지역간철도 노선명과 역명 영역의 다중스케일적 분석

Abstract

With the announcement of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport's plan to build the 4th Railway Network Construction Plan, it is time to redefine the nature of existing railway line names and station names and consider how to enact them in the future. The line names and station names of interregional railroads are artificial names with a history of up to 100 years or more, containing the cultural symbols and order of the region, and are closely related to the spatial territory. In particular, this paper focuses on the territories of interregional line names and station names, and analyzes the line names and station names in accordance with the “Guidelines for the Management of Railway Line and Station Names” and multi-scale methods. In order to explore the scope of the “regional” scale in the term “interregional railway”, I analyzed the line name, territory of the line, and actual length, and found that the line name, area, and actual length were inconsistent with each other. A large number of station names, the scale of the station name was revealed by the administrative division system. Other types of station names were analyzed using two strategies: scaling down and scaling up. The scaling down strategy is when the names of public institutions, public facilities, and universities are selected as station names, while the scaling up strategy is when natural, historical, and cultural resources that symbolize the region are selected as station names. On the other hand, the competition for station names has led to the creation of station names that combine place names at multiple scales. There are two types of place names: those that combine two administrative regions and those that combine a place name and an institutional landmark. The historicity of place names, i.e. the time scale of the “past,” allows for the interpretation of station names that could not be categorized by “guideline” standards. In the process of repeatedly expanding and contracting the scale of railway lines, such as extending railway lines and building branches, abandoning lines, and straightening lines, the geographical areas of railway line names and station names shared the same fate. Therefore, it is time to consider a legislation that uses a multi-scale approach to reflect the territories of line names and station names, while also capturing their identity as place names.