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One example of outcomes by CCC is the Segway Tour in Futakotamagawa, the
first of its kind wherein participants can ride Segways on public roads in Tokyo
(Fig. 6.6). This is the Quomo Project, started up by CCC with mobility as its theme.
With the cooperation of Setagaya Ward and the Futakotamagawa Traffic and
Environment Cleanup Promotion Council, tours began in April 2016 by utilizing measures for exceptional cases under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s
System of Special Arrangements for Corporate Field Tests. Keeping in mind the
Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, CCC is conscious of urban development activities aimed at the next generation and creates and disseminates actual examples by using methods including new technologies and the easing of regulations.
In the future, CCC intends to expand its place for activities from Futakotamagawa
to the Platinum Triangle and create innovations necessary for new sustainable urban
development in the megalopolis of Tokyo. Tokyo is the driving force for Japanese
innovations and the Platinum Triangle is expected to be the engine of growth for
this.
We are now facing many problems. However, it is true that through the hard
efforts of our predecessors, we have acquired various goods, information, and
means of transportation enabling the realization of a society with long life expectancy. Self- sufficiency in resources, low carbon, overcoming pollution and coexisting in harmony with nature, good health and self- reliance, lifelong growth, various
options, freedom of participation…Let’s work towards the Platinum Society that
will realize all of this.
Fig. 6.6 The public running tour of segway® Personal transporter. (Photos from Tokyu
Corporation)
6 Platinum Industry and a New Society
One example of outcomes by CCC is the Segway Tour in Futakotamagawa, the
first of its kind wherein participants can ride Segways on public roads in Tokyo
(Fig. 6.6). This is the Quomo Project, started up by CCC with mobility as its theme.
With the cooperation of Setagaya Ward and the Futakotamagawa Traffic and
Environment Cleanup Promotion Council, tours began in April 2016 by utilizing measures for exceptional cases under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry’s
System of Special Arrangements for Corporate Field Tests. Keeping in mind the
Olympic and Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020, CCC is conscious of urban development activities aimed at the next generation and creates and disseminates actual examples by using methods including new technologies and the easing of regulations.
In the future, CCC intends to expand its place for activities from Futakotamagawa
to the Platinum Triangle and create innovations necessary for new sustainable urban
development in the megalopolis of Tokyo. Tokyo is the driving force for Japanese
innovations and the Platinum Triangle is expected to be the engine of growth for
this.
We are now facing many problems. However, it is true that through the hard
efforts of our predecessors, we have acquired various goods, information, and
means of transportation enabling the realization of a society with long life expectancy. Self- sufficiency in resources, low carbon, overcoming pollution and coexisting in harmony with nature, good health and self- reliance, lifelong growth, various
options, freedom of participation…Let’s work towards the Platinum Society that
will realize all of this.
Fig. 6.6 The public running tour of segway® Personal transporter. (Photos from Tokyu
Corporation)
6 Platinum Industry and a New Society