■Building the Performance Evaluation Model of SOC Budget Program
■Effective Measures to Meet the Demand for Construction Manpower in Overseas Construction Projects
■Prospect and Strategies for Construction Demand Structure
■Regional Allocation of Transportation Infrastructure Investment and Development of Local Economy
■Scheme for Effective Execution of Copulative Investment in Regional Development Project and Infrastructure Investment
■A Study on the Development of u-Traffic User Services
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The overseas construction project orders received were 14 billion dollars in 1997, but declined since then. However, high crude oil prices and the increase of plant construction orders received from the Middle East and Africa regions, which have started to happen since 2004, contributed to the 10.9 billion dollars of construction project orders received in 2005 and have kept increasing them even to this year. The number of overseas construction projects that we are able to receive and handle is restricted by our capacity of pro-duction factors such as finance, technology level, technical manpower, etc. Particularly, the short-age of advanced technical manpower is becom-ing a major problem.
This study shows the trend of amount and type of overseas construction project orders received, forecasts the supply and demand of technical construction workers by the type and specializa-tion of work, and suggests effective measures to fill any shortage of the manpower.
According to results of the study, it is forecast-ed that from 2005 to 2010, additional 2,809 man-power, in which the number of management and technical workers is 1,804, will be needed for construction projects. Particularly, additional 2,336 manpower for the plant construction in
which the number of management and technical workers is 1,458 will be required for the period.
On the other hand, the supply side of manpower has problems, and so without proper measures, imbalance between the supply and demand of construction workers for the period will inevitably get worsened.
As shown above figure, Some of the possible measures to fill the shortage of manpower may include : 1) in the short term, establishing the pool of workers who have work experiences of overseas construction projects, 2) in the long term, fostering new competitive workers to meet the demand and strengthening reeducation of extant construction workers, 3) establishing and managing the data-base of overseas construction workers and ‘The Center for Overseas Construction Workers’.
Research Period: 2006. 2. 1~2006. 4. 30
Report Descriptions: KRIHS Research Report 2006-55, 53pp
>> Effective Measures to Meet the Demand for Construction Manpower in Overseas Construction Projects
해외건설인력의 원활한 수급방안 Sung-Il Kim
06
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This research is related to build the performance evaluation model of SOC budget program. After explaining the necessity of SOC performance evaluation and the basic directions for building the performance evaluation model, this research will create a performance evaluation model of SOC budget program in Korea. After creating it, this research will also suggest the application of it and institutional alternatives of it.
This research is composed of 6 chapters. The first chapter is an introduction of the research that constitutes background, necessity, purpose, methodology, and literature review of the research. The second chapter includes concept of performance evaluation, necessity, and definition of SOC performance evaluation of budget pro-gram. The third chapter deals with the Korean practical situation of evaluation system including pros and cons of it. Furthermore, the chapter includes performance evaluation of foreign case studies such as U.S. and Japan. In the case studies, the study will also suggest operational specialties of the cases and application points of them. The chapter IV is the main part of the study. It shows building performance evaluation model of SOC budget program. The chapter V deals with appli-cation strategy in terms of institutional views of
performance evaluation model.
Main findings are as follows. firstly, we built performance evaluation model of SOC budget program. In detail, we scrutinizes phase by phase evaluation categories and detailed categories by the SOC construction programs of road, rail, and dam. And then, AHP survey to specialists and analysis helps to insert weights in each category.
Furthermore, the study suggests standard indexes for each detailed evaluation category so that the model can be readily used in practice. Finally, the chapter also suggests simple application strategy of the evaluation model.
Nextly, we suggested application strategy in terms of institutional views of performance eval-uation model. The institutional views include a new law establishment, improvement of existing institution, expanding statistical base, evaluation related organization, specializing manpower, constructing data base of performance evalua-tion, and organizing management base for per-formance evaluation. and lastly we provided lim-itation of the research so that later studies are able to concern.
