1. Public Transport Reform
in Seoul
2015. 20. November
SANGJUNE PARK
Korea Transport Institute
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2. 1. Backgrounds
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
3. Outcomes
Contents
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Overview of Seoul
Transport problems
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1. Background
◆ Overview of Seoul (2)
● Population : 10.3 million (Area : 605Km2)
● Density : 17,134 person/Km2
BUSES
#Buses : 9(Thousand), # of Routes : 595
8.8 Million passengers/day
SUBWAY
332Km : 9 Lines, 3 Operation Company
307 Stations, 12.6 Million passengers/day
TAXI # Veh : 72(Thousand)
PASSENGER CAR # Veh : 3013(Thousand)
As of 2014
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● Population : 2times
− 1970 : 5.4 M
− 2003 : 10.4 M
1. Background
◆ Situations before the Public Transport Reform
● No. of Vehicles : 46 times
− 1970 : 60,000
− 2003 : 2.8 M
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1. Background
◆ Transport issues in Seoul’s transport before the reform
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1. Background
◆ Problems of bus operation
● Unstable Service by deteriorated bus company
− Unpunctuality, abolition of bus routes
● Unstable employment
− Continuous reduction of labor (driver’s low salary)
● Excessive competition to increase revenue
− Reckless driving : accident, uncomfortable ride
● Routes owned by private bus company as a patent
− Hard to adjust routes by demands
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9. 1. Backgrounds
◆ Bus industry before the reform
Increasing vehicles
Inefficient bus m
anagement system
Limited road capacity
→congestion
Decrease of bus users
Abolition of bus service
Bankrupt of bus company
Poor punctuality
Poor reliability
Slow speed
stress on driver from
traffic congestion
unfriendly to passenger,
and causing accident
no other options except
periodic fare raising
Worsen bus oper
ating conditions
Lack of bus
priority policies
(bus lane & subsidies)
abolition of route,
→ reduced operation,
periodic increase of fare
labor dispute
→ inconvenience for citizen
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1. Background
◆ Business environment of bus industry
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1. Situations
◆ Modal share change
1996 2002
Subway
29.4 %
Subway
35.5 %
Bus
26.2 %
Bus
30.1 %
Car
24.6 %
Car
25.5 %
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◆ Social situations before the reform
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
● Road congestions : one of social problems
− Due to exponential growth of population since 1950s
− Insufficient transport infrastructures
● Unsuccessful attempts on PT improvement
− How to deal with the influx traffic to Seoul
− One of main issues to be changed
● Need a strong leadership to implement the plan
− Former President Mr. Lee Myung-Bak
− Holding a meeting every week to check the progress
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◆ Vision of the reform
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
● Competitive public transport
(Public transport > private vehicles)
− speed
− convenience
− safety
− social fare
World Best
Transit City
● Low cost · High efficiency city
− 30 passenger car’s capacity = 1 Bus
● Economize on energy
● Reducing air pollution
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◆ Object of Seoul bus system reform
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
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◆ Median Bus Lane System
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
● Install bus lane and stations in the
middle of the road
● Other lanes are used by private cars
■ Problems caused by roadside bus lane
● Established in 1986 for effective management of existingroads
− Stopping by the road is dangerous to bus passengers
− Causes traffic congestion when buses try to cut into inner lanes
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2. Seoul’s Public Transport ReformAhead
◆ Integrated Fare System
■ Integrate all public transportation (bus, subway) fare systems – Free or
discounted fare system for transferring between buses or between bus and
subways
● Free transfers within 10km regardless of number of transfers
− Lessen the fare burden for citizens living in remote, outskirt area
● Develop a system that automatically calculates revenues for transportation agencies
(bus operators, subways)
− Automatic calculation to allocate transportation revenues to each agency
− Resolve inconveniences between transportation agencies in advance
● Develop T-money card system for automatic transfer
− Multi-functioning transportation card– i.e. shopping and tax payment
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◆ Smartcard System
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
■ Adopt T-Money, new smart card system for integrated fare collection
New Smart Card System
● Flexible to various fare policy
− unified distance-based and time
difference fare system
● Provides multi-functional services
− Transport, shopping and civil service,
etc
● Adopted International standards
− Type A / B
● Enhances security
− adopt EMV
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◆ Unified Fare System with Free Transfer
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
Concept of N
/W Integration
New fare system
BeforeAfter
Independent Fare Structure
Unified Fare Structure
Bus
Bus
Bus Bus
Metro
Line
Line Line
One Seamless Mode
Type Line Line
Type Line Type
Single
Mode
Flat Fare
Combined
Mode
Distance-
based Fare
Unified Distance-based Fare
(Bus#Bus / Bus#Metro/ Metro#Metro)
Bus Metro
■ Adoption of distance-based unified fare system irrespective of transport mode
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◆ 4 types of buses
● Trunk lines, Feeder lines, Circular, Wide area
− to simplify the system and reduce confusion
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◆ Transfer facilities
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
Yeoido
Transfer
Terminal
: (Secondary) city center : Boundary : Suburb
■ Building transfer terminals at node between trunk line and feeder line
connected with bus and metro
Cheong-
ryangni
Transfer
Terminal
Transfer Terminal for
Downtown and Suburban
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2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
◆ BMS (Bus Management System) / BIS (Bus Information System)
<Bus information>
- City Hall stop (30)
No.62 bus left last
bus stop
HeadwaysHeadways
Order for
keeping
headway
Order for
reserved
vehicle
Internet
Mobile
ARS
No. 62 bus left
last bus stop
Dispatch Mgmt.
