Introduction
To create sustainable society and environments
that are essential for social activities that are safe,
comfortable and well developed, it is necessary to properly manage various
facilities that serve as infrastructure, from planning,
design, construction and maintenance to demolition 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
is aimed at fostering human resources who 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, we aim 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:
- Development of methods for planning
transportation systems as well as those to evaluate visual
environments of landscape
- Development of technologies and establishment
of methodologies for infrastructure systems ions that are safe
and reliable
- Development of design methods of
infrastructure facilities
- Establishment of historical systems that are
related to infrastructure policies, as well as science and technologies
for use in cold regions
- Establishment of sustainable basin management
technique for the basin environment of a natural coexistence type