Research Period: 2006. 1. 1~2006. 12. 31
Report Descriptions: KRIHS Research Report 2006-33, 236pp
>> Building the Performance Evaluation Model of SOC Budget Program
SOC 재정사업의 사후평가모형 구축방안Sung-Il Kim, Jin-Cheol Jo & Tae-Sun Park
Ⅱ2006 Research Projects
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The purpose of this study is to present directions to distributing transportation infrastructures across regions achieving somewhat contradictory goals of efficient utilization of limited financial resources and balanced distribution of transporta-tion infrastructures for balanced regional devel-opment at the same time.
First of all, regional disparity has been decreas-ing, and this is similar to the trends in income gap among regions calculated based on the GRDP(Gross Regional Domestic Product) per capita.
According to the results of the ANCOVA(analy-sis of covariance), on the whole, it is not trans-portation infrastructure investment that causes regional disparity in economic development.
In order to rationally distribute transportation infrastructure investment, this research carries out policy simulations under three scenarios : effi-ciency, equity, and equality investment.
This research presents the following practical policy suggestions for the harmony between eco-nomic efficiency and social equity.
Firstly, this research proposes transportation service indices instead of simple quantity indices for regional equity. It can be a realistic alternative to use new indices mixed with quantity and
ser-vice indices of transportation facility for deter-mining equity. For example, the ‘time taken to access principal networks of arterial transporta-tion (highways, high speed railways, internatransporta-tional airports, international harbors, etc)’ can be used as an index for equity.
Secondly, the research suggests expanding the scheme that puts weight (= social consensus) on regional equity in advance while considering effi-ciency at the same time. This is being introduced for the evaluation of part of the transportation facilities such as roads and railways.
Finally, the research suggests that transporta-tion infrastructure investment be related to indus-trial policies that help accomplish regional eco-nomic development, as shown in the scheme for adjusting investment distribution based on regional labor force. This can be an alternative for achieving efficiency, equity, and economic growth to some degree at once.
Research Period: 2006. 1. 1~2006. 12. 31
Report Descriptions: KRIHS Research Report 2006-35, 170pp
>> Regional Allocation of Transportation Infrastructure Investment and Development of Local Economy
교통기반시설투자의 지역간 배분과 지역경제 성장에 관한 연구 Hong-Ki Ahn & Min-Chul Kim
06
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While recent slackness of construction industry is regarded as the result of the national economy and business cycle, it has been more persuasive that inherent limitation of construction market.
The demand raising policy without consideration of the change of construction demand structure may cause to waste the natural and fiscal resources. We have explored the construction demand structure, have prospected its changes, and have provided the strategies to the changes.
Chapter I described the backgrounds, purpose, research scope, methodologies, literature review, and the uniqueness of this study. In Chapter II, the char-acteristics and situation of construction industry were investigated and the concept, etc. Chapter III regarded the construction investment as the result of the construction demand and the disturbance factors like government policy, and implicit construction demand was estimated by discerning disturbance part from the historical construction performances.
In Chapter IV, construction demand was analyzed in an econometric manner by the macroeconomic and microeconomic approaches. In Chapter V, the change of construction demand structure in the future was prospected and the possibility to newly create demand to vitalize the construction industry which faces the limitation of the demand was
dis-cussed. Chapter VI suggested the strategies respond-ing to structural changes of construction demand based on the analyses of previous chapters.
The study tried to come closest to the original meaning of demand by defining construction demand as the amount of construction goods or services required from people or other industries under the market conditions such as certain prices and income level during a certain period.
While the analysis was based on the historical performances like construction contract amounts, construction demand was estimated by discerning the disturbance part from the past performances.
Here, construction investment was understood as the result of construction demand and distur-bance factors like government policy.
It is also meaningful for the study to try to esti-mate the construction demand function at the first.
Although the estimation has a limitation to be based on the estimated data from the past perfor-mances, the trial of the study will be the beginning for the estimation of the construction demand function which is a basis of the forecasting model for the construction industry in the future.
