Measuring post-disaster transportation system performance: the 1995 Kobe earthquake in comparative perspective

摘要

Recent earthquake disasters have caused major damage to transportation networks, leading to signifi- cant economic disruption. While this suggests the need to evaluate total system performance in trans- portation risk assessment, in addition to examining the vulnerability of individual components such as bridges, no appropriate measures currently exist. This paper develops post-disaster system performance measures and applies them to the urban rail and highway transportation systems in the Kove, Japan, region devastated by the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake.