• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.69-79
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• 1999

This study evaluated the chance of driver's Psychophysiological load of occipital lobe at freeway merging area and compared with basic driving section. Ten persons of 8 men and 2 women were investigated at 3 basic section and 3 merging areas on the Youngdong freeway. It is found that driver's load in acceleration lane before merging is 2.21 times higher than the basic driving section. Further, driver's load for merging was maintained fur 4 seconds after merging. Particularly, driver's highest loading point in merging behavior was found to be 80m from the gore area.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.85-91
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• 2021

Some sections of the highway are closed due to disasters and accidents. In this situation, it analyzes what kind of situation occurs due to functional failure in the highway network. The domestic highway network can be expressed as a graph. Blocking some sections of the highway can turn into a national disaster. In this paper, we analyze the robustness of the domestic highway network. The robustness of expressways refers to the degree to which the traffic conditions of the domestic expressway network deteriorate due to the blockage of some sections. The greater the robustness, the smaller the effect of some blocking appears. This study is used to evaluate the congestion level of one section of the transportation network, and a value obtained by dividing the section traffic volume (V) by the section traffic volume (C) is used. This study analyzes the robustness of highways by using the actual traffic volume data of the departure and arrival points of domestic highways, and analyzes the changes in traffic volume due to partial blockage through experimental calculations. Although this analysis cannot reflect the exact reality of domestic highways, it is judged to be sufficient for the purpose of confirming the basic robustness of the overall network.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.5-15
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• 1997

공간통계분석은 공간적으로 연계된 변수들간의 관계를 분석하는 통계분야이다. 일 반적으로 공간적으로 연계된 변수들간의 관계는 각 변수간의 공간적 분포정도에 따라서 영 향을 받는다. 전통적인 통계 분석의 방법은 동질의 자료발생과정에 의하여 확률적으로 축출 된 표본자료를 가정하고 있으나, 공간적인 자료는 이와 같은 동질의 자료발생과정의 가정을 부정한다. 교통류 및 교통사고 등과 같은 교통분야의 자료는 대부분 공간적인 상관관계에 의하여 축출된 이질적인 표본자료이며 따라서 공간상관관계를 동질적으로 가정한 전통적인 통계적 분석 방법은 오류를 범할 수 있다. 본 논문은 공간적인 관계를 고려한 공간자기상관 분석기법을 이용하여 고속도로상의 교통사고에 관하여 분석하였다. 분석의 결과에 의하면 4 개 고속도로 중 경인고속도로를 제외한 3개의 고속도로상의 교통사고건수는 통계적으로 현 저한 양의 공간적 상관관계가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이에 따라 공간적 상관관계를 고려한 교통사고분석을 위하여 종속변수로 단위구간별 교통사고건수를 그리고 설명변수로서는 단위 구간별 교통량, I.C. 유무 및 화물차량비율을 이용하여 공간 자기회귀분석을 시도하였다. 분 석의 분석에서는 구간별 교통량과 화물차량의 비율이 호남/남해 고속도로의 경우에는 구간 별 교통량과 I.C. 유무가 통계적으로 유의한 것으로 분석되었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.9-22
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• 2002

고속도로-연결로는 두 개의 교통흐름이 서로 상충되는 지점으로서 복잡한 교통행태를 나타내고 고속도로 구간 중 용량저하 및 교통와해현상, 난류현상이 일어나는 구간으로서 운영상 문제점이 많이 일어나고 있는 상태이다. 이 구간에서의 운영상태가 전체 시설물의 운영상태에 큰 영향을 끼친다는 점을 감안할 때, 이 구간의 국내자료를 토대로 한 교통류 분석은 중요한 의미를 가진다. 따라서, 교통행태에 대한 미시적인 분석이 이루어지지 않은 상태로 기존의 HCM 모형과 같은 거시적인 분석 방법만을 가지고는 분류구간 교통현상을 규명하기 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 기존 연구들 분석방법의 문제점을 해결하기 위해, 고속도로-연결로 구간중 유출부 구간을 대상으로 현장조사를 실시하였고, 지점(구간)과 차로로 세분하여 미시적인 방법으로 교통특성을 규명하였다. 또 한 유출부 구간의 여러 지점에서 지점 및 차로별 교통량을 예측할 수 있는 교통분포 모형식을 개발하였다. 정립된 교통분포 모형식을 적용해 본 결과 유출부 구간의 분석 및 서비스 수준의 평가는 연결로 접속차로(Vl)의 교통량만을 고려하여 분석하는 것은 합리적이지 않고, 연결로나 본선 모두와 진입부를 포함한 연결로 전체를 다 고려해야 한다는 것을 알 수 있었다. 미시적인 분석방법을 통한 차로별 교통분포 모형식은 기존 분석방법과 비교하여 더 정확하게 그리고 폭 넓은 분석 및 적용하기에 손쉬운 모형이라는 점에서 상당히 효과적인 분석방법이라고 할 수 있다. 하지만 본 연구의 결과는 한 조사지점에 대한 적은 자료를 토대로 하였기 때문에 실제적용 가능성에서 향후 보강할 필요가 있으며, 다른 지점의 현장조사와 세밀한 비교연구가 필요하다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.24 no.4 s.90
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• pp.129-148
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• 2006

