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An Analysis on Compliance of Variable Speed Limit under Foggy Conditions using Driving Simulator

차량 시뮬레이터를 이용한 안개 도로 가변제한속도 순응 경향 분석

  • Kim, Soullam (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology) ;
  • Lee, Sukki (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology) ;
  • Kim, Yongseok (Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology)
  • Received : 2017.01.16
  • Accepted : 2017.04.05
  • Published : 2017.04.30
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Abstract

A fog on road is known as a weather factor that affects traffic flow. The method in order to solve the problem, recently, Variable Speed Limit(VSL) which provide reasonable speed limit by road and weather conditions in real time is introduced. However, if drivers do not comply with VSL, the road safety more decrease than without VSL because individual vehicle's speed deviation is larger than without VSL. Therefore, this paper aims to analyze to speed limit compliance and traffic characteristics under foggy conditions with and without VSL. A test using driving simulator divides into normal and foggy condition with visibilities are 200m, 150, 50~100m. The test results showed that 70 subjects's average speed mostly obeyed speed limit, but speed deviation generally declined with VSL. Especially, the speed deviation more reduced under foggy conditions. According to this study, compliance of VSL clearly rose in low visibility and VSL helped improve road safety due to reduction of speed deviation. The results of this study are expected to make use of reasonable speed limit for reference.

도로 상의 안개는 교통류에 영향을 미치는 요인으로 알려져 있다. 이를 해소하기 위한 방안으로 최근 실시간 도로 및 기상조건에 따라 적절한 제한속도를 제공하는 가변제한속도시스템 VSL(Variable Speed Limit)을 도입하여 운영하고 있다. 하지만, VSL은 운전자가 제한속도를 준수하지 않을 경우 차량 간 속도 편차가 증가하여 오히려 교통사고의 위험도를 가중시킬 수 있다. 따라서, 본 연구는 기상조건별 VSL 유 무에 따른 운전자의 가변속도제한의 순응 경향 및 교통특성 분석을 목적으로 한다. 차량 시뮬레이터를 이용한 주행 환경을 구현하여 실험을 수행하였으며 기상조건은 크게 맑음, 안개로 나누었다. 분석 결과, 피험자의 평균 속도는 대부분 제한속도를 순응하였지만 전체적으로 속도 편차는 가변제한속도를 적용할 경우에 감소하는 것으로 분석되었고 특히, 안개가 발생할 경우 더욱 뚜렷하게 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. 기상조건이 운전자의 전방 시거에 영향을 미치면 VSL에 대한 운전자의 순응도는 높아지고, 속도 편차가 감소하여 교통안전성 향상에 도움을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 이는 향후 가변속도제한 운영속도를 산정하는데 기초자료로 사용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

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