Presentations of graduation theses and master’s theses in 2021

2022年2月19日

The master’s thesis presentation of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the graduation thesis presentation at the University of Tokyo Thesis for the academic year 2021 were held on February 9-10 and February 8-9, respectively. Four M2 students (Ukai, Kimura, Sakurai, and Tabuchi) and two B4 students (Ebashi and Hasegawa) passed the thesis presentations.

In addition, B4 student Hasegawa received the Tanabe Sakuro Prize.

Each presentation title is as follows:

Mr. Ukai: Study of traffic management based on information design
Mr. Kimura: Simulating Time-Varying Fare Policy of Urban Rail Transit Considering Structural Changes in Passenger Demand
Mr. Sakurai: Analysis of Congestion Pricing in A Sightseeing Area with Activity-Based Travel Choice Modeling
Ms. Tabuchi: Evaluation of Subscription Plan in Urban MaaS Considering People’s Daily Activity Pattern
Mr. Ebashi: Online experimental study on traffic information provision method based on self-fulfilling signals
Mr. Hasegawa: Post-evaluation of place-based policy in Japan based on Quantitative Spatial Economics

 

 

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Members of the Behavioral Model Summer School 2021 Received the Davis Awards

2021年9月21日
Mr. Arai (M1) and Mr.  Tabata (M1) and Mr. Ebashi (B4) and Mr. Hasegawa (B4) participated in the “Behavioral Modeling Summer School 2021” held from 15th to 19th September 2021, and they received the Davis Award.
 
The Behavioral Modeling Summer School is a program for graduate students, young researchers, engineers, and policy makers from all over Japan specializing in civil engineering, architecture, and urban planning to acquire basic and specialized knowledge of discrete choice models that adopted in urban planning and transportation planning. In the summer school, each team works on a programming study using the smartphone probe person data.
 
From our lab, Mr. Arai (M1) and Mr.  Tabata (M1) and Mr. Ebashi (B4) and Mr. Hasegawa (B4) had participated as a team. They came up with the idea that people’s value of time has changed due to the coronavirus pandemic, and that the required urban planning is also changing. Therefore, by constructing a multinomial logit model from probe person data in Toyosu in 2019 and 2020, we confirmed that the value of time is increasing during the corona crisis, and some further urabn planning policies will be required in the future.
 

This result was evaluated as an interesting fact finding by behavioral analysis, and hence received the “Davis Award”.

I would we can continue to discover some interesting facts in the real-world through behavioral models.

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Lab Activity Started in 2021!

2021年4月21日
We have started our laboratory activities under a new structure with the addition of (M1) Mr. Arai, (B4) Mr. Hasegawa and (B4) Mr. Ebashi.
 
The following are the topics that each student is working on.
 Mr. Ukai: Theoretical basis of information design
 Mr. Kimura Departure time selection, user equilibrium, and system optimization
 Mr. Sakurai: Mathematical optimization of mobility and activity modeling
 Ms. Tabuchi Pricing of MaaS
 Mr. Arai: Benefit Evaluation under Uncertainty
 Mr. Tabata: Risk-averse route guidance
 Mr.Ebashi: Experimental approach in transportation
 Mr. Hasegawa: Research Trends in Long-Term Residence Choice
 
Seminar activities in the first semester will be conducted once a week in a hybrid format which combines face-to-face and online activities. The choice of which seminar to participate in is up to the students, but in the first seminar, all students are required to participate in the face-to-face seminar. Many of the students expressed their desires to participate in face-to-face seminars in the future.
 

There are three types of seminars in the first semester:

  1. Basic seminar
    It is a seminar in which students learn the basic knowledge required for conducting research, following the textbook. In this semester, we will cover microeconomics and game theory, fundamentals of econometric analysis, mechanism design, and data-driven statistical analysis (machine learning, Bayesian, optimization).
  2. Research progress seminar
    It is a seminar in which each member reports on his/her research progress. Each member is expected to report twice every six months.
  3. Paper reading seminar
    It is a seminar for reviewing and presenting English literature. Each member chooses an English paper that can introduce his/her research theme as “comprehensively” as possible.

Although there are many uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all members are enthusiastic about their research.

I look forward to working with you all this year.

