Gyeonggi-do Confirms 'Fire Emergency Vehicles and Educational Environment Protection Zones' Through Data Analysis

Gyeonggi-do held a completion report meeting for the new data analysis project on the 2nd.

[Asia Economy (Suwon) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Gyeonggi Province has finalized the regions for the introduction of the 'Priority Signal System for Fire Emergency Vehicles' through data analysis. It also selected industries for supervision through the analysis of 'Air Pollutant Emission Facilities within Educational Environment Protection Zones.'

On the 2nd, Gyeonggi Province held a completion report meeting for the '2022 New Data Analysis Project' at the Suwon Gyeonggi R&DB Center, covering these topics.

At the report meeting, two new projects related to residents' lives were presented: ▲ Analysis of priority reinforcement areas for the fire emergency vehicle priority signal system ▲ Analysis of air pollutant emission facilities within educational environment protection zones.

The emergency vehicle priority signal system grants priority signals to emergency vehicles such as fire trucks and ambulances when they approach intersections, allowing them to pass through quickly.

The province utilized data from fire, ambulance, and rescue dispatches from 35 fire stations, along with regional characteristics such as population, commercial and factory density, number of fire hydrants, road congestion frequency, and logistics warehouse status to analyze dispatch time when applying the priority signal system.

The analysis showed that introducing the priority signal system would improve dispatch times by an average of 49.6% across 31 cities and counties. The top five regions with the highest improvement effects were Anseong, Icheon, Yongin, Gimpo, and Pocheon.

It was found that mixed urban-rural areas have fewer traffic congestion zones compared to urban areas, resulting in greater improvements in dispatch times.

Additionally, to improve the learning conditions of elementary, middle, and high school students in Hwaseong City, data analysis was conducted on air pollutant emission facilities within the educational environment protection zones (within a 200m straight-line distance from school boundaries).

Using Hwaseong City's data on air emission facility inspections, measurements from simple monitoring stations, self-measurements from workplaces, and the Air Emission Source Management System (SEMS), a model for predicting air pollutant emissions and a model for selecting intensive management areas were developed.

The top industries with emission facilities within 500m of Hwaseong City's educational environment protection zones and school boundaries were found to be automobile repair and car wash businesses, other plastic product manufacturing, and metal heat treatment industries. Hwaseong City plans to use the developed analysis model for supervision when guiding workplaces requiring environmental improvements around schools.

Jeon Seung-hyun, Director of the Data Policy Division of the province, emphasized, "This project focused on analysis that can connect public data use to improving residents' quality of life. We will continue to strive for data-driven administration that produces meaningful results for residents' lives."

Meanwhile, this year, the province is conducting data analysis on 10 projects in areas such as safety, environment, and agriculture through the data analysis project. Going forward, Gyeonggi Province plans to actively utilize data to solve various provincial issues and social challenges.

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