Railway safety plan and its status in Korea

초록

Korean government and railway industry members have set up their own railway safety plan following Transportation Safety Act (1979) and Railway Safety Act (2004). Currently the 6th Transportation Safety Strategic Plan (2007-2011) and the 1st Railway Safety Strategic Plan (2006-2010) are established in Korea. The MOCT (Ministry of Construction and Transportation) have the authority to evaluate and assess the railway industry members’ annual safety plan based on the above two strategic plans. In order to reduce accident and fatality up to 40%, railway safety specialists who were gathered from the government, railway companies (including infrastructure managers), research institute, and transportation safety authority derived railway safety issue and safety measures in 2005. As a result, they derived 77 safety projects in 6 fields (staff, infrastructure, rolling stock, safety management system, accident investigation, and R&D in safety system) which required about 5 billion $ safety budget. In this study, current status of safety plan and their effects are described.