Support system for transportation under disaster circumstance

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11th, 2011 struck eastern coastal area of the Japanese main island and tsunami following the earthquake posed a devastated condition. Most of infrastructures and lifelines, such as water supply system, petroleum gas supply system and electric power system including Fukushima nuclear plant were damaged. Logistics system is no exception. All networks of highways, street, railway, sea lane were damaged. The situation that the relief goods were not delivered to the refugees in the disaster site emerged as a social issue. Furthermore, the earthquake also stopped the railway in and around Tokyo Metropolitan, most populated area in Japan and many stranded commuters didn´t get back to their homes. In this paper, a support system for transportation under disaster circumstance is introduced.