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1999 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

The Change of the Structure of System of Cities by Providing Rapid Transportation Systems

Research Project

Project/Area Number 10650525
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 交通工学・国土計画
Research InstitutionKYOTO UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

KOBAYASHI Kiyoshi  Kyoto University, Department of Civil Engineering, Professor, 工学研究科, 教授 (50115846)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) MATSUSHIMA Kakuya  Kyoto University, Department of Civil Engineering, Research Associate, 工学研究科, 助手 (60303848)
HIDESHIMA Eizo  Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Civil Engineering, Lecturer, 工学部, 講師 (50243069)
Project Period (FY) 1998 – 1999
KeywordsGeneral Equilibrium Model / City Systems / Rapid Transportation / Knowledge Production / Externalities / Simulation
Research Abstract

We examines the dynamics of population location using a simple general equilibrium model with agglomeration economies that permits a description of the lock-in effects associated with existing agglomerations. By assuming that the government applies slightly different decision rules (cost-benefit evaluation rules) and that it improves the transport network, especially the railway network, through one by one link improvements in the order that the links with the highest benefit-cost ratios are given the highest priority to be improved, this paper tries to demonstrate that city systems will evolve in such a manner that population will indeed cluster in some dominant locations, and that this depends both on the geographical conditions and historical order of network improvement.
The model highlights one of the major sources of increasing returns, i.e., spatial agglomeration generated through technological externalities in production. The model is designed to exclusively simulate how the str … More ucture of city systems will evolve in response to railway network improvement. In this research, we exclusively focused upon the latter types of externality to describe how city systems will evolve in response to increasing possibilities of face-to-face communications due to railway network improvements.
The cost-benefit evaluation rule guarantees the government to make the local optimal decisions, given the history of the network evolution. The successions of the local optimal improvement need not to reach the global optimal state. This is especially true if the city system is inherently characterized by the multiplicity of the equilibria. Though only limited number of simulation experiments are dealt with, we have succeeded to illustrate that the simple succession of the cost-benefit evaluation rules may end up with highly centralized systems having low efficiency. As far as our simulation experiments are concerned, this is especially clear when decisions are made by coarse and naive cost-benefit calculation. Less

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  • [Publications] Eizo Hideshima: "Local public goods provision over two jurisdictions"Sustainability and Development. 129-139 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 小林潔司: "フェイス・ツゥ・フェイスのコミュニケーション過程に関する理論的研究"土木学会論文集. No.590/IV-39. 11-22 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 秀島栄三: "地方公共財供給における自治体間の自発的協力形成に関するモデル分析"第33回都市計画学会論文集. 19-24 (1998)

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  • [Publications] 小林潔司: "不完全情報下での混雑料金の役割に関する研究"土木学会論文集. No.611/IV-42. 57-68 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 小林潔司: "過疎地域におけるバスの最適維持方式に関する研究"土木学会論文集. No.611/IV-42. 45-56 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 松島格也: "タクシー・サービスのスポット市場均衡に関する研究"土木計画学研究・論文集. No.16. 591-600 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 小林潔司: "創造性と大都市の将来"森北出版. 200 (1999)

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  • [Publications] 小林潔司: "知識社会と都市の発展"森北出版. 228 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Eizo Hideshima: "Local public goods provision over two jurisdictions"Sustainability and Development. 129-139 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Kiyoshi Kobayashi: "Communication Process by Face-to-Face Contacts : A Theoretical Perspective (in Japanese)"Journal of Infrastructure Planning and Management. No.590/IV-39. 11-22 (1998)

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  • [Publications] Eizo Hideshima: "Endogenous Coalition Formation for Local Public Goods Provision (in Japanese)"City Planning Review. No.33. 19-24 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Kiyoshi Kobayashi: "Supplying Local Bus Service in Sparsely Populated Areas (in Japanese)"Journal of Infrastructure Planning and Management. No.611/IV-42. 57-58 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Kiyoshi Kobayashi: "The State-dependent Congestion Tolls Under Imperfect Information : A Theoretical Approach (in Japanese)"Journal of Infrastructure Planning and Management. No.611/IV-42. 57-58 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Kakuya Matsushima: "Spot Market Equilibrium of Taxi Services (in Japanese)"Infrastructure Planning Review. No.16. 591-600 (1999)

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  • [Publications] Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI: "Creativity and the Future of Big Cities"Morikita Publication. (1999)

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  • [Publications] Kiyoshi KOBAYASHI: "Knowledge Society and the Growth of Cities"Morikita Publication. (1999)

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