For Public Symposium on EST in Asia

Strategic Finance and Investment
by JEXWAY19 March 2015
Koji KURODAPresident
Japan Expressway International Co.,Ltd.
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Contents

1. Role of Road Traffic in 21st Century
2. For the 3rd Industrial revolution in Road Sector
3. Value-Sustainable-Highways
4. Environment-Friendly Road
5. Strategic Finance and Investment by JEXWAY

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1. Role of Road Traffic in 21st Century

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2. For the 3rd Industrial revolution in Road
Sector
ITS is designed to integrate people, roads and vehicles inorder to resolve road traffic problems such as traffic congestion,traffic accidents, environmental degradation and assets
management..
- Traffic congestion time loss: 5 billion hours per year
- Traffic accidents : 660,000 accidents resulting in 4,400 fatalities(FY2012)- Environmental degradation: 20% of all CO2 emissions from transport sector

PeopleInformation andcommunication
technologies

VehiclesRoads(Source:MLIT)

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3. Value-Sustainable-Highways: Maintenance
ITS/ICT Technology on Expressway Maintenance- make full use of an ICT technique and check-up road assets effectively.
- maintain the assets in a healthy state several decades later.

Pavement inspection using
High-Speed Road Measurement
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Tunnel inspection using
High-Speed Concrete-crack
Measurement Vehicle
53. Value-Sustainable-Highways: Against Earthquake
The anti-earthquake bridge design regulation revised based on large-scale damages due to theHyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake(1995,M7.3).
Thanks to the revised regulation, no large scale damages observed in the Great East Japan
Earthquake on 11 March 2011,【Earthquake-resistant reinforcement works】【Damages by the Hyogo-ken
Nanbu Earthquake in 1995】

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4. Environment-Friendly RoadITS Spot Service(continued)
Dynamic Route
Safety Driving
Guidance
Support• Provide wide-area traffic congestion
data to enable car navigation systems
to select routes smartly• Reduce close-call experiencesby alerting drivers in advance

ETC• Reduce congestion
at expressway tollbooths

Other services• Cashless payment : e.g. Drive-through payment• Internet access: Regional tourist and facilities
information is available at roadside rest areas.
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4. Environment-Friendly Road
-Auto Pilot System will make a great contribution to reduction of congestion,
traffic accidents and environmental loading (by early 2020s).
Turn off theexpressway from IC
Stop the driving system
Smooth driving in acongested spots

Cruise mainline
Safe and smooth
driving in merging
sections

Branch off atJCTStart the driving system

Cruise mainline
Turn on theexpressway from IC(Source:MLIT)
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The Future Times
Thursday, March 19, 2055

Two men injured by a traffic accident on Hirokoji Blvd
for the first time in the decade. A virus is detected in theOBU.
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5. Strategic Finance and Investment by JEXWAY

1. The 3rd Industrial revolution
2. The Value-Sustainable, Resilient,and Environment-Friendly Road
3. Enhance GNH

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