Road maintenance and infrastructure renovation will be digitally managed and mediated by artificial intelligence (AI) and digital twin technologies to improve the accuracy of natural disaster predictability, the land ministry said, Friday. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Gyeonggi Provincial Government and Gwangju Metropolitan City to establish standardized digital road registers for more effective and integrated statistics-based road maintenance platforms. Municipalities that signed the MOU with the ministry will provide an AI-run automatic pavement damage detection system whereby images taken from patrol vehicles are analyzed and sent to road repair authorities for immediate renovation planning.
