| Title |
A Study on the Evaluation of Airport Railroad User Facilities through Checklist |
| Authors |
Moon Suh-Hyun ; Shin Kyung-Joo |
| Keywords |
Airport Railroad ; Checklist ; Law to Improve Transportation of Mobility Handicapped People ; Standards for Efficient Transportation |
| Abstract |
The airport railroad between Seoul and Incheon International Airport, which started to operate in March of 2007, expands choice of customers from previously limited movement through cars and tries to enhance accessibility as well as convenience of customers moving between Seoul and Incheon. The interior design of the airport railroad, regarding its primary purpose, should consider not only the users with permanent restriction, including seniors or the handicapped, but also the ones with temporary restriction, such as the travelers with huge bags or foreigners who are inconvenient with communication in Korean. Hence, this research developed a checklist for evaluating user facilities of airport railroad, this research compared and analyzed「Regulations to improve transportation of mobility handicapped people」, the Korean regulation related to transportation environment, with 「Standards for efficient transportation」, the Japanese regulation pertaining to transportation environment. Based the checklist, it analyzed problems of airport railroad by evaluation and actual survey and suggested ways to improve airport railroad user's convenience upon the result of the survey. According to the result of 3-point Likert scale evaluation on the internal facilities of 11 spaces in 6 stations of railway railroad, the average score of airport railroad was 2.6 point. Among them, ticket barrier had no problems with 3 point, and there were other facilities receiving relatively high score like waiting lounge, escalator, and elevator, with 2.9, 2.8 and 2.7 point respectively. In addition, stairs and platform recorded 2.6 point, while internal slope and restroom for non-handicapped people scored 2.5 point. However, main entrance, ticket machine, and restroom for handicapped people received relatively low score, recording 2.2 point. In particular, facilities close to 3 places in 6 stations were needed to be improved immediately. |