Intercity Land Transport System in Korea: Issue and Prospects

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In the past, beginning with Seoul-Pusan highway, Korea has invested in the increase of road extensions. However, in comparison, railways have increased 1000km and thus have had an overall extension of approximately 3900 km. The problem with Koreas intercity transportation system can be seen as the increase of social economic costs, lack of investment efficiency, logistic costs, cost of traffic congestion and traffic accident related costs. The fact that we have less land and stock compared to other similar countries also proves to be a problem. The government focus of transport is being converted to a transport and logistics based direction of policy. It is important we do not stop at increasing our investments in railways but specifically research the measures which other countries are taking to confront such climate changes and work towards increasing and consistently developing the development of low carbon green growth.