A Development of Transportation Simulator for Relief Supply in Disasters

The Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11th, 2011 struck eastern coastal area of the Japanese main island and tsunami following the earthquake posed a devastated condition. Most infrastructures and lifelines, such as water supply systems, petroleum gas supply systems and electric power systems including Fukushima nuclear plant were damaged. Logistics systems are no exception. The authors developed “Support System for Transportation under Disaster Circumstance” comprised of three tools. This paper focusses on one of the tools, transportation simulator for relief goods and demonstrated functions of the simulator and simulation examples.