November 28, 2017 Miyaike President briefing

MC

Thank you for waiting. From now on, we will start the 130th regular conference.

[Introduction]

Thank you for joining us today as we are busy. Before I start the interview, I would like to say a few words.
I've just announced to the press on November 21st, ChuoExpwy Sasago Tunnel December 2, 2012, and it's almost five years since the fall of the ceiling panel.
We pray again for the souls of the nine people who died in this accident, and will continue to tackle the everlasting challenge of "safety" and the lessons learned from this accident. NEXCO CENTRAL Group A memorial service will be held in order to pledge that it will be passed on to the next generation as a whole and will not be weathered.
Let me give you a brief overview. In this memorial service, we will respond to the feelings of the bereaved families and prevent the lessons learned from the accident from affecting the group as a whole. Approximately 30 people, including group employees, will attend the ceremony and will send a broadcast email to employees who are unable to attend the ceremony, and each of them will be silent at the time of the accident.
In addition, December 2 is set as the "Safety Day" of the Group. During the week of December 4, we will watch the memorial service at all workplaces and discuss workplace safety issues.
In addition, before this "Safety Day", executives visited all Regional Head Office (4 Regional Head Office) and field offices (34 offices), and through direct dialogue with employees, We never forget the lessons of an accident, and we hold a “safety dialogue” to remind us of our strong determination to never cause such an accident again.
The memorial service will be attended by the bereaved family, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism officials, and government officials.
Some of the attendees are demanding sufficient consideration of privacy.
We would like to ask for your understanding and cooperation in gathering memorial services, as there are some points that we would like to ask for your cooperation, such as the location and time limits of the interviews.

[Current status of business (October 2017)]

Please see Document 1. In terms of operating conditions, toll revenue in October was ¥ 56,029 million, a decrease of 1.5% from the same month of the previous year, and the average number of traffic per day was 1.92,000 units, a decrease of 4.1% from the same month of the previous year. .
In October, due to the fact that typhoon No. 21 was not generally good, and the Tomei intensive construction that was carried out from September to October last year was carried out in October this year, the fee revenue and the number of traffic Both decreased.

Next is the construction situation. About 2 km between the Shin-Tomei Expressway Ebina-minami Junction (JCT) and the Atsugi-minami Interchange (IC), which is scheduled to open in 2017, the road main works such as earthwork and bridge superstructure of Atsugiminami IC part are now almost completed. We are developing pavement work, sign work, and facility work such as buildings at toll gates.

Next is the status of the service area (SA) and parking area (PA).
Please see the back of Document 1.
Sales of SA / PA in October were 16,130 million yen, an increase of 1.1% from the same month of the previous year, and sales of the Food and Beverage / Sales division decreased by 6.9% from the same month of the previous year.
In October, the weather and storms caused by typhoons and long rains caused the Tomei intensive construction to be carried out in October.
Sales in the gasoline segment increased 19.9% year-on-year, due to higher sales prices compared to last year and an increase in the sales volume of diesel oil.

[New Year's holiday traffic forecast and winter traffic safety awareness]

We will inform you about the traffic jam forecast for the year-end and New Year holidays (December 28 (Thursday) to January 4 (Thursday)).
Please see Document 2-2.
The peak of the congestion of our tract, Out-bound line on December 29 (Friday) and January 3 (water), In-bound is the line January 2 (Tuesday). In addition, it is predicted that there will be 73 congestions over 10km during the period, and 4 congestions over 30km.
Regarding recent traffic trends, traffic tends to concentrate on a specific day during the Obon traffic congestion period, so during the year-end and New Year holidays, please use the traffic congestion forecast and shift the use day and use time etc. Thank you for your cooperation in distributed use.
We have created a "Traffic Congestion Prediction Guide" to be distributed at SA / PA, toll booths, etc. I would like you to take advantage of this when you use the Expressway during the year-end and New Year holidays, such as when you return home.
Also, for the year-end and New Year holidays, following Golden Week and Obon, we will use the "Expressway Drive Advisor", a professional traffic forecaster for each Regional Head Office in Tokyo, Hachioji, Nagoya, and Kanazawa to avoid traffic congestion forecasts and traffic congestion in each region. Information such as points will be transmitted in an easy-to-understand manner using videos on our website.
We would like to thank all the media outlets, including television, newspapers, and radio, for taking up "Expressway Drive Advisors".
For the year-end and New Year holidays, we would like more customers to know the "points to avoid congestion", so I would like you to interview us.
If you would like to interview the "Expressway Drive Advisor" or appear on TV or radio, please contact the PR / CS team of each Regional Head Office.
It should be noted that, today Nagoya in another room after briefing the end Regional Head Office "of the Expressway drive Advisor", because you in detail will explain the congestion prediction of year-end and New Year holidays of the Tokai area, Please gather all means If you are your time.
Then, please see Document 2-3.
Recently, there have been reports of accidents due to so-called "slipping", but due to such dangerous driving and other accidents and breakdowns, death in the form of collision with a vehicle stopped on the Expressway or a person who was outside the car There were 14 accidents by the end of October this year.
Nearly half of the 31 fatal accidents that occurred this year are such accidents, which is about 1.5 times the number of the last year (9), which is a frequent occurrence.
Given these circumstances and the fact that the number of accidents tends to increase by the end of the year, we will focus on public relations by setting December 1st to 22nd as the “Winter Traffic Safety Campaign” period.
During the period, the campaign will be conducted with three main themes: “Preventing collisions with stopped vehicles and people on the Expressway”, “Caution against falling objects”, and “Preparation for the winter Expressway”. I will. In particular, with regard to "preventing collisions with stopped vehicles and people," there are many fatal accidents. I will call.
In addition, during the period, we will hold events in cooperation with the police at a total of 28 locations, including the Shin-Tomei Expressway (In-bound) Surugawan-Numazu SA and Meishin Expressway (Out-bound) Yoro SA.
I would like to ask all of you who are involved in the press to cover the event and report on the road safety during the year-end and New Year holidays.

