Travel Behavior Analysis
Pragmatic Social Science Studies for Solving Problems in Urban Planning, Travel Behavior and National Resilience
Social science was originally a field of integrative and pragmatic studies to address various social issues that arose during modernization. However, over 200 years since the dawn of the modern age, the”siloing” (deep specialization) of social sciences has made applying those findings to actual problem-solving difficult. In the real world, social problems exist as multidimensional phenomena and are not split to fit a researcher’s specialty. Our lab has been working on pragmatic social science research to address problems in urban planning, travel behavior management, and building national resilience based on the understanding of the multidimensional nature of humans and society.