The Saemaul Service Gets Renamed!…to ITX-Saemaul
Korail has announced the name of the new Saemaul trains which will begin running in the first half of 2014. After holding a naming competition where 1941 entries were collected,...
Cheonggyecheon’s Bike Path to be Extended
Last week, Seoul City government announced that the roads along the Cheonggyecheon are going to have bicycle lanes from April to June and from September to November on every Sunday...
Seoul Operates Car-Sharing Service
The new year started with big waves in the car-sharing service sector as Avis bought Zipcar, which previously grew so much that it became a serious competition to traditional car...
A Visit to Songdo
Songdo is the sensational urban development project of Incheon on reclaimed land at the western coast of South Korea. I follow the development and news articles about Songdo since a...
Funding Transport for the Future
Today I’ve visited a joint seminar by KOTI and International Transport Forum (ITF, part of OECD) about the topic funding transport. Since 2010 these two organisations hold annual seminars....
PRT System to Open for Suncheon Bay Garden Expo
Final Update: The Suncheon Bay PRT opened in April 2014 as “Skycube”. See following posts: What’s the story with Suncheon Bay’s PRT? Only one year late… Update 2: The PRT has...
Namsan E-Bus, First Commercial Electric Bus Worldwide
Last summer I went to the N-Tower at the mountain Namsan in Seoul. On the way up the mountain I used the convenient cable car and the view from the...
History of Trams in Seoul
Most of you might not know that there was a streetcar running through the heart of Seoul in the last century because today there are no traces of rails or...
Bike Sharing in South Korea
One of the biggest trends in sustainable urban transport is called bike sharing. Bike sharing’s success began in France and it took over a lot of cities worldwide. After a...
Kojects has Relaunched for 2013 – Watch This Space!
A belated Happy New Year to all! A lot coming up for the site this year. I’m happy to announce that today Kojects has been “relaunched”, and that a good friend...