BPA, Vehicle Entry and Exit Reservation System Phase 2 Pilot Operation Results 'Good'... Proven Significant Reduction in Waiting Time

Guidelines for Using the Busan Port Authority Vehicle Entry and Exit Reservation System (VBS).

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Hwang Du-yeol] Busan Port Authority (BPA) confirmed that the 'Vehicle Booking System (VBS)' second pilot operation can reduce the average waiting time of vehicles within the port by more than 15% when booking container export and import.

BPA conducted a pilot operation targeting BPT Sinsundae and Gamman terminals for two months from November 1 to December 31 last year, achieving more than 100,000 bookings through VBS.

The authority confirmed that the average vehicle waiting time within the terminal decreased by about 15% from 28.23 minutes to 23.93 minutes using VBS.

During the second pilot operation of VBS, various online and offline promotional activities such as operating on-site promotion booths, providing incentives to vehicles complying with reservations, distributing promotional materials, and sending promotional text messages resulted in doubling the number of VBS mobile app downloads and increasing the number of registered members more than fivefold.

Park Kyung-cheol, head of the Information Convergence Department at BPA, said, "Based on the field feedback gathered during the second pilot operation of VBS, we plan to conduct a third pilot operation targeting the New Port terminal in the first half of 2022."

The Vehicle Booking System is a system established in June last year to improve terminal operation efficiency and reduce truck waiting times by allowing trucks carrying containers to pre-book the cargo and time for export and import before arriving at the terminal.

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