A historical review of transport and land-use models in Japan

In Japan, the standard transport models for forecasting traffic demand were mostly established by the 1970s, although many land-use models had been already developed since the middle of 1960s. In this paper, the transport models are reviewed under the main headings of aggregate forecasting procedures and both a history of the land-use models and its concepts are illustrated here. focusing on the allocation procedures of activities in modeling in Japan. The paper includes the following sections: (1) transport models, (2) land-use models, (3) concepts used in modeling land-use, and (4) a view of modeling in the future.