A Study on Urban Planning /urban Transportation Issues in Southeast Asian Countries and Japan’s Technical Corporationins

In recent years, with the rapid economic growth and concentration of the population into urban areas, some unregulated developments have been conducted in urban areas in Southeast Asian countries, so that their governments are under the pressure of necessity to develop an adequate operation of urban planning systems. Not all of the Southeast Asian countries, however, always have appropriate technologies for the urban planning project. Therefore, in this context, Japan, with practical experience in urban planning, is expected to transfer its technology and know-how to such a planning. This paper analyzed the backgrounds and urban planning/urban transportation issues in the Southeast Asian countries and proposed a technical cooperation model in response to requests arising from those countries.