Bulletin of Human Centered Design Organization
Online ISSN : 2435-0605
Print ISSN : 1882-9635
Volume 19, Issue 2
Bulletin of Human Centered Design Organization 2023 Vol.19 No.2
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  • Kiko Yamada-Kawai, Yukino Sai, Takahiko Kusakabe, Takuma Mitani, Hidek ...
    Article type: Original Paper
    2023 Volume 19 Issue 2 Pages 1-9
    Published: September 30, 2023
    Released on J-STAGE: October 04, 2023
    JOURNAL FREE ACCESS

    The Regional Public Transportation Plan is an integrated plan that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism of Japan (MLIT) requires local governments to comprehend, and it is enforced by an act. The act states the plan should be based on users' needs. However, needs-driven or human-centered design is not common in infrastructure planning and development. The authors revealed through desk and interview surveys that the MLIT's instruction does not define users' needs and fails to include processes to represent users' requirements. At the same time, local government forms a plan to rationalize existing projects focusing on the financial feasibility.

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