Smart Mobility in Smart City Sejong Created Through Citizen Participation
[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Chun-hee] A citizen participation group will be formed to integrate smart mobility into Sejong, the national pilot city for smart cities. They will directly experience the services and contribute to service improvement through various suggestions.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced on the 9th that it held an online launch ceremony to appoint the living lab citizen participation group for the 'Smart Mobility Service Comprehensive Demonstration Project' at the Sejong National Research Complex.
The Smart Mobility Service Comprehensive Demonstration Project is designed to pre-implement some smart mobility services, have the citizen participation group directly experience them, collect feedback, improve the services based on this feedback, and verify the effectiveness of innovative technologies.
The event, attended by Park Sun-ho, 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Lee Chun-hee, Mayor of Sejong, Oh Jae-hak, President of the Korea Transport Institute, and about 150 related personnel including the citizen participation group, included explanations on the current status and plans for the smart mobility service comprehensive demonstration project that the citizen participation group will experience, as well as the living lab operation plan.
The citizen participation group, recruited with a total of 125 people through the smart mobility living lab website and resident councils, will directly and indirectly experience various smart mobility services to be applied in the Sejong Smart City National Pilot City. They will provide diverse opinions from the user perspective through surveys, service evaluations, and suggestions via a smartphone application.
The target services will be implemented in Sejong 1 Living Zone, which has spatial characteristics similar to Sejong 5-1 Living Zone, the national pilot city, and transportation infrastructure such as Personal Mobility (PM) and BRT. A total of eight services, including autonomous driving and smart parking, will be established.
This year, the Korea Transport Institute and Sejong City, as public entities, will build and operate smart intersections and smart crosswalk services. The remaining six services will be built and operated next year by the public-private special purpose corporation (SPC) that is developing the smart city national pilot city.
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Park Sun-ho, 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, "We will continuously improve the services introduced and operated in the demonstration project sites together with the citizen participation group," adding, "We will make policy efforts to ensure that this becomes a representative success case of user-customized smart mobility services."
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