## Examples of comprehensive invigoration and restoration of community-based public transport projects

■ Improvement of public transportation network through invigoration of bus services

• Reorganized bus routes, community bus services

• Introduction of one-day travel ticket and 100-yen tickets

Coordination of fixed route buses and community buses

One-day travel ticket

■ Improvement of public transportation networks along railway routes • Event-based special train services

• Development of comprehensive transportation maps, including railway and bus services and information of their connections

Event-based special train services

• Specially decorated railway and bus vehicles

• Reorganized sea routes through integration of calling ports

Specially-decorated bus vehicle

• Planting of trees and installation of benches at stations

Promotion of tourism exchange

Planting of trees and flowers at a train station with local residents

• Improved access to railway stations and sea ports through bus services

• Discount tickets associated with promotion of tourism exchange

Reorganized sea routes

## (3) Promoting urban renaissance projects

The headquarters of the urban rehabilitation department has made decisions concerning 23 urban renaissance projects for the period from June 2001 through March 2009.

Urban renaissance projects approved so far
First approval	Fifth approval
Developing and improving fundamental, wide-area disaster prevention bases at waterfront areas along Tokyo Bay	Forming urban hubs through strategic use of nationally-owned lands
Restructuring existing metropolitan areas into zero-garbage cities	Sixth approval
Improving and developing central bureaucracy facilities through PFI	Regenerating Lake Biwa and areas around Yodo River
Second approval	Seventh approval
Enhancing international exchange and physical distribution in metropolitan areas	Forming a hub of lifestyle-supporting robot industries in the Osaka area
Improving and developing beltway systems in metropolitan areas	Eighth approval
Forming an international center of exchange on life science in the Osaka area	Developing countermeasures to global warming and the heat island phenomenon through urban redevelopment
Ensuring a “New Zero-Waiting List for Nursery Schools” in urban areas	Ninth approval
Further developing and enhancing PFI methods	Reconstructing safety and reassurance of local communities through collaboration between crime prevention measures and efforts to create a community
Third approval	Tenth approval
Urgently improving crowded city blocks	Promoting urban redevelopment through collaboration and cooperation between universities and community-based efforts
Using existing stocks in urban areas	Eleventh approval
Restoring urban environment infrastructures in metropolitan areas	Facilitating urban redevelopment through transfer and relocation of housing of national government workers
Fourth approval	Twelfth approval
Forming an international hub of genome science in the Tokyo area	Urgently developing and improving crowded city areas
Forming a hub of Asian industrial exchange in the Northern Kyushu area	Thirteenth approval
Creating advanced and unique cities in major urban areas	Facilitating urban redevelopment for enhancing international financial capital functions

## ○ Encouraging the private sector to carry out urban development initiatives

As of the end of March 2009, 65 specified areas, including Tokyo, Osaka, and other specified cities and prefectural capital cities, have been designated as Prompt Development Areas for Urban Renaissance under the Special Measures Act for Urban Renaissance to be developed as centers of urban renaissance. In these areas, various urban development initiatives by the private sector are under way.