2012 Annual Report of NILIM

Message from the Director-General

Beyond the phrase "Not-assumable"

Messages from Departments and Centers of NILIM

Perspectives of Providing and Managing Public Infrastructure for the Next Generation

Research on Response to Diverse Environmental Needs

Reconstructing homes in disaster regions: challenges and support

How Will We Survive the Era of Rising Flood Disaster Risk and Uncertainty?

Formation of Resilient Road Networks and Reallocation of Road Space -Technology Policies for Road Infrastructure Based on Constant Monitoring and a Database-

Are buildings really safe enough to survive earthquakes of “unanticipated” scale?

Reconstructing homes in disaster regions: challenges and support

Aiming for Compact, Low-Carbon Urban Planning

Promoting Diverse Tsunami Disaster Protection Countermeasures

Ports and harbors to help ensure recovery from both the Great East Japan Earthquake and the deteriorated Japanese trade environment

Air transportation market and airports stepping into a time of change

Reliable ICT in an Emergency

To reduce damage caused by natural disasters

Achieving Safe Society Free from Fear

Response to Great East-Japan Earthquake Disaster

Comprehensive Efforts after the Great East Japan Earthquake to Reduce Damage by a Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Approach

Providing information to the Port and Harbor Subcommittee of the Transport Policy Council

Technical study of the creation of communities resistant to tsunami disasters

Analysis of damage to coastal dikes by tsunami-Damage analysis to discover the direction of future countermeasures-

Study of earthquake and tsunami countermeasure technologies to prevent sewage treatment system damage

Initiatives to prepare proposed building construction related technical standards

Responding to damage to sewage systems caused by the Great East Japan Earthquake

The behavior of radioactive materials in municipal wastewater treatment plants

Report on a survey of damage to river levees caused by tsunami triggered by the Great East Japan Earthquake

Method of setting design tsunami water level and guidelines on tsunami inundation simulations

Technical study of essential conditions for the structure of tsunami evacuation buildings

Disaster Survey for the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster in Ports and Harbors

Response to Natual Disaster

Regional Disaster Prevention Capability Improvement Countermeasures Focused on Social Capital

Improving wide area disaster damage monitoring/predicting technologies

Case of early clarification of wide area sediment disasters using satellite images

Sediment discharge and flow discharge observations in mountain rivers to contribute to general sediment management

Development of the practical sand pack work method

Large-scale sediment disasters caused by Typhoon No.12 in the Kii Mountains

Field Survey on the Recovery Process after the Hurricane Katrina Disaster

Research on early verification method for traffic safety countermeasure effectiveness based on traffic behavior observations

Achieving Daily Life Free from Fear

Block Performance Levels and Resident Awareness in Densely Built-up Areas

An Initiative for Traceability of Concrete Using IC Tags

Analysis of Levels of Rebuilding in Relation to Urban Characteristics, and Incorporation in a Revision of the Policy for Improving Densely Built-Up Areas in the Basic Plan for Housing (National Plan)

Evaluation and future development of bicycle travel environment improvement model districts

Establishment of Social Capital Management for Mature Society

Strategic Maintenance of Social Capital

Stock management for sewer pipes

Towards theintroduction of the partial factor design method to road bridge design standards

Publication of Evaluation Guidelines for New Road Bridge Technologies (Draft)

Revision of Airport Pavement Maintenance and Rehabilitation Manual

Attempt to detect seepage in levees from thermal images

Trial calculating impacts on maintenance costs and river environments at the river improvement stage and applying the results to river course design

Initiatives for knowledge successionin dam engineering

Future Prospect of Country

Attractions of regions as revealed by migration to rural regions

Toward Urban Sustainability and Assessment of Future Urban Images

Achieving Affluence of Life

Collection of recent cases of efforts to prepare the improvement manual for electric power pole removal

A Study of Bicycle Travel Speed

Strengthening Growth Capacity and International Competitiveness

Development of Transportation Route Analysis Tool for Container Cargoes Using the Sacrifice Model

Model Development to forecast port cargo volumes related to the Basic Policy for Ports

Proposal for Port Entry Operation to Increase Port Entry Draft of Bulk Carriers

Launch of a Download Site for the Calculation Program for Fairway Dimensions,“J-Fairway”

Analysis of international air passenger flow in Asia and study of improvement of air travel demand predictions

Characteristics of passenger flows departing from local airports

The Impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake Disaster on Ship Movements

State of Damage and Recovery of Distribution and Industry in Port Cities Following the Great East Japan Earthquake

Creating Harmonized Society with the Environment

Maintenance and Creation of Good Environment

Development of a new model capable of calculating the spatial distribution of age of seawater which has entered a river mouth

Analysis of conditions for growth of vegetation in estuaries and application of the results

Research on the effects of public works projects on city planning and community development from the viewpoint of landscape

Application of membrane utilization technology to sewage systems

Water utilization effects of rainwater and recycled water

3D Landscape Simulation of Leveling Hills - New release of plug-in for visualizing changes of land shape -

The Handbook of Historic Preservation

Manual of the countermeasures for tree failure of street trees

Balancing Energy Conservation by Office Task and Ambient Lighting with Amenability

Development of technologies for city planning to take effective urban heat island countermeasures

Study of the implementation of SEA (Strategic Environmental Assessments) in road projects

Responding to Global Scale Climate Change

Adaptation Plan to Climate Change

Evaluating the impact of climate change on the natural flow regime of rivers

Effective inundation countermeasures to prepare for the future increase of heavy rain

Evaluation of dam flood control using rainfall prediction

Predicting the impact of water temperature increase on cold water fish that may be induced by climate change

Expanding torrential rainfall monitoring regions with X-band MP radar

Mitigation Measures to Climate Change

Toward environmentally sustainable infrastructure development using an LCA tool

Carbon dioxide uptake by recycling concrete rubbles

Verification of the superiority of motorcycles as a road traffic mode kind to the global environment

Initiatives by the Wastewater and Sludge Management Division to respond to global warming

Towards the utilization of hydraulic energy in river basins

Movement towards the revision of energy saving standards for buildings

Empirical study of traffic smoothing service at sag sections on expressways by means of vehicle to infrastructure communication

Support for the development of an evaluation method for energy saving in houses concerning the Energy Saving Standard

Formulation of Inclusive Methods to Support Land Development

Optimization of Administration

Research to advance the evaluation methodology of public works projects

The location referencing method for distribution diverse road related information -Establishing the Road Section Referencing method-

Calculating Traffic Volume 24 Hours a Day/365 Days a Year through Effective Use of Vehicle Detectors

A Road Traffic Survey Platform -Application of “Reference Road Segments and Reference Intersections”-

The FY2010 Road Traffic Census -Results of the General Traffic Volume Surveys (Overview)-

Advance of Technical Standards

Full scale Fire Experiment using a Three-story Wooden School Building (Preliminary Experiment)

Experimental research on rain infiltration of wooden housing

Quality Control and Designation of Specified Design Strength for Structural Steel

A Method of Designing Reassurance from Crime in Urban Street Spaces to Encourage Outdoor Activity by Children

Efforts to perform survey research of safety measures for amusement facilities

Promote of Highly Information Technologies

Users’ evaluations of ITS Spot Services in Full-Scale Operation

Collection System for Probe information from ITS SPOTs

Establishment of the environment for technical measures for the operation of ITS Spot services

Advanced road management using imagery probe information

Possibility of applying digital trail data to traffic planning

Public release of the CommonMP Element Model Library

Documents

Major Disaster Survey

Major International Conferences