Special Feature / Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025 - Vision for Social Infrastructure and Future Cities - Published June 30

The International Traffic Safety Society (Location: 6F, YANMAR TOKYO, 2-1-1 Yaesu, Chuo-ku, Tokyo) published its academic journal, "IATSS Review," on June 30, 2026. This journal, published three times a year, features the Osaka-Kansai Expo 2025, which has garnered significant attention, in its first issue of the fiscal year. Experts and stakeholders who were deeply involved from the conceptual stage to social implementation of the Expo have written from their respective perspectives on urban planning, economic ripple effects, regional revitalization, disaster prevention planning, and the present and future of traffic society.

J-Stage is here ↓ https://www.iatss.or.jp/publication/iatss-review/ https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/iatssreview/51/1/_contents/-char/ja

Table of Contents

・Hiroshi Nakai: Forum "Traffic Safety Education That Doesn't Say 'Traffic Safety'"

・Hidekatsu Hamaoka: Foreword to the Special Feature

・Manabu Inoue: Overview of the Osaka-Kansai Expo

・Takayuki Shioze: Hope Born from Connection

・Osaka Prefecture / Osaka City Expo Promotion Bureau, Development Coordination Department: On the Expo TDM Initiatives

・Osaka City Planning and Coordination Bureau, Osaka Prefecture / Osaka City Expo Promotion Bureau: Regarding the Demonstration Experiment of Autonomous Buses in Osaka City at the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo

・Yuichi Tateno: Disaster Prevention Planning and Operations for the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo: Challenges and Lessons Learned

・Yoshihisa Inada: Economic Ripple Effects and Regional Revitalization: From the Experience of the Osaka-Kansai Expo

・Shinya Hashizume: Post-Osaka-Kansai Expo Urban Concepts and Legacy

- Towards the Revitalization of the Bay Area Axis and the East-West Axis -

・Misaki Akimoto, Mitsumasa Yoda: Subjective Evaluation by T-cane Users of Sidewalk Pavement Materials for Pedestrians

About the International Traffic Safety Society

Founded in 1974 after retiring as president and vice president, by Honda founder Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa, with the aim of addressing and solving traffic problems deeply and broadly for society as a whole, not just within one company.

As an interdisciplinary research institution in the field of transportation originating in Japan, it began its activities with a diverse membership including researchers in traffic and safety engineering, psychology, education, communication engineering, economics, cultural anthropology, and journalists. Under free and open discussion, it commenced research and investigations on the theme of the role of automobiles in society, and the present and future of traffic society, and continues its activities to this day.