Development of Prototype Network Diagram for Incident Action Planning of Local Government ―Through the Case Study of 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake―

Abstract

Perspective of “Management by Objectives” is important for local government which has to manage seismic disaster strategically. But there was no specific way of how to set objectives. In order to realize Management by Objectives, it is necessary to make an effective incident action planning which is equivalent to objectives before disaster. In order to make an effective incident action planning, it is necessary to balance three elements, schedule, resource, and scope. The framework of Project Management represented by PMBOK is effective to balance these three elements. Although the step “make a network diagram and find a critical path” exists in the technique of Project Management, a network diagram about seismic disaster management by local government does not exist until now. As a consequence, it is impossible to progress to the following steps about making an incident action planning.

This research carries out a case study based on actual result of the 1995 great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake disaster management, and makes a prototype network diagramof seismic disaster management by using “Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)”. This network diagram makes it possible to conducts critical path analysis. As a consequence, one of conditions to make an effective incident action planning is right.