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2017 Vol.28, Issue 5
A Study on Environmental Colors of Busan Subway Stations and Passenger Satisfaction Survey : Focus on 5 Subway Transfer Station

부산 지하철 환경색채 현황과 이용자 만족도 조사 연구 : 5개 환승역을 중심으로

Won-Ji Kim*
,
Tae-Kyung Lee**
김원지 *
,
이태경 **
*정회원(주저자), 부산대학교 실내환경디자인학과 박사수료
**정회원(교신저자), 부산대학교 실내환경디자인학과 부교수 및 노인생활환경연구소 연구원, 이학박사
Corresponding AuthorTae-Kyung Lee, Dept. of Interior & Environmental Design, Pusan Natl Univ., 2, Busandaehak-ro 63beon-gil, Geumjeong-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea E-mail: sunney@pusan.ac.kr
25 October 2017. pp. 1-10
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Abstract

Currently, Busan Subway have been used by 900 thousands of people a day on average, and also will continue to be increased of lines and stations. In the case of transfer stations, linking different routes, have complex plane structure. So they should be provided an appropriate information and an comfort available to the subway. Specially the environmental color play a role as the environmental information. The purpose of this study is to investigate line’s color, and interior color of Busan Subway’s transfer station. For this study we took subway stations picture and analyzed colors using Korea Standard Color Analysis (KSCA) program. Summary of the finding of this study is as follows: First, as a result of comparison of subway station’s environmental color among Busan Subway’s transfer stations, the use of hues of interior colors in most interior color of subway platforms appeared as being limited to group ‘YR’, ‘Y’, ‘PB’ and ‘achromatic color’. Second, this study found out that each transfer passageway’s hues is similar regardless of transfer passageway’s path length. Third, according to Subway Passenger satisfaction survey, 61 % of the passengers surveyed responded that they had difficulty wayfinding to the transfer passageway. Fourth, Symbolic function, Identification function, and Physical function should be considered important in the subway line colors.

Keywords
Subway
Environmental Color
Line Color
KSCA
키워드
지하철
환경색채
노선색
KSCA
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  • Publisher :The Korean Housing Association
  • Publisher(Ko) :한국주거학회
  • Journal Title :Journal of the Korean Housing Association
  • Journal Title(Ko) :한국주거학회논문집
  • Volume : 28
  • No :5
  • Pages :1-10
  • Received Date : 2017-03-23
  • Revised Date : 2017-09-18
  • Accepted Date : 2017-09-18
  • DOI :https://doi.org/10.6107/JKHA.2017.28.5.001
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