Impacts of Japan's demographic change on urban reilway and required policy

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24360206
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
• Principal Investigator: MORICHI Shigeru 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, アカデミックフェロー (40016473)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HIBINO Naohiko 政策研究大学院大学, 政策研究科, 准教授 (10318206)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 都市鉄道 / 東京圏 / 年齢別人口 / 転入・転出人口 / 少子高齢化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The serious congestion, frequent delay and other problems of the urban railway in Tokyo have still continued, however the necessity of the improvement is disregarded because of the declined population in the future. The repeated under-estimate of the population in Tokyo Metropolitan Area by the government and the impacts of declined population on urban railway in other cities are shown in this research. Another example of our new findings is that the demographic change and the problem in the area along the each railway line in Tokyo MA is different each other. We proposed that the railway companies have to collaborate with the local governments to make generation mixed land-use and other required policies.

Free Research Field

土木計画学、交通工学、国土計画