Introduction of A Synthetic Analysis System for Pre-feasibility Studies on Transport Systems Planning in Korea

초록

The engineers involved in design and development of new transport systems need to seriously consider what target passengers to transport using new systems and where the systems are beneficial within public transport systems at an initial development step. Without considering how to implement new transport systems before developing them, the system developers are hard to find right place to implement after completion of system. Further current decision-making process on transport investment is based on government oriented guideline which mainly provides the methods of travel demand analysis and benefit-cost analysis with various indexes. This guideline is appropriate to provide feasibility of whole transport system investment at long-term periods such as thirty or forty years including construction and operation periods. Therefore, the guideline seems to be heavy for transport planners to practically use in pre-feasibility studies due to its complex procedure in each step, and provides general cost units of transport systems such as vehicle cost, construction cost, operation cost, passenger capacity, which do not well represent the specifications of new transport systems. In order to address these issues, this study try to develop a decision-making system by comprising several light decision processes which are expected to be helpful for transport planners by providing quick and relatively precise solution. In this study, we call the system as SMARTIS (Smart Transport Investment System) and introduce the direction of system development and provide general concept of the system.