| Project/Area Number |
23K11548
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 64060:Environmental policy and social systems-related
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
Pandyaswargo AndanteHadi 早稲田大学, 理工学術院(環境・エネルギー研究科・環境総合研究センター), 主任研究員(研究院准教授) (10826093)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2023-04-01 – 2026-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2025: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
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| Keywords | Waste management / Smart technology / Autonomous vehicle / Public perception / Smart mobility / Aging population / Smart city / Smart bins / Social Acceptance / Smart Technologies / Smart Waste Management / Smart Mobility / Sustainability |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Smart technologies may improve human quality of life in various ways. However, such technologies do not always have positive acceptance in society. This study aims to develop a people-centric approach to improve the acceptance of smart municipal waste management and smart mobility technologies.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We enhanced our social assessment tools for smart waste management (SWM) and smart mobility (SM) through its implementation in two Japanese case studies this year.
Our SWM study found that a smart bin technology is favored by all age groups. However, technological solution alone may not be enough to change people's behavior or reduce waste production.
Our SM study revealed the promising potentials of autonomous vehicles to aid the mobility of the country's aging population and ultimately enhance their well-being.
Our findings were published in three international journals and seven international conferences, two of which were by invitation. Waseda University sponsored a press release for wider dissemination of one of our papers because of the journal's top 3% impact status in the field.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
1: Research has progressed more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Our research problem turned out to be a trending topic surrounding the recent accelerated growth of smart technologies. Therefore, our manuscripts were prioritized by top journals in waste management and transportation. This situation may have influenced the faster review and publication speed of our research outputs.
Moreover, our survey design, which ensured an equal distribution of age and location of respondents across Japan, was met with high praise from the reviewers. Our approach may have instilled the reviewer's confidence in the robustness of our research methodology.
We also found an affordable survey service for the Indonesian case study so that the remaining budget for this year was sufficient to collect part of the Indonesian survey data.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In this research project, we are covering two topics (smart waste management and smart mobility) and their applications in a developed and a developing countries (Japan and Indonesia, respectively).
Since the Japan application for both topics has been completed, this year, we will focus on the Indonesian application. Furthermore, because the survey data for the Indonesian mobility case study has been collected, we plan to perform in-depth interviews with the survey respondents in the first half of the year. This way, we can deepen our understanding of people using smart technologies.
The second half of the year will be dedicated to Indonesia's waste management topic. Finally, the final year will be dedicated to comparing the two countries and examining how the two technologies can complement one another.
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