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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

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.

  • Information sheet

    • Date: 2012
    • Author(s): SEKIYA Hirotaka / TAMURA Tohru / GOTO Teiji / YAMADA Tetsuya
    • Domain(s): Road Policies / Economic Studies
    • Type: Routes/Roads 356 - Article -
    • PIARC Ref.: RR356-072
    • Number of pages: 8
  • This article has been published in the Routes/Roads magazine