Traffic Safety Research Group

Towards the safer and more reliable traffic system

Research purposes

To solve various problems related to traffic safety is one of the most urgent and important tasks for realizing the safe and secure society of all over the world. Then the Traffic Safety Research Group is tackling the following topics towards the safer and more reliable traffic systems: (1) to develop a traffic accident database based on Geographic Information System (GIS), which can present the accident's cause and mechanism to the general public as clearly as possible; (2) to survey the traffic safety policy of other counties in order to evaluate the similarity with and the difference from Japan; and (3) to develop the evaluation system for traffic safety policies and finally to propose the future direction of traffic safety policy of Japan.

Members

Name	Affiliation	Field of study	Full/Part-time
Hironori Kato	Instructor, Graduate School of Engineering The University of Tokyo	Transport Planning	Part-time
Shintaro Terabe	Associate Professor, Kochi University of Technology	Transport Planning	Part-time
Kiyoshi Takahashi	Associate Professor, Kitami Institute of Technology	Transport Planning	Part-time

Results (in English only)

◆ Interim evaluation report　[PDF:60kb]

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▲ In preparation

Format	Author, Title of the result, etc.	Browse
Article	Kiyoshi TAKAHASHI, Hironori KATO, Yuusuke TAKANO and Shintaro TERABE, The Present Condition of United Kingdom of A Road Safety Policy, and Directivity of Japan, Journal of Science and Technology for Society, 374, October, 2003	■

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