Yongin City Forms Industry-Academia-Research Consortium for Advanced Mobility Pilot Project

Pilot Projects for Autonomous Driving and UAM
Robot Delivery to Be Introduced in Dongbaek District in December

Yongin City in Gyeonggi Province has formed a large-scale consortium to promote an advanced mobility pilot project.

On the 18th, Yongin City held a business agreement ceremony at the City Hall Vision Hall to establish the 'Mobility Consortium,' which includes 18 participants such as the city itself, companies, research institutes, universities, and related organizations.

On the 18th, participants at the 'Advanced Mobility Consortium' agreement ceremony held at Yongin City Hall are holding up the agreement documents. [Photo by Yongin City]

Advanced mobility refers to new forms of mobility-related technologies, infrastructure, and services that differentiate themselves from existing transportation systems in terms of operation, installation, management methods, and forms by integrating technology. This includes autonomous driving, Urban Air Mobility (UAM), vehicle sharing, Demand Responsive Transit (DRT), and Personal Mobility (PM).

The consortium includes Yongin East and West Police Stations, Korea Expressway Corporation, Myongji University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Next Generation Convergence Technology Institute, Samsung C&T Corporation, Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance, Hanwha Systems, LG Electronics, SK Telecom, Domino's Pizza, Autocrypt, AR247, Studio Galilee, Sky Enterprise, G-Bike, and PUMP.

According to the agreement, the city will jointly promote pilot projects in various fields such as autonomous driving, DRT, PM stations, and robot delivery with these organizations.

The city plans to provide institutional support for advanced mobility research and pilot project promotion in collaboration with public institutions such as Yongin East and West Police Stations and Korea Expressway Corporation, and to establish public infrastructure for effective project demonstration.

Myongji University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation and Next Generation Convergence Technology Institute will take on the role of researching related technology development and activation plans.

Based on this, each company will cooperate with the city to promote advanced mobility pilot projects.

The consortium's first project is expected to be a robot delivery service. In December, the city will introduce a 'robot delivery service' in cooperation with Domino's Pizza targeting certain areas of the Giheung Dongbaek district. To this end, the city plans to proactively accumulate related data, enhance the service, and expand the project application areas.

Mayor Lee Sang-il of Yongin said, "This agreement is the first step to enhance user-centered mobility convenience and to discover and promote new businesses in the advanced mobility sector."

The mayor added, "We will develop the Platform City being built in Bojeong-dong, Giheung-gu, into a transportation hub in southern Gyeonggi by connecting it with the Gyeongbu Expressway and the GTX Yongin Station. Since three large-scale semiconductor clusters are being established in the Yongin area, we will pool wisdom together to meet the increasing transportation demand and promote various mobility sector projects applying new technologies that can improve citizens' mobility convenience."

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