Masanobu Kii is Associte Professor of Urban and Transportation Planning in the Faculty of Engineering, Kagawa University in Japan. He is the co-chair of the SIG F1: “Transport and Spatial Development” of the World Conference of Transport Research Society (WCTRS), and has worked at the Institute for Transport Policy Studies (2000-2003), the Japan Automobile Research Institute (2004-2008), and the Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (2008-2009), before joining Kagawa University in 2009. He has conducted various types of policy impact analyses in transport sector, including fuel economy regulation, public transport policy, and urban land use planning. His research interests include urban modelling, projection of urban activities in global cities and sustainability of urban systems.