The History and Challenges of Japan’s Low-Carbon Transportation Systems

Abstract

Japan has been building the rail-based transportation system since the modernization of the 19th century. Yet it experienced the motorization starting the early 1970s and has been struggling for the low-carbon transportation system mainly by introducing transportation demand management schemes. The recent car technologies help lower CO₂ emission by applying efficient engines, new generation vehicles and ITS.

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Japan has been building the rail-based transportation system since the modernization of the nineteenth century. Yet it experienced the motorization starting the early 1970s and has been struggling for the low-carbon transportation system mainly by introducing transportation demand management schemes. The recent car technologies help lower CO₂ emission by applying efficient engines, new generation vehicles and ITS.

The main research of Prof. Takayuki Morikawa concerns the areas of Travel Behavior, Transportation Demand Analysis, Transportation Policies, ITS, etc. And he has published over 150 academic papers in various international journals and conferences.