Kick-off Symposium of 3DTraffic project
Salsa-sann, a project researcher in the Fukuda Lab, have made a report for kick off event of 3DTraffic Project in Bangkok. Below is the report.
I am Salsa, a Project Researcher in the Fukuda Lab.
Currently, Prof. Fukuda, Dr. Fujiwara, Krittanai, and I are involved in a project called 3DTraffic SATREPS Project. The project is a collaborative research project between research institutions in Japan and Thailand and aims to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions in Bangkok through the improvement of traffic control.
On Monday, May 20, 2025, we had some events to initiate our project at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. The events started with a Joint Coordination Committee meeting in the morning, followed by 3DTraffic Lab Opening Ceremony, the Kick-off Symposium, and ended with a reception dinner. The Kick-off Symposium was open for the general public to attend, and the event was conducted hybrid style (on-site and online webinar participation), so I was able to attend the webinar from my home in Tokyo.
The symposium started with remarks from Prof. Kasem Choocharukul of Chulalongkorn University and Mr. Haruka Ozawa from the Embassy of Japan in Thailand. As the Project Investigator of 3DTraffic, Prof. Daisuke Fukuda also elaborated on the overview of 3DTraffic project. We were also honored to have Distinguished Professor Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Tokaigakuen University) delivered a keynote lecture at our event. As the project leader of the previous SATREPS project, which also took Bangkok as a case study, we gained a lot of insights from Prof. Hayashi’s speech about Bangkok’s historical to present mobility and urban conditions, also how the Quality of Life and CO2 emissions can be improved through the transformation of city structure and optimizing QoL-MaaS scenario, advices that came from his project.
Each working group also had the chance to present their study plans and what they are aiming to achieve within the 5-year period of this project. A panel discussion session was held, with Prof. Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Prof. Takashi Oguchi, Prof. Sorawit Narupiti, and Prof. Kasem Choocharukul as panelists and Mr. Yoshihisa Asada as the moderator. 3 main topics guided the discussion, and the experts gave their invaluable opinions about the legacies that can be utilized in the project, the kind of output that the project shall disseminate, and the project’s prospect in developing human resources. The event was closed with a remark from Prof. Sorawit.
We are grateful that despite their busy schedule, many people participated in the event since the morning, including various Thai government agencies involved in transportation planning and traffic management in Bangkok, representatives from Japanese government agencies, and researchers from various institutions who are members of the 3DTraffic project. We are looking forward to having a good collaboration with everyone, and we are committed to giving our best to reach the goals in our project!
For those who are interested in knowing more about our project, please visit our website: https://www.3dtraffic.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/
(Photos by 3DTraffic Event Organizing Team)
