Tetsuo Shimizu

Tetsuo SHIMIZU is professor in the Department of Tourism Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University. His research interest covers transport, urban, regional studies basing engineering, economics, planning and policy knowledge. Current research topics are Intelligent Transport System including IoT issues in transport, travel demand and behavioral analyses, traffic flow analysis, national/regional tourism policy, and data science in tourism industry.

Prof. SHIMIZU graduated Graduate School of Science and Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) in 1995 and got Doctor of Engineering from TIT in 2002. He became research associate in TIT in 1995, research associate in the University of Tokyo (UT) in 2001, associate professor in UT in 2003, and got the current position in 2011. He was visiting researcher at the Inter-university Center for Sustainable Development Research, Sapienza University of Rome in 2010. He was also assigned as the director of Research Institute, Japan Travel and Tourism Association in 2017.