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New towns are generally built when their mother city reaches her limit to solve urban problems. Thus new towns can not help being dependent on their mother city. Accordingly, transportation systems between new towns and their mother city become one of the most critical factors for the success of new...

New towns are generally built when their mother city reaches her limit to solve urban problems. Thus new towns can not help being dependent on their mother city. Accordingly, transportation systems between new towns and their mother city become one of the most critical factors for the success of new towns. However new towns in the Seoul metropolitan area contribute little to lessen the urban problems of their mother city, Seoul, but even become a factor to expand problem areas of the mother city and deepen the urban problems. Especially, insufficient transportation facilities and road oriented transportation networks play a key role to deepen the urban and transportation problems in the Seoul metropolitan area. This paper examines successful new towns of developed countries and discusses the transportation factors to lead new town planning successful. Japan and Europe countries build rail oriented transportation networks between new towns and their mother city while countries in the northern America build road oriented ones. Because metropolitan areas in Korea is similar to those in Japan in many urban aspects, it is highly recommended to build rail oriented transportation networks.