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Takanori Sakai is a Research Associate at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Future Mobility Group (SMART/FM). He works on urban freight data collection in Singapore and the model development for the freight component of SimMobility, a next-generation urban simulation platform. His research focuses on urban freight modelling and simulation, logistics land use, and freight survey. Takanori won Best Paper Awards in TRB Urban Freight Transportation Committee in 2017 and 2018. Takanori completed the PhD program in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy at University of Illinois at Chicago. He also worked as a transportation planner for international transportation projects, mainly in Southeast Asia, for more than four years.
Awards:
2017 Best Paper Award presented by the TRB Urban Freight Transportation Committee for “Logistics Chain Modeling for Urban Freight: Pairing Truck Trip Ends With Logistics Facilities."
2018 Best Paper Award presented by the TRB Urban Freight Transportation Committee for “Testing the ‘Freight Landscape’ Concept for Paris”
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Selected journal articles with peer review
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Evaluation of the Spatial Pattern of Logistics Facilities using Urban Logistics Land-use and Traffic Simulator”. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 74, pp. 145-160, 2019. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692317308141
- Takanori Sakai, Bhavathathran B. K., André Romano Alho, Tetsuro Hyodo, Moshe Ben-Akiva. “Commodity Flow Estimation for a Metropolitan Scale Freight Modeling System: Supplier Selection Considering Distribution Channel Using an Error Component Logit Mixture Model”. Transportation, pp. 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11116-018-9932-1
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “The Relationship between Commodity Types, Spatial Characteristics, and Distance Optimality of Logistics Facilities”. Journal of Transport and Land Use, Volume 11, No. 1, pp. 575-591, 2018.
- Takanori Sakai, Adrien Beziat, Adeline Heitz, Laetitia Dablanc. Testing the ‘Freight Landscape’ Concept for Paris. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198118776783.
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Logistics Chain Modeling for Urban Freight: Pairing Truck Trip Ends with Logistics Facilities”. Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, Volume 2609, 2017. doi: 10.3141/2609-07
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Spatial Reorganization of Urban Logistics Systems and Its Impacts: Case of Tokyo”. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 60, pp. 110-118, 2017.
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Locational Dynamics and Efficiency of Logistics Facilities: Evidence from Tokyo”. Journal of Transport Geography, Volume 46, pp. 10-19, 2015
Selected conference proceedings with peer review
- Takanori Sakai, Adrien Beziat, Adeline Heitz, Laetitia Dablanc. “Testing the ‘Freight Landscape’ Concept for Paris”, the 97th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 7-11, 2018. (Received 2018 Best Paper Award in TRB Urban Freight Transportation Committee)
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Spatial Characteristics and Efficiency of Logistics Facilities: Lessons from Tokyo”, the 10th International Conference on City Logistics, Phuket, Thailand, June 14-16, 2017.
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Logistics Chain Modeling for Urban Freight: Pairing Truck Trip Ends with Logistics Facilities”, the 96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 8-12, 2017. (Received 2017 Best Paper Award in TRB Urban Freight Transportation Committee)
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Landuse Regulations for Logistics: Policy Evaluation with Location Choice Models for the Tokyo Metropolitan Area”, the 14th World Conference on Transport Research, Shanghai, China, July 10-15, 2016.
- Takanori Sakai, Kazuya Kawamura, Tetsuro Hyodo. “Urban Freight Survey Sampling: Challenges and Strategies”, the 94th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., January 11-15. 2015.