CEO Young-sang Yoo of SK Telecom (SKT) today signed a business agreement with Korea Railroad Corporation (KORAIL), helmed by CEO Moon-hee Han, to provide metropolitan railway congestion data services based on network big data.
This business agreement was made to provide citizens with a safer and more comfortable experience using metropolitan railways by combining the data and technology of SKT and KORAIL to extract and disclose metropolitan railway congestion data.
To develop metropolitan railway congestion services, SKT plans to develop real-time congestion calculation modeling using telecommunication big data and provide the developed congestion information to KORAIL. KORAIL provides real-time train and transportation card information to SKT.
Metropolitan railway congestion data calculated by SKT and KORAIL using telecommunication big data will be served to citizens through AI personal assistant service Adot and KORAIL Subway Talk app, respectively.
SKT and KORAIL plan to first provide services on KORAIL-operated sections of highly congested subway lines 1, 3, and 4 in the metropolitan area starting early next year, and then expand to the remaining sections step by step.
In addition, the two companies plan to use this cooperation as an opportunity to continuously review ways to improve the safety and customer convenience of citizens using the metropolitan railway by utilizing communication data and AI technology.
Ryu Jeong-hwan, VP, Infrastructure Strategy Technology, SKT
We expect that the safety and convenience of citizens using metropolitan railways will be improved through this cooperation with KORAIL. We will continue to use SK Telecom’s communication big data and AI technology in the future. We will take the lead in solving social problems such as traffic congestion.
