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Mobility

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We will promote the digitalisation of semi-public sector (mobility), which is closely related to people's lives and has a large ripple effect on other private sectors with significant involvement by the national government. Through this, we will realize an enriched life for the people, where optimal services are provided according to individual needs.

What's New

  • April 11, 2025 Material.
  • On April 9, 2025, "FY 2024' Demonstrative Investigation Research on Infrastructure Construction for Distributed Cooperative Operation of Multiple Mobility'" was published in the Material.

Overview

In the field of mobility in Japan, ensuring the freedom of transportation for each and every citizen, reducing traffic accidents, resolving the shortage of human resources due to the declining birthrate and aging population, reducing the environmental impact by improving the efficiency of logistics and human flow, improving the convenience of consumers, and strengthening the international competitiveness of related industries are urgent issues.

As a new means to solve these problems, in addition to autonomous driving, new mobility services utilizing digital technologies are spreading, such as the development of Mobility as a Service (MaaS) and on-demand transportation, and the emergence of new transportation methods including drones and automated delivery robots.

Based on this, the Digital Agency will promote the design and implementation of a Architecture for the entire digital transportation society to realize the future vision, while developing rules for data sharing, collaboration, and utilization, as well as drawing up a future vision in collaboration with the public and private sectors to increase added value and efficiency in the use of space for all movement modes, from people to objects, from walking to flying.

Related Information

Recent Efforts

"The Future of Digital Transportation Society 2022" was decided.

Published: August 2, 2022
At the fourth meeting of the Meeting for the Promotion of a Digital Society Board of Directors held on August 1, 2022, the "2022 Future of Transportation Society Utilizing Digital Technology" was decided upon.
The "Digital Transportation Society of the Future 2022" expands on the "Public-Private ITS Concept and Roadmap," the government-wide strategy for ITS and autonomous driving, and presents it from the perspective of how to envision the future of the digital transportation society.
Under the "Priority Plan for the Realization of a Digital Society" (approved by the Cabinet on June 7, 2022), the public and private sectors will work together to develop the necessary technology, transport infrastructure, and systems in order to promote advanced mobility.

We received a progress report from Information Processing Authority (Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan) on the examination of the mechanism (Architecture) for the cooperation of information systems related to mobility.

Published: September 27, 2022
Digital Agency has requested the Architecture to study the realization of a future vision that will lead to the resolution of social issues and the development of industries through the use of autonomous mobile robots, as well as a mechanism for the coordination of multiple related information systems with different persons who operate and manage the operation of autonomous mobile robots (IPA).
The Digital Architecture Design Center (DADC), which is composed of a group of experts who bridge between the public and private sectors, held the "Autonomous Mobile Robot Future Vision Study Group" and the "3 d Spatial Information Infrastructure Architecture Study Group" under the support of the relevant ministries and agencies to study Architecture designs. Based on the review status so far, we compiled the "Autonomous Mobile Robot Architecture Design Report" and the "3 d Spatial Information Infrastructure Architecture Design Report" and made a progress report to Digital Agency.
Based on this progress report, demonstration projects, etc. are planned in related ministries and agencies in the future, and DADC is planning to refine the Architecture based on the results of the demonstration projects.

Reference

Meetings, etc.

Material

Fiscal 2024 "Survey and Research on the Understanding of Movement Demand for the Social Implementation of Mobility Services Utilizing Autonomous Driving and Other New Digital Technologies"

Published: April 11, 2025
In order to implement mobility services in society using new digital technologies such as autonomous driving, we examined methods, approaches, and utilization methods for analyzing actual and potential demand in order to grasp regional travel demand. We also surveyed and analyzed issues in social implementation that are affected by travel demand.

Reports, etc.

Fiscal 2024 "Demonstrative Investigation Research on Infrastructure Construction for Distributed Cooperative Operation of Multiple Mobility"

Published: April 9, 2025
We investigated the specifications of the system-wide Architecture and common data infrastructure required for the safe and smooth operation of multiple mobility devices in a distributed and coordinated manner through use case demonstrations assuming actual services provided by service robots.

Reports, etc.

Data:

Fiscal 2024 "Survey Research on Data Coordination for Social Implementation of New Mobility Services"

Published: December 18, 2024
We conducted a study on the creation of applications necessary to capture and utilize regional movement demand as data, as well as a survey to clarify the ideal way of data linkage in the region and the direction for implementation.

Reports, etc.

Fiscal 2023 "Demonstrative Research Study on Coordinated Operation of Multiple Mobility"

Published: May 8, 2024
We conducted a demonstration of robot-centered cooperative operation in order to consider new mobility policies for mobility demand, considering autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, and other mobility in general as mobility. In this demonstration, we conducted research and studies on information to be shared between mobility provided by different operators and examination of necessary specifications and rules.

Reports, etc.

Data:

The data obtained in this research are attached.

Fiscal 2023 "Demonstrative Research Project on DX in Infrastructure Management for Building Digital Twins"

Published: April 24, 2024
Based on the results of the 2022 Fiscal 2022 "Survey and Research on Digital Twin Construction", we conducted a demonstration study to expand the four dimensional spatiotemporal information infrastructure, which enables mutual sharing of spatial information on infrastructure facilities for electricity, gas, water supply, sewage, and communications through digitalisation and spatial IDs, from the following three perspectives: "Updating and adding functions with a view to starting operation in the area of underground facilities in 2024," "Adding ground facilities to target facilities," and "Adding use cases for remote control and disaster response."

Reports, etc.

Fiscal 2022 "Survey and Research on Digital Twin Construction"

Published: April 26, 2023
With the aim of promoting the implementation of digital twins in society, we conducted research and studies on the development of necessary specifications and maintenance methods, while demonstrating concrete use cases for digital twins related to three dimensional spatial information.

Reports, etc.

Data:

Open Data / Metadata