[Efforts toward the 2017 snow and ice season]

The full-scale snow and ice season has arrived this year as well.
We caused a great deal of inconvenience to our customers due to the closure of traffic due to snowfall, including the closure of traffic near the Isewangan Isewangan Expressway in January this year and the Gotemba JCT of the Shin-Tomei Expressway Expressway in February.
Driving with normal tires on snowy roads may lead to traffic closure, such as being unable to drive on an uphill road or inducing a traffic accident.
For example, when the road was closed on January 15, this year on the Isewangan Expressway, there were two traffic accidents (two) with normal tire vehicles and eight vehicles that could not run on their own.
Customers are requested to install winter tires and carry tire chains as soon as possible. In addition, please check the weather forecast and traffic conditions before going out, and try to drive safely on snowy roads.
Please see document 3.
Introducing our efforts in this winter season.

(1) We will provide information about heavy snowfall about 3 days before snowfall based on weather forecasts so that you can use it as a reference for your travel plans.
・ Press release to media companies
・ Provision of information through our website
・ Providing information on information boards and SA / PA

(2) Real-time images of snowfall will be distributed via iHighway, SA / PA so that you can check the snowfall on the Expressway before going out and while traveling.
・ Providing live video by iHighway ⇒ Addition of 1 location (56 locations in total)
・ Providing live video on SA / PA ⇒ Addition of 1 location (71 areas in total)
In addition, iHighway has been renewed from this winter so that you can check the weather and snowfall forecast and snow and ice work status, so please use it.

(3) In order to quickly find and rescue a stuck vehicle due to lack of winter tires, etc., additional monitoring equipment and rescue machinery will be installed.
・ Addition of monitoring equipment ⇒ Add 41 units (1,788 units in total)
・ Additional equipment for stranded vehicle rescue equipment ⇒ 17 additional vehicles (165 total)

(4) Based on the traffic closure event caused by the snowfall at the Shin-Tomei Expressway-Tomei Gotemba JCT that occurred in February this year, we will install monitoring equipment and snow and ice auxiliary machinery at the relevant location.
・ Installation of road temperature gauges ⇒ 2 units
・ Road surface monitoring lighting ⇒ 35 lights
・ Anti-freezing agent spraying device ⇒ 7 units

In addition to this, the "Vehicle Position Information System (VPIS) Bepis" that uses GPS to "visualize" the position and work contents of vehicles during snow and ice work, and supports the efficiency of snow and ice work, can be used with all snow removal vehicles. It is mounted on the anti-freezing agent sprayer.
In addition, in order to drive safely on snowy roads, we have posted the “Snowy road drive guide” on our website and distributed the leaflet “Watch out for winter road running” to drive Expressway in winter. We carry out safety enlightenment about.
This is a request to everyone involved in the press. In the event of a heavy snow forecast, we will provide information to the media at any time, so please cooperate with our customers.

