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A new scheme for evaluating road projects by considering their effects after disasters - A challenge for Japan just after the great earthquake of March 2011 -
Tohru Tamura Professor, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. Member of PIARC TC 1.4
Hirotaka Sekiya Senior researcher, Traffic Engineering Division, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism, Japan. Associate member of PIARC TC 1.4
Teiji Goto Director at the Performance Management Office, Planning Division, Road Bureau in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism, Japan, Corresponding member of PIARC TC 1.4
Tetsuya Yamada Senior Deputy Director at the Performance Management Office, Planning Division, Road Bureau in the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism, Japan
In March 2011 an earthquake of magnitude 9.0 hit the northeastern area of Japan. This was the world’s fourth largest earthquake since 1900.