Developing Earthquake Damage Detection and Information Sharing Tools for Road Administrators

Abstract

After a large scale earthquake, evaluation of damage of road facilities such as bridge has great importance to assure the emergency route for rescue and transport of urgent supplies. Current damage detection is basically conducted by means of visual inspection, but generally it takes so long time to collect whole damage information in the affected area. This paper shows that an advanced IT technology and traditional technology can be utilized to improve quickness and efficiency of damage detection and information sharing, and introduce some researches and implementations