In recent years, due to the spread of automobile and population decline in rural areas of Japan, public transportation services such as railroads and buses have been increasingly discontinued due to deteriorating profitability. The demand for transportation by the vulnerable population has been covered by community buses and demand cabs under the responsibility and financial expenditure of local governments. As financial constraints increase with the aging of society, cross-sector effect analysis is attracting attention as a method to visualize the social value of local public transportation. In this paper, cross-sector effects were calculated for Awara City demand cabs in Fukui Prefecture, showing that the social value is over 58 million yen, far exceeding the current fiscal expenditure. In addition, an attempt was made to quantitatively evaluate the environmental and traffic safety values, which have often been excluded from calculations because they have been considered difficult to evaluate.

The expansion of renewable energy generation is necessary to achieve a decarbonized society, but in many cases, it takes time for local communities to reach a consensus. In order to accelerate the introduction of renewable energy, it is effective to quantify the benefits to the local community from the construction and operation of renewable energy power plants and present them to local stakeholders. This paper analyzes a woody biomass power plant in the Oketsu district of Fukui Prefecture. First, the regional input-output table for the Oketsu district was created based on the Fukui Prefecture input-output table, and the regional economic revitalization effect of a woody biomass power plant was calculated. Through this work, we clarified the regional industrial structure of the Oketsu district and quantitatively indicated which industries in the region would benefit from a woody biomass power plant.

The expansion of renewable energy generation is necessary to achieve a decarbonized society, but in many cases, it takes time for local communities to reach a consensus. In order to accelerate the introduction of renewable energy, it is effective to quantify the benefits to the local community from the construction and operation of renewable energy power plants and present them to local stakeholders. This paper analyzes a woody biomass power plant in the Oketsu district of Fukui Prefecture. First, the regional input-output table for the Oketsu district was created based on the Fukui Prefecture input-output table, and the regional economic revitalization effect of a woody biomass power plant was calculated. Through this work, we clarified the regional industrial structure of the Oketsu district and quantitatively indicated which industries in the region would benefit from a woody biomass power plant.