ADBI-Chubu University Conference on Transport Infrastructure Development, Spill over Effects and Quality of Life
12 to 16 October 2020

Global leaders have in recent years endorsed a G20 roadmap and principles for promoting quality infrastructure investment to help catalyse economies and realize the Sustainable Development Goals. To take next steps toward these objectives, it is imperative to examine how transportation infrastructure, in particular, can enhance quality of life as well as mitigate the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic to human mobility, infrastructure, supply chains, logistics, and integrated mobility models. This ADBI-Chubu University virtual conference will feature new research on the spillover impacts of transportation infrastructure projects on the economy, environment, society, and quality of life, with an emphasis on high-speed rail (HSR) growth. Taking place in conjunction with Chubu University’s 80th-anniversary, it will also assess the effects of COVID-19 within the sector as well as provide a forum for members of the World Conference of Transportation Research Society’s Special Interest Group on High-Speed Rail: Policy, Investments and, Impacts.

The objective of this virtual conference is to enhance capacity and increase knowledge among senior officials and experts on critical issues related to the planning, implementation, and operation of transport infrastructure in Asia. The conference comprised ten sessions in which policy makers, practitioners, and academics can exchange views and share experiences on transport infrastructure projects and their spillover impacts on the economy, environment, society, and the quality of life.

