Kwon Byung-yoon, president of the Korea Transportation Safety Authority. (Photos: TS)

Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS) plans to explore public data in the road, railway and aviation sectors, which is closely related to public daily lives, and make it public this year to expedite the development of the digital economy and Digital Korean New Deal.

Among the data to be made public are four data points in the road sector, including on road safety classification; two data points on the railway sector, including one on each entity’s current status of railway car ownership; and three data sets in the aviation sector, including information on ultra-light vehicle qualifications.

Utilization of data such as road safety classifications will allow the prevention of traffic accidents and support related research. The use of data related to the railway and aviation sectors will be made available for institutional improvement and the establishment of policies.

TS has already divulged to the public 70 data points on the road, railway and aviation sectors. For instance, last year Hyundai Motor succeeded in developing a smartphone-based digital key by utilizing “comprehensive information on automobiles,” disclosed by TS.

With the development of the digital key, motorists are allowed to open and close the doors of their car. Damage caused by second-hand car transactions through the misplacement of cars for sale can be prevented via a “second-hand car transaction platform,” whereas Digital Tacho Graphs (DTGs) are made available for control of commercial vehicles and research on the prevention of traffic accidents.

TS President Kwon Byung-yoon said, “As the significance of contactless communications and data get higher, TS will spearhead efforts to expedite “Digital New Deal” projects by exploring and divulging public data, closely related to public daily lives.”

Students from Segyeong High School participates in an educational program in which they experienced self-driving at K-City in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, on Sept. 28.

TS Arranges Educational Program on Youth’s Experience at K-City

TS offered an educational program on youth’s experience at K-city, a testbed for self-driving in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, on Sept. 28. The educational program was arranged as part of efforts to support the sharing of public resources in keeping with the government’s policy of the “Korean New Deal.”

Students from Segyeong High School participated in the educational program in which they experienced self-driving. The high school inaugurated a futuristic automobile department to lead technologies on self-driving and eco-friendly cars.

The K-City experience program, arranged in cooperation with the private sector, consists of basic education on self-driving and a session of experiencing K-City.

TS introduced the current status of self-driving car technologies, future development courses, safety standards and legal systems as well as K-City infrastructure, Cooperative-Intelligent transport System (C-ITS), 5G, WAVE, and an integrated control system.

RideFlux, a self-driving car developer, introduced sensors and operational algorism on self-driving cars and supported field lesions and the demonstration of a self-driving car.

Countries are scrambling to secure an upper hand in self-driving car technology sector. Korea is stepping on the gas to commercialize self-driving car technologies.

Korea Automobile Testing & Research Institute, an entity under the umbrella of TS, has built up K-City, a testbed for self-driving, to provide diverse support to the Korean self-driving technology development sector.

K-City is a self-driving testbed covering 360,000 sq. meters within a 2.15 million square-meter driving testing ground.