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1 COMPACT CITY TOYAMA
Creating a Compact City through Innovative
Public Transportation Networks
~コンパクトシティ戦略による富山市型都市経営の構築~
Eco Mobility World Festival 2013
LRT connection under the elevated Toyama Station (Artist’s rendering)
公共交通を軸としたコンパクトなまちづくり New Urban Planning Strategies to Meet the Twin Challenges of
Decreasing Populations and Aging Societies
Daisaku Saito, policy supervisor of Toyama City
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<Japan>
Outline of Toyama City
Toyama
City
Toyama City Below Northern Japan Alps
Aerial view of Toyama City
・Population: 421,953 people (Approx. 40% of Toyama Prefecture, 2010 census)
・Area: 1,241.85 square km (Approx. 30% of Toyama Prefecture)
・Topographical diversity: From sea level (Toyama Bay) to 2,986m ( Suishodake.)
Toyama
Prefecture
Tokyo
<Toyama Prefecture >
City Hall
Hokuriku Shinkansen (Spring 2015)
New Shinkansen Station with Trams
Toyama
Bay
Northern
Japan Alps
In addition to creating employment for the elderly through industrial development, it is
important to create a city in which the elderly can lead a safe and comfortable life.
Anticipated Demographic Changes in Toyama City
Increasing Percentage of Elderly Population
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Source: Toyama City Demographic Projection Report
65 years old and above
15 – 64 years old
0 – 14 years old
(year)
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-Three pillars for this Strategy-
① Revitalizing public transport
②
③ Revitalizing the city center
Toyama’s Unique Compact City Management Strategy
Economic Value
Developing an Attractive
High Quality City Life Promoting Local Industry Creating a Compact City by
Renovating Public Transport
Realizing a sustainable city management
Environmental Value
Reduce administrative costs
Increased tax revenue
Industrial development
Increase employment
Reducing Co2 emissions
Environmental protection
Revitalizing the city center
Nurturing social capital
Medicine
Nursing care
Safety and security
Social Value
Encouraging residents to relocate to
zones along public transport lines
Concept Illustration
Toyama City Public Transportation Radiating Network
JR
Toyama Chitetsu Line
Toyama Light Rail
Major bus routes
Extensive Bus Service
Toyama’s public transport forms
a radial network with Toyama
Station at the center.
JR Hokuriku Line
Toyama Chiho
Tetsudo
Toyama Chitetsu Tram Line
100+ routes operated by Toyama
Chitetsu Ltd.
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Four Railway Lines
・ Japan Railways – 2 lines
・ Toyama Chiho Railways – 2 lines
Two Tram Lines
・ Toyama Chitetsu City Tram Line
・ Toyama Light Rail Port Line
Toyama
Station
Hokuriku Shinkansen (Inauguration
scheduled for the end of fiscal year 2014)
Chitetsu fujikoshi
kamidaki Line
JR
Tak
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am
a L
ine
Kokuritsu byoinguti
Tomiodai fuzoku
byoinguti
Kureha
Yokataguchi
Sekijuji byoinguti
Toyama Daigaku mae
Nishi Toyama
Hayahoshi
Hayahoshi
Shimin byoin
Toyama kuko mae
Ettyuu Yatsuo
Yatsuo kagamimachi
Iwasehama
Hasumachi Mizuhashi
Fujinoki danchi-mae
Minami toyamaeki-mae
Minami toyama
Kosugi
Kamidaki
Osawano gyousei center-mae
Sasazu
Higashi Yatsuo
Senri
Yokata shinmeimachi
Toyama kokusai daigaku
Osho Tsukioka
Harihara shinmachi
Asanamachi
Kamihori
Nunoichi
Kaihotsu
Sasazu
Keirinjo-mae
Higashi iwase
Ohirota
Inujima shinmachi
Jogawara
Jogawara
Higashi shinjo
Ettyu
ebara
Ettyu
sango
Tyuo byoin
Oita guchi
Toyota guchi
Daisenji yuen
Saiseikai byoin
Mizuhashi
Yamada gyousei
center-mae
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By creating the LRT network, we hope to modify the current life style of too much dependence on
automobiles and realize a town in which every city amenity is within walking distance.
Revitalizing Public Transport - Formation of LRT Network
Toyama Portram LRT (April 2006) City Tram Loop Line (Dec. 2009)
Image of Tram under the new
elevated Toyama Station
Centram and City Bicycle System
Portram >
< Centram
Toyama Bay
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Design and Construction of Toyama’s LRT
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The New “Portram”
Introduction of total design
JR Toyama Port Line (a local line), which had been suffering from declining numbers of passengers,
was revitalized as Japan’s first complete LRT. This was achieved by adopting a two-tiered system in
which the public sector constructs the track while the private sector operates the business.
Former JR Port Line
Light Rail Attendants
Low floor cars/ barrier-free stations
*Fare is uniformly 200 yen.
Former Service New Service
Operation interval
First / Last Train
No. of stations
Vehicles
30 to 60 min.
5-6 / 21-22:00
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Railroad vehicles
15 min.
