| Title |
The Responsibility of An Infrastructure Manager Toward A Railway Competitive Market |
| DOI |
https://doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2016.36.1.0121 |
| Keywords |
철도시설관리;철도운영자;시설관리자;역할과 책임 Railway facility management;Train operator;Infrastructure manager;Roles and responsibilities |
| Abstract |
The restructuring of Korean railway industry, separation of between train operators and an infrastructure manager, had been conducted in 2004 to increase the productivities of railway operations. However, the maintenance-staffs are still employed by Korail (train operator), not by the infrastructure manager, which led the maintenance of railway infrastructure to be conducted by the train operator. The infrastructure manager is now only taking care of financial transferring issues once the train operator requests expenses spent for facility maintenance. Such incomplete restructure may result in a lack of safety performance on railway operations as the roles and responsibilities are less likely to be assigned under the multiple train operators. Thus, this study proposes the way of structuring maintenance divisions and their roles and responsibilities to assure the safe work execution under the circumstance of multiple train operators on the same rail network. |