As doctoral course lectures, Prof. Fujiwara and Assoc. Prof. Zhang are providing education services via “Seminar on Regional and Urban Planning”.

As lectures for master course students, currently, Prof. Fujiwara is teaching “Transportation Engineering” and “Transportation Planning”. Assoc. Prof. Zhang is teaching “Regional and Urban Engineering” and “Tourism Policy”. “Seminar on Regional and Urban Engineering” is also provided to the master course students by Prof. Fujiwara and Assoc. Prof. Zhang. Collaborating with other academic staffs in the IDEC, we are also teaching the lectures of “Environmental Management Technology” (Fujiwara), “International Environmental Cooperation Studies I & II” (Fujiwara and Zhang), “Development Technology” (Zhang, Shimamoto and Nugroho) and “Developing Debating Skills” (Fujiwara).

For undergraduate students, Prof. Fujiwara is teaching “Transportation System Engineering”, and Assoc. Prof. Zhang is teaching “Scientific and Technical English Practice” in the Faculty of Engineering. They are also teaching “Technological Cooperation”.

Currently, as the Transport Studies Group (TSG) in Hiroshima University, HiTEL and the Infrastructure and Transportation Planning Lab, Graduate School of Engineering, hold a joint TSG seminar every week, where all the students are required to report their research progresses. Reports from each student are given about once a month, depending on the number of students, and face-to-face meetings with supervisors are held in a more frequent way. In addition to these regular seminars (held once a week), in the HiTEL, irregular seminars/workshops are also organized by inviting international/domestic researchers and practitioners.

Lectures
■ For doctor course students

• Seminar on Regional and Urban Planning I & II (Prof. Fujiwara and Assoc. Prof. Zhang)

■ For master course students

• Transportation Engineering (Prof. Fujiwara)

• The 1st week (Introduction and overview of transport statistics): The history of transport infrastructure development is reviewed and the current stage of the development and planning is introduced.
• The 2nd~3rd weeks (Traffic flows and highway capacity): The fundamental theory of traffic flow and road capacity is lectured.
• The 4th week (Intersection design): The design methods of road intersections and traffic control are explained.
• The 5th week (Road design in neighborhood and traffic calming): The basic theory of road planning in neighborhood and bicycle planning is explained by introducing the actual plans.
• The 6th week (Pedestrian and bicycle): The basic theory of road design for short distance traffic (pedestrians and bicycle users) is explained by introducing the actual plans.
• The 7th~8th weeks (Public transport planning): Public transport planning (i.e. railway, bus, light rail transit, port and airport) is introduced. Also the design methods are explained.
• The 9th~10th weeks (Air Quality, Noise and Energy): The countermeasures on environmental issues caused by transport sectors, i.e. air pollution, noise, global warming and energy consumption, are discussed. Also the evaluation method of environmental value is lectured.
• The 11th week (Transportation Demand Management): Travel demand management measures to decrease congestion, traffic accidents and emission by appropriately managing the demand are introduced.
• The 12th week (Traffic safety): The historical trend and current features of traffic accidents in Japan are overviewed, and countermeasures to prevent traffic accidents and their effects are discussed by comparing with the other countries.
• The 13th week (Intelligent Transport Systems): The recent development of ITS in US, Europe and Japan is introduced. The advantages and disadvantages of ITS are discussed.
• The 14th week (Universal Design and barrier free in transport): The concept of universal design of transport-related infrastructure is lectured. Also the global standard and actual problems are discussed.
• The 15th week (Final presentation)

• Transportation Planning (Prof. Fujiwara)

• The 1st week (Transport planning process): The concept and theory underlying transport planning are summarized. Also the planning process including consensus building and public involvement is introduced.
• The 2nd~3rd weeks (Transport surveys and design): The framework and background theory of transport survey are summarized. The designing methods of typical transport surveys are introduced; which are travel diary, activity diary, road census, stated preference survey, panel survey and web-based and mobile survey.
• The 4th~6th weeks (Travel demand forecasting): The theory and application method of the 4 step estimation model are explained. Students will learn the model estimation method by using the well-known software.
• The 7th~10th weeks (Travel behavior analysis): The basic theory of travel behavior is explained, and typical travel behavior models are discusses, such as logit model, nested logit, duration model, dynamic and SP models. The class makes use of an estimation program to give students an application experience of models in practical issues.
• The 11th week (Traffic and transportation simulation): The recent developments of traffic and transportation simulations are introduced and the role of simulation is discussed. Furthermore, some practical examples applied to the issues such as traffic flow analysis, traffic impact assessment, network improvement evaluation and evaluation of traffic signal control.
• The 12th~14th weeks (Environmentally sustainable transport): The handbook on the state-of-the-art and future perspectives of transport and the environmental policies will be read in turns.
• The 15th week (Summary and Conclusion)

