🛣️ SIP 2026 — Road Maintenance & Management Workshop
What this is
A personal preparation knowledge base for the SIP International Workshop on Road Infrastructure Management, Japan, 20–24 July 2026. Built for Kittikun Jipairod (Lecturer, Chiang Mai University), member of the Thailand team. Covers the domain knowledge to know beforehand, the places visited, and dossiers on the other participants (Thailand excluded, by design).
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At a glance
| Event | SIP International Workshop on Road Infrastructure Management |
| Dates | 20–24 July 2026 (5-day study tour + 1-day forum) |
| Host | Kanazawa Institute of Technology (KIT) — Ohgigaoka campus, Nonoichi, Ishikawa |
| Field sites | Noto Peninsula, Ishikawa College, Toyama (bridge + university + expressway), Komatsu |
| Underpinning project | national SIP Phase 3 “Smart Infrastructure Management System” |
| Your team | 🇹🇭 Thailand — Assoc. Prof. Chayanon Hansapinyo, Lecturer Kittikun Jipairod (you), Engr. Wisarat Eampracha |
| Other teams | 🇵🇭 Philippines · 🇹🇼 Taiwan · 🌍 JICA exchange students at KIT |
| Core activity | The “Forum” (7/21): two 3-min team talks + peer feedback, improving from Forum #1 → #2 |
🚀 Start here
- Read _Itinerary — the annotated 5-day program.
- Skim Maintenance-Cycle-Primer and SIP-Program — the two ideas everything else hangs on.
- Prep your talk with Thailand-Forum-Prep and Cross-Country-Comparison.
- Before you fly, review the participant dossiers on the team site (see below) so names click into place.
📅 The 5 days → what & where
| Day | Place(s) | Focus | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7/20 | Noto Peninsula | Disaster damage + restoration | Noto-Peninsula-Earthquake · Disaster-Damage-Restoration |
| 7/21 | KIT + Ishikawa College | The Forum + GPS traffic analysis | Kanazawa-Institute-of-Technology · Ishikawa-College-GPS · GPS-Traffic-Analysis |
| 7/22 | Toyama | SIP tech on a real bridge + NDT hands-on | Toyama-Bridge-SIP-Demo · Toyama-Prefectural-University · NDT-and-Elastic-Wave |
| 7/23 | KIT + Komatsu | Student planning + SIP labs + pavement repair | Komatsu-Pavement · Pavement-Maintenance |
| 7/24 | Toyama | Expressway widening + city consultation | Toyama-Expressway-Widening |
📚 Domain primer (know before you go)
- Maintenance-Cycle-Primer — inspection → diagnosis → countermeasure; preventive vs. corrective; life-cycle cost
- SIP-Program — what SIP is, and the smart-infrastructure technologies you’ll see demonstrated
- Japan-Inspection-Regime — the 2012 Sasago collapse and Japan’s 5-year inspection law
- NDT-and-Elastic-Wave — non-destructive testing (acoustic emission, GPR, elastic-wave tomography)
- SHM-Drones-AI — structural health monitoring, drones, AI crack detection
- BIM-CIM-Digital-Twin — digital models, digital twins, asset-management systems (BMS/PMS)
- Pavement-Maintenance — pavement distress and repair
- GPS-Traffic-Analysis — estimating traffic from probe/GPS data
- Disaster-Damage-Restoration — seismic damage modes and emergency restoration
🔬 Research
- Lit-Review-SHM-BIM-Digital-Twin — literature review (2016–2026, ~35 papers): SHM/drones/AI and BIM/CIM/digital-twins converging, with heritage (HBIM), low-cost, seismic-resilience, and automation/data-fusion angles.
👥 Participants (excluding Thailand)
Participant dossiers
Access-controlled — open the team site and sign in: TEAM_URL (set after deploy).
🎤 Your prep (extras)
- Thailand-Forum-Prep — talking points + anticipated feedback for the two 3-min speeches
- Cross-Country-Comparison — one matrix across every team’s road system
Networking notes (per-team conversation starters) are part of the access-controlled participant dossiers — see the team site above.
Source documents
Built from
program.md,SIP_detail.md, and the two workshop Word files (International Workshop on Road Maintenance Management.docx,agenda_20260721.docx), plus web research. Facts that could not be confirmed are flagged on their pages with a ⚠️ callout.