About Conference

Welcome Address

 

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I am sincerely pleased to invite you to the 7th International Symposium on Transportation Soil Engineering in Cold Regions (Transoilcold 2025), held at Songdo ConvensiA in Incheon, Korea. The International Conference is held on-site during September 17-20, 2025.

 

The main objective of this conference is to provide a current issue of design, construction and operation of transportation infrastructure in Arctic and cold Regions.

 

Moreover, the conference covers a number of topics in geotechnical engineering including geophysics, slope stability, soil dynamics, modelling, geosynthetics, foundation, geoenvironmental technology, underground construction, maintenance, and disaster prevention.

 

I would like to express my deepest gratitude to all the participants in this event, and special thanks to the Speakers for their commitment and dedication. I hope you to have a very pleasant and meaningful time during the event, and look forward to learning from your productive insights.

Overview

 

Conference Title

7th International Symposium on Transportation Soil Engineering in Cold Regions (Transoilcold 2025)

Date

September 17(WED) – 20(SAT), 2025

Venue

Songdo Convensia, Incheon, Republic of Korea

Official Language

English

Hosted/Organized by

Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS)

Supported by

Korean Geotechnical Society (KGS)
International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE)

Incheon Metropolitan City

Incheon Tourism Organization

Korea Railroad Research Institute

Secretariat

#804-1, 8F, 303, Bugyuseong-daero, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, Korea
Tel: +82-42-489-7070
E-mail: kgs@transoilcold2025.org

 

 

Committee

 

• Local Organizing Committee (LOC)

 

Conference Chair Young-cheol Hwang (Sangji Univ.)
General Secretary Jong-Sub Lee (Korea Univ.)
Deputy General Secretary Young-Sang Kim (Chonnam National Univ.)
Local Executive Co-Chair Hyung-Koo Yoon (Daejeon Univ.)
Local Executive Co-Chair Sang Yeob Kim (Konkuk Univ.)
Scientific Committee Chair Jongwon Jung (Chungbuk National Univ.)
Vice Chair Junbong Jang (Dong-A Univ.)
Secretary Yong-Hoon Byun (Kyungpook National Univ.)
Member Hyunwook Choo (Hanyang Univ.)
Member Dong-Joo Kim (Korea Univ.)
Program Committee Chair Heon-Joon Park (Seoultech)
Vice Chair Jung-Doung Yu (Jeonbuk National Univ.)
Secretary Sang Yeob Kim (Konkuk Univ.)
Member Woo-Jin Han (Korea Univ.)
Operations Committee Chair Ilhan Chang (Ajou Univ.)
Vice Chair Boo Hyun Nam (Kyung Hee Univ.)
Secretary Junghee Park (Incheon Univ.)
Financial Committee Chair Taeseo Ku (Konkuk Univ.)
Vice Chair Byungmin Kim (UNIST)
Secretary Won-Taek Hong (Gachon Univ.)
Fundraising Committee Chair YoungSeok Kim (KICT)
Vice Chair Seung Sun Kim (KOLON)
Secretary Jongchan Kim (Pukyong National Univ.)

 

 

• International committee

 

Prof. Tatsuya Ishikawa
Chair of the TC202, ISSMGE, Hokkaido University
Prof. Erol Tutumluer
Immediate past Chair of the TC202, ISSMGE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Prof. Antonio Gomes Correia
Past Chair of the TC202, ISSMGE, University of Minho
Prof. Feng Zhang
Harbin Institute of Technology
Prof. J. Carlos Santamarina
Georgia Institute of Technology
Prof. Jiankun Liu
Sun Yat-Sen University
Prof. Eun Chul Shin
College of Urban Science, Incheon National University, Incheon
Prof. Askar Zhussupbekov
Eurasian National University, Astana
Prof. Alexander L. Isakov
Siberian Transport University, Novosibirsk
Prof. Sergey A. Kudryavtsev
Nominated Member of TC216 Frost Geotechnics, ISSMGE, Far Eastern State Transport University, Khabarovsk
Prof. Andrei Petriaev
Emperor Alexander I State Transport University, St.Petersburg
Prof. Sung-Woo Moon
Nazarbayev University, Astana
Prof. Taisia Shepitko
Russian University of Transport, Moscow
Evgeny Ashpiz
Russian University of Transport, Moscow

Halil Ceylan
Iowa State University, USA

Keh-Jian(Albert) Shou
National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan

Rashid Mangushev
Far Eastern State Transport University, Russia

 

 

History

 

The TRANSOILCOLD 2025 conference is being held for the first time in Republic of Korea. Previously, it was held in 2013 in Xining (China), 2015 in Novosibirsk (Russia), 2017 in Guida (China), 2019 in St. Petersburg (Russia), 2021 in Zhuhai (China), and 2023 in Moscow (Russia).

 

Year City Country
2025 Incheon
2023 Moscow
2021 Zhuhai
2019 St. Petersburg
2017 Guida
2015 Novosibirsk
2013 Xining

 

 

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