TOPIS: Seoul’s Intelligent Traffic System (ITS)
TOPIS: Seoul’s Intelligent Traffic System (ITS)
Seoul TOPIS (Seoul Transport Operation & Information Service) is an integrated traffic management center that operates and manages Seoul’s traffic situation and collects traffic information from traffic-related organizations – these include Bus Management System (BS), traffic card system, unmanned enforcement systems and traffic broadcasting, the National Policy Agency, and the Korea Expressway Corporation.
“Seoul TOPIS (Seoul Transport Operation and Information Services)” refers to an integrated traffic center that plans, constructs, and operates Seoul’s Intelligent Transport System (ITS). The Korean name can be literally translated as ‘Seoul Traffic Information Center’. However, the English name of Seoul TOPIS is more familiar to the public. The traffic information situation control room, which is an important part of Seoul TOPIS, is sometimes easily mistaken for the entire Seoul TOPIS.
The goal is to provide a forum for sharing an advanced traffic system or public transportation operation management and, from this, provide scientific traffic administrative support, real-time communication management and citizen traffic information services through the connection and combination of traffic information and traffic systems.
As specific achievements, the following are to be achieved through optimized efficiency of the existing traffic facilities, including the roads.
1) Improved urban traffic speed by minimizing traffic congestion
2) Reduce traffic accidents
3) Reduction of negative effects arising from unexpected situations
4) Prediction of traffic situations and support of other traffic policies by analyzing traffic big data
5) Enhanced consumer satisfaction through punctuality of public transportation and the sharing of traffic information
6) Maximized road utilization through unmanned enforcement and contribution to the right parking culture
7) Enhanced profits based on the imposition of penalties and fines (Used for the construction of parking lots)
Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG)
The two main essence of this reformation are as follows:
1) The public transportation service was unified by combining the subway and bus systems in order to reinforce the competitiveness of public transportation.
2) The bus industry at the time was privatized, but a so-called semipublic bus management system was established to control the market price in areas of operation and management. This was determined as essential to meet the strategic goal of combining public transportation.
In order to obtain competitiveness of public transportation, the qualitative of public transportation services needed to be enhanced. The central bus lane, smart traffic card, and the public transportation information system (BMS/BIS) were introduced as a part of the reformation in the public transportation system, which all composed Seoul TOPIS.
Seoul Transport Operation and Information Service (TOPIS)
The usage of the combined public transportation information is 1.4 million cases each day. The total accuracy of the bus information is approximately 98% and the satisfaction rate of public transportation is 96%.
Traffic cards are used by almost all public transportation users, including 100% of subway users and 98.7% of bus users. Taxi passengers also display an increased use of traffic cards each year and 59% of the taxi passengers use traffic cards. (Seoul Urban Traffic Division 2016).
- 4.6% increase in the accuracy of bus arrival times (from 87.3% in 2006 to 91.4% in 2013)
- 26% increase in the average speed of buses (15 km/h to 19 km/h)
- 2.6% increase in the average daily bus passengers by 150 thousand passengers (from 5.6 million in 2007 to 5.75 million in 2013)
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