Research Projects
THEME 3: Finance and resource allocation in urban transport.
3B. Mass Transit Policy and Management in Japan under Distorted Neo-liberalism.
Chief Investigators
Fujio Mizuoka, (Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo), Izumi Takeda
Project Description
Neo-liberalism is often grafted on to the existing management structure of governments and corporations with distorting effects preventing the delivery of the alleged benefits. This project studies the cases of mass transit policies and management systems in Japanese and South Korean cities and in Hong Kong under neo-liberal influence, and reveals how a ‘pseudo-liberalism’ has created declining and user-hostile mass transit systems. The project takes up case studies in three countries (one being a territory within the People’s Republic of China) in order to make comparison with each other and with major Asian cities, and in order to highlight the significance of the arguments to be made.
Timeline
2006-2010
Publications for Download
| 1. | Public transit policies and management in Japan and South Korea under distorted neo-liberalism (490kb pdf) | Fujio Mizuoka, Izumi Takeda and Bongman Seo |
| 2. | The making of the mass transit railway in Hong Kong (1.2MB pdf) | Fujio Mizuoka |
| 3. | Twenty years after the privatization of the Japan national railways under the neo liberalist principle (440kb pdf) | Izumi Takeda |