Daejeon City Establishes Safety Management and Congestion Alert System for Crowded Areas

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City is establishing and implementing safety management standards for areas with dense crowds. Additionally, it plans to build a congestion alert system to prevent casualties like those in the Itaewon incident.

According to the city on the 6th, the safety management standards include setting boundaries to monitor crowd flow and conditions considering the circumstances and environment of festivals and event venues, designating focused zones to prepare for safety accidents within the event site, securing evacuation and dispersal routes to prevent accidents after the event ends, and criteria for deploying safety management personnel.

The city plans to propose these detailed safety management standards to the Ministry of the Interior and Safety so that they can be reflected in related systems such as the local festival safety management manual and institutionalized.

Along with establishing the safety management standards, the city will build the "Daejeon City Real-Time Congestion Alert System" by July next year.

This system is expected to be developed to monitor real-time crowd density in specific areas.

Based on big data utilizing mobile phone base station location information, the core function is to identify real-time population congestion and population trend forecasts, and when overcrowding occurs at local festival sites and crowded areas, to send alert sounds and messages to disaster response personnel at related agencies such as the 119 situation room, 112 situation room, and the city disaster situation room, enabling focused safety management.

Furthermore, if overcrowding beyond a certain threshold occurs, location-based messages will be sent to citizens who have agreed to receive prior notification texts, spreading information about potential accident risks and providing safety and welfare services, according to the city’s explanation.

Han Seon-hee, Director of the Citizen Safety Office of the city, said, “We will strengthen safety management activities from the planning stage to ensure that detailed safety management standards are established early in the field.”

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