Personal Rapid Transit in Korea

초록

One of the reasons that cause traffic congestion in urban transit is the increasing number of cars. A study shows Seoul had ten million cars in 1997 and the number rose to fourteen millions in 2000. Frequent congestions on the road cost as much as eight hundred million dollars a year. Roads fell too short to cope with the ever increasing number of cars with merely 1.5 % expansion, which caused not only headaches in driving but environmental problems. The traffic dilemma gives the situation a quantitative point of view and calls for a certain form of innovation in public transportation for the passenger. This paper suggests a new concept for the public transportation Personal Rapid Transit(PRT) with illustrations of its trends in Korea.