✕ Maps used in this white paper do not indicate exhaustive Japanese territory.

Chapter 10 Utilizing ICT and Promoting Technology
Section 1 Promoting Innovation in the Field of
National Land and Transport Utilizing
ICT.....271
1 Promoting ITS.....271
2 Realizing a Society that Utilizes Geospatial
Information Sophisticatedly.....272
3 Realizing an Electronic Government.....273
4 Development and Opening of Optical Fiber for
the Management of Public Facilities and Its
Housing Space.....273
5 Sophisticated Water Management and Water
Disaster Prevention Utilizing ICT.....274
Section 2 Promoting the Research and Development
of Technology.....275

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Future Prediction of Life Cycle.....35
Town Planning through Cycle Share ~Cycling for Everyone in Sapporo ‘Porocle’~.....70
Inheritance of Japan’s Traditional Wooden Architectural Technology.....86
Efforts Directed at Broadening the Environment for Women at Work.....90
Driving Bus Usage with a Trigger - A Scheme in Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture.....92
Inducing Double-Income Child-Raising Couples into Citizenship - An Effort of Nagareyama City, Chiba Prefecture.....98
Efforts Designed to Promote Youth Settlement.....99
Maintaining a Bridge Since the Edo Period.....115
Building a HOP – Effort to Promote the Exportation of Hokkaido-Made Products.....143
The effort of a smaller contractor to pursue rejuvenation by accommodating regional needs – Construction services business.....181
Emergency Measures Based on the Emergency Inspection Results of River Levees.....189
Efforts for countermeasure against deep catastrophic landslide.....193
Providing Information Bulletin on Record Precipitation.....201
Efforts Towards Promoting the Smooth Implementation of Renewable Energy in Ports and Harbors “Manual showing Steps for Implementation”.....229

research and Development 271
1 The Position of Technological Research and Development in Technology Policies and Comprehensive Promotion 275
2 Promoting the Utilization and Adoption of New Technology for Public Works 278
Section 3 Improving Construction Management Technology 278
1 Improving Costing Technology for Public Works 278
2 CIM and BIM Initiatives 279
Section 4 Technology Development for Construction Machinery and Mechanical Equipment 279

Utilization of Energy from Plant Based Waste Material in Cities.....232
Providing information on the Ocean acidification.....251
Japan’s Railway System Making a Successful Homecoming to the United Kingdom, the Birthplace of Railways after 140 Years.....254
Promoting the Export of Infrastructure Systems in the Airport Sector - Package Support for Airport Development, Operation, and Management in Vietnam’s Noi Bai International Airport -.....256
4th Japan-China-South Korea Conference on Logistics in Busan, South Korea.....259
Contributing to the Success of the Transport Summit as Asia’s First Chair Country - International Transport Forum (ITF) -.....260
Initiatives in the Water-related Disaster Field toward the Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction.....261
Hosting the ISO International Workshop on Water.....263
“Alexander Dalrymple Award” Awarded to Our Country for the First time in Asia.....268
Formulating the Third MLIT Technology Basic Plan - New Technology Development for the Maintenance, Management, and Renewal of Social Capital -.....275