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This paper first summarizes the damages and recoveries of transport caused by the devastating earthquake occurred in Japan in March 2011. Responses of freight railway, such as transporting immediately-needed supplies and fuel, are reviewed. The role of intermodal freight transport in supplying fuel to disaster areas is especially stressed. The nece...
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... damages and recovery status of the four major transport infrastructures, namely railway, expressway, airport and seaport, are summarized as shown in Fig. 1. As many as 4,400 damages are reported among 2,900km-long railway trackages throughout Tohoku region (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, 2011a;2011b). Especially, as long as 325 kilometers of trackages along the Pacific coast suffered serious tsunami damages such as track and station washouts. These lines resumed ...
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Design/methodology/approach
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Findings
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Originality/value
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