Research Period: 2006. 1. 1~2006. 12. 31
Report Descriptions: KRIHS Research Report 2006-36, 170pp
>> Prospect and Strategies for Construction Demand Structure
건설수요구조의 변화 전망 및 대응방안 연구Jae-Yoon Yoo & Min-Chul Kim
Ⅱ2006 Research Projects
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As an effort to build a foundation for nation-wide deployment of the ubiquitous traffic (u-Traffic) services, the study aims to establish a concrete definition of u-Traffic, and develop related services to be provided in the future. It reviews the current status of u-Traffic at home and abroad in terms of ubiquitous computing, and explores the current status of the u-City pro-ject along with its future forecast. In addition, it identifies what is required of the field of traffic services when a new environment of ubiquitous computing is created. Based on this, it sets the definition and goals of u-Traffic. Also, it intro-duces scenarios of u-Traffic services focusing on those services that are tangible at the current point.
On the basis of this, firstly the study analyzes the characteristics, and strengths and weaknesses of the ITS and u-Traffic, and their co-relation, determining the current position of u-Traffic. This is to identify the areas of u-Traffic user services and u-Traffic user service units. Then, it closely evaluates the existing ITS user services for eligi-bility as u-Traffic services, selecting the ones with sufficient evaluation scores as candidates for the u-Traffic services. After that, new service compo-nents emerging in ubiquitous environment are
identified and combined with the candidate ser-vices transferred from ITS area to finally obtain u-Traffic user service units.
The study is one of the initial attempts to develop the concrete user services in the u-Traffic field. It is expected that by fully reflecting on various professional views and perspectives, this study will serve as the cornerstone for the devel-opment of u-Traffic services in the future. In addition, the study suggests several important tasks to be performed prior to actual user service deployment. These tasks deal with the policy-ori-ented issues to be addressed for successful imple-mentation of u-Traffic services.
Research Period: 2006. 1. 1~2006. 6. 30
Report Descriptions: KRIHS Research Report 2006-45, 95pp
>> A Study on the Development of u-Traffic User Services
u-Traffic 사용자서비스 정립방안 연구Ha-Jung Yoon & Si-bok Lee
06
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Korea is experiencing severe economic polariza-tion between metropolitan cities and the other regions as a result of unbalanced economic growth over the past several decades. This regional polarization is getting worse recently and becoming a barrier to continuous develop-ment of the country. Since the 1990's, to over-come this regional polarization, and keep balance in development between metropolitan cities and the other regions have become a major policy issue of the country. Since the 2000's, the incum-bent administration has been considering this policy issue as a main concern of the govern-ment. To solve this problem, ministries of the government have been trying all the possible means while expanding development projects.
In the 1990's, the government focused on expanding infrastructure investment in order to maintain balance in development between metro-politan cities and the other regions. Since the 2000's, the government has changed its policy directions towards innovation infrastructure such as cooperative networking among industry, school and research. That means the policy direc-tions to balance in development between the two regions have been changing away from hard-ware-oriented towards softhard-ware-oriented.
This study aims to draw up a plan for cost-effi-cient regional development which reduces invest-ment budget while innovating the structure for executing regional development. The main rea-sons for insufficiency in regional development projects and infrastructure investment arise from fundamental structural factors such as problems with the execution of regional development pro-jects, time-lag between execution of regional development projects and that of infrastructure investment, and institutional conflicts. In order to enhance effectiveness, it is essential to solve these problems and implement regional development projects and infrastructure investment. The basic solutions are to establish regional development plans, enhance local governments' execution capacity, and organize a structure aimed at con-trolling regional development projects. Lastly, it is essential to evaluate the results after these solu-tions are tried in order to enhance the awareness of the regional development project initiators. In addition, measures should be taken to institution-ally address the execution of regional develop-ment projects and infrastructure investdevelop-ment.
Research Period: 2006. 1. 1~2006. 12. 31
Report Descriptions: KRIHS Research Report 2006-34, 125pp
>> Scheme for Effective Execution of Copulative Investment in Regional Development Project and Infrastructure Investment
지역개발사업의 효율적 추진을 위한 SOC투자 연계집행 방안Jae-Young Kim, Sang-Wook Kim & Hyeock-Jin Kwon
Ⅱ2006 Research Projects