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The 19th Behavioral Modelling Summer School

2021年3月31日

The annual Behavioral Modelling Summer School was held online from 12nd to 15th September. M1 and B4 students Mr. Ukai, Mr. Kimura, Mr. Sakurai, Ms. Tabuchi and Mr. Tabata had participated in this sommuer school.

The title of the summer school was “A Study of Transportation Model based on Personal Attributes in the Post-Pandemic Era”.
The study was based on the assumption that behavior patterns diversify after pandemic, even with the same economic attributes. We then proposed a model to extract new personal attributes from behavioral patterns.

We would like to thank the Hato Laboratory of the University of Tokyo for hosting us and our professors for their guidance.
Thank you very much!

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ABM(Activity Based Model) Reading Session

2021年3月31日

During the summer vacation, we held a reading session of papers on ABM (Activity Based Model).

Volunteers, Ms. Ihoroi, Mr. Sakurai, Ms. Tabuchi, and Mr. Tabata presented papers on ADB, and we deepened our understanding by asking each other questions.

Thank you very much to Ms. Ihoroi for organizing this event and to Prof. Fukuda for his guidance!

Papers covered in the reading session:

 
 

 

 

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Ms. Ihoroi, Mr. Kita, and Mr. Shimizu completed master’s course at Tokyo Tech

2021年3月31日

Ms. Ihoroi, Mr.Kita, and Mr. Shimizu completed the master’s course and graduated.

I wish you all the best in your future endeavours.
Congratulations!

 

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Yuto Shimizu(M2) won the Student Research Encouragement Award – 2020 Grand Prize- by NTT DATA Mathematical Systems Inc.

2021年2月25日

Mr. Yuto Shimizu, a second-year master’s student, was selected as the winner of the Student Research Encouragement Award of NTT Data Mathematical Systems Inc. for his master’s thesis entitled “Analysis of the Influence of Rainfall on the Increase of Train Delays in Urban Railways”.

The Student Research Encouragement Award is given by NTT DATA MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS INC. to students for their outstanding research achievements in the mathematical sciences.

The award was featured on the Tokyo Institute of Technology’s Environmental and Civil Engineering web site and in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper.

Congratulations!

 

Reference articles:

NTTデータ数理システムのデータサイエンスツールで学生が社会課題に挑む

朝倉・福田研究室の清水裕斗さん(修士2)の研究が、()NTTデータ数理システム「2020年度学生研究奨励賞 最優秀賞」を受賞

NTTデータ数理システム、2020年度「NTTデータ数理システム学生研究奨励賞」を決定

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2020 Graduation Thesis/Master’s Thesis Presentation

2021年2月19日

The 2020 graduation and master’s thesis presentations have ended successfully. The titles of each presentation are as follows.

  • Ms. Ihoroi: Multimodal sightseeing tour choice model considering congestion: A case study in Kamakura
  • Mr. Kita: Optimazation of urban air mobility passenger service operation system
  • Mr. Shimizu: Impact of Rainfall on the operarion delays in an urban rail transit
  • Mr. Tabata: A study on real-time anomaly detection of traffic states with DSRC-based data collection technology

Thank you all for your hard work.

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Mr. Dantsuji received the 2020 Yoneya-Sasaki Award

2021年2月3日

Mr. Takao Dantsuji, a project researcher, received the 2020 Yoneya-Sasaki Award (dissertation category).

This award was established to recognize the achievements of the late Dr. Eiji Yoneya and Dr. Tsuna Sasaki, who were pioneers of traffic engineering and transportation planning in Japan.

Congratulations!

Reference article: https://www.issr-kyoto.or.jp/event/fund/award_2020.html

 

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Mr. Dantsuji received the 2020 Yoshikawa-Yamaguchi Award

2021年2月2日

Mr. Takao Dantsuji, a project researcher, received the 2020 Yoshikawa-Yamaguchi Award.

The Yoshikawa-Yamaguchi Award was established to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in order to recognize the achievements of Dr. Hideo Yoshikawa and Dr. Kashiwagi Yamaguchi, who made significant contributions to both education and research in the early years of the Department of Civil Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Congratulations!

Reference article (in Japanese): https://www.kuramae.ne.jp/kyuyu_awards/

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