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The medium-term strategy to realize multi-modal mobility in Tokyo Metropolitan Region (TMR)
Takashi YAJIMA Senior Fellow, the Institute of Behavioural Sciences, Japan
Illustrations © Japanese Institute of Behavioural Sciences
"Coordinated Strategy between Rail and Suburban Development"
In Tokyo the pattern of land use densities follows the pattern of main mass transit networks, and thus, multi-modal urban mobility has been realized at a substantial degree. This is due to a medium-term strategy of coordinated planning and finance between rail transit network development and suburban development.