Abstract
This study aimed to examine the applicability of transit axis on Japan, and to acquire the fundamental knowledge for public transportation planning in the future. In this study, the authors extracted the sections with high frequency service of bus or tram as the corridors of urban public transport systems, and clarified the current situations and the characteristics. In analysis, the authors identified the features of the corridors such as characteristics of transportation and commercial aspects through the use of various statistical data This paper concluded that several cities preserve high level transit share of the modal split even if the transit axis have no concept of TOD.
