Plan for Traffic Safety in Korea

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Plan for Traffic Safety in Korea
2002. 9
Ministry of Construction Transportation, Korea
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CONTENTS

• Situation in Korea
• Plan for Traffic Safety in Korea
• - Target
• - Organizations
• - Actions

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Worsening traffic environment
? Car 30 thou.(62) ? 12 mil.(00) ? Road
27,169 km(62) ? 88,775 km(00)
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Increasing traffic accident
? Fatalities 3,069(70) ? 10,236(00) ?
Estimated social cost(00) 12.5 bil. (2.9 of
GDP)
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Plan for Traffic Safety

• Made every 5 years
• starting from 1983
• 5th plan 20022006
• Detailed plan made every year

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Past Accomplishments
But, not enough !
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Target

• Reduce fatalities per 10,000 cars
• from 5.5 to 3.0 by 2006.
• Reduce the yearly fatalities
• from 8,097 to 5,600 by 2006

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Organization for transportation safety
Transportation Safety Policy Committee (Chairman
Prime Minister)
Transportation Safety Policy Steering Committee
(Chairman Vice Minister of MOCT)
 
Transport Safety Division in MOCT
Local Transportation Safety Committee
(Chairman Governor of Local Government)
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ACTIONS
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OUTLINE

• 1) Expand and improve safety facilities
• 2) Focus on protecting pedestrians
• 3) Develop safer vehicle
• 4) Improve traffic behavior

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• 5) Tighten enforcement of law
• 6) RD on traffic safety
• 7) Improve after-accident management

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1. Expand and improve safety facilities

• Install more safety facilities
• - median strips, anti-slippery, shock
  absorbers, traffic info centers
• Renew old roads, bridges and tunnels
• Improve accident-frequently-occurring-spots
  (AFOS)
• - designate 7,005 AFOSs (95-01)
• . criteria e.g. over 10 times within 30m
  for Seoul
• - investigate a cause and take actions
• . change structure, install signals, etc
• - analyze a result and make a DB

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1. Expand and improve safety facilities

• Improve signals
• - make them larger and install LED signals
• Introduce traffic safety audit on new
• roads from design to construction
• Construct the safety facilities
• performance examining center

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2. Focus on protecting pedestrians

• Introduce traffic calming technique in residence
  zone
• - make road narrower, install small hill on
  the road
• Designate a child-protecting-zone around
  school(5,398 zones)
• - apply tighter traffic law and install more
  facilities
• Install more informative signals for pedestrians
• - remaining-time-informing signals,
  remote-controlling-signals for the blind, etc

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• 3. Develop safer vehicle

• Support developing the advanced
• safety vehicle(ASV)
• Expand car recall
• Intensify safety test of new car

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• 4. Improve traffic behavior

• Measure and declare traffic safety index for
  cities
• - support local govt financially according
• to performance in safety
• Strengthen education particularly for children
• Designate safety example school

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4. Improve traffic behavior

• Provide special education for CEOs of bus and
  truck company and drivers with many accidents
• Educate local officials periodically
• Award the safest carrier certificate
• Campaign through T.V, radio, etc

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5. Tighten enforcement of law

• Introduce rewarding system on reporting
• of violation (Carparatti)
• Install more speed cameras
• Install driving recording device, overspeed
• restricting device in commercial cars
• Strong enforcement on overloading of trucks

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6. RD in traffic safety

• Use Intelligent Transport System (ITS)
• for safety
• Introduce automatic accident recording system
  at crosswalk
• Make a DB of accidents using GIS
• - help investigate a cause and make
• precautionary measures

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7. Improve after-accident management

• Extend coverage of Compulsory
• Insurance for Accidents
• Improve emergent medical care system
• Take care of the disabled and children of
  victims from accidents
• - Build rehabilitation center only for
• the disabled from traffic accidents

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• Thank you