ABSTRACT

The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) of March 11, 2011 severely affected the transportation systems, both in metropolitan areas and remote villages. Lessons learned from the GEJE provide useful insights to improve future disaster preparations and make transportation systems more resilient. This chapter describes the destruction and damage to the transportation infrastructure by the GEJE and tsunami disaster and subsequent restoration of the transportation systems and presents comparisons of damages, costs, and recovery time of the GEJE with the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake. This chapter also discusses the transportation problems related to disaster-induced transportation, such as tsunami evacuation and humanitarian logistics supply.