Urban Management

The Department of Urban Management strives to integrate technologies for advanced information and communications as well as social and energy infrastructure to help create an urban social system that can deliver an advanced and abundant quality of life. Specifically, the Department aims to establish the methodology and techniques for analyzing urban activities such as urban engineering, traffic engineering,logistics engineering, and earth resource engineering; urban and transportation planning; upgrading social infrastructures related to lifelines, ground, rivers, etc. to realize safe and sustainable urban systems; and for establishing a new theory of urban energy resources under the concepts of urban governance and urban infrastructure management. The Department also aims to establish the methodology and techniques for comprehensive management of urban systems, including sustainability assessments.

Department Website

• Urban Management

Research Laboratories

• Structures Management Engineering
• Earthquake and Lifeline Engineering
• River System Engineering and Management
• Construction Engineering and Management
• Geofront System Engineering
• International Urban Development
• Planning and Management Systems
• Urban and Regional Planning
• Urban Management Systems
• Intelligent Transport Systems
• Travel Behavior Analysis
• Environmental Geosphere Engineering
• Earth and Resource System
• Dynamics of Foundation Structures
• Regional Water Environment Systems
• Water Resources Engineering
• Disaster Risk Management
• Environmental Disaster Mitigation Management
• Urban Flood Control
• Environmental Infrastructure Engineering