Program and Learning Materials
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics A new policymaking framework for addressing the impacts of COVID - 19 and future pandemics: PASS approach and its applications
The novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has had wide-reaching and unprecedented impacts on the transport sector worldwide. At present, there…
Junyi Zhang
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics Policy measures for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in mainland China Yacan Wang, Huiyu Zhou
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics Policy measures for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in Taiwan Cheng-Min Feng
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics Policy measures for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in India Senathipathi Velmurugan
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics Policy measures for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in Australia Hitomi Nakanishi
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics Policy measures for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in United States Giovanni Circella
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics Guidance Note on COVID - 19 and Transport in Asia and the Pacific James Leather
Session 1: Impacts of COVID-19 on Transport and Logistics Policy measures for addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in Low Income Countries Holger Dalkmann
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 2: Capacity Building for Engineering, Research, Innovation, and Construction Technology Management in Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Development The Concept of Experimental Platform on Next - Generation Shinkansen Development: Type E956 Shinkansen Test Train named ALFA - X Koji Asano
Session 2: Capacity Building for Engineering, Research, Innovation, and Construction Technology Management in Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Development 5G Key Technologies for Intelligent High-Speed Railway Bo Ai
Session 2: Capacity Building for Engineering, Research, Innovation, and Construction Technology Management in Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Development Artificial Intelligence based Spatial Exploration for Computer-Aided High-speed Railway Alignment Development Sandeepan Roy
Session 2: Capacity Building for Engineering, Research, Innovation, and Construction Technology Management in Sustainable Transport Infrastructure Development Estimating Direct, Indirect, and Induced Employment from Highway Construction in India Vinod Vasudevan
Session 3: Transport Infrastructure and its Wider Economic Impacts Frontiers in Transport Infrastruture and its Wider Economic Impacts Werner Rothengatter
Session 3: Transport Infrastructure and its Wider Economic Impacts Wider Impacts and Spill-over Effects of High-Speed Rail Infrastructure Investments in Europe: The Case of Spain Angel Aparicio
Session 3: Transport Infrastructure and its Wider Economic Impacts Assessing the wider economic impacts of transport infrastructure investment with an illustrative application to the North-South High-Speed Railway project in Vietnam Thi My Thanh Truong
Session 3: Transport Infrastructure and its Wider Economic Impacts High Speed Rails and Knowledge Productivity - A Global Perspective Ayushman Bhatt
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 4: Competition and Cooperation between Air, Rail and Roads for Inter-city Travel Air-HSR Competition and Cooperation: with added comments on effects of Covid-19 Tae Hoon Oum
Session 4: Competition and Cooperation between Air, Rail and Roads for Inter-city Travel Efforts for Optimal Inter-City Modal Split Sungwon Lee
Session 4: Competition and Cooperation between Air, Rail and Roads for Inter-city Travel What’s the impact of Chinese High-Speed Rail on Airline Carbon Emissions? Jack Strauss
Session 4: Competition and Cooperation between Air, Rail and Roads for Inter-city Travel Competition between high-speed rail and air transport in Japan Shinya Hanaoka
Session 4: Competition and Cooperation between Air, Rail and Roads for Inter-city Travel Sine Qua Non: High-Speed Rail Forms and Functionalities in Intercity and Urban Areas Eugene Chao
Session 4: Competition and Cooperation between Air, Rail and Roads for Inter-city Travel Does High-Speed Rail has a Spillover Effect on the Mode Shift for Intercity Travel Zhenhua Chen
Session 5 : Policy and Innovation for Transport 2.0 -Building a National Network of HSR in Asian Countries Programs to assist and develop capacity in Asian countries to build HSR Kenichi Yamamoto
Session 5 : Policy and Innovation for Transport 2.0 -Building a National Network of HSR in Asian Countries How to build local capacity to successfully construct, operate and maintain HSR? Haruhiko Kono
Session 5 : Policy and Innovation for Transport 2.0 -Building a National Network of HSR in Asian Countries Education & Training of SHIN, KANSEN specialists – Establishment of SHINKANSEN General Management Department Masatoshi Kawai
Session 5 : Policy and Innovation for Transport 2.0 -Building a National Network of HSR in Asian Countries Technology and innovation for HSR Tetsuo Uzuka
Session 5 : Policy and Innovation for Transport 2.0 -Building a National Network of HSR in Asian Countries Development of high-speed rail will be a “game changer” for Asian countries Masafumi Shukuri
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions Factors Influencing the Ridership of a Proposed Metro Rail System K.V.K. Rao
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions Land Use and Urban Development Effects of HSR Kenichi Kudo
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions Development around the newly built station Hiroyuki Takeshima
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions Land Value Capture (LVC) for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in the Philippines Akihiro Sato
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions High Speed Rail Station Location Serviceability Quantification: Socio-Economic, Environmental, and Accessibility Implication Sandeepan Roy
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions Promoting Logistics by Bullet Train in the Corona Pandemic Era Yoshitaka Ishii
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions Exploring a dynamic relationship between transportation strategies and community liveability: a case of Kolkata Urban Agglomerations (KUA) Arpan Paul
Session 6 : Transport and Urban Development Interactions Transport Investment and Quality of Life: Evidence From Asian Countries Md Aslam Mia
Session / Activity Title Speaker(s)
Session 7: Graduate Students' Colloquium on Rail Infrastructure Development Challenges to Improve Inland Intermodal Connectivity via Rail in Bangladesh Razon Chandra Saha
Session 7: Graduate Students' Colloquium on Rail Infrastructure Development Quality of life implications of Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail in Mumbai Metropolitan Region Shanaraj VK
Session 7: Graduate Students' Colloquium on Rail Infrastructure Development Research on the Impact of the Implementation of the Freight Transport Modal Shift Policy on the Carbon Footprint of Chinese Cities​ Yueqi Zong
Session 7: Graduate Students' Colloquium on Rail Infrastructure Development Modelling Transport Networks Within UNESCO Creative City Networks Ivan Harris Tanyag
Session 7: Graduate Students' Colloquium on Rail Infrastructure Development High-speed rail and the role for commuting of knowledge workers in Germany Manuel Weiß
Session 7: Graduate Students' Colloquium on Rail Infrastructure Development Corrosion of Friction Stir Welded (FSW) Aluminium Alloy Shashwat Gupta
Session 8: Quantifying and Simulating Quality of Life Empirical Analysis on Industrial Sectors for QOL Improvement along High-Speed Rail Corridors Shuji Sugimori
Session 8: Quantifying and Simulating Quality of Life Transportation mode choice in Vietnam intercity trips Le Thu Huyen
Session 8: Quantifying and Simulating Quality of Life Urban transportation systems in selected small developing island states: A comparative Analysis Khan Urwah
Closing Plenary and Emerging Research Topics Capacity Building for HSR Development Hironori Kato
Closing Plenary and Emerging Research Topics Emerging Research Topics relating to (i) Artificial intelligence and transport; (ii) Transport and logistics –improving efficiency; (iii) Rural connectivity; and (iv) Road safety B.N. Puri
Closing Plenary and Emerging Research Topics Deriving Policies from Land Use-Transport Interactions for Sustainable High-Speed Rail Development in Asia Francesca Pagliara

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