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Pavement in Japan: Kazuyuki Kubo
Pavement in Japan: Kazuyuki Kubo
Kazuyuki Kubo
Leader, Logo
Pavement Team
Public Works Research Institute
Paved Rate
Not Paved Rate
Paved Rate Paved Rate
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
Not Paved Rate
30
20
10
0
1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2004
Road Networks and Paved Roads
(2004.4.1)
Asphalt 6,800km
Motorway 7,300km Cement 500km
National Roads 22,100km Asphalt 21,000km
(Managed by MLIT) (for Light Traffic 400km)
Cement 1,100km
Recycle pavement
by-products at a Rejuvenator
stationary mixing
plant (recycling Recycled HMA
mixing plant)
Reuse them as Virgin aggregate
Recycled asphalt
mixture has already 60,000
according to the
following law 40,000
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
Purchasing), enacted in
FY2000
Drainage Asphalt Pavement
Surface course ; Porous Asphalt Mixture
Binder course ; Dense-graded Asphalt Mixture /
Coarse-graded Asphalt Mixture
4~5cm
5cm
Advantage of Drainage Asphalt Pavement
Conventional Pavement