Masahiro Kuwahara

Department

• Knowledge Discovery Innovation Dept.,
  InfoTech 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

• How flexible are travellers under flexible transportation services? - some insights from real-world observations - , Elsevier, Journal of public transportation

• Traffic impact analysis collaborate with Private Probe Data during the expressway closure period, ITS Japan, ITS Symposium 2024

• Visualization of the traffic situation around the closure section of the expressway for rational traffic management during the closure period, ITS Japan, ITS Symposium 2024

• Monitoring technology of highway traffic-mesuares effectiveness by useing connected vehicle data, Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 69th Japanese Society for Civil Engineering

• 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

• Inferring Relationships Between Tabular Data and Topics Using LLM For A Dataset Search Task, IEEE Big Data 2024

• Large Scale Point of Interests Detection Using Connected Car Trajectory Data, International Conference on Computational Social Science, 10th International Conference on Computational Social Science (Poster)

• 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