Suwon Selected for Excellence Award in '2019 Sustainable Transportation Cities Evaluation'

[Suwon Ilbo=Reporter Seo Dong-young] Suwon has received the excellence award in the single-city category at the '2019 Sustainable Transportation Cities Evaluation' jointly hosted by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Transport Institute.

The awards ceremony was held on the 23rd at the auditorium of the National Research Complex in Sejong City. The city achieved six consecutive years of recognition in the single-city group with a population of over 300,000. Suwon received the excellence award in 2014, 2016, and 2018, and the grand prize in 2015 and 2017.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport conducts annual surveys and evaluations of sustainable transportation cities targeting 75 cities with populations of 100,000 or more, based on 'Article 15 of the Sustainable Transport and Logistics Development Act and Article 11 of the Enforcement Decree of the same Act.'

This year evaluated transportation policies implemented in 2018. Rankings are determined based on the results of status evaluations—which collect and analyze data by evaluation indicators regarding the sustainability of local governments' transportation and logistics systems—and policy evaluations that analyze data entered by local governments into the system.

The city is known to have received consistently good scores across a total of 32 policy evaluations including ▲pedestrian-oriented transportation policies ▲policies to promote bicycle use ▲efforts to supply eco-friendly new transportation modes ▲securing competitiveness of public transportation.

Lee Gwi-man, Director of the Eco-transportation Division, said, "I am pleased that the city's overall transportation and logistics system received positive evaluation," and added, "We will do our best to make Suwon a sustainable eco-transportation city."