Binational Relations Programs

Asia-Pacific Region

Republic of Korea

FHWA has had a long-standing and successful relationship with the Republic of Korea's Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) since 1995, engaging in annual workshops and other methods of exchanging best practices, technologies, and other innovations. To date, there have been 21 workshops. During the workshops, participants share their respective country's best practices and technology on a broad range of transportation topics including analysis and design of geohazard protection and stabilization, automated bridge inspection system, segmented bridge construction method, structural health monitoring (SHM) research and digitized maintenance practices, Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), truck platooning, robotic bridge inspection methods, geohazards and resilience, Building Information Modeling (BIM), pedestrian safety and others.

Both countries have benefited from the exchanges in several ways, such as benchmarking the respective agencies' transportation practices and technology; face-to-face collaboration on complex issues and field-tested solutions; in-person technical assistance and observation of each country's state-of-the-art technology; and hands-on learning through site visits that is not possible remotely.

A synthesis report was developed in 2019 which documents the success and value of this important relationship. An article summarizing the collaboration was published in the Summer 2019 issue of Public Roads.