A special seminar will be held at CTS - Imperial College London. The
seminar will jointly be given by Hironori KATO from University of Tokyo and
Shintaro TERABE from Kouchi Institute of Tech., Japan. The title of the
seminar will be " Problems and Challenges for Sustainable Traffic Safety:
Japan's Case "
Place: Room-610, Skempton (Civil Eng) building, South Kensington Campus,
Imperial College London.
Date: Tuesday, 21st September 2004.
Time: 11:00
Summary of the presentation:
How to solve various problems of traffic-safety is one of the most urgent
and important tasks all over the world. Japan is not exceptional. More than
8,000 people are killed by traffic accident every year in Japan. To
identify traffic-safety problems, analyze the traffic accident and discuss
the traffic-safety policy of Japan, the traffic research project was set up
in 2002. This project is funded by the Science and Technology for Society
(its web site can be browsed at http://www.ohriki.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/S-
Tech/M1/eng/index.html). The project aims (1) to develop the traffic-
accident database based on the Geographic Information System (GIS), which
can present the accident's cause and mechanism of accidents 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 in Japan. The project has a unique approach which covers not only
engineering viewpoint but also sociological/public-policy viewpoints.
In the seminar, first, the current problems of traffic-safety in Japan will
be presented, including the basic statistics and policy. Then, the latest
results of the project will be explained. They include a GIS-based traffic
accident risk simulator based on the data of Tokyo and a computer-based
evaluation system of traffic-safety countermeasures. Finally, the future
traffic-safety policy will be discussed.
More information on CTS seminars can be found at:
http://www.cts.cv.ic.ac.uk/html/ResearchSeminars/seminarList.asp
Sincerely,
Mohammed Quddus
CTS, Imperial College London
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