Professor Izumi Takeda
Hokkaido University of Education at Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, Japan BA (Tokai University, Tokyo), MA (Gakugei University, Tokyo), ABD, (Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo)
Associate Professor, Hokkaido University of Education,
Iwamizawa, Hokkaido, Japan.
Profile
Professor Takeda is an engaged researcher and active advocate for a public-transport oriented society that is planned with the environment - and a user-friendly railway - at its core. Takeda assumed his current position from 1995 as a full-time lecturer, and he was promoted to associate professor in 2001. He was appointed a visiting fellow at the Institute of Regional Study, Okinawa, Japan, in 2001 and part-time lecturer at the Graduate School of Education, Kumamoto University, in 2002. In 1997, Takeda founded the Japan Railway Users Conference (a transport NGO), and served as President from 1997 to 2003. Takeda specializes in his teaching and research in local transportation management and environment policy.
Selected Publications since 2000
- Takeda I and Kikuchi T. (2000 and 2001), 'The Local Images of Hokkaido among the University Students Living There', Parts 1 and 2, The Annals of Iwamizawa 21, and Hekichi Kyoiku Kenkyu (Research of Education in Remote Areas) 56.
- Takeda I. (2001) 'The Change of Railway Management Policy and its Benefit to the Rail Travellers', Kotsuken (The Mobility Right) 18.
- Takeda I, Hayata N and Aoyama K. (2001) 'Viabilities of Urban Tramcars Analysed from a Questionnaire Survey to the Residents', Toshigaku Kenkyu (Research on Urbanism) 38.
- Takeda I and Mizuoka F. (2003) 'The Privatisation of the Japan National Railways: the Myth of Neo-Liberal Reform and Spatial Configurations of the Rail Network in Japan - a View from Critical Geography' in Making Urban Transport Sustainable, N. Low and B.J. Gleeson eds, Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave-Macmillan.