General Research
RESEARCH
KOTI - Korea Transport institute
Improvement of national highway official planning and implementation
- Date
November 30 2017
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The national highway budget of 2018 announced by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is about 14,700 billion won and was reduced by 23 percent over the past year. However, the budget for highway maintenance, climate change response, and road safety improvement rose to 3,790 billion won (2.4% increase). This change of SOC investment shows that SOC investment will be continuously reduced and the more highway facilities age, the more investment is needed to maintain them. However, the national highway official plans do not focus on the maintenance of highway facilities, but construction of new highways.
A suitable highway maintenance plan can reduce facility management costs and make effective usage of existing highway facilities. In this light, the aim of this research is to make improvements to the national highway official plans to contain highway maintenance plans following the new paradigm of SOC investment. In particular, response plans for highway deterioration have been suggested too.
Firstly, the research suggests a new planning methodology that is separated by a top-down process and bottom-up process according to the characteristics of planning items. National comprehensive items like new national highway construction is more effective when planned through a top-down process. while local individual items, like the construction of underground roads in specific areas, are better planned through bottom-up process.
Second, the establishment of a control group named ‘The national highway planning group’ has been suggested. There are 3 kinds of official plans that are concerned with national highways and each plan has its own goals and strategy. Thus, a control group to bind these plans is needed for making unified national highway plans from long-term point of view.
Lastly, the departmentalization of highway facility maintenance plans into ordinary management / fault management / special management is suggested. For the special management of responding to highway deterioration, research suggests to make guidelines that contain management methods of each highway facility to respond to their deterioration. Development of a life-cycle management system for highway facilities is also suggested in the research.
A suitable highway maintenance plan can reduce facility management costs and make effective usage of existing highway facilities. In this light, the aim of this research is to make improvements to the national highway official plans to contain highway maintenance plans following the new paradigm of SOC investment. In particular, response plans for highway deterioration have been suggested too.
Firstly, the research suggests a new planning methodology that is separated by a top-down process and bottom-up process according to the characteristics of planning items. National comprehensive items like new national highway construction is more effective when planned through a top-down process. while local individual items, like the construction of underground roads in specific areas, are better planned through bottom-up process.
Second, the establishment of a control group named ‘The national highway planning group’ has been suggested. There are 3 kinds of official plans that are concerned with national highways and each plan has its own goals and strategy. Thus, a control group to bind these plans is needed for making unified national highway plans from long-term point of view.
Lastly, the departmentalization of highway facility maintenance plans into ordinary management / fault management / special management is suggested. For the special management of responding to highway deterioration, research suggests to make guidelines that contain management methods of each highway facility to respond to their deterioration. Development of a life-cycle management system for highway facilities is also suggested in the research.