Lab for Innovative Infrastructure Systems

[2018/01/26]

Four M2 students successfully submitted their master’s theses! The titles are as follows. The details will be written as soon as possible.

Mr. Abe: Model analysis of the impact of life events on household car ownership

Ms. Kobayashi: Modeling of long-term and wide-area tourism excursion pattern behavior using Wi-Fi packet sensors

Mr. Shinohara: Model analysis of intra-city travel patterns of freight vehicles considering trip chains

Mr. Tsuru: Research on a model for predicting retail store location and withdrawal in a detailed spatial mesh unit

[2018/01/25]

We had a crab hot pot party! It was the day before the deadline for submitting the main thesis of the master’s thesis, but the M2 students, with their own enthusiasm and the generous support of their professors, finished it successfully (with some corrections remaining…) and enjoyed a delicious crab hot pot party! Hooray!

[2017年12月29日]

After the the TSU midterm seminar was completed, we had a lab cleaning and a year-end party with alumni.

Lab cleaning is an important event to clean and reset the places we usually despise, such as organizing desks, tidying bookshelves, washing windows, and cleaning secret rooms. This year we were able to do it again, with some surprising moments such as the VHS and floppy disks showing up!

We had a wonderful time at the end-of-year party, hearing stories of alumni we haven’t seen in a while, and playing with Prof. Fukuda’s children, which is different from the end-of-year party at TSU. Let’s make sure we all live our lives to the fullest so that we can happily celebrate this day like this again next year!

[2017/12/28]

The midterm presentation for graduation theses and master’s theses was held within TSU, which consists of the Asakura, Yai, Muromachi, Hanaoka, and Fukuda laboratories. I don’t think it is enough to describe them only in words, but they covered a very wide range of topics including logistics, sharing, tourism, bicycles, aviation, highways, and urban planning. One month left, let’s hit the ground running!

[2017年12月22日]

We had a ‘Nabe’ (hotpot) party as a kick-off party for the TSU midterm presentation! We bought a motsu nabe set the day before on Rakuten. Moreover, on the day of the party, Prof. Fukuda, B4 and M1 students shopped for ingredients and prepared a little bit, it turned out to be a very delicious motsu nabe! There was a Waseda-Keio game, some people went to buy a cake but didn’t get to eat it, and it was a fun party.

[2017/12/19]

There was a campus-wide cleaning, which is the Midorigaoka campus that I usually take care of. However, the main thing is sweeping those fallen leaves.

The end of the year is approaching steadily.

[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).