To create safe, comfortable, and sustainable
environments that are essential for social activities,
it is necessary to properly manage various facilities
that serve as infrastructure, from planning,
construction and maintenance to demolition and recycling
stages. This requires a comprehensive evaluation system
that centrally manages them all. For this purpose, the
establishment of engineering methodologies for technical
policies on infrastructure, as well as the introduction
of consensus-building support to the formulation of
technical-policy processes, is essential. This major
course aims at fostering human resources that can
provide solutions to complex environmental and social
problems from broad perspectives by introducing
system-engineering and socioeconomic methods while
building consensus with local residents. Also, it aims
at standardizing the transition of infrastructure
policies and internationally promoting infrastructure
improvement evaluation methods as well as their
application. Specifically, our research places emphasis
on the following areas:
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Establishment of environmental policies and waste-management systems in a recycling-oriented, symbiotic society
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Development of methods for planning transportation systems well as those to evaluate visual environments of landscape
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Development of technologies and establishment of methodologies for infrastructure systems that are safe, reliable and sustainable
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Development of design and maintenance management methods of infrastructure facilities
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Establishment of historical systems that are related to infrastructure policies, as well as science and technologies for use
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Establishment of sustainable basin management technique for the basin environment of a natural coexistence type
