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Transportation planning methodologies for post-disaster recovery in regional communities: the East Japan Earthquake and tsunami 2011
Highlights A methodology to analyze transportation demand in a post-disaster regional community is proposed. It is applied to one of the devastated communities in Japan after the March 2011 disaster. The methodology assists decision-making with limited data in the regional community. The group relocation in a compact urban form has the highest potential for sustainability.
Abstract Spatial planning provides tools to government authorities that support integrated response strategies as part of the disaster management but regional communities outside of the metropolitan areas often lack the necessary capacity and resources to implement these approaches. Unlike in the USA, there are no guidelines for transportation planners in coping with post-disaster situations in Japan. There is a substantive literature on institutions, concepts of urban sustainability and resilience, community engagement and travel behavioral adjustments to natural disasters and man-made disruptions to transportation supply in the emergency phase but only limited research into travel demand modeling in the recovery phase. This paper focuses on the recovery phase – and constructs conceptual and operational demand and supply models for the recovery phase to help seek options for more sustainable outcome. The methodology is applied to the city of Ishinomaki, Japan, one of the many regional communities devastated by the March, 2011 earthquake and tsunami where only limited capacity and data are available. Future hypothetical scenarios for the city are analyzed to illustrate the potential practicality of the proposed methodology with the indicators of travel performance of the scenarios in the case study area. The paper concludes with implication to planning, including the full re-location of peninsular villages, and further research needs.
Transportation planning methodologies for post-disaster recovery in regional communities: the East Japan Earthquake and tsunami 2011
Highlights A methodology to analyze transportation demand in a post-disaster regional community is proposed. It is applied to one of the devastated communities in Japan after the March 2011 disaster. The methodology assists decision-making with limited data in the regional community. The group relocation in a compact urban form has the highest potential for sustainability.
Abstract Spatial planning provides tools to government authorities that support integrated response strategies as part of the disaster management but regional communities outside of the metropolitan areas often lack the necessary capacity and resources to implement these approaches. Unlike in the USA, there are no guidelines for transportation planners in coping with post-disaster situations in Japan. There is a substantive literature on institutions, concepts of urban sustainability and resilience, community engagement and travel behavioral adjustments to natural disasters and man-made disruptions to transportation supply in the emergency phase but only limited research into travel demand modeling in the recovery phase. This paper focuses on the recovery phase – and constructs conceptual and operational demand and supply models for the recovery phase to help seek options for more sustainable outcome. The methodology is applied to the city of Ishinomaki, Japan, one of the many regional communities devastated by the March, 2011 earthquake and tsunami where only limited capacity and data are available. Future hypothetical scenarios for the city are analyzed to illustrate the potential practicality of the proposed methodology with the indicators of travel performance of the scenarios in the case study area. The paper concludes with implication to planning, including the full re-location of peninsular villages, and further research needs.
Transportation planning methodologies for post-disaster recovery in regional communities: the East Japan Earthquake and tsunami 2011
Nakanishi, Hitomi (author) / Matsuo, Kojiro (author) / Black, John (author)
Journal of Transport Geography ; 31 ; 181-191
2013-01-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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