In early February 2026, representatives from Nagoya University, the University of Tokyo and Gifu University visited PATREC at the University of Western Australia in Perth, Western Australia. A program of activities was created and undertaken, including workshops/symposia demonstrating the work of both PATREC researchers and the visiting researchers from Japan, with an aim to understand common research interests to lead to collaborative activities.
Please find below the PDF slides for each of the presentations made at the workshops, alongside the program itself, for reference.
PROGRAM AND PRESENTATIONS
Nagoya U / U Tokyo / Gifu – UWA Workshop Program (5-6 Feb 2026)
Session One: Infrastructure and Transport, Policy and Governance
Welcome and opening remarks (Sharon Biermann and Takayuki Morikawa, 10 min)
Presentation One: Overview of COI-NEXT and SIP Projects by Nagoua University (Takayuki Morikawa)
Presentation Two: Outline of a project “Urban surface Streets Management” for smart mobility (USM)” (Takashi Oguchi)
Presentation Three: How can we enhance mobility and induce activity in the city centre? Lessons from Nagoya (Gen Hayauchi)
Presentation Four: Integrating Uncertainty into Transport Policy Evaluation: A Stratified Multi-Criteria Decision Framework (Miguel Loyola and Mehdi Asadabadi)
Session Two: Sustainable and Accessible Travel
Presentation One: Mobility of Care in Japan: Household Escorting, Everyday Vulnerabilities, and Emerging Challenges for Transport Policies (Yurie Toyama)
Presentation Two: Motivations behind private e-rideable use in Perth, WA (Tristan Reed)
Presentation Three: Health accessibility for elderly (Yini Sheng)
Presentation Four: Evaluation of a new active transport piece of infrastructure: user perspective (Doina Olaru)
Presentation Five: How flexible transportation services work in reality? Insights from real-world observations (Ran Du)
Session Three: Modelling Innovations
Presentation One: Availability-augmented logit models (Brett Smith)
Presentation Two: Leverage Natural Language Processing to enhance railway safety analysis (Kevin Hong)
Presentation Three: Micromobility and freight in urban areas (Courtney Babb)
Presentation Four: Big data and AI for Urban Mobility (Lillian Wu)
Session Four: Autonomous Solutions
Presentation One: Autonomous Shuttle Bus Navigation on Public and Private Roads (Thomas Bräunl)
Presentation Two: Challenges to implement autonomous mobility services using remote assistance (Yasuhiro Akagi)
Presentation Three: Long-term Commercial FOT of Automated Buses in Kashiwa-no-ha (Yozo Hiraiwa)
Presentation Four: Social acceptance analysis of automated bus services in Gifu (Fumitaka Kurauchi)
Presentation Five: SLAM and Localisation Research at Nagoya University (Naoki Akai)
Presentation Six: Evaluation of 3D SLAM on a Shuttle Bus with Limited Sensors (Lee Le)
Presentation Seven: Reactive and Proactive Autonomous Driving Techniques (Kieran Quirke-Brown)
Session Five: Traffic Safety and Mobility Innovation
Presentation One: The challenge of redesigning residential roads (Yuya Otsubo)
Presentation Two: Navigating Roundabout Safety – Crossing Opportunities and Speed Patterns for Drivers and Pedestrians (Tom Lymburn)
Presentation Three: The Impact of Visual Field Loss On Motor Vehicle Crashes and Crash Severity (Doina Olaru)
Presentation Four: Overview of some recent studies from the WACRSR (Paul Roberts)
Closing remarks and next steps
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