DAEJEON, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Daejeon is piloting a new smart road management platform designed to detect black ice and other hazardous winter road conditions in real time, city officials said Tuesday, marking one of Korea’s first deployments of an acoustic AIoT safety system. The initiative, backed by the Ministry of Science and ICT’s 2024 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) —On January 14, 2025, a 44-vehicle pileup occurred on Jayu-ro in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, attributed to black ice—a thin, nearly invisible layer of ice on roadways that poses significant hazards to drivers. Black ice forms when moisture on the road surface freezes under specific conditions, such as when [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — In order to address the problem of black ice, which causes traffic accidents in winter, the government has started to come up with comprehensive measures such as identifying vulnerable ice spots and installing facilities such as advance forecasts and hotlines. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Monday [...]