The Shibuya Traffic Working Group, run by Future Design Shibuya, has changed its name to the Shibuya Traffic Data Working Group and will be carrying out initiatives in 2025 to make Shibuya a safe, comfortable and convenient city.
Until now, the Shibuya Traffic Working Group has promoted DX (data sharing, analysis, visualization, prediction, and knowledge sharing) to realize safe, comfortable, and convenient urban development in Shibuya, and has aimed to solve problems, meet needs, and create shared value (CSV). The Shibuya Traffic Data Working Group will tackle Shibuya's traffic issues from a broader perspective and promote comprehensive traffic policy studies and proposals that take into account the diversification of transportation methods.
Our main initiatives for fiscal 2025 include the following projects:
①SHIBUYA MOBILITY DESIGN2025
Objective: To grasp the current state of mobility by utilizing traffic data in the area around Shibuya Station and diverse opinions from industry, government, academia, and the public. Through demonstration experiments and exchanges of opinions among members, we will obtain perspectives and evidence that will lead to city visions and policy proposals.
Activities: Conduct interviews with stakeholders and experts, use data to visualize mobility in the area around Shibuya Station, hold study meetings with working members, propose mobility needs and policies, and design and implement demonstration experiments.
Deliverables: Strategy proposal and white paper based on it
②SHIBUYA Charito DESIGN 2025
Objective: To visualize the safety of junior high school students' travel to temporary school buildings and club activity bases based on data, and use this data as a basis for creating a safer transportation environment in Shibuya Ward.
Activities: We will hold interviews with stakeholders and experts, use data to visualize traffic safety risks on school routes, and hold review meetings with working members.
Deliverables: Compilation of appropriate measures, recommendations, analyses and proposals
③AI Camera PROJECT
Objective: To grasp the current situation by using AI cameras to visualize and analyze issues such as drinking and smoking on the streets, overtourism, congestion at real events, and traffic obstructions caused by unloading of tourist buses and commercial vehicles.
Activities: As a social experiment, we will set up AI cameras in the Shibuya Koen-dori shopping street to visualize and analyze issues such as drinking and smoking on the streets, overtourism, overcrowding at real events, and traffic disruptions caused by unloading of tourist buses and commercial vehicles, and hold discussion meetings with working members.
Deliverable: Establishment of problem-solving scheme
④ Consideration of bicycle utilization
Purpose: Promote the Shibuya Ward Bicycle Promotion Plan.
Activities: Participate in the Bicycle Urban Planning Council as an observer and deepen discussions on the future use of bicycle data.
Deliverable: Discussion on bicycles
Through these efforts, the Shibuya Transportation Data Working Group aims to improve mobility in the city by visualizing transportation trends in an integrated manner and considering policies based on data on the diversifying means of transportation.
The Shibuya Transportation Data Working Group will meet approximately once every two months with agendas such as sharing the progress of each project and introducing examples of data held by companies.
To participate in the Shibuya Transportation Data Working Group, you must apply. If you are interested in the Transportation Policy Working Group, which aims to improve the mobility of the Shibuya area based on data on the diversifying means of transportation, please apply below.
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Traffic Working Group past activities
By combining various mobility data and visualizing traffic trends in a unified manner, we are promoting the "Urban Development Promotion Project Using Various Transportation Data," which aims to create safe, comfortable, and convenient urban development. This project has been selected as one of the case study projects for the Tokyo Data Platform (TDPF), a data collaboration platform operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, in fiscal year 2024.
https://www.digitalservice.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/business/data-utilization/case-study/project-r601
Comment from Future Design Shibuya
Led by Future Design Shibuya, the Shibuya Transportation Data Working Group will work with member companies and the government, including various data holders, to visualize and analyze transportation data from a focused and multifaceted perspective. The Working Group will take on a variety of challenges, including making Shibuya safe, comfortable, and convenient, resolving transportation issues and responding to needs, examining and proposing comprehensive transportation policies based on the diversification of transportation means, improving mobility in the city and realizing smooth transportation, and proposing policies and conducting demonstration experiments based on data.
Hideki Koizumi, Representative Director Future Design Shibuya General Incorporated Association
Shibuya has the power to attract people from all over the world.
The traffic in the city seems to overlap and intersect in a complex way, with vehicle types and traffic volumes overlapping and intersecting like a scramble intersection, with safety barely guaranteed. The significance of this project is to use Shibuya, a city at the forefront of traffic issues, as its field to collect traffic data, visualize it, and provide analysis and data for problem solving. Thanks to the efforts made over the past three years, this year it has become possible to hold discussions involving a variety of data and players, as well as the people of the city. We hope that many people from industry, government, academia, and the public will participate.
Future Design Shibuya Consultant General Incorporated Association Natsuhiko Kubota
Comments from Shibuya Ward Council Members
In order to realize a safe and comfortable traffic environment for residents and visitors, it is essential to accurately grasp actual movement data and changes in traffic flow, and visualize issues and potential needs. Shibuya, where a diverse range of people come and go, in particular, requires a multifaceted perspective in urban development, such as how to create inclusive public spaces, how to deal with overtourism, and how to create a sustainable city. In this context, it is extremely important to verify and improve policies based on data. By bringing together cutting-edge sensor technology, private data from mobility services, and other sources, information held by the government, and the knowledge of universities and other research institutions, we hope that more accurate analysis will be possible, and that this will serve as the foundation for evidence-based policymaking and urban development with an eye to the future.
Yuki Hashimoto, Chairman, Special Committee on Transportation and Public Lands
(URL: https://shibukugi.tokyo/giin/profile/2023020700253/)
Announcement of City Data Study Group
Based on the concept of SMART CITY SHIBUYA, which continues to produce prototyping and advanced examples, we will share the latest examples and discuss projects. It is an open study group that aims to grasp social issues and clues to their solutions, and to build a network centered on members of Future Design Shibuya. (https://fds.or.jp/shibuya-data-consortium/)
This year, the event is scheduled to be held three times, each focused on one of Shibuya Ward's major social issues.
Date: Wednesday, June 18th
Time: 17:00-19:00
Location: GAKU (9th floor, Shibuya Parco, 15-1 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo)
If you would like to participate, please apply below.
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