Launch date of the SIG / History:  This SIG was launched by Hideo Nakamura (President of Musashi Institute of Technology, Japan) in 1988 before the WCTR Yokohama conference, inheriting the ISGLUTI (International Study Group on Land Use - Transport Interaction) chaired by Vernon Webster (TRL, UK). Currently it is organized by Chair Kenji Doi (Kagawa University, Japan), and Co-chairs Michael Wegener (Spiekermann & Wegener Urban and Regional Research, Germany), and Yoshi Hayashi (Nagoya University, Japan).

Objectives: Its principal objectives are to share ideas on transport, land use and spatial development, to contribute to research activities in this field, to encourage the development of new research techniques, and to support a network of researchers with a wide spectrum of approaches including modelling, evaluation, planning, and policy formulation, etc. The following figure shows the growing research fields and approaches of SIG1.
 

Major Accomplishments: SIG1 has organized special session series in each WCTR conference and also separate seminars, symposiums and workshops between WCTRS. Also it has published two books, two special issues of technical journals. With respect to the network of researchers, SIG1 has attracted around 80 members so far.

Membership: Membership is open to any academic or practitioner with an interest in the subject area. Anyone interested in joining is invited to contact Stephen Ison at the address below. Please do not hesitate to contact me at the address below if you have any suggestions for the effective running of this SIG.