Real-time
Information
Real-time
Information
■ Bus operation information collecting at control center through GPS
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2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
◆ Transport Operation & Information System
Image Data
Traffic Volume Data Analyzing
accumulated
data and
improvement
Providing
congestion
information
597
865
884 891 896
909
317
810 802
893
748
( ) 727
529
510 ( )
650
601
613 610
665 664 673 675
638
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100
200
300 322 309 316
298
400 435
500
600
700
800
900
1,000
6 24 6 26 630 7 2 74 7 8 7 10 7 14
( ) ( ) () ( ) () ( ) () ( )
(/)
Speed Data
Monitoring
real-time
traffic status
Data Gathering Monitoring & Management
■ Supporting on- the - spot traffic control using real - time traffic data
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◆ Quasi-Public Management
2. Seoul’s Public Transport Reform
● Establish bus route system based on the citizens’ needs
− Increase operation of inconvenient bus routes with low revenues
− For bus operators, remove factors that cause deficits occurring from
intensive competition
● Operate collective system to control transportation revenues Joint
management of bus operation revenues
− calculate and allocate revenues to bus operators based on their
operational performance
● Secure stable profits for bus operators by providing subsidies
− Seoul subsidizes deficits for bus operators after calculating the profits
Eliminate factors that result loss for bus operators
■ SMG controls transportation revenues to lower fiscal deficit
and promote bus route arrangements
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◆ Achievement ( 2003 vs. 2004)
3. Outcomes and Way Ahead
● Increase of passengers
− 4.0% increase ( 2004. Jul ~ Dec vs. 2003 Jul ~ Dec )
● Increase of bus speed
− Generally 10 ~ 20 km/h increased
● Improvement of on-time operation
− Improved punctuality of bus operation
− Arrived within 1~2 minutes of expected
(Km/hour) Before After
Differenc
e
Jun 2004 Dec 2004
Dobong-Mia
Road
Bus 11.0 22.0 11.0↑
Car 18.5 21.6 3.1↑
Susaek-Seongsan
Road
Bus 13.1 21.5 8.4↑
Car 20.3 22.3 2.0↑
Kangnam
Road
Bus 13.0 17.3 4.3↑
Car 18.0 18.6 0.6↑
Before After
Punctuality
(Variation
Coefficient)
0.537 0.493
On-time Operation
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3. Outcomes
◆ Achievements
Bus
Bus speed (km/h)
13% ↑19.8
17.6
19.9
2010
21.7
5% ↑24.0
22.9
20052000 2000 2005 2010
Passenger Car
● Increase in public transportation users: Average of 840K users /day(9.2%)
● Faster bus & vehicle speed: Buses rose by 13%, and passenger cars by 5%
● Establish scientific foundation for public transportation management
− Improve bus operation management based on the data including ridership by each
vehicle and service intervals
− Bus service interval management based on the number of users by routes, time-based
number of passengers, and routes with many users
● Secure social equity of fare system - free transfer
− Improve fare systems unfair to the areas without bus or subway routes
− Reduce average price of using inner-bus city (average of 29 KRW per trip)
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3. Outcomes
◆ Achievements
Year 1996 2002 2005 2009
Total Traffic Volume 2,779 2,968 3,100 3,194
Traffic Volume
(Suburban area ↔ Seoul)
618 876 917 928
Year 1996 2002 2005 2009
Public Transportation 59.5 60.6 62.3 63.0
(Bus) (30.1) (26.0) (27.5) (27.8)
(Subway) (29.4) (34.6) (34.8) (35.2)
Passenger Car 24.6 26.9 26.3 25.9
Taxi 10.4 7.4 6.5 6.2
Other 5.5 5.1 4.9 4.9
(Unit: %)
(Unit: 10K trips)
● Change in Traffic Volume
− Despite stagnation of population increase in Seoul, total traffic volume and
the amount of traffic between Seoul and the outskirt of the city is increasing.
● Modal Share
− Continuous increase in use of public transportation: 59.5% (’96)→ 63% (’09)
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Editor's Notes
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen!
I am Sangjune PARK from Korea Transport Institute.
I am delighted to be here to give a talk about Seoul’s public transport reform.
My talk is divided into 3 parts.
I’ll start with backgrounds of the public transport reform. Then I will look at the contents of Seoul’s public transport reform and finally I’ll talk to the outcomes of the reform which is regarded as one of success policies in transport sector so far.
