MXV Rail and the Korea Railroad Research Institute (KRRI) have announced a strategic partnership aimed at accelerating innovation and tackling emerging technological challenges in the rail industry.
Formalised during Rail Research Week 2025, which was hosted by MxV in Colorado last month, both organisations describe the agreement as an unprecedented commitment to coordination and knowledge sharing.
Under the partnership, the groups will align their testing facilities, engineering expertise, and institutional experience to strengthen research capacity across both heavy-haul and high-speed rail. Joint initiatives will include shared use of test rolling stock, collaboration on digital data asset management and maintenance systems, personnel exchanges to support knowledge transfer, and co-developed training programmes, seminars, and symposia.
Dr Myung Sagong, president of KRRI, says the partnership reinforces the cooperation established through a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2018.
“Through closer collaboration between our two organisations, we expect to see enhanced joint responses to the digital transformation of the railway industry driven by the sharing of information, knowledge, and experience; strengthened practical cooperation in testing, certification, and the use of test tracks; and improved national competitiveness through proactive and mutually beneficial responses to changes in the global railway environment,” Sagong says.
“Our teams have historically worked on carbon-neutral and digital technologies together and both organisations recognise that, along with our technical prowess, people are the heart of what we do,” says MxV Rail president and CEO, Kari Gonzales.
