KOREA | Urban Transport Compilation

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SEOUL METRO TRAINS




















all images from skyski62

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Originally Posted by ruready1000

Unfortunately No tram or tramway in South Korea since 1968. Now Ul-San Metropolitan City has a plan to build tram-type LRT.

Unfortunately, everywhere I searched
Now, I know already
Trams are on north only
But, this is foreign country

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Gyeong-ui Line

After double-tracking and electrifying, Gyeong-ui Line will be opned in June, 2009.

Gyeong-Ui line (total length = 48.6km)
Phase 1 : Musan to Seongsan (Length = 40.6km), to be opened in June, 2009
Phase 2 : Seongsan to Yongsan, to be opened in 2012


Route Map



* typo error : Youngsan -> Yongsan



New Train for Gyeong-ui Line

















images from trainstory.net

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Seoul Metro










images from 01160ui

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Seoul Metro (Bundang Line)
















images from 01160ui

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More Reserved Seating on Subways

Seoul subways will have more reserved seats from March.


Signs for pregnant women, the disabled and mothers with children are posted over newly reserved seats in a subway train.

Seoul Metro, which runs subway lines 1-4, said Monday it will designate seven more seats for pregnant women, mothers with children and the disabled in each passenger car of subway lines 2-4 from March 1 next to current seats for the aged, with pictograms symbolizing the pregnant, the disabled and mothers with children. Lower hand straps will also be installed. Currently, each train has 12 seats reserved for the elderly out of 54 seats in each subway car.

The seats will be different from current reserved ones for the elderly. ``Instead of leaving the reserved seats for the elderly vacant all the time, other passengers may use the seats but must surrender them to those in need,'' a Seoul Metro official said.

Seoul Metro has been test-operating the special seats in trains on subway line No. 1 since December 2007. According to its survey, 63 percent of 4,286 participants supported the test-operation of the seats and 94 percent of supporters were in favor of expanding the designated seats to other subway lines.

However, the expansion might draw objections from younger passengers. Seoul Metro emphasizes it is not expanding seating for the aged.

``We designated the special seats because it's not easy for the disabled or the pregnant to occupy the seats for the elderly,'' Kim Myung-ran of Seoul Metro said. ``These seats are the seats of concession and care for those who need them.''

The subway operator will promote the new seating arrangement through its Web site, posters and train announcements

from koreatimes

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All Seoul Subway Stations to Have Safety Doors

Seoul City said Monday that it will set up protective screen doors on platforms of every subway station by the end of this year ― to prevent falls and suicide attempts and to improve air quality ― one year sooner than its previous plan.

The city government has allotted 199 billion won for the project. The plan change has come after four people were run over by subway trains and died Saturday.

Out of the 265 stations on subway lines 1 through 8, 89 have screen doors, while construction is underway at another 151. Subway line No. 9, which will open in May, will have protective doors at every station.

On Saturday, a 71-year-old Kim was run over and killed by an above ground subway in eastern Seoul. Kim, who bathed and clothed corpses at a hospital, was on his way to bring the body of another train accident victim who had been killed earlier in the morning to a funeral service center. Two men, one in his 30s and the other in his 50s jumped in front of subway trains and were run over at City Hall Station and Hansung University Station, respectively.


from koreatimes

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Are there rally that many suicide attempts? It looks like Seol citizens were very depressed.
How many cases d'u have in a year?

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Originally Posted by Falubaz

Are there rally that many suicide attempts? It looks like Seol citizens were very depressed.
How many cases d'u have in a year?

Suicide is one of the serious problems in korea. But suicide in subway is very small portion of total suicide.(Of course it doesn't mean you don't need to prevent suicide in subway.)

According to government source :

Total Suicide

YEAR PERSON (per 100,000 people)
2000 6,460 (14.6)
2001 6,933 (15.5)
2002 8,631 (19.1)
2003 10,932 (24)
2004 11,523 (25.2)
2005 12,047 (26.1)
2006 10,688 (23)
2007 12,174 (24.8)

Accidents by subway

YEAR/Total/by careless/by suicide try
2004 55 7 48
2005 69 9 60
2006 58 8 50
2007 63 6 57
2008 27 3 24
* 2008 = January to August

Jan, 2004 to August, 2008 : Total 272, dead 170 wounded 102

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Well, that's pretty many ppl!
I would have never thought about 50-60 persons dying on metro tracks every year!
I thought it's like 3 maybe 5 in a year.

Will the prevention method be the "full screen doors" or only the "half" as in some metro systems??

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Originally Posted by Falubaz

Well, that's pretty many ppl!
I would have never thought about 50-60 persons dying on metro tracks every year!
I thought it's like 3 maybe 5 in a year.

Will the prevention method be the "full screen doors" or only the "half" as in some metro systems??

