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Institute of Transportation Studies


The Joy of the Journey:
Celebrating the Life and Work of Ryuichi Kitamura

June 28-30, 2009
The Walter A. Buehler Alumni & Visitors Center
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA


The travel behavior community lost a first-rank scholar and beloved colleague with the untimely passing of Ryuichi Kitamura in February 2009. Ryuichi spent the first half of his career (1978 - 1993) on the faculty of the University of California, Davis, and the second half on the faculty at Kyoto University. Now, these two institutions have joined to host a symposium honoring Ryuichi's life and work. Like Ryuichi himself, we expect the event to be both intellectually stimulating and personally lively and fun. We hope you will be able to join us.

For any questions, please contact Maddy Rehrman at mnrehrman@ucdavis.edu or (530) 752-1052.

Steering Committee

  • Patricia Mokhtarian, UC Davis, chair
  • Cynthia Chen, City College of New York
  • Satoshi Fujii, Kyoto University (as of April 1)
  • Kostas Goulias, UC Santa Barbara
  • Akira Kikuchi, Kyoto University
  • Hani Mahmassani, Northwestern University
  • Ram Pendyala, Arizona State University
  • Owen Waygood, Kyoto University
  • Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Nagoya University
  • Toshio Yoshii, Kyoto University


With Support from

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