KOTI - Korea Transport institute

As artificial intelligence technologies have developed rapidly, the number of application cases has increased in the field of children's traffic safety. Accordingly, improvement projects for the smart school zone, which installs various facilities such as information and communication devices to improve children's safety of school zones, have carried out individually at the local government level. As these projects have carried out individually at the local government level without a unified project management system at the central government level, the need for improvement in terms of project implementation efficiency is also pointed out. In particular, it is time to establish a low-cost, highly efficient safety management system for children by shifting the school zone improvement project, which focused on facility improvement and equipment construction, to a service-based operation improvement. There is a need to promote safety management policies by establishing a standard model for smart school zones as a management tool at the central government level.

The objective of this study is to prepare a plan to introduce a smart school zone to establish a low-cost, highly efficient safety management system for children by converting the existing smart school zone projects to a service-based operation improvement. In this study, we seek to define the concept of smart school zones, which have recently been spreading nationwide. In addition, in order to improve children safety, we will derive the service items required in smart child protection zones and define the functions of the services. The smart school zone will include service functions to encourage safe driving of vehicles and to enforce illegal driving. Also the smart school zone will include service functions to prevent accidents and provide information in terms of pedestrian safety management.

Based on these service items, this study aims to organize the necessary information and to provide it in the form of a standard model so that it can be applied to actual sites when local governments promote smart school zone projects. In order to materialize these plans, this study systematically organized the application of smart school zones in stages, including selection of installation points, classification of road types, and selection of applicable services for each road type, and also this study presented application examples of smart school zone for various road types using actual school zone areas.