Analyzing the Effects of the Rolling Blackouts on Railway Service in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake
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1Member of JSCE, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Ookayama 2-12-1-M1-11, Meguro-ku, 152-8552 Tokyo, Japan) E-mail: [email protected] 2Student Member of JSCE, Department of Civil Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Ookayama 2-12-1-M1-11, Meguro-ku, 152-8552 Tokyo, Japan) E-mail: [email protected] 3Member of JSCE, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo (Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8656 Tokyo, Japan) E-mail: [email protected]
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