Lab for Innovative Infrastructure Systems

A new paper with Dr. Yuki Oyama (and others) on E-commerce users’ preference toward detailed delivery options has been accepted. The article is open-access, so please feel free to download it if it interests you.

The findings indicate that many customers are unwilling to pay a significant amount for faster delivery and do not highly value time slot shortening. This information may guide strategies for managing demand to reduce delivery burdens while maintaining customer satisfaction.

Yuki Oyama; Daisuke Fukuda; Naoto Imura; Katsuhiro Nishinari. (2024)
Do people really want fast and precisely scheduled delivery? E-commerce customers’ valuations of home delivery timing.
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services. Volume 78, 103711, ISSN 0969-6989.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jretconser.2024.103711.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969698924000079

A research paper on the big data analysis of travel patterns in the three major metropolitan areas during the COVID-19 outbreak (in the first half of 2020), co-authored by Professor Dantsuji (Monash University & Kanazawa University) and Professor Sugishita (Tokyo Institute of Technology), has been published in Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice. In this study, we consider daily travel patterns as networks and analyze their structural changes by applying a framework for analyzing temporal networks used in network science.

Takao Dantsuji; Kashin Sugishita; Daisuke Fukuda. (2023) Understanding changes in travel patterns during the COVID-19 Outbreak in the three major metropolitan areas of Japan. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice., Paper No. 103762.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103762
(Freely accessible for 50 days from the following link:)
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1hTtP3Rd3u-pxb

A new big book titled “Handbook on Transport Pricing and Financing” has been published by Edward Elgar recently. Prof. Fukuda had contributed one chapter (Chapter 8: Road pricing and provision of capacity) jointly with Prof. Se-il Mun of Kyoto University.

The handbook and its Chapter 8 can be accessed through the following links:

• Handbook: https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollbook/book/9781800375550/9781800375550.xml
• Chapter 8: https://www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/book/9781800375550/book-part-9781800375550-15.xml

Prof. Fukuda, along with Dr. Dantsuji (from Monash and Kanazawa Universities) and Prof. Takayama (from TokyoTech), recently published a new paper on perimeter control under the bathtub (MFD) traffic dynamics with public transport. This paper examines the travelers’ behavior changes in response to perimeter control with transit priority in a mixed bimodal transportation system with cars and flexible route transit (FRT) vehicles. 

Takao Dantsuji; Yuki Takayama; Daisuke Fukuda. (2023) Perimeter control in a mixed bi-modal bathtub. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. Vol. 173, pp. 267–291.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trb.2023.05.003
(Freely accessible for 50 days from the following link:)
https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1h9vchVEB8pu6

Two research papers from our laboratory have been published in the JSTE Journal of Traffic Engineering:

• Rikuto SAKURAI, Natsuho IHOROI, & Daisuke FUKUDA. (2023). ANALYSIS OF CONGESTION PRICING IN A SIGHTSEEING AREA WITH ACTIVITY-BASED TRAVEL CHOICE MODELING. JSTE Journal of Traffic Engineering. Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. A_128–A_137.
  https://doi.org/10.14954/jste.9.4_A_128
• Kyoshiro EBASHI, & Daisuke FUKUDA. (2023). Online Experimental Study on Traffic Information Provision Based on the Self-fulfilling Signal. JSTE Journal of Traffic Engineering. Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. A_162–A_170.
  https://doi.org/10.14954/jste.9.2_A_162

The following five papers from our lab were published in the special issue of the Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management). We would like to thank our co-researchers for their contribution:

• Daisuke FUKUDA, & Hiroya SHIROMA. (2023) RECENT METHODOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN DISCRETE CHOICE ANALYSIS: REVIEW ON INDIVIDUAL HETEROGENEITY AND PERTURBED UTILITY MODELS. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management). Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. I_1–I_20. [Invited paper]
  https://doi.org/10.2208/jscejipm.78.5_I_1
• Keita HASEGAWA, & Daisuke FUKUDA. (2023). POST-EVALUATION OF RECENT JAPANESE REGIONAL TRANSFER POLICIES: QSE (QUANTITATIVE SPATIAL ECONOMICS) APPROACH. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management). Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. I_163–I_182.
  https://doi.org/10.2208/jscejipm.78.5_I_163
• Keiko TABUCHI, & Daisuke FUKUDA. (2023). EVALUATION OF SUBSCRIPTION PLAN IN URBAN MAAS CONSIDERING CITIZENS’ DAILY ACTIVITY PATTERN. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management). Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. I_437–I_447.
  https://doi.org/10.2208/jscejipm.78.5_I_437
• Satoru KIMURA, & Daisuke FUKUDA. (2023). SIMULATING TIME-VARYING FARE POLICY OF URBAN RAIL TRANSIT CONSIDERING STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN PASSENGER DEMAND. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management). Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. I_919–I_937.
  https://doi.org/10.2208/jscejipm.78.5_I_919
• Akane KOMIYAMA, Kuniaki SASAKI, Daisuke FUKUDA, & Ryoji ISHII. (2023). ASSIMILATING OF THE ACTIVITY-BASED SIMULATION AND OBSERVATION DATA IN A TOKYO METROPOLITAN AREA. Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers, Ser. D3 (Infrastructure Planning and Management).  Vol. 78, No. 5, pp. I_553–I_560.
  https://doi.org/10.2208/jscejipm.78.5_I_553

Prof. Fukuda and Ms. Keiko Tabuchi (M2)’s paper, “Fundamental Study on the Evaluation of Subscription-based MaaS by Using Recursive Logit Travel Choice Model,” has received the Annual Best Paper Award from the City Planning Institute of Japan for 2020.

List of Annual Best Paper Awards of the City Planning Institute of Japan:

https://www.cpij.or.jp/com/ac/articles/bp.html

Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo:

http://www.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news_archive/3189/

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Environmental and Society:

https://educ.titech.ac.jp/cv/news/2021_06/060877.html

Prof. Fukuda and Mr. Youya Shiroma’s (now Pacific Consultants Co., Ltd.) paper, “Impact of the 2016 Metropolitan Area Expressway Toll System Revision on Traffic Demand,” has received the JSCE Best Paper Award for 2020.

List of Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) Awards in 2020:

http://www.jsce.or.jp/prize/prize_list/p2020.shtml

Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Tokyo:

http://www.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news_archive/3191/

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, School of Environmental and Society:

https://educ.titech.ac.jp/cv/news/2021_06/060875.html

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年)の研究が、(株)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

From April 1, 2020, Prof. Fukuda’s position has been changed to the Department of Civil Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo. He will continue to work at Tokyo Institute of Technology as a special faculty member after April 1, but he will no longer be able to accept new students at Tokyo Institute of Technology. Those who wish to study under Prof. Fukuda’s supervision is required to apply for the graduate school of the University of Tokyo.

As for current students, Prof. Yasuo Asakura will be the primary advisor and Prof. Fukuda will be the secondary advisor. The name of the laboratory will be changed from “Fukuda Laboratory” to “Asakura-Fukuda Laboratory – Fukuda Group”. There will be no change in the system of guidance.

We thank you for your continued support.

[Prof. Daisuke Fukuda]