Abstract
The local cities in Japan experience the increase of the burden of infrastructure maintenance expenses accompanying declining population and urban sprawl as the prominent issues. As to solve these issues, the number of municipalities targeting compact city is increasing. In order for the compact cities to be materialized, it is desirable for the residents to voluntarily live in the aggregated area by providing the improved public transport services, yet the influence of LRT on aggregate population is often unclear. Therefore, this research aims to quantitatively grasp the population retention effect of LRT installation by predicting population distribution after LRT introduction by using CUE model of land use traffic model.
