EASTS-ITF special seminar

Prospects forTransport
Decarbonisation
in a rapidly changing environment

13 December 2022
13:30–16:00 JST (UTC+9)
Hybrid event (on-site and online)with simultaneous interpretation (English-Japanese)
Hitotsubashi Hall
National Center of Sciences Building 2F
2-1-2 Hitotsubashi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan

OBJECTIVE
As the only global body that covers all transport modes, the International
Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD brings value to ITF member countries by
supporting different transport goals and visions through the ITF’s programme ofwork, policy analysis, research capacity, and an extensive network of experts andstakeholders.
The ITF provides an international platform for policy discussions with a diverse
range of stakeholders, including not only national governments but alsointernational organisations, civil societies, universities, research institutions andmobility-related companies. The focus is not only on discussing transport policy,
but also on how to implement it, and in this regard, ensuring the linkage between
research and policy implementation is a key challenge.
The ITF works closely with stakeholders in Japan, one of its member countries.
For example, in October 2021, the ITF organised a webinar on MaaS deployment
with World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), focusing on
the Japanese context, with the participation of various stakeholders, including
researchers, practitioners and government officials.
Seizing the opportunity of the visit to Japan of ITF Secretary General, Young Tae
Kim, this special seminar is jointly organised by the ITF and Eastern Asia Society
for Transportation Studies (EASTS), one of the most influential actors in thetransport research field in Japan. The event is also co-organised by Japan
Transport and Tourism Research Institute (JTTRI), and supported by the Ministryof Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Government of Japan.
As part of the seminar, the ITF's latest policy research and initiatives will bepresented, followed by a panel focusing on decarbonising transport.
While we are faced with urgent and critical challenges such as Covid-19 and theenergy crisis, we must also continue to address long-term challenges such as
decarbonisation and ensuring sustainability and inclusion. It is envisaged that thisspecial seminar organised by EASTS and the ITF will deepen relevant discussions
in Japan by contrasting global transport trends with policy and research initiatives
in Japan.

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PROGRAMME
13 December 2022, 13:30 – 16:00 JST (UTC+9)
Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo, and online
Simultaneous interpretation (English and Japanese)

13:3013:40

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Welcome and Introduction
Moderator: Prof. Shinya Hanaoka, Secretary-General, EASTS-Japanand Professor, Tokyo Institute of TechnologyProf. Hirotaka Yamauchi, President for Research, Japan
Transport and Tourism Research Institute (JTTRI)Mr. Shigenori Hiraoka, Director-General for International
Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism(MLIT), Government of Japan

Keynote presentation
research activities

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the

ITF

outreachand

The ITF's Secretary-General, Young Tae Kim, will present the ITF's
recent initiatives and research activities, focusing on the ITF's five mainpriority pillars in transport, including accessibility, connectivity,
decarbonisation, digitalisation, and safety and security. The ITF, a global
platform comprising 64 member countries, is focusing outreach activities
in a number of global regions, notably in Asia, where the ITF has
implemented many projects and is working closely with national
governments, research institutions and business leaders. The publicationof the ITF’s flagship publication “ITF Transport Outlook 2021” inJapanese will also be announced.
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Dr. Young Tae Kim, Secretary-General, International Transport
Forum (ITF)

The future of transport decarbonisation
Moderator: Prof. Shinya Hanaoka
Climate change cannot be stopped without decarbonising transport.
Transport emits around 23% of the energy-related CO2 that feeds global
warming. Without immediate action, its share could reach 40% by 2030.
Transport emissions have grown faster than those of any other sector
over the past 50 years. Demand for transport will continue to growmassively in the coming decades. As a result, CO2 emissions fromtransport activity will not fall, but could increase by 60% by 2050.
The session will start with two presentations on the topic. A panel
discussion will follow.
The first presentation will explore the ITF's work on decarbonisation,
which is one of the ITF's most focused policy domains. The presentation
will refer to the analysis of the flagship publication “ITF Transport
Outlook”, which provides scenarios on the development of transportdemand and related emissions up to 2050, and the Transport Climate
Action Directory (TCAD), a policy catalogue of decarbonisation-related
initiatives. The latest discussions on decarbonising transport at COP27 in
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, will also be addressed. Then, a presentation on
the policy challenges in the quest to decarbonise international shipping2

