'Empty/Reserved' Taxi Indicator Lights Three Times Larger and Clearer

Seoul City, Expansion After Installing 200 Pilot Units

[Asia Economy Reporter Hyunju Lee] The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to triple the size of taxi indicator lights to increase their usability. This aims to make reservation and vacancy indicators more visible and to provide information such as fine dust concentration. Advertising revenue will be used to improve the working conditions of taxi workers.

On the 22nd, Seoul announced that it will integrate the taxi indicator light (gatdeung) and vacancy indicator light (reservation light), enlarge their size, use more visible colors, and upgrade from incandescent and fluorescent lights to LED lights.

Climate information provided through taxi roof signs (Provided by Seoul City)

Various sensors and LCD panels will be installed on the side of the taxi indicator lights to provide climate information such as fine dust and carbon dioxide levels, and 50% of the display will be dedicated to mandatory advertising for emergency disaster information and city promotion. Advertising revenue will be equally shared between labor and management and directly used to improve workers' conditions.

To minimize obstruction of other drivers' views, only still images will be displayed as a principle, and brightness will be regulated under stricter standards than those set by the Light Pollution Prevention Act.

The city plans to conduct a pilot operation with about 200 vehicles in the first half of the year, monitor the results, and then decide whether to expand the program.

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