한국철도의 네트워크 운영과 계획

초록

Since the HSR (High Speed Rail) & KTX (Korea Train eXpress) service was successfully introduced to KOREA, the HSR is expected to be a convenient mode that could be connect most major cities within a half day without having any congestion as on highways. In additions, because Railway is generally energy-efficient and environmental friendly compared to road, we hope the railway could play a much greater role in future and increase the market share with providing efficient mass public transport services. So the Korean government outlined “the mater plan on the development of national rail network till 2015” to build up the harmonious rail networks, upgrade the conventional lines and develop the new train system (High Speed Train and tilting train) with high-technology equipment. In this paper, the current problems and conditions for railway transport were analyzed and their issues were identified. And then, we introduced the 2015 national rail network plan as well as the HST and Tilting train systems which were recently developed in Korea.