SEOUL, Feb. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has announced significant reductions in traffic accidents in areas monitored by automated traffic enforcement cameras over the past five years. This data underscores the effectiveness of these cameras in improving road safety within the city. An analysis of traffic incidents at 105 locations equipped with [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul is set to deploy drones at an altitude of 230 meters to effectively monitor and manage real-time traffic conditions. The city government on Monday announced its plans to establish a ‘traffic management system utilizing drones’ by September. This system will integrate the data captured by drones with existing [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — 5G smartphone users have long surpassed 4G LTE users in terms of data usage with higher demand for improved service quality, data showed Monday. The Ministry of Science and ICT reported that 5G traffic in January reached 544,974 terabytes (TB), up by 9,915 TB (1.9 percent) from the previous [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — To be well prepared for the commercialization of Level 4 autonomous driving technology, a next-generation Cooperative Intelligent Transport System (C-ITS) will be established throughout major roads in South Korea on a gradual basis starting from this year. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said Tuesday that the basic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Many sections of major highways in South Korea remained congested with heavy traffic Saturday morning as millions of people headed to their hometowns to celebrate the Chuseok holiday with their families. According to the Korea Expressway Corp (KEC), cars moved at a slow pace in some sections of the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Imposing stricter speed limits on roads with bus-only lanes in Seoul city has proved effective in reducing pedestrian deaths, a recent study revealed. The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) and the Korea Transportation Safety Authority compared the time spent by two cars driving at 60 kilometers per hour and 50 km/h on [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Recent government data has shown that the number of traffic fatalities decreased by half when intersections that had no traffic lights or an unnecessarily long waiting time were replaced with roundabouts. The Ministry of the Interior and Safety (MOIS) and the Korea Transport Institute released an analysis of traffic [...]
YANGJU, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With temperatures rising above 35 degrees Celsius during the day in the metropolitan area of the nation’s capital on Monday, the roads near Songchu IC heading toward Ilsan on the Seoul Ring Expressway suddenly began to give way and rise 3 to 4 centimeters, forming ridges. This prompted officials [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Local police forces in Seoul will lengthen green lights in the city amid a worrying number of pedestrian accidents. In the wake of new data showing pedestrians face a higher risk of death than drivers, police authorities have announced plans to make green lights longer while extending the time between [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting March 11, the Korean National Police Agency is deploying drones on South Korea’s key highways to curb traffic violations including DUI, reckless or revenge driving, and other “selfish” driving routines such as driving on the shoulder. The new initiative is a part of the agency’s special crackdown operation [...]