KOTI - Korea Transport institute

The National Transportation Master Plan is, not only, a national top ranked legal plan that suggests efficient building directions for transportation-related plans such as land, sea, logistics and air transportation policies and transportation facilities in 20-year units, but also a plan that sets the direction for long-term and comprehensive investment.
The Korean government should establish a second plan with the completion of the 20-year long-term planning period for the first plan (2000-2020). However, our future is in the era of increasing maintenance budgets, the challenges of the demographic and social structural changes, and major changes in the new mobility age with the decreasing of large-scale transport construction projects.
This study suggests the direction, main tasks, work schedule and implementation system of the 2nd National Transportation Master Plan through reviewing previous studies and foreign cases related to long-term transport plans, investigating the prospects of future transport, and gathering the opinions of experts.
The vision of the new plan is “Intelligentizing the National Transportation Network by applying new technology to the national network of Korea”. This study proposes the vision of the 2nd National Transport Network Plan and five main directions for investment: 1. Strengthening regional development capacity, 2. Introduction and utilization of new transport technology, 3. Efficient management of traffic problems in urban/non-urban areas, 4. Establishment of an East Asian transport and logistics network, and 5. System Improvement match up to technological innovation. This study also suggests eleven tasks related to the five main items.
We hope the results of this study can be used in the 2nd National Transportation Master Plan (2021-2040), the 5th Mid-term Transport Facility Investment Plan, and other transport plans such as those for roads, railways, logistics and airports.