The Peruvian government has officially adopted the "Peru national highway smart road management (disaster/traffic) master plan," promoted as a Korean official development assistance (ODA) project, as a national statutory plan. Follow-up projects are expected to expand the entry of domestic corporations into the local market.
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on the 28th, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) of Peru promulgated the Peru national highway smart road management (disaster/traffic) master plan as a national statutory plan on the 25th (local time).
At a commemorative event for legislation held in the auditorium of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru, Minister Aldo Martin Prieto Barrera of the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Peru, as well as officials from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC), attended.
The ODA project to establish this master plan was carried out by a consortium of the Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC), Dongmyeong Engineering Consultants, and EGensys from July 2024 to June 2025. The main tasks included establishing a smart road management master plan and identifying follow-up projects for the 1,560 km Trujillo–Arequipa section of the Pan-American Highway, Peru's arterial national highway.
In particular, to minimize accidents and disaster damage, the plan includes selecting 13 short-term intelligent transportation system (ITS) services to be introduced in stages through 2035, and establishing a conceptual design and implementation plan for the top-priority section (133.2 km).
With the results of Korea's road network consulting being promulgated as a statutory plan in Peru, organizational and budgetary support at the Peruvian government level becomes possible. If future road network construction projects are tendered, Korea's private corporations are expected to be able to participate in the follow-up projects.
Previously, the ODA project to establish Colombia's national ITS master plan also received approval from the local government in 2022 and was made statutory, after which domestic corporations participated in and entered the follow-up projects.
Starting next month, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) will conduct the "feasibility study for the Peru Lima–Chancay smart intelligent transportation system (ITS) construction project," a follow-up to this master plan, through a land and transport ODA project.
Kim Seok-gi, director general for construction policy at the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT), said, "This achievement is the result of systematizing Korea's road and traffic operation experience to fit local conditions in Peru through land and transport ODA projects," adding, "We expect it will contribute not only to improving the safety and operational efficiency of Peru's national highways, but also to the overseas expansion of our corporations."