan in Tokyo: Its history and current problems" presented at Department of Civil Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand), March 2008.
- "Future of Transportation in Japan" presented at the Sustainable
Energy/Environment and Public Policy (SEPP) Scenario Workshop: Interaction
between Japan and Singapore on the Future of Sustainable Energy and Environment,
Lee Kuan Ywe School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
(Singapore), May 2008.
- "Role of bus for sustainable urban transportation system" presented
at the special invited seminar at Yangon Technological University (Myanmar),
September 2008.
- "Introduction of travel demand analysis" presented at the special
invited seminar at Yangon Technological University (Myanmar), November
2008.
- "Fundamentals of travel demand modeling" presented at the special
invited seminar at Yangon Technological University (Myanmar), November
2008.
- "Value and usage of transportation statistics" presented at Workshop for Facilitation of ASEAN-Japan Common Transport Statistics in Yangon (AJOA-2), Myanmar (Myanmar), November 2008.
- "Public participation, problem structuring methods and policy process for transition : In the context of transportation planning" presented at a special invited lecture in "Science, Technology and Public Policy", Science-Po, Paris (France), December 2008.
- "Urban mobility in a low-income country, a case of Yangon, Myanmar"
presented at cSUR-UT International Symposium on Vulnerability in Cities
2009: Cities in Vulnerability: New Challenges Ahead (Tokyo, Japan), March
2009.
- "Hospital choice analysis in rural area of developing countries: A
case study from Sri Lanka" presented at the Japan-Netherlands Joint
Seminar: Household Activity-travel Behavior Analysis for Urban Policy-making
of Supporting Women's Participation in Labor Market: A Comparative Study
between Japan and the Netherlands, Eindhoven (The Netherlands), March 2009.
- "Summary and recommendations from study on urban bus transport in
Yangon" presented at the Seminar on Urban Public Transport Policy
Framework: Future Public Bus Service (ASEAN-Japan Transport Partnership),
Yangon (Myanmar), March 2009.
- "Importance of land-use planning for sustainable urban transportation
system" presented at the Seminar on Urban Public Transport Policy
Framework: Future Public Bus Service (ASEAN-Japan Transport Partnership),
Yangon (Myanmar), March 2009.
- "Carsharing in Japan" presented at the headquarter of Mobility International Co., Luzern (Switzerland), November 2009.
- "Value, behavior, and urban sustainability" presented at the International Workshop on Sustainable City's Research UI - RIHN at Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, University of Indonesia, Jakarta (Indonesia), December 2009.
- "Carsharing in Japan: Recent trend" presented at the special
seminar at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Zurich, Zurich (Switzerland),
December 2009.
- "Scenario of Future Urban Mobility in Japan" presented at the headquarter of World Economic Forum, Geneva (Switzerland), December 2009.