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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

ay

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


0人/日

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12,000人/日

16,000人/日

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H20

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H22

H23

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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(Passengers/Day)

(year）

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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)

(persons)


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)


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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