On February 7, 2024, Dr. Tuenjai Fukuda, Secretary General, and Executive Committee of the Asian Transportation Science Research Society (ATRANS), was honored to attend the event and to extend her congratulations to honoring His Majesty the Emperor of Japan, organized by the Japanese Embassy in Thailand. The event took place on the auspicious occasion of His Majesty the King's birthday in 2024 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, with approximately 1,800 guests in attendance.

During the event, Mr. Nashida Kazuya, Ambassador of Japan to Thailand, expressed his gratitude to all Thai people who have assisted in various activities of the Embassy. He also mentioned that although his role as the Ambassador of Japan is about to end, he will continue to strive to promote closer Thai-Japan relations as a general person.

The Asian Transportation Research Society (ATRANS), in cooperation with the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences, held a semi-final report meeting for the FY2023 granted research projects on January 18-19, 2024, at the IATSS Office in Tokyo. ATRANS invited the six project leaders to participate and present their semi-final research outputs at the meeting, followed by a technical tour to the Honda Tochigi R&D Center.

🎁🎉 On January 8-9, 2024, Dr. Tuenjai Fukuda, Secretary General and Executive Director of the Asian Transportation Science Research Society (ATRANS), presented New Year gift baskets for the year 2024 and extended New Year wishes to the following individuals:
January 8, 2024:
📍 Dr. Passakon Prathombutr, Senior Executive Vice President of Special Projects Group and Digital and Innovation Development Center, and 1st Vice-Chairperson of ATRANS 🚘🏢 at the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA).
📍 Dr. Pattarathep Sillaparcharn, Director of the Strategy and Planning Department Intercity Highway Division, along with project technicians, Symposium, and Activity committees, and the Editorial Committee of ATRANS 🚘🏢 at the Inter-City Motorway Division Building, Department of Highways.
📍 Mr. Rapin Jarutula, Managing Director of the Bhumibolobhikkhu Foundation and Honorary Advisor of ATRANS 🚘🏢 at the Bhumibolobhikkhu Foundation, Wat Saket Ratchaworamahawihan.
📍 Mr. Chamroon Tangpaisankit, Director of the Thai Walking and Cycling Institute (TWCI) Foundation and Honorary Advisor of ATRANS 🚘🏡 at his private residence.
📍 Mr. Silpachai Jarukasemrattana, Former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport and Honorary Advisor of ATRANS 🚘🏡 at his private residence.
January 9, 2024:
📍 Dr. Chakree Bamrungwong, Economic Advisor for Land Transport, Ministry of Transport, and ATRANS Research Committee 🚘🏢 at the Ministry of Transport.
📍 Mr. Chula Sukmanop, Secretary-General of the Eastern Economic Corridor Office of Thailand (EEC) and ATRANS Chairperson 🚘🏢 at the Eastern Special Development Zone Policy Committee Office.
📍 Mr. Nikorn Chamnong, Chairman of the People's Safety Foundation and Director of Chartthaipattana Party 🚘🏢 at the Chartthaipattana Party.
📍 Mr. Ryoichi Kawabe, Senior Representative 🚘🏢 at the JICA Thailand Office.
📍 Mr. Haruka Ozawa, Second Secretary 🚘🏢 at the Japanese Embassy in Thailand.
📍 Mr. Arkom Termpittayapaisit, Former Minister of Finance and Minister of Transport 🚘🏢 at the National Economic and Social Development Council.
📍 Dr. Witaya Chadbunchachai, WHO expert advisory panel on injury and violence prevention and control, and ATRANS Board Committee.

Respectively, each recipient was acknowledged for their contributions to ATRANS. 🙏

ATRANS organized a Board Committee Meeting and Pre-Final Report Presentation Meeting on Thursday, December 7, 2023, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM and 1:10 PM to 4:30 PM. These meetings were held at the Matsutake Meeting Room on the Ground Floor of the Hotel Nikko Amata City in Chonburi.

The purposes of the meetings were to report overall ATRANS activities, including research, conferences, and other academic-related matters. Special attention was given to recruitment issues, particularly the presentation of pre-final research project outputs by the project leaders of the FY 2023 granted projects. This allowed the board committee and the research committee to provide comments and advice to the project leaders, leveraging their expertise for the continuous improvement of the research projects.

ATRANS extended invitations to its members to actively participate in the meetings and encouraged them to join a Year-End Party at Nikko Lounge on the 12th Floor.

🏫🚏 Another series of “ATRANS-Sharing Initiative” was happened at Wat Prasoet Rat Rangsan Witthaya School on 6 October 2023.

