Korea: Smart Highway Research Project
Kyong-Soo Yoo · Routes/Roads · 2009
The Smart Highway Research Project is a large-scale research project underway in South Korea. The project was launched in September 2008 and is expected to be completed by 2017. Excluding the cost of the trial construction project financed through a public private partnership, the total project cost is forecast at 100 million US dollars. A consortium of approximately 100 public institutes, universities, and privates companies is charged with implementing this project, which is composed of four research topics: development of core technologies of highway infrastructure; road communication based traffic management technologies; vehicle-infrastructure integration technologies; and design and construction of test bed and monitoring. There are three key project stages: planning and contracting; research and development of basic technologies; and application of research products to the test bed.