TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY
About the Advanced Research under the “Asian Human Resources Fund” Program,
‘Research on the Long-Term Safety for Aging Urban Infrastructure Constructions’real estate
Welcome from the Representative
Prof. Kimitaka UJI
We have been researching how we can accomplish the long-term safety for urban infrastructures built in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, and also in other big cities.
Our research’s objects are, concrete structures, steel and hybrid structures, tunnels and underground structures, and soil structures, which are around us. And to make effective use of these structures, we are also investigating the road-based traffic networks.
In the modern society, it is required to have a comfortable and convenient life. However, we are facing the situation that our infrastructures are deteriorating day by day. Our researches focus to find the useful methods to maintenance these structures with efficient cost.
We are going to publish our achievement accordingly and hope our research would greatly contribute to the development of our society.
About the Advanced Research Program
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government in 2008 established the Asian Human Resources
Fund in order to contribute the human resources in the solutions for future
problems of Asian countries till 2017. Therefore, the Tokyo Metropolitan
University had started accepting outstanding international students from
Asian countries for the doctor program, and conducting advanced researches
for development and solutions for the problems of large cities in Asia.
In 2011, ‘Research on the Long-Term Safety for Aging Urban Infrastructure Constructions’ had adopted as an “Advanced Research” program, and we had put forward this research program for 5 years at Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
In 2011, ‘Research on the Long-Term Safety for Aging Urban Infrastructure Constructions’ had adopted as an “Advanced Research” program, and we had put forward this research program for 5 years at Graduate School of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
The Background and the Theme of the Research
The huge number of infrastructure constructions in Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, supports our country’s economic activities and provides the comfortable living environments to the citizens. Most of them were built in the time of economic boom era from the mid-1950s. Generally, urban infrastructure constructions are considered to have 50 years-durability, and that means we are going to have many facilities needed to be concerned their structural deterioration in near future.
In our research, we focused on the issue of the longtime service and sustainability of urban infrastructures and intend to suggest the measures to inhibit their aging degradation by engineering approaches. Moreover, it is necessary for us to estimate properly the importance of infrastructures in the future, so we tryed to establish the estimation approach on traffic situation, which significantly effects to that importance.
Our research on the reasonable maintenance methodologies of aged urban infrastructures is a pioneering. We aimed at playing a huge role in developing ideal big cities by giving instructions through the Tokyo’s development and our knowledge about the ensuring safety methods for urban infrastructures to all of engineers from Asian countries.
In our research, we focused on the issue of the longtime service and sustainability of urban infrastructures and intend to suggest the measures to inhibit their aging degradation by engineering approaches. Moreover, it is necessary for us to estimate properly the importance of infrastructures in the future, so we tryed to establish the estimation approach on traffic situation, which significantly effects to that importance.
Our research on the reasonable maintenance methodologies of aged urban infrastructures is a pioneering. We aimed at playing a huge role in developing ideal big cities by giving instructions through the Tokyo’s development and our knowledge about the ensuring safety methods for urban infrastructures to all of engineers from Asian countries.
