Gyeongbuk Province Launches Research Project to Improve Accessibility to TK New Airport … Commissioned to Korea Transport Institute

On the 25th at 2 p.m., Gyeongbuk Province will hold a kickoff meeting for a research project aimed at improving transportation accessibility between Daegu·Gyeongbuk Airport and major industrial hubs in the Gyeongbuk region. The meeting will take place in the provincial government conference room with the participation of three cities and counties as well as the Korea Transport Institute.

Earlier, on February 1st during the Gyeongbuk Provincial Council’s extraordinary session, Assemblyman Son Hee-kwon (People Power Party, Pohang) urged measures to ensure that residents in the eastern region of Gyeongbuk are not marginalized by the airport-linked transportation network, which is concentrated in specific areas of Gyeongbuk, through a five-minute speech titled “Measures to Strengthen Accessibility to the Daegu·Gyeongbuk Integrated New Airport for Residents of Eastern Gyeongbuk.”

Perspective view of the Daegu-Gyeongbuk New Airport to be built in the Gunwi and Uiseong areas.

This research project focuses on redesigning the transportation network centered on the airport to connect key industrial complexes and tourist destinations, which are recognized as future new growth engines of Gyeongbuk’s economy, and aims to develop Daegu·Gyeongbuk Airport into a major transportation hub.

Details include diagnosing and analyzing issues in the transportation network between the new airport and major economic industrial zones in Gyeongbuk, conceptualizing synergy effects in line with the new airport and the Yeongilman Port Two-Port era, and establishing strategies to improve accessibility for mutual development between the airport and key industrial zones.

At the kickoff meeting, the scope of major economic industrial zones in the Gyeongbuk region will be presented, along with traffic distribution based on the location of Daegu·Gyeongbuk Airport and an analysis of the effects of accessibility improvement measures, outlining the mid- to long-term basic direction for the new airport-linked transportation network.

Based on the research results, Gyeongbuk Province plans to expand the scope to include not only the new airport but also surrounding development areas, devising plans to reduce logistics and passenger transport travel times for industrial complexes and major tourist sites, as well as a new transportation network plan following the relocation of the new airport.

Lee Nam-eok, Head of the Daegu·Gyeongbuk Airport Promotion Headquarters at Gyeongbuk Province, stated, “Daegu·Gyeongbuk Airport will be the center of Gyeongbuk’s new development direction,” adding, “We will do our best to expand the transportation network to make Daegu·Gyeongbuk Airport a place people want to visit again, with ‘tourism made convenient and logistics made faster.’”

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