The 1st International Seminar of Committee of Infrastructure Planning and Management, JSCE in FY2013
2013年度土木計画学研究委員会 第1回国際セミナー（通算 第79回国際セミナー）

Seminar Title: International Seminar on Resilient and Sustainable Road Freight Systems and Humanitarian Logistics

Date: 0900-1715, April 9, 2013

Venue: Jin-Yu Hall, C1-2-311 Katsura Campus, Kyoto University, Nishikyoku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan

Access:
http://www.t.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/katsura (English)
http://www.t.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/katsura?set_language=ja (Japanese)

Seminar Description:
The disparity of commercial logistics and humanitarian logistics has motivated researchers and practitioners to create leading edge solutions to handle their differences. However both the commercial and humanitarian logistics share the same effort to reach resiliency and sustainability. Commercial logistics involves the operations of storage and transporting of goods to conform to customers’ requirements while being economically efficient. In contrast, humanitarian logistics is viewed simply as a wide range of activities aimed at saving lives and eliminating the sufferings of victims in a disaster or catastrophe. In recent years, the issues related to humanitarian logistics are so complex that a multi-disciplinary approach and the sharing of information and field experiences are so important to overcome the challenges of future devastating events.
This seminar hopes to create a platform for all key stakeholders and professionals in the area of road freight systems and humanitarian logistics to share on the following subjects:
? Innovative strategies to build resilient and sustainable road and maritime freight systems
? Valuable experiences and lessons learnt from the distribution of relief goods in the aftermath of a disaster or catastrophe
? International collaborative effort in disaster response and recovery
? State of the art modeling techniques

Programme Outline
0900 Prof. Eiichi Taniguchi (Kyoto University) Welcome address
0905 Prof. Eiichi Taniguchi (Kyoto University) Humanitarian Logistics in Disasters
0945 Ms. Megumi Tsukizoe (Deputy Asst. Director, Global Env. Dept., Disaster Mgmt. Div. 2, JICA) JICA’s strategy for disaster risk management
1025 Break
1035 Dr. Russell G. Thompson (Senior Lecturer, Monash University) Increasing the Resilience of Road Freight Systems
1115 Dr. Panagiotis Angeloudis (Lecturer, Imperial College London) Resilience of Transport Infrastructure Against Flooding
1155 Lunch
1330 Mr Osamu Suzuki (President, MOL Ferry Co. Ltd.) Expected Activity of the Mega Ferry Boats When Extensive Disaster has Taken Place
1415 Prof. Kenji Ono (Kyoto University) The Possible Policy Development for Facilitating ER Operations by Ro-Ro Vessels
1500 Break
1510 Assoc. Prof. Jan-dirk Schm?cker (Kyoto University) Risk Adverse Route Planning: Which Worst Case to Consider?
1550 Mr Rubel Das (PhD. Candidate, Tokyo Institute of Technology) Agent Based Simulation Model for Humanitarian Logistics
1630 Dr. Joel Teo (Post-doc Researcher, Kyoto University) Prospects of Multi-agent Systems Models for Urban Freight and Humanitarian Logistics
1710 Dr. Russell G. Thompson (Senior Lecturer, Monash University) Closing Remarks

Contact:
Dr. Joel Teo
C1-2-338 Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyoku, Kyoto, Japan 615-8540 Tel. +81-75-383-3231, Fax. +81-75-950-3800
E-mail: joel.teo@kiban.kuciv.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Poster for this seminar