(10 min. during rush hour)
5-6 / 23-24:00
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All super-low floor vehicles
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City Tram Loop Line Project - Centram
The extension of the tram line contributed to making the downtown area more
appealing and making it easier for people to move around. ・ Adoption of the first two-tiered system in Japan.
・ Tram route construction was integrated with existing road space to creation an attractive urban space.
■ Introduction of total design for vehicles, stations, and roads
Loop Line
Project
The northern route and the
southern route will be
joined in the future.
■ Outline
Inaugural Day: December 23rd, 2009
Extended Distance: 0.9km
(Total Loop Line 3.4km)
No. of Stations: 3 new stations were added along
the extended route.
Vehicle: 3 new low-floor cars were adopted.
Number of passengers:
Weekdays 1.959 daily
Weekends 2,805 daily
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Views of the Loop Line Project and the City of Toyama
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CENTRAM
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①Reduce CO2 emissions
②Revitalize the city center and make it
more convenient to move around
■Project Purpose:
■No. of Bicycle Stations:
15 stations in the city center
A New Transport Option for Citizens Going Downtown without Automobiles
■No. of Bicycles:150
■Project Operator: Cyclocity Inc.
Revitalizing the City Center - Bicycle Sharing System for Toyama Citizens (Aville) -
City Tram
Loop Line
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≪The 67th General Assembly of Japanese Society for
Gastroenterological Surgery (July 18 – 20, 2012) ≫
Participants taking advantage of Aville
Temporary Reception Desk
The Pass Designed esp. for the Conference
Public Bicycle Sharing System “AVIRE”
Revitalizing the City Center - Bicycle Sharing System for Toyama Citizens (Aville)
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Approx. 7,000 people including many surgeons came to
attend from across the nation. Panel discussions, lectures,
workshops, etc. were held at four venues including Toyama
International Conference Hall. Aville was utilized as a means of
transport between the venues.
Revitalizing the City Center - Flower Tram Model Project
≪Flower Tram Model Project≫
The city tram fare is free when
customers purchase a bouquet from
a designated flowershop.
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Something good happened that day
so I bought flowers and rode the
tram. Again something good
happened.
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Service for Elderly Citizens ~Senior Citizens’ Special Pass Project~
Within Toyama City, citizens over the age of 65 receive a special public
transportation discount fare of 100 yen (about .80 euro) to any destination from the
city center. About 30% of senior citizens have this special pass and each day, on
average, about 2500 people use it.
City Center
Route Map
<How to use the pass>
① Hours of usage: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
② Pass can be used:
・Anywhere between the city center and within Toyama City
・Inside the city center area
・Anywhere between Toyama Municipal Hospital and within
Toyama City
<Special Pass>
Citizens over 65 years old, ¥1,000
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Number of city tram passengers per day
Inauguration of the
Loop Line
(Inauguration of
Toyama LRT)
Results of Compact City Policy - City Tram Usage
Until 2006, the number of the city tram passengers had steadily decreased.
With the opening of the Toyama LRT in 2007 and then the Loop Line in 2011,
the number of Tram passengers has now steadily increased.
City tram route map
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Results of Compact City Policy - Increase in incoming population -
More people have moved into the city center than those who have moved out since 2007,
averaging 81 people a year for the past five years.
■ Shift in population (figures representing the number of people moving into the city center
subtracted by those moving out)
2012 marks a turning point at which people moving in outnumbered those moving out in the
residentially promoted areas along the public transport lines.
■ Shift in population (figures representing the number of people moving into the areas along
the public transport lines subtracted by those moving out)
(persons)
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External Assessment of Toyama’s Compact City Policy
OECD (Organization for Economic
Co-operation and Development) Toyama City was recognized, along with Melbourne, Paris,
Vancouver, and Portland, as one of the five “advanced cities”
in the 2012 report on “Compact Cities Policies.”
Toyama’s compact city strategy of re-imagining and revitalizing public transport
has been commended as a model both within and outside Japan.
Overseas evaluation Domestic evaluation
■OECD meeting (OECD Headquarters in Paris, June 13, 2012)
National Government of Japan Designated
Eco-Friendly City of the Future Toyama City was designated as one of the eleven
eco-friendly cities of the future under Japan's new
national growth strategy.
■Awards Ceremony with Prime Minister Noda (Prime Minister's Official Residence, January 18, 2012)
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Toward a city open to the future through innovation in the environment, society, and economy
Reducing CO2 emissions
Revitalizing the city center
Circulation
Nurturing social capital
Regional medicine
Nursing care
Health
Safety and social security
Reduction of administrative cost
Creation of new industries
Revitalization of rural communities
Increased tax revenue
Promotion of local industries
Creation of employment
Toyama City Management – A Unique Compact City Strategy
Realizing a sustainable society through the creation of highly desirable living conditions
that achieve a harmony between quality of life and environmental concerns
Toyama’s Compact City Management Strategy
Creation of Environmental Value
Creation of Economic Value
etc etc
etc
Creation of Social Value
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