Mobility management (MM) is being used widely recently. Its main topic is environmental consciousness. However, the degree to which behavior is modified by rising health consciousness has never been examined. This study presents a travel feedback program (TFP) to encourage walking, thereby raising individual health consciousness and reducing automobile usage. A survey was administered to clarify its effects. The survey (N=78, panel data) assessed travel behavior and walking volume of Fukuyama residents, who used pedometers daily from waking to sleep.
A comparison of behaviors before and after the TFP was conducted. Results showed that daily walking increased 30%; private automobile usage per day decreased 27% through the increased use of public transportation and walking. These results demonstrate that the TFP for health promotion is an effective MM method not only for health promotion but also for behavior modification to reduce private automobile usage.

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A GPS mobile-phone-based travel diary survey system and a Web GIS-based activity-travel simulator (iSMAP) were developed as a communication tool for travel feedback programs. The simulator provided participants with information on diagnostic indicators and spatial movement of the current and alternative travel patterns of different travel modes. The system was applied to the travel feedback program for the employees working in the Osaka Prefectural Government. The system, as a new communication tool of the travel feedback program, contributed to improving the participants' attitudes and to changing their travel behavior towards less car-use, which was as effective as the existent WebTFP system.

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In this study, we focused the effect of “reducing car use” and “promotion of public transport” that is main goals of mobility management (MM), and analyzed whether there was a different effect on attitude and behavioral modification depending on the focus point of “reducing car use” and “promotion of public transport” for decision making by using the data obtained in the MM project for community bus promotion in Ryugasaki-city. As a result, we found that there was a different effect depending on the different focus points.

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The present study aimed to determine the effect of the map and some materials on modifying attitude and travel behaviors. After preparing the map and some materials, a behavioral plan method was adopted. The method's efficacy in modifying attitude and behavioral was observed, and the effects were evaluated according to the theory of reasoned action. Subjects were divided into the following 3 groups each residents group and incomer group: the “information provided group,” to which the map was distributed to the subjects; the “behavioral plan group,” to which a description sheet encouraging the subjects to think in advance about what kind of actual behaviors would be appropriate was distributed and the “control group,” in which no information or requests were provided. Questionnaire forms were distributed to residents in Suita-City, Osaka, and the results were analyzed by comparing the psychological parameters before and after the study. The results revealed that the incomer group, which was also expected to be effective in modifying attitudes and behavior when combined with the behavioral plan method and information provided method.

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There were some cases which were reported as attempts of workplace mobility management (MM) in Japan. Although these cases did not include aggregative effects of MM such as increasing of passengers on public transport because there were few numbers of participants in these cases. It was neither unreported that comparative analyses on effects of several MM measures. These were problems to implement MM as political measures. This study conducted large scale workplace MM, which was targeted at 4,400 employees working on Uji city, which were used several communication measures. Results of traffic analyses indicated that large scale workplace MM will be effective to reduce car traffic and to promote to use public transport.

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In this study, we examined the result from a household visit survey conducted at a community of Nagazumi area, city of Fukuoka, Japan, to show both the practical advantage of a research program of face-to-face communication and the issues to deploy it on large scale, selecting as the measures of mobility management targeted to community residents.
We finally found that the home visit survey and the direct communication to the objects will have the primacy including higher rate of collection and of penetration for the understanding of the research purpose, as well as effect of decreasing of car use at the area.

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Mobility management (MM) aiming to change traffic behavior of people from the car to the other mode voluntarily is paid to attention, and the application increases in recent years. It is reported that the promotion of utilization of public transportation is effective around control, the shuttle bus, and the community bus of the car use in many of them.
Authors have worked on the mobility management aiming at the promotion of utilization for some railway routes. An effect in total has not come to achieve it though a constant effect of the railway use promotion was confirmed in consideration and the traffic action measured from the questionnaire survey in those approachs. This report reports on the case with MM for the railway use promotion, and arranges the obtained problem from among that.

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In this paper, we focus on the change of the electric power consumption and automobile energy consumption in residential sector in case of implementing a compact-city policy. We could check the reduction effectiveness of the both energy consumption was possible in the case. In particular, the migration to collective housing from the individual house of singleness and a husband-and-wife household is effective. On the other hand, in national life section, control of nuclear family and promotion of three-generation habitation is very important. And, in a transportation section, automobile energy consumption decreases, and much more energy consumption reduction is expected by maintenance of public transportation.

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The number of bicycles illegal parked in the Central Busines District has increased.This has caused many problems, thus effectively strategies are necessary to resolve them. This study aimed to ascertain bicycle parking choice behavior and examine parking strategies. First, the conditions related to riders' behavior for bicycle parking choice were investigated and features analyzed. Next, entry point areas were classified considering the riders starting point. Based on statistics of riders actual utilization of parking, parking zones were set up. A bicycle parking choice model was then constructed. This model was based on a nested logit model on the assumption that the three stages of the riders' parking process were as follows: parking style selection, parking zone selection in a parking style, parking place selection in a parking style and zone. Finally a simulation, of the parking process was carried out by adopting the choice model we constructed . Based on the simulation, bicycle parking strategies for central business district were examined. As a result of carrying out the parking process simulation by adopting the constructed choice model, the selection process for riders' bicycle parking was very accurately illustrated and the applicability of the proposed model was confimed.

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The victims that their physical assets are damaged by a natural disaster may be requested to procure necessary financial resources from anancial bodies other than their own financial assets. But, if they are under the liquidity constraints, they can not procure the necessary funds; thus they may be damaged by the delay of the recovery processes. In this paper, the recovery behavior of a single victim household is formulated to investigate the economic loss driven either by the insufficient level of the assets rebuilt or by a delay in the recovery processes. The demand model for the disaster insurance is also formulated to investigate how the insurance money supplies the necessary liquidity for the recovery of the victims. Moreover, it is also investigated that the economic loss caused by liquidity constraints can be mitigated by the anti-disaster proof investment as well as public risk finance vehicles, and the economic evaluation method of the reduction of liquidity damage is presented.

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This research focuses on how to enhance the runway capacity for HANEDA Airport which is most congested in Japan. First, we propose a new method for calculating runway capacity corresponding to the flexible terminal flow control where the separation between two successive landing aircrafts is changed depending on the runway occupancy time of the leading aircraft. And the increased capacity by several air traffic control pattern was estimated for the runway configuration after re-expansion of HANEDA Airport by using the microscopic air traffic simulation. The simulation results shows the significant increase of airport capacity by more efficient and flexible air traffic control pattens.

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“Tojinyasiki” of Nagasaki is an important historical facility for understanding the history of foreign policy during Tokugawa period. However, the original specific area of the facility could not been determined because the facility had not been owned by public, and the border have changed by the development of housing. On this background, this study aimed at presuming the specific area of “Tojinyasiki” by using GPS and GIS technology. Based on the field survey, the old maps, the old pictures and the current maps are processed by GIS, and the site structure is represented by computer graphics. Moreover, it is feasible to represent the 3D terrain of “Tojinyasiki” in a more realistic form, by using the computer graphics and drawing synthesis. Accordingly, this study proposes a new method in the field of Civil Engineering Historical Research to presume the specific area of vestige, by combining digitization of old picture maps, old maps and historical documents with GIS technologies.

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