Policy Research
RESEARCH
KOTI - Korea Transport institute
rail facility renovation
- Date
January 31 2016
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#Railway transportation
#railway facilities
#safety improvement
#railway safety facilities
#supplemen
Management of railway facilities has been carried out quite practically. After ‘Sewol’ ferry accident, however, at the time of demand for safety higher nationally, it would be possible to maintain ‘safe railway’ with facility management which gives people satisfaction. In addition it is very important as there are almost 10 millions railway-users with the expansion of high speed rail and metropolitan subways in expansion widely.
It is time to prepare comprehensive policy measure for railway facilities which threaten railway safety. Our key goal is to perform appropriate railway facility administration in view of safety. For this purpose, we should consider management of deteriorated facility, plan for accident prevention, and decrease in safety accident at the station building etc. At first, for deterioration, we should secure budget and investigate stably until the deterioration will be resolved. It should be able to administrate deterioration level of 10~20% within 20~30years through investment more than deterioration ratio which occur every year. Steady budget support about 470billion to 740 billion won is needed for this and it would be lead to complete resolve of deterioration around the year of 2030.
To prevent line falling accident from platform, overall installation of Platform Screen Door is raised. Fortunately, government has plan for this on the metropolitan area until 2017. Also the fence that prevents railroad jaywalking would be set up soon throughout the whole country. Finally, we should reduce safety accident by categorizing it by stages and supplementing facilities with education and public relations. For legalization of safety supplement of railway facility, we have to make regulation that it has to be proposed with the problem about improvement and supplement of a facility when we establish ‘National railroad network plan’ based on ‘the Railroad Construction Act’ It has to be able to know the result of investment every year by securing ‘plan for railroad facility deterioration’, the administration system which clearly shows the effect and process of railroad facility investment from a safety standpoint.
It is time to prepare comprehensive policy measure for railway facilities which threaten railway safety. Our key goal is to perform appropriate railway facility administration in view of safety. For this purpose, we should consider management of deteriorated facility, plan for accident prevention, and decrease in safety accident at the station building etc. At first, for deterioration, we should secure budget and investigate stably until the deterioration will be resolved. It should be able to administrate deterioration level of 10~20% within 20~30years through investment more than deterioration ratio which occur every year. Steady budget support about 470billion to 740 billion won is needed for this and it would be lead to complete resolve of deterioration around the year of 2030.
To prevent line falling accident from platform, overall installation of Platform Screen Door is raised. Fortunately, government has plan for this on the metropolitan area until 2017. Also the fence that prevents railroad jaywalking would be set up soon throughout the whole country. Finally, we should reduce safety accident by categorizing it by stages and supplementing facilities with education and public relations. For legalization of safety supplement of railway facility, we have to make regulation that it has to be proposed with the problem about improvement and supplement of a facility when we establish ‘National railroad network plan’ based on ‘the Railroad Construction Act’ It has to be able to know the result of investment every year by securing ‘plan for railroad facility deterioration’, the administration system which clearly shows the effect and process of railroad facility investment from a safety standpoint.