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