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- Driving environment improvement project to maintain and enhance bus routes (southwest Totsuka Ward)
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Driving environment improvement project to maintain and enhance bus routes (southwest Totsuka Ward)
Due to a decrease in the number of route bus users and a shortage of drivers due to the declining birthrate and aging population, flights have been reduced in urban areas, making it difficult to maintain the current bus network service level. Therefore, in cooperation with bus operators, this project aims to improve the driving environment to promote operational efficiency and redistribution of the management resources resulting from this project.
Last Updated March 7, 2024
Initiatives to maintain bus routes in southwestern Totsuka Ward
Yokohama City and Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu") are working to maintain bus routes in the southwestern part of Totsuka Ward.
Overview of Initiatives
Background of Initiatives: Decrease in bus service levels due to a decrease in the number of users and a shortage of crew
In recent years, usage trends in the southwestern part of Totsuka Ward has changed significantly due to a decrease in the number of users and changes in lifestyles. In addition, due to the decrease and aging of large-scale two-class license holders, there is a shortage of drivers, and it is necessary to adjust the number of operating flights (reduction of flights, etc.) according to the actual usage.
In addition, due to telework and restraint going out due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the income and expenditure of route buses has become even more severe, and the number of users decreased. → Deteriorating income and expenditures → Reduction of flights → This could lead to a vicious cycle of further decline in the number of users.
Decrease in the number of users due to the COVID-19 pandemic (Changes in the number of route bus transport personnel in the Kanto area: 2019 standard) (Source: Prepared by Yokohama City based on materials released by the Kanto Transport Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)
What to aim for: Maintaining bus network by streamlining operation efficiency and redistribution
Therefore, Yokohama City and Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu will reduce the number of flights to the extent acceptable while securing transportation capacity on routes that introduce interconnected buses, while redistribution the management resources of the created bus operators to other routes. By redistributing, we aim to maintain the bus network of the entire area as much as possible.
※In order to improve income and expenditure, it is inevitable that flights will be reduced according to the actual usage, and even if a joint bus is introduced, the service level of the entire area will be lower in the future.
Image of implementation of initiatives
Image of improvement of vicious cycle
Overview of routes and contents of implementation (weekdays)
Overview of routes and contents of implementation (weekdays)
Progress of Business (as of March 2024)
・The scheduled start date of operation of the joint bus has been "July 1, 2024".
(About schedule: Bus News No. 6 (PDF: 1,025KB)))
・From 2023, we have begun road construction for the commencement of joint bus operation.
(About construction site: Bus News No. 5 (PDF: 1,872KB)))
・We will improve intersections, widen roads and bus bays, relocate pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, and lighting pillars. (Scheduled to be completed by May 2024)
| Before bus bay widening work | After the bus bay widened |
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Call for opinions on this initiative (conducted from October 1 to October 21, 2021)
Thank you very much for your continued support.
・Contents of opinion solicitation
Opinion solicitation form (PDF: 3,198KB)
・Results of opinion offer (Yokohama-shi bus network meeting (2021 second) document))
Opinion offer result (PDF: 1,751KB)
About public information paper "Tozuka connected bus news"
We publish a public relations paper, "Tozuka Connected Bus News" to provide an overview of this initiative and progress.
| Fiscal year | Materials | Contents |
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2021 | ・No. 1 (issued in January 2022) | ・Background and Purpose of Initiatives |
・No. 2 (issued in March 2022) Document (PDF: 1,231KB) | ・About reason to work with public-private partnership | |
2022 | ・No. 3 (issued in July 2022) | ・Regarding the reason for entering the joint bus |
・No. 4 (issued in March 2023) | ・Vehicles that are introduced and how to get on and off | |
2023 | ・No. 5 (issued in October 2023) | ・About schedule until operation start |
・No. 6 (Issued February 2024) | ・About schedule until operation start |
About Yokohama-shi bus network meeting
Various plans that contribute to the construction of an efficient bus network with the maintenance and enhancement of bus routes throughout the city, aiming at "Policy Goal 1 Realization of local transportation that is easy for everyone to move" in the "Yokohama Urban Transportation Plan" This is a meeting to hear opinions from everyone involved regarding the development and implementation of the plan.
| Fiscal year | Meeting contents |
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| 2020 | ・1st (held in writing in January 2021) |
| 2021 | ・1st meeting (held in October 2021) |
| 2022 | ・2nd (held in March 2023) |
| 2023 | ・1st (held in September 2023) |
※Some slide materials and summary of results may include materials related to “Efforts at Aoba Ward”.
Press release materials
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For inquiries to this page
Urban Transportation Division, Urban Development Bureau
Phone: 045-671-3800
Phone: 045-671-3800
Fax: 045-663-3415
Email address: tb-chikikotsu@city.yokohama.lg.jp
Page ID: 957-603-077
