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Until now the urban railway stations as the most representative mass-transit system covering various users with different social classes, ages, circumstances have achieved to get an attention from the society, and the improvement of its facilities' environment by establishing construction standard for the handicapped, elderly, and pregnant. But it still lacks design consideration for various users and their behavior characteristics those are derives from various situations. Especially it lacks design considerations for adolescents' use. In case of adolescent population, their physical, behavioral, and psychological characteristics are expressed in quite different way than that of other user groups, therefore adolescents' behavior characteristics and pattern of facility use shall be considered with significant importance. This study has researched movement facility in 8 urban railway stations in Seoul particularly where adolescents population heavily use these facilities near their schools with the mind of user behavior point of view and universal design principle. This study also has analysed and evaluated properness of related laws & regulations, and accordingly proposed construction standard for movement facility in urban railway stations.