"LOOK EAST!": THE RELEVANCE OF JAPANESE URBAN TRANSPORT PLANNING AND TECHNOLOGY TO SOUTHEAST ASIAN CITIES

The Japanese thrust into urban transport planning and technology in southeast Asia is evident when the location of land use-transport plans undertaken by her consultants are mapped. An examination of the contents of these plans, however, would be misleading without a consideration of urban transport planning and technology in Japan with special reference to Tokyo. This allows us the opportunity to gauge the extent to which this experience has relied upon absorbing and regurgitating western (notably North American) ideas. Also, it permits us to identify the roots of indigenous ideas and appreciate the way in which new land use-transport systems are pre-packaged for export to southeast Asian cities. We are then in a position to assess critically urban land use-transport plans undertaken by Japanese consultants in southeast Asia to determine the relevance of their technology to resolving the problems of the region's cities. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Rimmer, P J
• Publication Date: 1986

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 47-67
• Serial:
  • Transportation Planning and Technology
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0308-1060
  • Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/gtpt20/current

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Assessments; Land use; Transportation planning; Urban areas; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: Asia; Tokyo (Japan)
• ITRD Terms: 8005: Asia; 1272: Bus; 9108: Improvement; 8053: Japan; 356: Land use; 143: Planning; 744: Public transport; 1173: Rail bound transport; 1053: Road network; 1148: Taxi; 3855: Technology; 1155: Transport; 1145: Transport mode; 1191: Underground railway; 313: Urban area
• Subject Areas: Finance; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00459624
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 28 2004 4:46AM