From October 21 to 22, the Cho Chun Shik Graduate School for Green Transportation (GSGT) hosted the International Forum on Eco-Friendly Vehicle and System. This year’s forum, which took place at the KI Building (E4) on campus, marks its fourth anniversary. Around 50 researchers in future transportation technology from both academia and industry participated in this year’s forum, including President Soon-man Hong of the Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI), Mike Schagrin of the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), and Professor Kwang-Hee Nam of POSTECH.

The event began with the opening session before being divided into two sessions, each dealing with commercialization and standardization, and future transportation technology, respectively. President Hong introduced some of the research projects being undertaken at KRRI, which include high-speed bi-level rail cars and wireless power transmission for trains, as part of South Korea’s technology and policy for eco-friendly future transportation. He was followed by Mike Schagrin, the manager of the Intelligent Transportation Systems at the USDOT, who talked about automated driving systems using information communication technology. Professor Nam showed POSTECH’s research in electric vehicles, and Omer Onar from the Oakridge National Laboratory presented on the development and standardization of wireless charging technology for electric vehicles in the United States. The following sessions included presentations by Faical Turki of Paul Vahle GmbH & Co., a German company specializing in mobile power and data transmission, on wireless charging system design and its electrical safety, and by Professor Kazuyuki Ouchi of the University of Tokyo on using wind energy for naval vessels.

On the second day, Safe and Green Road Vehicles Europe (SAGE), a European consortium, presented on future smart cars and automated driving technology, and conducted a workshop to discuss collaboration in future research with KAIST and other South Korean research institutes.