[Public application for technical development of "lane marking fence (tentative name)" in long-term bridge and tunnel section of provisional two-lane section ~ Selection of verification technology ~

Next is a topic on technology development.
As a measure to prevent accidental jumping to the opposite lane in the provisional two-lane section, NEXCO3 has been installing a wire rope on a trial basis from the spring of this year in the center of the road in some of the earthwork sections and verifying its effect. I will.
The verification status was reported as an interim report at the expert committee meeting held at Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism yesterday (27 November).
Please see the TV monitor on the front.
The video I'm showing now captures an accident in the wire rope installation section.
From the images, it was confirmed that serious accidents such as head-on collisions were avoided by preventing the driver from jumping out into the opposite lane, and it is considered that the safety measures are effective.
We will continue to carry out trial verification from the perspective of accident occurrence and driving conditions, and maintenance.
It was also reported that an improved version of the wire rope was developed and trial installation is underway for small and medium bridge sections with a bridge length of less than 50 m.
On the other hand, for long bridges and tunnel sections with a bridge length of 50 m or more, as described in Material 4, when a public call for technical development was made from April 25 to July 24 of this year, a total of 28 cases ( We have applied for 18 companies and selected 5 proposals from them, so I will inform you today.
The results of this selection were also reported at the expert committee meeting held yesterday.
All of the selected five proposed technologies can be installed in a narrow width of about 20 cm like the current rubber pole, it is easy to see the front and side, and simple tools are required, but human power can be used at any place. The structure allows you to install the opening in.
In the future, we will conclude a joint development contract with the applicants for the selected five proposed technologies and verify the performance by experiments etc. in about one year.
As a result, those that have been confirmed to be effective will be installed on a trial site at the temporary two-lane section of Expressway.

MC

These are the topics we have prepared today. Now, let's receive your questions.

Reporter

I would like to ask about the accident related to the ceiling plate of the Sasago Tunnel, which I mentioned at the beginning. First of all, I think that various actions have been taken in the five years since the accident, but if you have any thoughts about the changes in the company or the climate, etc., through those efforts, please tell us. Next, you talked about safety as an eternal issue, but please tell us how you decided to pursue it.

President

Immediately after the accident, we formulated and worked on the “Three-year plan for improving safety”. This includes, as already known, hardware measures such as cultivating a safety culture, developing human resources, and removing all high-risk accidents such as ceiling panels installed in other tunnels. However, with regard to hardware measures, a complete set of measures was completed in three years. However, this is not the end, and what we have to do is that we must further improve safety, so we added the new “Five Initiatives Policy to Safety” Has been set and we have been promoting this initiative since last year. As a result, I think that a culture that always puts safety first is being formed within the Group. In addition, in our management policy, we are advancing efforts with the highest priority being "continuous efforts to improve safety and enhance functions of Expressway." Regarding the second future safety efforts, we are advancing based on the “Five Initiatives Policy”. Specifically, we are going through the PDCA cycle, such as human resource development, cultivating a safety culture, and internal work methods. However, we are focusing on improvement activities to further improve, and technical development related to renewal work such as large-scale renewal and inspection.

Reporter

I am sorry to say that it is a conceptual story, but regarding the part of safety as an eternal task, for example, in the next 10 or 15 years, I think we must maintain safety and quality as the population decreases. However, please tell us about how you are going about it.

President

I call the issue of safety an everlasting challenge. Since facilities are aging, what can be done to quickly grasp them and keep them safe, and the technology for inspecting them and the technology for repairing them I think it's important. It is said that the declining birthrate and aging of society and the improvement of productivity are being cited by countries, but in order to respond to that, it is necessary to continue to develop such things as sensors and robots using IT. I think it's the most important thing.

Reporter

Regarding the accident at the Sasago Tunnel, it is reported that former President Kaneko and others are in the process of inspecting it. Please tell us about your findings.

President

I know that the news is telling you that. In any case, we will continue to cooperate fully in the investigation as before.

Reporter

Regarding the Sasago Tunnel accident, I think that you have been dealing with your bereaved family through the Hachioji Regional Head Office, conservation and service center, etc., but how will you be involved with the bereaved family and injured people in the future? Please give us your impression.

President

Our internal organization is the Victim Counseling Room, so our response will not change. We would like to do our best to do our best as a company while listening to your stories so that we can alleviate the suffering and sadness of the bereaved families. In addition, we will proceed with discussions with the bereaved family regarding how to hold memorial services and other events. New Toshimashite topic, the establishment of a memorial Hatsukari PA of Out-bound line and Sasago Tunnel in the vicinity of the wellhead, we would like to proceed with completion in the next fiscal year to a target. In any case, all we have to do is to pray for the souls of those who have died, but to stay close to the bereaved family and to understand how this accident occurred. I think the most important thing is not to let the lessons fade away, so I would like to continue to do my best.

MC

It seems that your question has been interrupted, so this is the end of your regular meeting.