Busan, Cheonan, and Damyang Selected as Pilot Municipalities for 'AI Urban Planning R&D'

On the 17th, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that Busan Metropolitan City, Cheonan City, and Damyang County have been finally selected as local governments for the pilot project to apply the ‘Big Data-based Artificial Intelligence Urban Planning R&D’ (hereinafter AI Urban Planning R&D) technology.

AI Urban Planning R&D is a project that develops technology to support the establishment of optimal urban plans by utilizing various big data and artificial intelligence to perform tasks such as setting living zones, predicting land use and infrastructure demand.

The '15-Minute City Vision Tour' event held by Busan City to spread the '15-Minute City' vision and community consensus throughout the city.
[Photo by Busan City]

In this pilot project, AI technology is expected to be applied to customized urban planning for each local government, such as the 15-minute city (Busan), compact city (Cheonan), and small but strong city responding to population decline (Damyang).

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to improve the accuracy of the technology through such demonstrations and explore ways for the technology to be utilized not only in urban planning by local governments but also in various fields such as research and the proptech industry.

Gil Byeong-woo, Director of Urban Policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, said, “This technology demonstration will be an opportunity to solve various urban problems through the establishment of smart urban planning applying big data and artificial intelligence (AI) technology,” adding, “We will continue to research not only to develop the technology but also to create new added value.”

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