Chapter 10 Utilizing ICT and Promoting Technology
Section 1 Promoting Innovation in the Field of
National Land and Transport Utilizing
ICT.....313
1 Promoting ITS.....313
2 Realizing a Society that Utilizes Geospatial
Information Sophisticatedly.....314
3 Realizing an Electronic Government.....315
4 Development and Opening of Optical Fiber for
the Management of Public Facilities and Its
Housing Space.....315
5 Sophisticated Water Management and Water
Disaster Prevention Utilizing ICT.....316
Section 2 Promoting the Research and Development
of Technology.....317

Research and Development 313
1 The Position of Technological Research and Development in Technology Policies and Comprehensive Promotion 317
2 Promoting the Utilization and Adoption of New Technology for Public Works 319
Section 3 Improving Construction Management Technology 319
1 Improving Costing Technology for Public Works 319
2 CIM and BIM Initiatives 320
Section 4 Technology Development for Construction Machinery and Mechanical Equipment 320

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■ Public Works Undertaken by Gyoki 3
■ Private Management of Eitai Bridge in the Edo Period 6
■ Hurricane Sandy vs. U.S. Disaster Preparedness 26
■ Lives of Concrete 41
■ Aging Condominiums 43
■ Use of Toll-charging System Overseas 48
■ PFI in Edo Period—Construction of Canals by a Wealthy Merchant 78
■ Various Funding Methods for Maintenance and Management 82
■ “Dobojo (play on word to mean engineer woman)” ~Women Who Work in the World of Civil Engineering 116
■ Skill Inheritance and Securing Technicians for Shikinen Sengu (installation of a new deity on a specified year) 118
■ Efforts towards Creating the “New Tohoku” 140
■ Achieving the 10-Million-Inbound-Foreign-Tourist Mark for the First Time in History 151
■ Japan’s First Cruise Train “Seven Stars in Kyushu” Just in Service 159
■ Inaugurating a One-stop desk for Cruise Promotion – Efforts Directed at Encouraging More Cruise Ships to Call in 166
■ An Approach to Advancing Tourism Built around Bird Watching in Nemuro City 175
■ “Dam Regeneration” -Utilization through the Redevelopment of Existing Dams 219

Flood Control Projects Demonstrate Effectiveness Against Floods Caused by Typhoon Man-yi …… 221
Emergency Warnings Begin Operations …… 227
First Eruption in 39 Years Near Nishi-no-shima of the Ogasawara Islands …… 229
Amendment of the Act on Promotion of Seismic Retrofitting of Buildings (Seismic Retrofitting Promotion Law) …… 236
Responding to the Large-Scale Sediment-related Disaster in Oshima-Machi, Tokyo Metropolitan Area - Assistance and Strengthening of Sediment Disaster Measures by TEC-FORCE …… 239
Ensuring the Safety of JR Hokkaido …… 246
The Third Traffic Vision - Initiatives for the Safety of Vessel Traffic …… 249
Measures to Improve the Safety and Regain Trust of Bus Operations …… 254
The Promotion and Dissemination of Alternative Fuels in Aviation (Biojet fuels) …… 271
“Guiding Committee for GEBCO” Coast Guard Marine Information Director elected Chairman …… 295
Japan Overseas Infrastructure Investment Corporation for Transport & Urban Development …… 299
Japanese Construction Technology Contributes to Fulfilling “Turkish Peoples’ 150-Year Dream” - Opening of Bosphorus Cross-Strait Railway …… 305
Efforts Toward International Standardization of “Water Re-use” …… 312

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