About Our Project

Title

Research Initiative for Advanced Infrastructure with ICT

Period

5 years (from Apr. 2009 to Mar. 2014)

Aim

Highly developed management of infrastructure facilities with ICT Creation of new business with infrastructure innovation utilizing ICT Intelligent platform for practical research with a variety of knowledge and experience

Member

University of Tokyo
Metropolitan Expressway Co. Ltd.
Tokyo Electric Power Company
Tokyo Metro Co. Ltd.
East Japan Railway Company
HITACHI Ltd.

Support Member

Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
Public Works Research Institute
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
ABeam Consulting

Staff

Professor: Ken Sakamura（Ph.D.）
Project Professor: Yusho Ishikawa（Ph.D.）
Professor: Noboru Koshizuka（Ph.D.）
Project Lecturer: Nobuyuki Ichikawa
Project Researcher: Toshie Ninomiya

Theme

Solution for Site

Efficiency improvement of site business in check, operation, and maintenance. To deal with increasing check, operation, and maintenance procedures because of aging social infrastructure, we are searching for methods and devices to improve efficiency of site business with respect to information flow.

Solution for Knowledge

Maintenance of skill and technology, and improvement of safety. To deal with decreasing skill and technology because of decreasing numbers of engineers, we are searching for mechanisms to improve maintenance skill and safety with analysis of huge amounts of data.

Solution for Operation

Efficient facility management: To deal with ecological requirements, we are searching for intelligent network systems with efficient facility management by measurement and analysis of consumer activities.

Solution for Collaboration

Construction and use of information sharing platform. To deal with cost reductions because of the decreasing size of the productive population, we are searching for information sharing platforms for collaboration among government and the private sector.

Solution for Service

Cooperation between real space and information space. To deal with the decay of local areas because of decreasing numbers of visitors, we are searching for new services with cooperation between real space and information space supported by information technology and business models.

Plan

Platform

Participation

Document

Y. Ishikawa, N. Ichikawa and T. Ninomiya, “Environment and Governance for Various Specialist Network toward Innovation”, PISTA2010, Orland, FL, pp.139-142, 2010.6.29-7.2.
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