Bringing About the Legacy of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games: Fostering Traffic Management

Abstract

The Tokyo 2020 Games were postponed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and were eventually held in 2021. Nevertheless, the Games brought about wide-ranging legacy from the beginning of preparations in 2013 until the end of the Games, and that legacy seems to have been fostered thereafter as well. This paper focuses on traffic management, a representative legacy of the Games, and describes the process of introducing measures such as travel demand management, traffic system management, and road-pricing measures for the Metropolitan Expressway. From the viewpoint of one directly involved in and responsible for Games-related traffic management, the value of the traffic management are discussed as a legacy, including the background and the inevitability of policy judgment.