and aviation, ones of the hard-to-abate sectors for decarbonisation, will
follow.
At the following panel, the discussion will focus on the critical policy
guidance required to enhance and integrate sustainable transportmodes, such as public transport, walking, and cycling; to create greater
partnerships and collaboration among stakeholder groups beyond thetransport sector; and to support a just transition in the transport sector.
Presentations (40 minutes)
Dr. Jari Kauppila, Head of ITF Secretary-General’s Office, ITF“ITF's work on decarbonisation”

Mr. Tomohito Takeuchi, Senior Research Fellow, JTTRI“Challenges for carbon neutrality in international maritime andaviation sector”

Panel (65 minutes)

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Prof. Akimasa Fujiwara, President,
Professor, Hiroshima University

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Dr. Young Tae Kim

Dr. Jari Kauppila

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Mr. Tomohito Takeuchi

EASTS-Japanand

Closing Remarks
Prof. Tetsuro Hyodo, Secretary-General, EASTS and Professor,
Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology

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SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS
1. Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Shinya Hanaoka
Secretary-General, EASTS-Japan/
Institute of Technology

Professor,

Tokyo

Dr. Shinya Hanaoka is a Full Professor at the Department ofTransdisciplinary Science and Engineering, School of Environment
and Society, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. He received aPh.D. from Tohoku University in Sendai. He has worked as a
Researcher at the Institute for Transport Policy Studies in Tokyo andan Assistant Professor at the Asian Institute of Technology in Bangkok. His researchinterests include air transport, maritime transport and transport logistics. He has publishedmore than 130 international and national scientific papers as the journal articles. He iscurrently a secretary general of EASTS-Japan and a treasurer of EASTS.

Prof. Hirotaka Yamauchi
President for Research, Japan Transport and Tourism
Research Institute (JTTRI)
Prof. Hirotaka Yamauchi is President for Research at the Japan
Transport and Tourism Research Institute (JTTRI), a Professor
Emeritus of Hitotsubashi University, and a Specially Appointed
Professor at Musashino University's Faculty of Business
Administration, Japan. He is currently serving as vice-president of EASTS-Japan. He
graduated from the Graduate School of Business and Commerce at Keio University. His
areas of expertise include applied microeconomics, transport economics, public economics,
public utilities, and economics of regulation. He is currently a member of the Advisory
Committee for Natural Resources and Energy of the Agency for Natural Resources andEnergy, an expert member of the Information and Communications Council of the Ministryof Internal Affairs and Communications, an ad-hoc member of the Transport Policy Councilof the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and an ad-hoc member of
the Fiscal System Council of the Ministry of Finance. He has authored many books ontransport economics, including the co-authored Air Transport, which received an award
from the Japan Society of Transportation Economics.

Mr. Shigenori Hiraoka
Director-General for International Affairs,
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism(MLIT)
Mr. Shigenori Hiraoka was appointed as Director-General forInternational Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport andTourism (MLIT) in 2022. Prior to his current role, he has worked as
Director-General in Tourism and Civil Aviation sections in MLIT.
Recently, he worked as Deputy Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination, Minister’ Secretariat,
MLIT and Director-General, National Ocean Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office.
Mr.Hiraoka’s career also includes a diplomatic posting as Councelor at the Embassy ofJapan in the U.S.A. He earned a Bachelor of Law from the University of Tokyo and Master’s
degree in Public Policy from Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

