Over the 30 years, road traffic in Japan has increased with rapidly advancing motorization. The time loss due to traffic congestion was about 3.8billion person-hours per year in 2005, that is, when converted into a monetary value represents an economic loss of about 12 trillion yen. It is estimated that traffic demand will continue to grow in the future and that traffic congestion will worsen as a result. To solve such problems and enhanceurban mobility, in addition to introduce measures to expand transportation capacity, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is promoting to control traffic demand in coordination with the public transportationand further implementing policies in an integrated manner. This paper describes the current efforts and the direction of future road policies. For the covering abstract see ITRD E139491.
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