Masahiro Kuwahara

Masahiro Kuwahara

  • Mobility services (MaaS)
    Simulation and data analysis

As cars become shared and automated, the current barrier between private cars and public transportation will begin to disappear. What "Public cars" will be offered by car manufacturers in the future? I am interested in both new technologies as well as related services and business models.

  • Department

    • InfoTech AS,
      Social System PF Development Div.
  • Biography

    • 2006-
      present

      Telematics/ITS-related surveys, ITS/Urban transport research and planning, developing a simulator for one-way car sharing, and developing operational/evaluation technologies for several mobility services.
      I received a Ph.D. in 2021 from Kyoto University.

    • 2008

      Became a certified small and medium enterprise management consultant.

    • 2003-
      2006

      Copier manufacturer: Designed digital circuits (JPEG2000, etc)

    • 2003

      M.Eng.: Simulating macro-segregation of castings

  • Publication List/Conference presentation

    Paper

    • Y. Fujita, M. Kuwahara and E. Ueda, "MaaS Blender: Integration of Mobility Simulators for Mobility as a Service Evaluation," in IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 105105-105114, 2023, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3319079.

    • Toll barrier Initial analysis by using connected car data to evaluate traffic efficiency and safety, Japan Society of Traffic Engineer, 43th Annual meeting of traffic engineer

    • On the potential of carsharing to attract regular trips of private car and public transport users in metropolitan areas, Elsevier, Transportation Research Part A, 2022

    • Evaluation framework for an efficient commuting carpool program, Elsevier, Journal of Urban Mobility, 2022

    • Practical Evaluating method of One-Way Carsharing Considering Profits and Accessibility, Journal of TrafficEngineering, 2021

    • “Modelimg the trip type of one-way carsharing in a tripchain and analysis" by practical data, Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers D3, Vol.74, No5, 2018

    • ”Effectiveness evaluation of Small Accessible Transport service”, DICOMO2017

    • ”Simulation For Operating Additional Buses Based On Demand In Toyota City Low-Carbon Society Verification Project“, 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013

  • Conference presentation

    • Topic-Based Search: Dataset Search Without Metadata and Users' Knowledge About Data, 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data

    • Impact of urban expressway renewal constraction on the MFD shape by using connected car data, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 68th Japanese Society for Civil Engineering

    • Individual car travel behavior analysis in Japanese multi-cities by using connected car data, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 68th Japanese Society for Civil Engineering

    • MaaS Blender: A Simulation Platform Integrating Multiple Mobility Simulators for MaaS Evaluation, Workshop of Social System and Information Technology (WSSIT2023)

    • Multi-Domain Data Interoperability Mechanism Study Based On Mobility Service Usecase, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 66th Japanese Society for Civil Engineering

    • How to utilize BigData toward next generation mobility society - Challenge for technical issues by Toyota and NTT group -, NTT DATA, NTT DATA Innovation Conference 2022

  • Commendation/Memberships

    • Visiting Associate Professor, Nagoya University