Survey of 4,332 app users follows Japan's Silver Week holidays; shifting travel times is the most common tactic for avoiding crowded services.

The system evaluates up to 10 alloy compositions consecutively. R-DEC has commercialized the technology and plans an October exhibition in Sendai.

Chitose Technology Frontier would link front-end and back-end chip research, with NTT Docomo Business planning ICT infrastructure.