Hayashi Yoshitsugu
Position/Department/Division/Institution/Organization
President, The Japanese Association of The Club of Rome
Professor and Director, Center for Sustainable Development and Global Smart Cities, Chubu
University, Japan
Emeritus Professor, Nagoya University, Japan
Ex-President & Chair of COVID-19 Taskforce, WCTRS (World Conference on Transport ResearchSociety)
CountryJapan
Career history
Prof. Yoshitsugu Hayashi is Emeritus Professor of Nagoya University and Professor of Chubu
University, Japan. He is also ex-President of WCTRS (World Conference on Transport ResearchSociety) which attracts more about 1,500 researchers and practitioners in all modes of transportwith multi-disciplinary approaches, from 80 developing and developed countries/regions.
His research focuses on urbanization and motorization and the countermeasure policy toovercome their negative impacts. His rail oriented urban reform plan in 1996 became a trigger toovercome Bangkok’s hyper congestion in mid-90’s resulted in reversing the budget of road vs. railfrom 1:99 in 90’s to 82:14 in Transport 2020 Plan.
The current research is focused on a measurement method of individual’s Quality of Life byattributes (age, gender, income, etc.) and by living place considering accessibility to hospitals &shops, amenity, safety & security and environment. This has been applied for planning to makegrowing and shrinking/aging cities resilient and sustainable.
Awards/Publications
Yoshitsugu Hayashi, KE Seetha Ram, and Shreyas Bharule, (2020), Handbook on High-Speed
Rail and Quality of Life, ADBIPress

Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Masafumi Morisugi, Sho-ichi Iwamatsu (2020), Balancing Nature andCivilization - Alternative Sustainability Perspectives from Philosophy to Practice, Springer

Ernst von Weizsäcker, Anders Wijkman, Yoshitsugu Hayashi (Section3) (2017), Come On!
Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet～The Club of Rome
50th Anniversary Report～, Springer

Yoshitsugu Hayashi, Tetsuzo Yasunari, Hiroshi Kanzawa, Hirokazu Kato (Eds.) (2016),
Innovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF)
7th Annual Meeting － Virtual Forum ―Climate Change, Energy Use, and Sustainability: Diagnosis and Prescription after the Great
East Japan Earthquake (SpringerBriefs in Environment, Security, Development and Peace),
SpringerYoshitsugu Hayashi, Yasuhiro Suzuki, Shinji Sato, Kenichi Tsukahara (Eds.) (2015), Disaster
Resilient Cities: Concepts and Practical Examples, Butterworth-HeinemannHayashi Y., Morichi S., Oum T.H., Rothengatter, W. (Eds.) (2014), Intercity Transport andClimate Change - Strategies for Reducing the Carbon Footprint, Springer

Kirti Bhandari, Yoshitsugu Hayashi (2011), Mass rapid transit and its impact assessment:
Case of Delhi Economy, Equity, Environment, LAMBERT Academic PublishingRothenqatter, R. Hayashi Y. and Wolfqang S. (eds.) (2010), Transport Moving to Climate
Intelligence: New Chances for Controlling Climate Impacts of Transport After the EconomicCrisis, Springer-Verlag

Areas of expertiseAnalysis of mechanism of economic development, urbanization and motorization, and theirpositive influence on quality of life and negative ones on urban sprawl, infrastructure
maintenance cost, air pollution and climate change in the developing countries

Evaluation of the social capitalisation and QOL (Quality of Life), and inheritability of urban
space of Japanese citiesInternational collaborative research on transport, environmental load and greenage of theautomobile taxesStudy on the visualization of urban land taxation and city planning system by GIS and CG
methods and the consensus formation process by internetInnovation for Cool Earth Forum (ICEF)
7th Annual Meeting － Virtual Forum ―