Urban Rail Development in Tokyo From 2000 to 2010

Tokyo is well known as a rail-oriented city where the huge traffic demand generated from the megacity is well supported by a sophisticated urban rail system. The results of the 2008 Person Trip Survey show that rail’s modal share was 30% as of 2008; the economy of Tokyo is highly dependent on an efficient urban rail network. As shown in Kato (2014), Tokyo’s urban rail market has unique characteristics: private rail companies provide many of the rail services, the rail network was developed under the guidance of the central government, rail users suffered from chronic traffic congestion for many years, and the rail market has recently been significantly influenced by a rapidly aging demographic. In spite of its uniqueness, the experiences of urban rail development in Tokyo could be useful for other Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries. The urban rail network in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area was developed over the past 100 years under the “master plan” system (Morichi, 2000), which contains both the long-term rail network development projects and the service improvement programs proposed by the central government. The latest master plan was created in 2000 and presented in Report No. 18 of the Council for Transport Policy. The current master plan covers the period from 2000 to 2015; therefore, the next plan should be prepared by 2015. The government has started to review the recent performance of urban rail service and have been discussing the next strategies of urban rail network development in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. This paper aims to introduce the latest master plan, to review the recent development following the proposal of the latest master plan, and to discuss the current issues regarding Tokyo’s rail network.

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• Authors:
  • Kato, Hironori
• Conference:
  • ITF-KOTI Seminar
  • Location: Seoul , Korea, South
  • Date: 2014-3-27 to 2014-3-27
• Publication Date: 2014-3

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 29p
• Serial:
  • International Transport Forum Discussion Papers
  • Issue Number: 2014-05
  • Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
  • ISSN: 2223-439X
  • Serial URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/2223439x

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Master plans; Metropolitan areas; Rail transit; Strategic planning; Urban development; Urban transit
• Geographic Terms: Tokyo (Japan)
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01529455
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 30 2014 9:41AM