Abstract
Tokyo Metropolitan area has high risk of the Tokyo Inland Earthquake in the future. In case of the earthquake, disaster base hospitals have missions to accommodate heavily injured victims and provide medical treatment for them. According to the lessons from past disasters, rapid transportation of heavily injured victims to disaster base hospitals and immediate medical treatment are very important to avoid their “Preventable Death”. In this research, needs for transportation of heavily injured victims to hospitals was analyzed considering the effect of traffic congestion, street blockades, fire to transportation based on road network. The maximum transportable area where victims could be transported to some hospitals by car within certain time was defined as“Accessible area to hospital”. This analysis identified the areas where rapid transportation to the nearest disaster base hospitals was impossible in case of the earthquake. Through the result of these analyses, several disaster medical response plans were proposed considering different disaster situations.