• Regional and Urban Engineering (Assoc. Prof. Zhang)

• The 1st week: First, to introduce the outline of this lecture, and then explain urban definition, urbanization mechanisms and impacts of urbanization.
• The 2nd week: Urban planning theories.
• The 3rd week: Practice – To investigate and present current situations and major policy issues in a city that you are familiar with.
• The 4th ~ 5th weeks: Urban form and density theories.
• The 6th ~ 8th weeks: Reading Assignment – To read and present recent literature about regional/urban development (e.g., environmentally sustainable transport (EST), new urbanism, compact city, transit-oriented development, urban village, the Ahwahnee principle, smart growth and package approach）
• The 9th week: Indicator theories.
• The 10th ~ 11th weeks: Urban activity and travel behavior theories.
• The 12th week: Integrated urban models.
• The 13th week: Evaluation theories.
• The 14th week: Universal design, citizen participation.
• The 15th week: Term Seminar – To submit the required report, and present the report contents using PowerPoint or other presentation tools.

• Tourism Policy (Assoc. Prof. Zhang)

• The 1st week: First, to introduce the outline of this lecture, and then talk about the trends of tourism.
• The 2nd week: Asian tourism
• The 3rd week: Inbound and outbound tourism.
• The 4th week: Tourism at world heritages.
• The 5th week: Urban tourism.
• The 6th ~ 8th weeks: Tourism behavior theories and tourism demand forecasting.
• The 9th week: Time use and quality of life.
• The 10th ~ 11th week: Tourism planning theories and tourist destination management.
• The 12th week: Tourism transportation planning.
• The 13th week: Tourism and information.
• The 14th week: Tourism marketing.
• The 15th week: Term Seminar – To submit the required report, and present the report contents using PowerPoint or other presentation tools.

• Environmental Management Technology (Prof. Fujiwara)
• International Environmental Cooperation Studies (IECS)I & II (Prof. Fujiwara, Assoc. Prof. Zhang)

IECS I
(1) Environmentally Sustainable Transport
(2) Technological innovation of car emission intensity
(3) Clean Development mechanism in transport sector
IECS II
(1) Integration models of land use and transportation
(2) Backcasting approach to environmental sustainable transport
(3) Better governance toward low carbon society

• Development Technology (Assoc. Prof. Zhang, Dr. Shimamoto, and Dr. Nugroho)

• (Junyi ZHANG) Regional/Urban/Transportation Policy-Making and Planning Technologies: Introduction of regional, urban and transportation infrastructures, major issues of infrastructure development in developing countries, current situations and future directions of technology cooperation from Japan.
• (Junyi ZHANG) Regional/Urban/Transportation Policy-Making and Planning Technologies: Fundamental policy-making and planning technologies for regional, urban and transportation infrastructures planning (e.g., theories, survey methods, analysis methods, planning methods, evaluation methods and consensus building) are explained. Students are required to investigate the issues of the infrastructure development in some developing cities based on various existing information sources.
• (Hiroshi SHIMAMOTO) Public Transportation Planning and Promotional Measures: Current conditions and issues of public transportation systems in developing countries, its planning methods, as well as promotional measures are explained. Students are required to make some practices to understand the contents.
• (S.B. NUGROHO) Environmental Monitoring Technologies in Transport Sector: Environmental issues in transport sector of developing countries are first explained and then, the effective monitoring technologies and its applications are lectured.

• Developing Debating Skills (Prof. Fujiwara)
• Seminar on Regional and Urban Engineering (Prof. Fujiwara and Assoc. Prof. Zhang)

■ For undergraduate students

• Transportation System Engineering

Education Projects
■ Global internship program

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