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

被引:237
作者
Chang, SE
Nojima, N
机构
[1] Univ Washington, Dept Geog, Seattle, WA 98195 USA
[2] Gifu Univ, Dept Civil Engn, Gifu, Japan
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1016/S0965-8564(00)00003-3
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
Recent earthquake disasters have caused major damage to transportation networks, leading to significant economic disruption. While this suggests the need to evaluate total system performance in transportation 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 Kobe, Japan, region devastated by the 1995 Hyogoken-Nanbu earthquake, Performance is evaluated in terms of network coverage and transport accessibility. Performance degradation was much more severe for highways and railways than for other lifeline infrastructure systems. Both transportation systems fared poorly in the disaster but service restoration proceeded much more rapidly for rail. The restoration of highway system performance correlated closely with the recovery of highway traffic volumes. The paper further develops a measure of subarea transport accessibility and applies this to Kobe's constituent city wards. Results indicate substantial spatial disparity that is maintained throughout the restoration period. Comparisons with the 1989 Loma Prieta and 1994 Northridge earthquakes in the US show that although these disasters caused notable damage to highway bridges, system performance degradation was small in comparison with the Kobe experience. The paper argues that explicitly measuring transportation system performance can greatly facilitate both understanding the effects of historic disasters and preparing for future hazard events. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码:475 / 494
页数:20
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