• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.1 s.94
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• pp.23-35
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• 2007

Freeway diverging areas are very vulnerable to traffic accidents due to abrupt vehicle speed changes and geometric changes. Therefore, in designing diverging areas, much attention should be Paid to safety The Present design criteria about freeway diverging areas regulate transition sections for lane changes, deceleration lanes, transition corves for direction changes. and other similar items. However, the design criteria were often violated in implementation because of ambiguities in the criteria. This study aims at clarifying and improving the present design criteria for freeway diverging areas. For this, field survey data and traffic accident data for diverging areas were analyzed.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.11-21
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• 2000

The travel behavior should be analysed microscopically for the traffic management of urban street. The car following theory which found out the correlation between the lead and the following vehicles is being widely used as basic data in many fields. As the vehicle position and its speed information can be received by GPS, this technique is recently applying to the various fields. For the case study the travel data were collected with two vehicles equipped with GPS receiver. The moving distance was calculated by the collected location data every 2 seconds and the speed variation was checked. And this study analysed and compared the acceleration and deceleration speed between the lead and the following vehicle. Finally, Regression model about the relationship between the acceleration and deceleration speed and the acceleration and deceleration distance was constructed. This model could be helpful for the road design and the regulation for the safe traffic management.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.145-157
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• 2004

Microscopic freeway simulation models project the uncertain values of performance measures for subject traffic conditions by explaining drivers' driving behavior with lane changing and car-following models. However, the existing lane changing models are limited to gap acceptance oriented passive behavior of drivers and not able to capture more-or-less aggressive driving behavior(e.g. cut-in lane changing) ordinarily obseved in field. This paper suggests the definition of cut-inlane changing and presents its characteristics based on the findings from two different freeway on- and off-ramp sections. In addition, this paper proposes a new lane changing model capable of handling both passive and active drivers' driving behavior for better performance of simulations. The proposed lane changing model was tested with Hanyang Simulatin (HYTSIM), a microscopic freeway simulation program developed for this study. The HYTSIM simulation results reflecting the performance of the proposed lane changing model were compared against the field data. The test results showed that the distribution of gaps collected when vehicles change lanes were statistically identical to the field data at 95% confidence level.

• 한국도로학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.10a
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• pp.261-268
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• 2006

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.28-41
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• 2022

A road system with CV(Connected Vehicle)s, which is often referred to as a cooperative intelligent transportation system (C-ITS), provides various road information to drivers using an in-vehicle warning system. Road environments with CVs induce drivers to reduce their speed or change lanes to avoid potential risks downstream. Such avoidance maneuvers can be considered to improve driving behaviors from a traffic safety point of view. Thus, empirically evaluating how a given in-vehicle warning information affects driving behaviors, and monitoring of the correlation between them are essential tasks for traffic operators. To quantitatively evaluate the effect of in-vehicle warning information, this study develops a method to calculate compliance rate of drivers where two groups of speed profile before and after road information is provided are compared. In addition, conventional indexes (e.g., jerk and acceleration noise) to measure comfort of passengers are examined. Empirical tests are conducted by using PVD (Probe Vehicle Data) and DTG (Digital Tacho Graph) data to verify the individual effects of warning information based on C-ITS constructed in Seoul metropolitan area in South Korea. The results in this study shows that drivers tend to decelerate their speed as a response to the in-vehicle warning information. Meanwhile, the in-vehicle warning information helps drivers to improve the safety and comport of passengers.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.47-61
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• 2000

차량추종모형은 차선변경모형과 함께 미시적 시뮬레이션 모형의 핵심 모형으로서 정확한 차량추종모형의 적용은 시뮬레이션 모형 분석결과의 신뢰성에 영향을 미친다. 기존의 차량추종모형은 대부분 가속상황과 감속상황에 동일한 모형을 적용하거나 자극부문과 민감도 부분은 거의 동일한 형태를 취하고 있으며, 가상자료를 토대로 모형이 개발되었다. 본 연구의 목적은 첫째, 모형을 추정하기 위한 연구체계를 구성하고, 둘째, 이러한 연구체계를 이용하여 신호교차로 미시적 시뮬레이션에 직접 적용이 가능한 차량추종모형을 정립하는 데 있다. 본연구에서는 이를 위해서 신호교차로에서 미시적 실측자료를 수집하였으며, 수집된 자료에서 통계적 기법을 통해서 모형 추정에 적합한 자료를 구축하였다. 현장에서 실측된 이산적인 원시자료는 차량추종모형 추정에 직접 이용할 수 없다. 따라서, 이산적 원시자료를 모형추정에 적합한 자료로 구성하기 위하여 비선형 곡선적합 알고리즘을 이용하여 연속적인 궤적함수를 구성하였고, 이를 통해서 모형추정에 필요한 선두차량과 후행차량의 현재시점과 반응시간 이후 시점에서의 위치, 순간 가속도와 순간속도 등을 도출하였다. 본 연구에서는 차량추종상황을 가속상황, 감속상황, 출발상황, 그리고 정지상황으로 구분하여 차량추종모형을 구축하였다. 가속상황과 감속상황에 대해서는 실측자료를 이용하여 모형을 추정하였으며, 출발상황과 정지상황에 대해서는 추정된 가/감속상황의 모형을 바탕으로 출발상황과 정지상황에서의 차량행태를 설명할 수 있는 모형을 구축하였다 또한, 민감도와 자극부분을 새롭게 정의하여 각 상황별로 미시적 실측자료를 이용하여 모형을 추정하였다. 이렇게 추정된 모형들 중에서 통계적 기법과 실측치와의 비교를 통해서 가장 적합한 모형을 선택하였다. 선택된 모형은 통계적 검정, 가상자료 그리고 실측치와의 비교를 통해서 분석하였으며, 분석결과 구축모형의 적용성은 우수한 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.7 s.78
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• pp.139-146
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• 2004