This is a geographical status of Korea, and Seoul is located in the center of Korean peninsula.
And this is an overview of Seoul at present. The size of Seoul is around 605 square km with 10.3 million population. So density is so high in 17,134 person per square km.
There are around 9 thousand buses with 595 routes and buses are carrying 8.8 million passengers a day. And there are 9 metro lines with 332 km length and there are also around 3 million passenger cars in Seoul.
Let’s move to the situations before the public transport reform.
There had been a great population growth since 1960s which was a period of Korea’s economic development.
As you can see at the left-hand side graph, the population in 1970 was 5.4 million but in 2003 was 10.4 million. Moreover, the number of vehicle registered in Seoul had increased with an exponentially as you can see at the right hand-side graph. In 1970, the number of vehicle was around 60 thousand, but in 2003 the number was 2.3 million cars. There has been 48 times increase for 33 years.
This slide shows you the transport issues of Seoul before the reform. Firstly, there has been an expansion of commuting area to Seoul. So the traffic volume passing across the boundary of Seoul increased sharply from 2.68 M veh/day in 1996 to 3.15 M veh/day in 2003. Secondly, the bus passengers were decreasing because of low level of service quality and introduction of Metro lines. Lastly, traffic congestion was increasing as the provisions of PT could not match the speed of an increase of population and cars.
In particular, there have been many problems in bus industry of Seoul. Firstly, it suffered with unstable service by deteriorated bus companies. Secondly, drivers suffered with unstable employment. Thirdly, there was excessive competition between bus companies. Lastly, bus routes were owned by private company as a patent.
This slide shows the problems of bus industries before the reform.
As a result of those, business environment of bus industry was getting worse. Bus fare had increased and thus mode share was decreasing and subsidy growing.
This is a change of mode share between 1996 and 2003, just before the reform.
So there was a kind of vicious circle existed in Seoul’s public transport system
Let’s move to the important features of Seoul’s public transport reform.
As we briefly looked at the situations of Seoul’s public transport, especially bus industry, Seoul had a many problems in transport sector. Road congestion is a one of major social problems for Seoul Metropolitan Government. SMG tried to improve the public transport system several times, but did not make it because of political reasons and others. But a strong leadership was emerged when Mr. Lee Myung Bak, who later became the President of Korea, elected as a mayor.
A team for the public transport reform was established and started the work.
The vision of the reform was set like this picture. In order to make the world best transit city, they introduced a new concept to bus industry of Seoul.
They set a new bus system for a goal of the reform such as convenient in connection and transfer etc.
Firstly, they introduced a median bus lane. Actually, bus-only lane was existing before the reform, bus Seoul Metropolitan Government moved the lane to the middle of the road. So there was no congestions caused by buses and passengers hop-on and off.
Secondly, SMG introduced an integrated fare system for bus and metro which enabled passengers to transfer free and discounted. It is called T-money card.
T-money card was developed to the Smartcard system later and it provides multi-functional services for transport, shopping and civil service, etc.
This slide is another illustration of the unified fare system. The fare system was based on a distance travelled
Thirdly, SMG introduced a trunk and feeder system to the bus routes and reorganized the routes. The routes are divided with 4 different functions with 4 different colors to simplify the system and reduce confusion.
Blue line connects regions in suburbs, downtown areas, sub-centers. Its goal of the service is to secure rapidity and punctuality.
Green line transfers between Blue bus and Metro lines. It covers transport needs within the region and secures accessibility.
Yellow line lanes between downtown and sub-center areas. It covers business and shopping needs within the region.
Red line connects metropolitan areas to downtown areas. It absorbs demand for car use in influx and efflux of city borders.
Fourthly, SMG built a transfer terminals at node between trunk line and feeder line connected with bus and metro.
Fifthly, SMG established a control center for bus management and bus information. The center was gathering bus information through GPS.
The center is called TOPIS center and is supporting on the spot traffic control using real time traffic data.
Lastly, SMG introduced a new management system, which was called “quasi-public management”. This system operates collective system to control transport revenues. It is a joint management of bus operation revenues and calculates and allocates revenues to private bus operators based on their operational performance
Let’s move to the last part, the outcomes of the reform.
For the early stage of the reform, it was looking good.
This slide shows some achievement during the first year of the reform.
There was 4% increase of passengers compared to the same period before the reform and increase of bus speed as well. There was also an improvement of on-time operation.
In the longer term, the achievement was more clear.
The number of users of public transport increased by 9.2%.
And scientific foundation for public transportation management was established and stabilized and the reform could secure social equity of fare system with free transfer. That is, transport costs were reduced by 29 KRW per trip with free transfer.
Lastly, this slide shows some changes in traffic volume as time passes.
In 1996, total traffic volume is 2,779. But in 2009, is 3,194 an increase of 13%. But PT system, in particular bus and subway, are still major transport mode and even more increasing at the moment in Seoul.