산악철도 도입 및 운영을 위한 현안 및 대책

초록

As the demand for leisure and tour increases with more national income, local governments pay much interest to mountain railway and tour trains. Our country has large mountainous area and resort facilities so that the mountain railway can be a new growth engine in transportation field. In this paper, for successful introduction and operation of mountain railway, problems are investigated for solutions to be found. In particular, Jiri Mountain, the first national park is selected for a candidate of mountain railway. For this purpose, methods to construct a mountain railway system parallel with environment protection and solutions to overcome the geographical and climate problems which are inherent to mountainous area are proposed.