MaaS (mobility as a service) and smart transportation are key topic for sustainable societies. Multi-agent social simulation (MASS) is a core technology to solve complicated social issues like designing public transportation. In this talk, I like to present a successful application of MASS to design and evaluate taxi-sharing service called SAVS (smart access vehicle service). The service is widely operated more than 50 places in Japan by MiraiShare, a venture company established by professors that work on MASS researches. This talk also mention about the wide possibility of MASS researches to solve various social issues.

Dr. Itsuki Noda is a professor of Research Faculty of Information Science and Technology in Hokkaido University, Japan. He received the B.E., M.E. and Ph.D., degrees in engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1987, 1989, and 1995, respectively. He worked at Electrotechnical Laboratory (ETL) and National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology as a senior researcher since 1992 and 2000. He moved to Hokkaido University as a professor since 2021. He was also a visiting researcher of Stanford University in 1999, and worked as a staff of Council of Science and Technology Policy of Japanese government in 2003. He was a founding member of RoboCup and promoted Soccer Simulation League since 1995. He was the president of RoboCup Federation during 2014 to 2017. He was also the president of Japanese Society of Artificial Intelligence during 2020 to 2022. His main research domain covers multiagent social simulation, machine learning, RoboCup and disaster mitigation information. He and his colleagues founded a venture company, Mirai Share, which provides taxi-share service based on a result of the social simulation research, in 2016.