Road design should be conformed to the expectancy of drivers. The alignment such as long tangent followed by the sharp horizontal curve should be avoided for the road design consistency. Currently, operating speed profile model is generally used to check the consistency of the successive road alignments. In this model, the hypothesis about the drivers' behaviour on the long tangent followed by the sharp horizontal curve is also included. This study compares the hypothesized drivers' behaviour in the existing operating speed profile model with the actual drivers' behaviour observed at the two lane rural roads. In addition to this, comparison between the acceleration for the vehicles approaching and departing horizontal curves suggested by the foreign research and the value observed at this study was made, From this study, it was concluded that the hypothesis in the existing model was well representing the actual drivers' behaviour. The deceleration for vehicles approaching the horizontal curves was ranged $0.39{\sim}1.06m/s^2$ with the average of $0.66m/s^2$. The average acceleration for the vehicles departing horizontal curves was $0.22m/s^2$.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.107-120
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• 2011

Traffic signal is one of the major factors that affect the amount of vehicle emissions on urban highway. The amount of vehicle emissions in urban area is highly affected by the vehicle's cruising speeds heavily influenced by the traffic signal lighting conditions. It was attempted in this study to trace the changing patterns of the vehicle emissions by collecting the emission data from a set of simulation studies and by categorizing vehicle cruising conditions into four different groups: idling, acceleration, deceleration, and running at a constant speed. Authors propose a simple emission model prepared based on Kinematic theory. The validation test results showed that the amount of the emission estimated by the proposed model was relatively satisfactory compared to the one of the existing model employing the average speed data only as the determinant.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.7-16
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• 2003

Objective of this research is to analyze drivers' behaviors at signalized intersection during yellow interval. For this, deceleration rate of stopping, PRT(Perception-Response Time), and the relationship between dilemma zone and deceleration rate of stopping were surveyed at two signalized intersections located at urban area(Songtan and Suwon) and local area(Yongin) As a result, the deceleration rate of stopping at signalized intersections and a range of dilemma zone were estimated. It was found that the deceleration rate of stopping and PRT were 1.6m/sec$^2$ and 1.27sec, respectively. These values are bigger than ITE's values which have been used in our country. Accordingly, it is considered that these values should be used as a new design criteria for the traffic signal control.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.173-182
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• 2012

Entry and exits of the rest area are sections where designed speed can be rapidly change and also a weak traffic safety section. In addition, two tasks can be performed simultaneously at entry of the rest area, particularly searching for deceleration and parking spaces/parking sides etc. Thus, design criteria is required in order to procure the stability of accessed vehicle. In case of Korea, geometric structure design criteria of entry facilities, such as toll-gate, interchange, junction etc was established. However there are no presence in a detailed standards for geometric structure of the rest area which affiliated road facilities. In this study, Derive problems in regards to the entry of geometric structure of resting areas by utilizing a sight survey and an investigation research of traffic accidents. The survey was targeting 135 general service areas. After Classifying the design section of resting areas' entry as well as derive design elements on each section, a speed measurement by targeting entry of rest areas and car behavior surveys were performed, then each element's minimum standard was derived through the analyses. According to the speeds at the starting/end point of entrance connector road, the minimum length of the entrance connector road is decided as 40m using Slowing-down length formula and based on the driving pattern, the range of the junction setting angle of the entrance connector road is defined as $12^{\circ}{\sim}17^{\circ}$. Suggest improvement plans for existing rest areas that can be applied realistically. This should be corresponded to the standards of entry and exit of developed rest areas.