SKT Builds Advanced Transportation System in Seongnam City... Future Mobility Innovation

SK Telecom announced on the 21st that it has won the contract for the Seongnam City Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) construction project and will build an advanced transportation system for Seongnam City's future mobility innovation.

Selected as the project operator through a competitive bidding process last August, the SKT consortium plans to complete the Seongnam City ITS construction project by July 2024. The project includes the establishment of a smart intersection system, replacement of outdated road variable message signs (VMS) and traffic data collection devices (VDS), replacement of parking systems and construction of an integrated parking platform, and advancement of the comprehensive control room system. The project scale is 14 billion KRW, funded by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport's national budget support and Seongnam City's own budget.

SKT employees inspecting the Seongnam City smart intersection system
[Photo by SKT]

The smart intersection system is an essential system forming the basis of ‘smart signal operation,’ which controls signals according to traffic volume by collecting real-time traffic data through detectors installed at intersections. An analysis of the operational effects of the ‘smart signal operation system’ installed nationwide by the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport confirmed an average reduction in delay time by 41%. The system will be established at 288 intersections out of approximately 754 signalized intersections in Seongnam City to collect real-time traffic volume information.

In particular, the SKT consortium will introduce the nation’s first radar-based smart intersection system to collect not only traffic volume but also detailed location information of individual vehicles such as lane data. This is in preparation for creating a safe autonomous driving road environment, and the comprehensive control room system will be advanced to monitor road conditions in real time.

For intersections where building a smart intersection system is difficult, SKT’s AI-based location analysis platform (LITMUS) will provide traffic volume and citizens’ movement pattern data to complete a traffic information collection system without blind spots across the entire city. The plan is to build an advanced transportation system capable of responding to changes in Seongnam City’s future mobility demand.

Geographically located as the center of the metropolitan area connecting Seoul and the southern Gyeonggi region, Seongnam City experiences increasing traffic volume every year, causing growing inconvenience to citizens due to vehicle congestion and traffic accidents. Seongnam City expects that the advanced transportation system to be constructed this time will play a significant role in solving traffic safety and congestion issues and in creating a future mobility environment such as UAM and autonomous driving.

Kim Kyung-deok, Head of SKT Enterprise CIC, stated, “We plan to actively utilize SKT’s communication data and AI technology to solve the increasingly serious traffic problems and cooperate actively with Seongnam City for future mobility innovation.”

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