KOTI - Korea Transport institute

It is not an overstatement to say that the hottest topic of late in urban development is “regeneration.” In the past, people were concerned about how to develop new cities, but now, more efforts are being made to revive and stimulate relatively deteriorated and depressed old cities due to the development of new towns. Urban regeneration is an integrated reconstruction method that can directly enhance people’s quality of life by introducing new functions to a city and thus reviving the city economically, socially, and physically. Accordingly, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport is promoting urban regeneration projects as a major national land policy, such as the designation of urban “regeneration-leading areas” through the enactment of a special act related to urban regeneration and the preparation of cooperation and support systems among specialized organizations and local governments.
Transportation facilities such as railway stations and bus terminals are central areas where people gather, and road and railroad networks are the backbones of cities. To emphasize the importance of the transportation sector while maximizing the basic advantages of urban regeneration, an urban regeneration project plan of which transportation is the central part was prepared in this study.
This study was conducted in the following way. First of all, the feasibility of the urban regeneration project based on transport facilities and systems was analyzed through a theoretical examination of urban regeneration and field surveys of major domestic transportation centers. Furthermore, the implementation systems of the current leading urban regeneration projects were analyzed in depth to derive suggestions. Next, the basic concept of the transport-oriented urban regeneration model was established, and two project sites for the application of this model were identified (Sokcho and Seocheon Intercity Bus Terminal). The planning elements for transport-oriented urban regeneration projects were derived through literary review and an expert counsel meeting. Then a survey was conducted for the residents who lived in the pilot project areas to discover the core planning elements of the basic plan. Basic urban regeneration project plans for the Sokcho and Seocheon Intercity Bus Terminal and the surrounding areas were established by applying the identified planning elements. In addition, a methodology for estimating the expected effects of projects was proposed. Lastly, revision and supplementation methods for the current guideline to urban regeneration project implementation and stimulation plans were proposed to enable the practical policy implementation of the transport-oriented urban regeneration projects