Recently in our country, private transportation means has been increased rapidly as economy developed greatly. This made secure convenience and quickness of personal life, but it resulted in many social problems such as severe traffic jam.
Especially, the bus. which had been a representative mass transportation means as it might be said to be a foot for citizens, couldn't keep punctuality due to the habitual road jam, and what is worser, the problems such as bad inner environment of bus, service problem, inconvenient bus stop and inconsistence of waiting time had citizens seldom utilize it, and as the share for transportation has fallen to below 30% from 50%, most of bus companies are maintaining their business with subsidies granted by each local self-governing body with losing self-existence ability.
In order to clear such transportation problems and vitalize citizen's utility of mass transportation means, Seoul Metropolitan has developed en epochal transportation system, a composite and long term plan, which is being carried, from Jul. 2004, basing on bus. Expecially, leveling up the degree of bus with such as a flexible bus, a lower floor bus and a CNG bus, agreeableness of bus and safety for the aged have been secured, also, with readjusting bus line system like central bus line and exclusive bus line at either side was introduced, which made enable to run more quickly comparing when road is jammed. Also, with developing BMS(Bus Management System) and BIS(Bus Information System) being linked with scientific IT technology, citizens and drivers became to use bus effectively as they are available for bus transportation information.