Dignitaries, including Rep. Song Un-seok, Rep. Kim Soo-heung, Rep. Baik Seung-geun, chairman of the National Assembly Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, and Gyeongsangbuk-do Vice Gov. Ha Dae-sung, and President Kwon Yong-bok of Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS), attend a ceremony to declare a new vision on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its founding at TS headquarters in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, on July 1. (Photo: TS)

Korea Transportation Safety Authority (TS) held a ceremony to declare a new vision on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of its founding at TS headquarters in Gimcheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, on July 1.

TS announced the new vision, “Opening a Safe, Sustainable Future Mobility Era,” reflecting views of TS President Kwon Yong-bok, who took office last Feb. 2, eight outside experts and 30 civic representatives.

In order to gather TS executives and staffers’ views, TS held a leader groups’ workshop on two occasions, a junior board workshop once and two surveys targeting TS staffers.

The new vision may contain TS’ determination to pursue values: safety, sustainability and future by responding a paradigm shift in the transportation sector and rapidly changing inside and outside environment changes, applying traffic safety to the logistics sector and expanding its business scope to the safety of future mobility services.

TS proposed management strategies, embracing missions and core values of the new vision and stressed its roles as an institution specializing transportation safety.

TS’ mission is into create people’s happy world by promoting efficiency of national transportation management and build a safety environment.

TS pursues the new vision “Opening a Safe, Sustainable Future Mobility Era.” Its core values are safety, public interests, responsibility and innovation.

TS plans to spearhead efforts to create a future transportation safety environment that can be extended to future mobility besides the safety business of road, railway, aviation and automobile sectors.

TS has declared its bid to lead a future mobile era down the road by pursuing three future visions: a global leader of transportation safety, innovative growth designed to respond to a future transportation environment and an institution trusted by people through four core values: safety, a value for customers, public interests as a social value, responsibility as inside stakeholders’ value and innovation as its organizational value.

TS has conducted an organizational reshuffle to be reborn as a socially responsible organization beloved by people through effectively executing of its new management strategies, exploring of digital innovation-based new future transportation businesses and exemplary ESG management.

The takeaways of the reorganization are the inauguration of the Future Strategy Office, designed to proactively cope with future transportation industry changes in advance and develop management diagnosis, strategies and next-generation new industry businesses, as well as the ESG Management Division, designed to realize ESG management through support of inclusive social values.

Besides, TS plays a part of securing an upper hand in national competitiveness in advanced industry areas such as self-driving, drone and big data in compliance with future transportation changes on top of the conventional function of reducing traffic accident deaths.

TS is committed to raising customer satisfaction and realizing social values by ramping up public trust, putting into practice ethic management tenets and improving a customer-oriented work process in accordance with public demand.

Among about 80 people on hand at the anniversary event were Rep. Song Un-seok, Rep. Kim Soo-heung, Rep. Baik Seung-geun, chairman of the National Assembly Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, and Gyeongsangbuk-do Vice Gov. Ha Dae-sung.

The anniversary event was simplified in compliance with social distancing guidelines. The anniversary event also coincided with events designed to look into safety through demonstration and experiences related to future transportation means such as self-driving, hydrogen fuel cell cars, EVs and drones and a donation campaign to support traffic accident victims.

TS President Kwon said, “Reflecting its past traces on the occasion of the 40th anniversary and establishing its future course, all executives and staff at TS have pledged to devote themselves to concentrating all their energies to ensure the nation’s transportation safety.” TS will play a part as a global leader of spearheading a future transportation safety down the road, he said.