Lab for Innovative Infrastructure Systems

[2017/12/03]

Tokyo Tech participated in the “10-University Planning Laboratory Baseball Tournament” again this year. Although we were not able to participate, we heard that not only students but also Prof. Fukuda played an active role in pitching and hitting. Let’s do it again next year!

[2017/10/23]

We received a recent report from Ms. Kaneko (M2 student), who is currently studying abroad at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZurich):

I am a research student at ETHZurich in Switzerland. Unlike in Japan, the laboratory is basically composed of doctors and above, so I am the youngest in the group. I also look forward to visiting Switzerland and other European countries on my days off!

Noriko Kaneko

[2017年9月13日～15日]

This year, five members (three M1 students and two B4 students) from Fukuda Laboratory participated in the Behaviour Modelling Summer School as a Tokyo Tech team.

Based on the Yokohama Probe Person data, we worked on the construction of a “destination selection model for lone travelers,” which investigates how lone travelers select their destinations. We examined the necessary data and models by considering how single customers select their destinations, specifically, whether they select stores or zones. As a result, we were not able to obtain valid results due to the small sample size and large number of explanatory variables. Let’s try again next year!

Reference HP: UTokyo Behaviour in Networks Studies Unit > Seminars > 2017 > Behaviour Modelling Summer School 2017

[2017/09/08 ~ 09/09]

We visited Gunma Prefecture for the purpose of surveying the location of commercial stores for Mr. Tsure’s researchof Mr. Tsuru (M2).

[2017/08～2017/09]

Mr. Tanaka from Kamiya Laboratory at the University of the Ryukyus, with whom we are collaborating on a wifi-based tourism flow survey, spent a month in Fukuda Laboratory during the summer vacation. It was a fulfilling month for us to share what we don’t have with each other, not only in research but also in our personal lives. Let’s continue our friendly collaboration!

[2017/09/25]

Two new members, Ms. Salsa [M1] and Ms. Oka [D1], joined our lab from this September! Let’s get excited!

[2017/08/26～08/29]

This year, the TSU joint summer seminar was held in Hakone, Kanagawa Prefecture, as in the previous year. The main purpose of this camp is for master and doctoral students and professors to present and discuss their research. I think we were able to have more active discussions this year. In addition, we were able to share new knowledge by reading books on game theory in the lab seminar. Also, we were able to interact with people outside the laboratory through the reception and BBQ, making it a very dense camp.

(From left) Mr. Shiroma [B4], Ms. Iokura [B4], and Mr. Hirabayashi [M1] newly joined our lab from this April. Let’s do our best in our research.

The following students graduated from our laboratory this spring.

• Ge Qian (Ph.D.)
• Gao-Qi Wang (M.S.)
• Masanori Mizuguchi (M.S.)
• Shin Suzuki (B.S.)

Morever, Mr. Yamaguchi, a researcher, will move to Kanazawa University as a specially-appointed assistant professor from this April.

We wish you all the best in the new position.

In connection with the project of data-driven transportation research, we held a joint workshop with Arimura-Asada Laboratory of Muroran Institute of Technology and Kamiya Laboratory of University of the Ryukyus (see photo here). Prof. Fukuda, Mr. Nakanishi, Ms. Kaneko, Mr. Imaoka, and Mr. Suzuki participated from Fukuda Lab. The presentation program is as follows.

1. Development of a downscaling method for estimating the population entering a city by time of day using RBF network (Takumi Ikoshi, M1 student at the Department of Environmental Engineering and Design, Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology)
2. Evaluation of travel time reliability using commercial vehicle probe data: A case study of the Sapporo city center access road (Tatsuya Kaneko, M1 student at the Graduate School of Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology)
3. Fundamental Study on Survey Methods for Tourist Behavior (Kendai Tanaka, B4 student at the Department of Environmental and Construction Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of the Ryukyus)
4. A study on understanding intercity passenger flow by fusion of multiple data (Arata Suzuki, B4 student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
5. The applicability of the Recursive Logit model (Noriko Kaneko, M1 student at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Environmental and Social Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology)

We would like to thank Prof. Arimura and Prof. Asada for organizing this seminar. Thank you very much.