Viewpoint Required for Road Policy Following the Great East Japan Earthquake

Abstract

The Great East Japan Earthquake has made us recognize that a new viewpoint of road infrastructure is required. The review of related disquisitions shows that important antithetical issues concerning road policy realized after the Great East Japan Earthquake are the consideration of disaster prevention in cost benefit analysis and efficiency based on fiscal constraint. On the basis of the above mentioned discussions and the long durability of road infrastructure, this paper concludes that we have to evaluate new project of road infrastructure in consideration of the road infrastructure is an essential allowance for future generations or not.