Safe Road Maintenance with Drones for Hazardous Areas

Drone for Road Management (Provided by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport)

[Asia Economy Reporter Chunhee Lee] Road management drones will be deployed to manage hazardous areas for safe road inspections.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 8th that road management drones for bridge and slope management will be practically deployed within this month.

Until now, during road facility inspections, managers had to directly approach slopes or bridges to conduct inspections, raising ongoing concerns about safety issues and blind spots in management. In response, the Ministry supplied 72 domestically produced drones to national land management offices nationwide, prepared operational manuals for field use, and conducted manager training. The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology also completed the establishment of a monitoring system utilizing digital data.

The Ministry plans to pilot the use of drones for slope inspections during the autumn road maintenance this month, which involves repairing facilities damaged or degraded by the monsoon on highways and national roads. Subsequently, the scope of drone use will gradually expand to areas such as road pavement management and completion inspections.

Juhyeon-dong, Director of the Road Bureau at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, stated, "Since road management methods using advanced technologies such as drones are limitless, we plan to continuously promote safe and advanced road management policies through the digitalization of social overhead capital (SOC) in the future."

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