Korea expressway drowsiness shelters
Also: 졸음쉼터 (jolleum swimteo) · supplemental rest areas
Small shoulder rest areas added between regular service areas on Korean expressways from 2011, paired with large blunt warning banners and advisories urging drivers to pull in when sleepy.
- Years
- 2011–now
- Country
- South Korea
- Topic
- SleepTraffic safety
- Asks people to
- Substitute
- Strategy
- Environmental supportFear appeal
- Channel
- Outdoor
- Audience
- General publicExpressway drivers
Evidence
Quasi-experimentalPositive
Empirical Bayes study of the Gyeongbu Freeway: drowsy-driving crashes fell an estimated 14% where shelters were added (Jung et al. 2017). The operator credited shelters with a 24% drop in expressway deaths in 2016 (343 to 262) and banners with a 35% fall in drowsiness casualties, but did not separate the two.
Sponsor (who paid)
- Korea Expressway Corporation Foreign government
Credits (who made it)
Not recorded yet.
Sources
- Evaluating the effects of supplemental rest areas on freeway crashes caused by drowsy driving evaluation · 2017 · DOI 10.1016/j.aap.2016.12.021 · PMID 28064100
- KoreaScience article JAKO201734964191153 (operator figures) evaluation · 2017
Research notes
Created 2026-10-23 from the sleep campaign literature search (PubMed and web search; OpenAlex was unreachable), see docs/sleep-campaigns-literature.md. Findings are paraphrased from abstracts, not full texts; official URLs come from search results and were not opened. Reported banner wording (translated in search snippets): "dozing while driving means your death". Banner wording is a translation in search snippets. URL taken from web search results.
Record cases/kr-expressway-drowsiness-shelters.json, updated 2026-10-23· Link to this campaign