The Korea Transport Institute (KOTI) is a

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under the Prime Minister's Office in

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. Commissioned research is by order of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and local government. It relocated to the

Sejong National Research Complex The Sejong National Research Complex is a campus of four research buildings housing ten research institutes. Institutes started to relocate to the complex in 2014. It neighbors the Korea Institute of Public Finance (), Korea Legislation Research ...

Sejong City Sejong (; ), officially the Sejong Special Self-Governing City (), is a special self-governing city and ''de facto'' administrative capital of South Korea. Sejong was founded in 2007 as the new planned capital of South Korea from many parts of ...

in December 2014.

History

KOTI was founded through Article 32 of the Civil Act in November 1985 and official began operation August 1987 under article 24 of the Urban Traffic Readjustment Promotion Act. In 1999 it joined the National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences (NRCS) and moved to the Construction & Transport Research Complex in

Goyang City Goyang (''Goyang-si''; ) is a city in Gyeonggi Province in the north of South Korea. It is part of the Seoul Capital Area, making Goyang one of Seoul's satellite cities. It is one of the largest cities in the Seoul Capital Area, with a populati ...

until it moved to Sejong City in December 2014. As of December 2017, the current president is OH Jaehak and is the 14th president of KOTI. The position was previously held by LEE Chang Woon.

Organization

KOTI consists of 300 personnel of which 230 are in research positions and a total of 99 are Ph.D. holders. Under the president are nine departments with 22 divisions. Researcher exchange programs exist with

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(OECD),

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(ADB), and the

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. * Dept. of The Fourth Industrial Revolution & Transport * Dept. of Comprehensive Transport * Dept. of Road Transport * Dept. of Rail Transport * Dept. of Aviation * Dept. of Logistics * Dept. of National Transport Big Data * Dept. of Global Transport Cooperation * Dept. of Planning and Administration

Publications

Korean Language

* Research Book Series - focuses on major transport issues in Korea, grouped by theme * Research Reports - short-term research and analysis on transport issues and policy problem * Commissioned Research Reports - as commissioned by the government and domestic/international research organizations * Journal of Transport Research (교통연구) - quarterly academic journal with articles written by those in universities, research institutes, and businesses * Transport (교통) - monthly publication focusing on current Korean and international transport policies and research * KOTI Brief - biweekly research report newsletter * KOTI Themed Briefs - briefs issued by specific research focuses within KOTI including KOTI KTDB, aviation policy,

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, logistics, bicycle, and Northeast Asia

English Language

* KOTI World Brief - monthly newsletter with selected articles translated from the KOTI Brief * Toward an Integrated Green Transportation System in Korea - series which takes KOTI World Brief articles and collects them into themes * KSP Series - book series focusing on Korea's major transport policies and technological developments

References

External links

KOTI Websites

Main KOTI website

Main KOTI website

Korea Transport Database (KTDB)

Freight Transport Market Research Center

Center for Northeast Asia and North Korea Transport Studies

Logistics Technology

Center for Certified Integrated-Logistics Company

Sustainable Transport Research Project

Bicycle Transport Portal

Building Leaders in Urban Transport Program (LUTP)