I don't know exactly but, as far as I know, most of screen doors in korea are full screen door type, so I think it will be the same.

(About some statistics I got wrong figures, more precisely about titiles. It was accidents in subways, not death in subways. I edited it.)

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METRO 9 construction pictures


Express Bus Terminal Station














Sin Nonhyeon Station











all images from ohla

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Great! It will be opened soon right? I mean the 1st phase of line 9.

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Here's some trivia: Line 9 is actually run by a consortium led by Veolia Transport Services ;p

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Great! It will be opened soon right? I mean the 1st phase of line 9.

You're right. Metro 9 will be opened in May this year.

Here's some trivia: Line 9 is actually run by a consortium led by Veolia Transport Services ;p

Yes, Metro 9 will be operated by Veolia(80%) and Rotem(20%) consortium for 10 years.



The operation Seoul subway system's line 9

Veolia Transport has won a 10-year contract to operate Seoul subway system's line 9, to be inaugurated in 2009.

The contract has been signed between the franchisee, SML9* (Seoul Metro Line 9), to which the City of Seoul has awarded the contract to build and operate this new line, and Southlink 9 Company Limited, an operating company 80%-held by Veolia Transport Korea and 20% by Korea's ROTEM group, a subsidiary of HYUNDAI Motors. Veolia Transport will recruit and train 550 people under this contract. The cumulative revenue for Veolia Transport is expected at approximately €507 million.

The 25-km Line 9, now under construction, will cross Seoul, linking the Gangnam district southeast of the city to Kimpo Airport in the west. It will have 25 stations and is scheduled to carry 760,000 passengers daily by 2013.

source

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Tire-Wheeled LRT for Ban-song Line

There was trial run event for New Tire-Wheeled LRT in 8th April, 2009.
This train will run on Ban-song line, which is scheduled to be opened next year. Ban-song line, an extension of Busan Subway Line 3,will be the first tire-wheeled LRT line in korea. This train is based on K-AGT, a project led by KRRI in cooperation with 30 entities.















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K-AGT

Korea became the fourth nation to develop AGT system, a driverless, rubber-tire-wheeled train, when KRRI succeeded in the development after working from 1999 to 2005 in cooperation with around 50 industrial, academic, and research entities, under the goal of developing a Korean light rail transit which is reliable, safe, and ecomnomical. THe transit has completed trial run of 100,000 km on the comprehensive trial track in the city of Gyong-san, Gyeong-bu, beginning in 2004 and ending in November 2008.
The light rail trainsit developed by KRRI has the maximum speed of 70km/h, and each car can carry an average of 57, and the maximum of 100 people. It is a large composite system composded of DC 750V side electric supply system, driverless signal control system, and light-structure track construction. The completed system has low operation/maintenance cost, and the constructio of the tracks cost USD 23-39 million which is relatively cheap, considering that it is 40-50% of the cost of the tracks for the subway system, which is USD55-78 million.
It has been decided that the K-AGT will enter the commercial track with the route from Minam to Anpyeng on the Line 3 of Busan Subway(Bansong Line).

from KRRI homepage.

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Ride on new subway line to cost 900 won

Subway line No. 9, slated to launch in late May, will tentatively charge the standard 900 won ($0.65) for a ride despite opposition from the operating company, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said.

The 25.5-kilometer (15.8-mile) line will link Nonhyeon in southern Seoul and Gimpo in western Seoul, where Gimpo Airport is located. The route will also pass through Dangsan, Yeouido, Noryangjin, Dongjak and Gangnam Express Bus Terminal. An express train that takes 30 minutes to get from southern Seoul to Gimpo Airport will also be running. Under Seoul’s current public transportation fee system, a combined traveling distance of 10 kilometers by bus and subway costs 900 won. An additional fee of 100 won is added on for every extra 5 kilometers.

However, Metro 9, the private operator of the subway line, has proposed a basic fee of 1,582 won, citing inflation and a smaller number of passengers compared with other lines.

source

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Daejeon Subway

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Gwangju Subway




Daejeon and Gwangju subway trains look similar because both are based on korean standard middle-weight EMU.

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Construction work for Incheon Maglev will begin July

KICTEP(Korea Institute for Construction&Technology Evaluation and Planning )said construction work for the showcase route for the Urban Magnetic Levitation Train Project begins July.
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According to the plan, it will have 6600m-long route, 6 station, and one vehicle maintenance and repair shop.

KICTEP intends that the construction of the showcase route shall be completed by 2011, trial run by 2012, so they can operate this line in 2013.

source

About Incheon Maglev

Thinking that it's a chance to expand urban network with government's aid, many big cities in korea such as Daegu, Daejeon, Gwangju, Incheon, wanted to be the showcase city for the Urban Magnetic Levitation Train Project, but finally Incheon won this project.



the three designs proposed.





the final design