Summary of the Workshop

The aim of the workshop was to exchange and disseminate the latest, national and international management technology for improving resilience process for disaster. In order to achieve this goal, national and international expertise on disaster management from public authorities, and private companies met together at Irvine.

The one-day workshop consisted of one keynote presentation, three technical sessions with 25 participants including experts from governments, highway companies and the private sectors both from USA and abroad.

During the workshop, several topics related to wide variety aspect of disaster management for roads were discussed including international experiences on the subject with presentations from Austria, Czech, Mexico, Japan, and USA.

The local participants were mainly from the department of California. Among the wide variety discussion generated during the workshop, most of the discussion was payed to the importance of financial disaster risk management, pre and post disaster response management, and disaster mitigation management. This reflected the experience of recent disaster management practices.

8:30-9:00 Registration

9:00-9:30 Opening Session (Moderated by TAMURA)

• Remarks, Herby Lissade, Deputy Division Chief, Division of Maintenance, Caltrans
• Remarks, William "Bill" Anderson, Senior Program Officer, Technical Activities Division, TRB
• Remarks and brief introduction of PIARC, Verónica Arias Espejel,Technical Advisor, PIARC

9:30-10:20Technical Session 1 (Moderated by LISSADE)

• Keynote Presentation
• TRB Transportation System Resilience - Section Update, Bill Anderson

10:20-10:40 Break

10:40-12:00 Technical Session 2 (Moderated by MIYATAKE)

• Resilience at Caltrans - OEMIP Overview, Rene Garcia (USA)
• Development of New Traffic Control System Enhancing the Resilience in
• System and Emergency Management, Tomonori Mizutani*, Takaji Kitamura
• and Kazuhiro Matsuura, Hanshin Expressway Engineering (Japan)
• Financial Resilience for Disasters, Dana Hendrix, Caltrans (USA)

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:10Technical Session 3 (Moderated by GRUBER)

• HazMat Operations, George Avila, Caltrans (USA)
• Road Weather Forecast in Austria, Heimo Berghold, ASFiNAG (Austria)
• Information Provision and Safety Assurance Measures to Expressway Customers against Slow Emerging Extreme Weather in Hanshin Expressway, Takayuki Sugiyama* and Takatoshi Nakano, Hanshin Expressway (Japan)
• Winter Operations, Herby Lissade, Caltrans (USA)

15:10-15:30 Break

15:30-17:10 Technical Session 4 (Moderated by BERGHOLD)

• Strategy and Practical Use of Temporary Bridges and Supporting Structures to Ensure the Rapid Recovery of Affected Areas, Jan Gruber, MOT, (Czech Republic)
• Recent Disaster Damages and Responses on Expressways in Western Japan, Hideki Kaji, NEXCO WEST (Japan)
• Disaster Management in Mexico, Verónica Arias Espejel, MOT (Mexico)
• Importance of Routine Inspection for Emergency Management, Hiroyuki Kato, NEXCO WEST USA (USA)

17:10-17:20 Closing Session (Moderated by ARIAS)

• Remarks, William "Bill" Anderson, Senior Program Officer, Technical Activities Division, TRB
• Remarks, Herby Lissade, Deputy Division Chief, Division of Maintenance, Caltrans
• Remarks, Keiichi Tamura, TC E.3 Chair, PIARC