Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
In order to cope with newly raised urban issues, such as, population decrease, aging society, fiscal constraint of the governments, global warming and so on, urban transportation planning system in Japan shall be reconstituted to consider these demographic, socio-economic and environmental situation. In this research, comparison study of the urban transportation planning systems, and their regal frameworks, organizations concerned, subsidies by the national and local governments and planning procedures in France, USA, Germany, UK and Japan was carried out through the interviews to the central and local governments as well as literature surveys. Some implications, including linkage between planning, implementation and operation, scenario analysis, quantitative target, integration methodology between transportation and land use were induced.