The ATRANS-sharing initiative is on a mission to make road safety super fun for kids. 🗺🚥🚧 We recently had a blast using drunk goggles to show the kids the risks of drunk driving in a hands-on way and explain the risk of drunk driving behavior with the children. 👧🧒 Moreover, we took this opportunity and support the school with the necessary school supplies, small table, printer and other stationery. It was heartwarming to see the kids not only enjoying the experiments but also learning important stuff together. 🚌🥰🙏

Another good activity called "ATRANS-Sharing Initiative” was launched at Nikhom Sang Ton Eng Lam Takhong 2 Primary School, Paak Chong District, Nakorn Ratchasima Province on September 22, 2023. The "ATRANS-Sharing Initiative” was designed and intended it to be a basic activity to provide road safety knowledge for early childhood at grades 1-6 through introducing road characteristics and traffic signs with playing some quiz games to stimulate understanding and remembering to practicing. Beside knowledge sharing, ATRANS also brought along with school supplies, sports equipment, ATRANS shirts, gift package bags with hygiene masks, and prizing awards for the school children. At Nikhom Sang Ton Eng Lam Taklong 2 Primary School, there are a total number of 79 school children and has no principal but only seven teachers and teaching assistants sharing their teaching classes together. It was lovely to see everyone (including teachers and students), is so adorably intelligent and witty. Cheer!

ATRANS hosted the 16th ATRANS Annual Conference on Transportation for a Better Life: Transforming Towards Decarbonization, Safety, and Sustainability on September 1, 2023, at the Chatrium Grand Bangkok Hotel.

During the conference, Dr. Chula Sukmanop, Secretary-General of EEC and ATRANS Chairperson, delivered the Keynote Lecture on 'Transforming Towards Decarbonization, Safety, and Sustainability in Transportation.' Additionally, Mr. Vikrom Kromadit, Chairman of Amata Corporation Public Company and Chairman of the Amata Foundation, presented the Special Lecture on 'AMATA Smart City: Adopted Yokohama Model and Beyond.'

The event featured insightful sessions throughout the morning and afternoon ( Opening Session and Session 1 / Session 2A, 3.1A, 3.2A / Session 2B / Session 4.1A, 4.2B ), with distinguished speakers sharing their knowledge and experiences with the audience. We extend a warm invitation for you to attend and engage in the AYRF 2023 Paper Presentation Sessions, where interesting research papers will be discussed.

ATRANS held its fiscal year 2022 Annual Meeting on Tuesday, March 21, from 13:40 to 16:00 at the Orchid 4 Meeting Room on the 11th Floor of the Jasmine City Hotel on Soi Sukhumvit 23. The meetings' objectives were to report on general ATRANS activities, including the 15th ATRANS Annual Conference, research activity on proposed research projects for fiscal year 2023 for board review and approval, and other topics.

Prof.Dr. Atsushi Fukuda and Dr. Tuenjai Fukuda of ATRANS were invited to join MLIT and UR (Urban Renaissance) in presenting the leading project at Bang Sue to Dr.Chayatan Phromsorn, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Transport, on March 20th.

ATRANS, MLIT and UR (Urban Renaissance) visited EEC.

On March 16th, Prof.Dr. Atsushi and Dr. Tuenjai Fukuda were interviewed by DLT at the ATRANS office.

ATRANS held the Research Committee Meeting on Project Proposal Presentation and Evaluation on March 3rd at its office.

Dr. Tuenjai Fukuda participated in the TSM (Transport Safety Manager) workshop as one of the speakers on February 22 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the DLT meeting room.

In Thailand, urban and transportation planning have always been a chicken-and-egg problem, regardless of which comes first.

Dr. Passakon Prathombutr, SVEP/CTO at DEPA and ATRANS 1st Vice-Chairperson and Dr.Tuenjai Fukuda, ATRANS Secretary-General were invited to joined JICA Seminar on “Urban Planning and Public Transportation” to listen to a reputably well-recognized Prof.Dr.Fumihiki NAKAMURA about his comprehensive talk on Urban Planning and Public Transportation and the other 2 interesting presentations on “Policy Recommendation for Supporting Transit Oriented Development along the Railway in BMA” and “Comparative Analysis of Transit-Oriented Development in Thailand and Japan” presented by Mr.Sukapat Tiempathom from OTP and Mr.Pana Supatitipong from DRT respectively at the Westin Grande Sukhumvit Hotel dated 10th February 2023. Dr.Fumihiki NAKAMURA is a professor of Smart City Design Research Unit, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo. Mr. Sukapat and Mr. Pana received JICA support to study in Japan at Prof.Dr.Akinori MORIMOTO’s Lab, Waseda University and at the GRIPS under supervision of Prof.Dr.Shikeru MORICHI and Prof.Dr.Naohiko HIBINO.

ATRANS was invited by Dr.Alaksh Phonprapha, 2nd ATRANS Vice-Chairperson and Vice President of Thai Honda Manufacturing Co., Ltd., to join the 1st Asia-Oceania HONDA Safety Instructor Competition 2023 in Thailand held during 2-4 February at HONDA Safety Riding Park, Phuket presided over by Mr.Chirute Visalchitra, the Director-General of Department of Land Transport, Ministry of Transport, Thailand. There were more than 10 countries joining this competition in both theoritical and practical methods. This HONDA event was worth-observing and learning on how the HONDA instrutors conduct their teaching and driving classes for an improvement and a betterment of their teaching skills.

