Profile

Tomio Miwa  (Dr. Eng.)

Professor, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University
(Graduate School of Environmental Studies)

Office: Furo-cho, Chikusa-ku, Nagoya-shi, Aichi, 464-8603, JAPAN  (Building 8, North Wing, School of Engineering [map])

Tel: +81-52-789-5018

E-mail: miwa [at] nagoya-u.jp

Research field: 

Transportation Planning, Travel Behavior Analysis, Intelligent Transport Systems

Education: 

Bachelor of Engineering, Nagoya University, March 1998

Master of Engineering, Nagoya University, March 2000

Doctor of Engineering, Nagoya University, March 2005

Academic Employment: 

Researcher, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, April 2005 – October 2006

Research Associate, Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University, November 2006 – March 2007

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Nagoya University, April 2007 - March 2009

Associate Professor, EcoTopia Science Institute, Nagoya University, April 2009 - September 2015

Visiting Scholar, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, The University of Sydney, Australia, July 2013 - June 2014

Associate Professor, Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainablity, Nagoya University, October 2015 - March 2024

Professor, Institute of Innovation for Future Society, Nagoya University, April 2024 - Present

Other Employment: 

Engineer, Katahira & Engineers Inc., Tokyo, Japan, April 2000 – March 2002

Director, General Incorporated Association Life and Mobility, December 2020 - Present

Editorial Board: 

International Journal of ITS Research, May 2017 - Present

Sustainability, November 2019 - November 2021

Journal of Advanced Transportation, October 2020 - Present

Awards:

• Best Paper Award of “Traffic Engineering”, the Journal Published by Japan Society of Traffic Engineers, Miwa, T., Kiuchi, D., Yamamoto, T., Usui, T. and Morikawa, T. (28 May 2010), Title: Development of on-line map-matching algorithm for low-cost probe-vehicle data

• JSTE Award, The Japan Society of Transportation Economics, 2010, Title: Benefit evaluation of road investment (edited by Morichi, S. and Kanemoto, Y.)

• Best Paper Award (Technology category) of “Expressways and Automobiles”, the Journal Published by Express Highway Research Foundation of Japan, Miwa, T. and Sun, X. (25 May 2011) , Title: Preliminary analyses on truck automated lane using integrated traffic simulator

• The Best Paper Award for discovering interesting facts at the 11th EASTS International Conference (Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies), Zeng, W., Miwa, T. and Morikawa, T. (14 September 2015), Title: Exploring Trip Fuel Consumption by Machine Learning from GPS and CAN Bus Data

• Best Paper Award (Socioeconomics category) of “Expressways and Automobiles”, the Journal Published by Express Highway Research Foundation of Japan , Miwa, T. and Namizaki, T. (8 June 2016) , Title: Analysis on expressway toll for congestion mitigation in road networks with surface road

• Outstanding Presentation Award at International Conference on Materials and Systems for Sustainability 2017, Liu, Z., Miwa, T., Zeng, W. and Morikawa, T. (October 1 2017), Title: Application of Reliable Path Finding to a Shared Autonomous Taxi System in a Time-varying Road Network

• Best Poster Award at ITS Symposium 2019, Ichioka, Y., Miwa, T., Tashiro, M., and Morikawa, T. (December 12 2019), Title: Fundamental Study on Merging Support System at Urban Road Intersection

• Best Paper Award of IATSS Review/Research, Tran, Y., Yamamoto, T., Sato, H., Miwa, T. and Morikawa, T., Title: Attitude toward physical activity as a determinant of bus use intention: A case study in Asuke, Japan

Invited Talk (in English):

• "Optimum Allocation Problem of Taxi-Probe Vehicles", Beijing Jiaotong University (China-Japan Seminor on Traffic Control Technology of Expressway), February 27, 2010.

• "Probabilistic Aspects of Probe Vehicle Based Traffic Information", University of Communications and Transport (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), September 18, 2017 .

• "Civil Consciousness to Congestion Charging Polity", University of Science (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), September 19, 2017.