| Title |
A Study on the Utilization of Rapid transit railway station in Local Cities |
| DOI |
http://doi.org/10.14774/JKIID.2022.31.5.103 |
| Keywords |
Rapid transit railway; Utilization of Railway Station; Urban Regeneration; Remodeling |
| Abstract |
In South Korea, the railway facilities were once a symbol of modernization and a driving force behind urban growth, however, they encounter a period of decline as the occurrence of the overall changes in the transportation system. In particular, the number of passengers who use the rapid transit railway stations other than KTX stops has been significantly lowered, thus the plans to utilize those stations were sought continuously. Under the circumstance, the plan for utilizing the idle spaces of those stations as public rental housing for young people has recently been announced in the metropolitan area, but it is still a challenge to generalize the plan to local cities. In that regard, this study examined the rapid transit railway stations in Gwangju, thereby suggesting measures to utilize idle spaces around the stations. This study can be a reference when utilizing the stations of the urban outskirts, which are difficult to develop as a tourism resource because they are not combined with urban railways among the rapid transit railway stations of local cities with a small number of passengers and have no sufficient value as modern cultural heritage. In other words, it would be possible to utilize those railway stations by analyzing the characteristics of the wide-area and local-area for the places of the relevant station and inserting a strategic program suitable for the idle spaces of the station. |