Project News

(1) Sukhumvit Model Taskforce Meeting

On 23 May 2022, Thai and Japanese core members held a taskforce meeting to discuss the project objective for proposing a policy package, namely the Sukhumvit Model for QOL enhancement and a low-carbon society. They agreed to create a draft concept paper on the Sukhumvit Model by June 2022 to design content, assign writers for each chapter, and so on. The draft concept paper will be presented to related stakeholders, such as the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) for a better understanding the project model and obtain feedback from them.

Proposed content of the Sukhumvit Model

(2) New Academic Article

On 20 May 2022, a new academic article written by project members from Group 3 was published in IEEE Access. It is an open access article, which is available online from below link. In total 13 co-authored articles have been published by the project members.

• The Bangkok Urbanscapes Dataset for Semantic Urban Scene Understanding Using Enhanced Encoder-Decoder With Atrous Depthwise Separable A1 Convolutional Neural Networks

Kitsaphon Thitisiriwech, Teerapong Panboonyuen, Pittipol Kantavat, Yuji Iwahori and Boonserm Kijsirikul

IEEE Access 2022, Volume 10, 59327 - 59349; https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3176712 (external link)