Section3 Improvement of Common Infrastructures and Utilization of IT Resources for revitalizing the Economy

Opening of Software Platforms

Deployment of Road GIS

Deployment of Road GIS for disaster prevention

Various information is needed to choose emergency transportation routes during disasters. The Road GIS may be utilized to collect information from road users and image information from affected districts, and to quickly take countermeasures. The system supports efficient and rational decision-making, and enables rapid and effective disaster-prevention measures to be taken.

Information systems, such as GIS


Utilization of GIS
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Occurrence of an earthquake
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Collecting and transmitting disaster information
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Drawing up urgent restoration plans (with the support of various data)
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Links with various data


Selecting the emergency transportation routes (based on information on the affected areas and the locations of disaster-prevention centers)
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Organizing and preparing maps of damage information (real-time display of the disaster are on a map)
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Predicting damage (prediction of affected areas and scale of damage using seismic information)
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Establishing the initial action system (quick determination of establishing initial systems based on the predicted damage)
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