Preparatory documents for the International Workshop

• Workshop first announcement
• Workshop second announcement

Summary of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop was to exchange and disseminate the latest, national and international management technology for disaster mitigation and disaster robust society. In order to achieve this goal, national and international expertise on disaster management from public authorities, private companies and academic sectors met together at Tokyo.

The full one-day workshop consisted of key note session and three technical sessions with over 110 participants including experts from governments, highway companies and the private sectors both from Japan and abroad.

During the full one-day workshop, key note session and three technical sessions were held.

Keynote presentation was delivered by Dr. Okada, Professor emeritus of Kyoto University. He presented the importance of integrated disaster management. He introduced the case study of disaster resilience activity by the regional residents at Sendai-city after the 2011 East Japan Earthquake and other case studies related to the integrated disaster management.

Severaltopics related to disaster management and emergency management were discussed, including international experiences on the subject, with presentations from China, Czech, UK, Ukraine, USA and Japan. The workshop was honored in the three technical sessions.

Finally, among the wide variety discussion generated during the workshop, most of the discussion was payed to the importance of quick emergency response. This revealed that the activity of disaster management is concentrated not to mitigation and preparedness management but to response and recovery management. In order to improve the disaster management technology, the disaster management should be based on risk management basis. Therefore, the need for exchange of latest information on the disaster management technology was concluded, because the management information on different type of disaster will be helpful for mitigation and preparation that are the most important for making management strategy in advance.

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10:00-10:30 - Opening Remarks
Moderator: ADACHI, Y. (Japan)

• Welcome Address -  TANIGUCHI, H. (President, JARA)
• Welcome Address - KIKUKAWA, S. (Vice President, PIARC)
• Welcome Address - HASHIBA, K., (Vice President, REAAA)
• Opening Remarks - TAMURA, K. (Chair, TC E.3, PIARC)

10:30-11:45 - Session #1
Moderators: GRUBER, J. (Czech republic) and ADACHI, Y. (Japan)

• Efforts for Recovery of Roads from the 2016 Kumamoto Earthquake - KIYASU, K. (Japan)
• Emergency Management and Resilience in Transportation - LISSADE, H. (USA)
• Japan International Cooperation Agency Technical Assistance on Road Disaster Risk - Management to the Government of El Salvador - MORI, M. (Japan)

11:45-13:15 - Lunch break

13:15-14:05 - Keynote Session
Moderator: TAMURA, K. (Japan)

• The Age of Mega Disaster and Risk Governance - Thinking Creative for Road and Other Infrastructures - OKADA, N. (Japan)

14:05-15:20 - Session #2
Moderators: HENDRICK, V. (Czech republic) and MIYATAKE, H. (Japan)

• Strategy of the Use of Temporary Bridges in Crisis Situations - GRUBER, J. (Czech republic)
• Disaster Management Using GIS Technology - ADACHI, Y. (Japan)
• Prediction and Enhancement of Resistance of RC Bridge during Service - ZHANG, J. (China)

15:20-15:40 - Coffee break

15:40-17:20 - Session #3
Moderators: ZHANG, J. (China) and KOMATA, S. (Japan)

• A Methodology for Emergency Response Decision-Makings with the Consideration of the Unexpected Contingencies - ONISHI, M. (Japan)
• ICHARM'S Practices of Flood Hazard and Risk Assessment - GUSYEV, M. (Ukraine)
• Web-based Risk Management Manual - UNO, T. (Japan)
• "Future Ready" Impacts and What They Mean to Our Highway Networks - ELLIOTT, J. (UK)

17:20-17:30 - Closing Session

• Closing Remarks - SEKIMOTO, H. (Executive Director, Hanshin Expressway)
• Closing Remarks - TAMURA, K. (Chair, TC E.3, PIARC)

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