42. Keynote presentation
Dr. Young Tae Kim
Secretary-General, International Transport Forum (ITF)
Young Tae Kim is the Secretary-General of the International
Transport Forum (ITF). He was re-elected for a second term by thetransport ministers of ITF member countries at their Annual Summit
on 19 May 2022. He took office in his first term as Secretary-Generalin August 2017.
Prior to his election as ITF Secretary-General, Dr. Kim distinguishedhimself in the civil service of his native Korea, most recently serving as Director Generalin the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT). As Deputy Director-Generalfrom 2015, he was responsible for co-ordinating various transport policies including on
autonomous vehicle, greenhouse gas reduction, urban transport, Intelligent Transport
Systems and road safety, among others.
After joining the MOLIT in 1994 as Deputy Director for Urban Transport, Dr. Kim also held
several Deputy Director and Director positions with responsibility for housing welfare,
integrated city development and overseas infrastructure construction. He was seconded
to the Prime Minister's Commission on Administrative Reform in 1996 and the Presidential
Committee on Social Inclusion in 2005-2007. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Kim worked in
Washington, D.C., as Counsellor for Construction, Transport and Maritime Affairs at the
Korean Embassy.
Dr. Kim earned his Master's degrees in Public Policy from Seoul National University, Korea,
and in Urban Studies from Paris University de Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France.
He also received his Doctorate degree in Political Sociology and Public Policy from theInstitut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po), Paris, France.
Dr. Kim speaks fluent English, French and some Spanish, in addition to his native Korean.

3. Panel discussion
Dr. Jari Kauppila
Head of ITF Secretary-General’s Office, ITF
Dr. Jari Kauppila is Head of ITF Secretary-General’s Office and Headof Quantitative Policy Analysis and Foresight Division at theInternational Transport Forum (ITF) at the OECD.
His team works on wide range of transport policy issues and is
responsible for the ITF’s flagship publication, Transport Outlook,quantitative model development and related analysis.
Since joining the ITF in 2007, Jari has also coordinated several international research
projects on topics such as shared mobility, logistics, transport reliability, decarbonisation,road safety and infrastructure investment.
Prior joining the ITF in 2007, Jari spent nearly ten years with the Ministry of Transport andCommunications Finland.
Besides his duties at the ITF, Jari is an Adjunct Professor in Transport Economics at the
Department of Operations and Supply Chain Management at Turku School of Economics
in Finland.
Dr. Kauppila speaks fluent English, Swedish, and French, in addition to his native Finnish.

5Mr. Tomohito Takeuchi
Senior Research Fellow, JTTRI
Tomohito Takeuchi is a senior research fellow of Japan Transport
and Tourism Research Institute (JTTRI) and has been responsible
for research projects on carbon neutrality policies in the transport
sector since his secondment to JTTRI from the Ministry of Transport
and Tourism of Japan (MLIT) in May 2022.
After joining the MLIT in 1995, he was in charge of safety,
environment protection, and industry development policies mainly in the maritime field.
In September 2020, he was seconded to the ClassNK where he was engaged in theplanning for the decarbonization of international shipping and the establishing of Planningand Design Center for Greener Ships (GSC) as Director for planning and coordination of
the center.
Obtained master’s degree in Naval architecture from Yokohama National University, Japan.

Prof. Akimasa Fujiwara
President, EASTS-Japan/ Professor, Hiroshima University
Dr. Akimasa Fujiwara is a professor of Graduate School of Advanced
Science and Engineering at Hiroshima University. He earned his
doctoral degrees of engineering in Hiroshima University and was
appointed a professor at the university in 2002 after staying atUniversity of Tokyo and Imperial College London. He is currently
serving as the president of EASTS-Japan and a vice-president of
JSCE. His research interests cover a range of traffic and transport related areas including
activity-based travel demand modeling, sustainable urban and regional development, andevaluation/design of innovative urban and mobility policies. He authored a lot of papers
and was rewarded many paper awards including the Best Paper Prize of the EASTS in
2005.

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7EASTS (Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies) was founded in
November 1994. The member domestic societies join from 19
countries/regions: Australia, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia,
Japan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, New
Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand andVietnam. Dr. Jaehak Oh is the President of the EASTS, and he is also a
President of Korea Transport Institute.
The primary objectives of the Society are to foster and support excellencein transportation research and practice and to stimulate professional
interchange in all aspects and modes of transportation. One of the primaryactivities of the Society is organizing biennial International Conferences.
Since the 1st Conference held in Manila in 1995, 14 conferences havebeen held in EASTS areas. The 15th conference will be held from
September 4th to 7th, 2023 in Kuala Lumpur.

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