Manipulating Data to Maintain Transportation Infrastructure

It is becoming a major headache for the national government, prefectures and municipalities in Japan to properly and adequately maintain transportation infrastructure such as roads and bridges in order to improve people's quality of life and be prepared for natural disasters. While the budget for its maintenance has been falling in the past couple of decades, those authorities must efficiently and appropriately maintain such infrastructure. In view of statistics showing a huge increase in the number of transportation facilities that are over 50 years old, we have to establish a completely new maintenance scheme. Fujitsu is the leading information and communications technology (ICT) company delivering a wide range of services for transportation infrastructure management at the moment. It is now introducing a brand new system for monitoring roadways that makes it possible to collect road condition data automatically by using portable telecommunication devices.