ANMC21 Implementation Report

1 Training program

ITS (Intelligent Transport System) Workshop
The purpose of the workshop was to cultivate human resources
capable of formulating transport and traffic policy in each cities,

2 Purposethrough information exchanges between participants, site visits torelevant facilities, and attending the 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo2013.

3 Organizer

Headquarters of the Governor of Tokyo

4 DateOctober 15 (Tue) – 17 (Thu), 2013
Total 8 participants
The representatives of each city are listed as below:
Bangkok (total 2 participants):
Mr. Banjong LEUNGRATANAMAT
Director of Policy and Planning Division, Traffic and Transport Department,
Bangkok Metropolitan Administration

Kuala Lumpur (total 3 participants):
5 Participants (cities, names)

Ms. Rozita binti RIDZUAN
System Analyst, Urban Transport Department

Manila:Atty. CARLOS, S Emerson (Mr.)
Assistant General Manager for Operations, Metropolitan Manila Development
Authority

Taipei (total 2 participants):
Mr. SU, Fu-Chih
Chief Engineer, Department of Transportation, Taipei City Government

・ Presentations and discussion session regarding the measures
adapted by each participating city・Site visit・Attending the 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013
・Final presentation and discussion session

6 Seminar outline/scenes(Photos, etc.)
Presentation

Traffic Control Center

Final presentation

Group photo

On the first day, along with representative of the Tokyo Metropolitan
Government’s (TMG) Office for Youth Affairs and Public Safety, theparticipants from each city gave presentations concerning bothcurrent traffic problems impacting their cities, and the measures being
undertaken to address such issues.

Through these presentations,participants could grasp some appreciation of the characteristics oftraffic problems in each city, as well as deepen their understanding ofeach other.
On the second day, participants visited to the Traffic Control Center of
theTokyo

Metropolitan PoliceDepartment.

They

received

explanations of the roles of this center: how the center collects and7 Results

analyses traffic information then provides to the public, and how it
controls traffic signals to solve traffic jams. While watching real-timetraffic information on the monitors, participants confirmed how traffic
lights and electronic information signs are controlled in response totraffic flow conditions.

This visit allowed the participants to acquiremore specialized knowledge effectively. Thus, a number of favorable
comments about this site-visit were received within the post-workshop
survey.
Furthermore, during the three days of the workshop, participants also
attended the 20th ITS World Congress Tokyo 2013 held at the Tokyo
Big Sight exhibition facility.

By listening to the session and visiting

the different booths in the Congress, etc., participants could gather
information on the latest ITS technologies from around the world,
including those from the TMG.

When visiting the TMG booth, someparticipants were interested in display panels that both depicted traffic
conditions in Tokyo at the time of the Great East Japan Earthquake,and outlined the measures implemented post-quake.

Because theywanted to gain a deeper understanding of such topics, theseparticipants expressed a desire to receive more detailed materials.
Furthermore, at the session, the participants experienced the newest
information telecommunications technologies such as being able tosee the latest road and traffic information displayed on smartphones
while traveling on buses, and receiving emergency evacuation
information in times of disaster on smartphones, etc.

Since they

actually experienced traveling on a bus while seeing a wide variety ofservices displayed non-stop on smartphone screens, there was thefeedback that; having had the opportunity to experience the latest IT
and control technologies themselves represented a great opportunity
to introduce such systems in their own cities.
On the final day, a summary discussion was conducted.

On the topic

of what had been obtained through the workshop, and how suchknowledge would be used in the future, each of the cities made apresentation.

The main points of each of these presentations wereas follows:
Bangkok:At the ITS Congress, we learned a lot about GPS systems.

We wereable to learn about new technologies studded with a wide variety ofideas.

Furthermore, we were able to reconfirm the necessity ofcentralized control offices such as that seen at the Traffic Control
Center.

A problem for Bangkok is that our centralized control offices

are not very big, and the precision they offer is not that great.

With

this in mind, we would like to enhance systems in Bangkok using theTraffic Control Center in Tokyo as a point of reference.
Kuala Lumpur:
In coming to Tokyo, we were given an opportunity to think about theissue of driver education.

With respect to the enhancement of driver

education systems and the strengthening of systemized enforcementof road rules, we want to be able to make proposals to senior
management.

Furthermore, concerning the showcase event at theITS Congress where information was provided to users throughsmartphones, this was another topic that we found to be very
interesting.

In that the adoption rate of smartphones in Kuala

Lumpur is high, we would like to proceed with the provision of traffic
information which uses such technologies.
Manila:Visiting the Traffic Control Center, we understood that Tokyo is
implementing traffic control via the introduction of a variety ofsystems.

In Manila, we remain dependent on traffic managementthat relies on people.

We would like to learn the methods that Tokyo

has introduced and shift to them little by little.

Furthermore, at apresentation given at the Congress on the topic of ITS Big Data, wewere grateful to find out about measures involving the collection of
information through smartphones, and traffic predictions that could bemade using such data.

We feel such ideas could be introduced notjust for traffic management, but also for disaster management issues.
We want to return to Manila with such knowledge in hand.
Concerning Manila which has experienced an extremely high-level ofsmartphone adoption, we believe such methods would be veryeffective.
Taipei:Concerning both the TMG activities after the Great East Japan
Earthquake, and subsequent preparations and predictions withrespect to the possibility of future disasters, we feel such information
represents an important point of reference for us.

Taipei is also

located in an Asia-Pacific area prone to earthquakes.

Thus, there isa lot that we can learn from Tokyo.

At the Traffic Control Center, we

became aware of the system by which normal vehicles would beprohibited to enter the city and emergency vehicles would enter it intimes of disaster.
for us.

This information represented a very important idea

We also saw the traffic light backup function as being veryimportant.
Finally, in overall terms, participants from TMG and the other four
cities discussed actively, and exchanged useful information eachother..

We also received very positive feedback that “the workshop

represented a valuable occasion in that a variety of cities were able togather and share information among one another.”To sum up, webelieve that the results of the workshop were very valuable.