Technical Visit on TOD: Transit Oriented Development at Chiba Prefecture, date 20 Jan 2023. After having finished the Semi-Final Report Presentation Meeting to IATSS Professors/Advisors, we took an opportunity for a visitation and observation to learn how local government turns farming areas to smart community/city development. We visited Funabashi-Utsukushi-Gakuen Mebuki-no-Mori Area Development located along Funabashi-Nichidaimae Station nearby Nihon University Funabashi Campus as our first stop led by Dr.Chula Sukmanop, our ATRANS Chairperson and the Secretary-General of EEC, Thailand.

After that we visited Yachiyo-Midorigaoka Station for an observation of Yachiyo-Midorigaoka Area Development Project along Toyokosoku Line as the second stop. We were lucky enough to have the officials from Urban Renaissance (UR agency under MLIT, Japan) guided/explained us for their 2 developed projects which are very impressively useful to research and implementation. Finally our last stop was at Yukarigaoka Station, Keisei Line and tranferred to Yukarigaoka Line which is A Guideway Transit System so called VONA: Vehicle of New Age. We were riding a round-trip train to learn and understand how importance of integrated public transportation system with urban planning would benefit the residential society at large in terms of accessibility and transferrabilty and hence reducinig the use of private cars and the adverse effects. Once again we were lucky enough to have Prof.Dr. Fukuda as our tourguide for the whole trip. It was very interesting and edutaining trip indeed.

On January 19, 2023, the Asian Transportation Research Society (ATRANS) and the International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences (IATSS) held a semi-final report meeting of the FY2022 granted research projects at IATSS office, Tokyo, Japan.

On Friday, December 16, 2022, ATRANS organized the Board Meeting, Regular Meeting, Pre-Final Report Presentation Meeting, and Year-End Party at the Ana Anan Resort & Villas Pattaya.

The meetings' goals were to discuss and report on ATRANS activities, as well as some issues for consideration and approval, and to listen to and provide feedback to the project leaders of the granted project for FY 2022.

The photo gallery for 15th ATRANS Annual Conference: "Transportation for a Better Life: Resiliency, Sustainability, and Safety in the Transportation System", held on Friday, August 26, 2022, from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM at the Chatrium Balloon on 4th floor at the Chatrium Hotel Riverside Bangkok.

We would like to express our gratitude to all of the distinguished guests who attended this meeting.

The photo gallery fot 🧑‍🎓the AYRF 2022 Session 👩‍🎓, held on Thursday, August 25, 2022 from 1.30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the River Room at the Chatrium Hotel Riverside Bangkok.

ATRANS would like to express its gratitude to all of the distinguished guests who attended this meeting.

Dr. Tuenjai Fukuda The Secretary-General of the Asian Transport Research Association was honored to host the program in Session 1. Sub-Room 1 "Optimize the whole system for safe motorcycles" on May 25, 2022 which is a discussion "Towards a New Decade, Joint Security Management with System Optimization" on the topic "Safety management in the dimensions of people and roads"

The picture gallery for 14th ATRANS Annual Conference: "Transportation for a Better Life: Future Potential of Transportation and Urban Model Post Covid Era," held on Saturday 18 December 2021 from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. at the Millennium Hotel Hilton Bangkok's Thonburi Room.

ATRANS would like to express its gratitude to all of the distinguished guests who attended this meeting.

Clubhouse: ATRANS Media Ep.3: What keep Thailand Road Accidents increased: In Viewpoint of Thai Academic and JICA Road Safety Experts Perspective.

We would like to invite everyone to join the discussion on ATRANS MEDIA CLUBHOUSE TALK # 3 on the topic "What keeps Thailand's Road Accidents increasing: In Viewpoint of Thai Academic and JICA Road Safety Experts Perspective". Time: 7 pm – 9 pm

Clubhouse: ATRANS Media Ep.2: What keep Thailand Road Accidents increased continually: In Viewpoint of JICA Road Safety Experts Perspective.

Traffic ends more lives prematurely in Thailand than strokes, Aids, any single kind of cancer, pneumonia, or diabetes. Imagine that a number of 24,000 road fatalities a year, this is equivalent to a number of populations in a small city...

Clubhouse: ATRANS Media Ep.1: Can Traffic Discipline only be created by Heart or by Law?

With an expectation that one day there will be a better road safety culture than it is at present in our Thai society. But how to make that happens. Or Can Traffic Discipline only be Created by Heart or by Law?

On December 8, 2020, TTK Asia Transport (Thailand) Co., Ltd. TPRO and Dr. Tuenjai Fukuda, Asia Transport Research Society Organized the 7th Safety Event with students from Tha Luang Technical College Thai Anusorn Cement participate in this activity

Summarize of 13th ATRANS Annual Conference “Digital Transformation In Transportation & Logistics Post COVID-19 Era Friday, 4 December 2020, 9:00 - 18:00 The Carlton Hotel, Sukhumvit 27

On March 8 2021, Mr.Chamroon Tangpaisalkit and Dr.Tuenjai Fukuda went to the Department of Land Transport to give Mr.Jirut Wisanjit, Director-General of DLT and