The objective of this thesis is to develop a capacity analysis and to develop a methodology to evaluate Level of Service over the entire freeway sections by single MOE (Measure of Effectiveness) This study set forth from a following viewpoint. to analyze entire freeway sections as freeway facility system, it is important to identify the exact point where congestion would occur and the extent of the congestion. Therefore, in this thesis, congestion mechanism on freeways was figured out and congestion analysis methodology was developed. Thereby maximum possible throughput rate and maximum throughput rate in bottleneck sections were calculated and a congestion analysis was carried out. The difference between the new method and existing Procedures is that maximum possible throughput rate and maximum throughput rate. that can be considered as capacities of un-congested and congested flow in the bottleneck section, are variable capacities dependent on demand flow.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.2 s.73
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• pp.87-93
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• 2004

A five-day work week has a great impact on the life styles of employed persons and their families. At the same time, the changes also impact on the transportation system because travel patterns, demand, and pattern of congestion change during weekends. The negative impacts on the transportation system should be examined in order to conceive measures to maintain dependable levels of service during weekends. The first step to pursue the issue is to identify the road segments heavily affected by augmented leisure trips. In this study, characteristics of highway segments are engineered by principal analysis using data from TCS database. Scores from principal analysis are employed to distinguish highway segments for leisure trips from total 197 segments considered in this study. In addition, indexes from principal analysis are proposed to identify highway segments for leisure trips.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.48-61
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• 2020

The objective of this study is to estimate traffic capacity based on the heavy-vehicle ratio in a two-lane freeway work zone where one lane is blocked by construction. For this, closed circuit television (CCTV) video data of the freeway work zone was collected, and the congestion at an upstream point was observed. The traffic volume at a downstream point was analyzed after a bottleneck was created by the blockage due to the upstream congestion. A distribution model was estimated using observed-time headway, and the road capacity was analyzed using a goodness-of-fit test. Through this process, the general capacity and an equation for capacity based on the heavy-vehicle ratio passing through the work zone were presented. Capacity was estimated to be 1,181~1,422 passenger cars per hour per lane (pcphpl) at Yeongdong, and 1,475~1,589pcphpl at Jungbu Naeryuk. As the ratio of heavy vehicles increased, capacity gradually decreased. These findings can contribute to the proper capacity estimation and efficient traffic operation and management for two-lane freeway work zones that block one lane due to a work zone.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.97-105
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• 2011

This paper presents how one can investigate the effects on crash occurrence of freeway geometric design elements including the horizontal, vertical alignment and road environment. At present, the available research results for the most part involve geometric data analysis that are obtained along a relatively long section of freeway, and, because of the long section's diverse geometric conditions, the results tend to miss the specific local geometric impacts on vehicle crashes. In this regard, this research attempts to establish vehicle crash models based on a set of freeway geometric patterns whose crash generating characteristics are identical because they are homogeneous in terms of producing the same vehicle operating speeds, and subsequently their actual relationships are described by providing statistical analysis made in this research. Also each standard is comprised of part of straight, curve and continuous curve. This research has revealed that each type of model has different relation between accident and geometry structure. This research results should be useful for doing more reasonable highway designs and safety audit analysis.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.34 no.6
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• pp.535-547
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• 2016

This study aims to identify factors that affect the degree of injury severity sustained in traffic crashes on work zone of Korean expressways. To this end, decision tree method was applied to identify influential factors on injury severity and compare characteristics of those factors between work zone and non-work zone. The results from the comparison show that the risk of severity was low when traffic volume and heavy vehicle ratio are high because the factors lower the overall section speed. On the other hand, when the traffic volume and the heavy vehicle ratio are low, the section speed increased and the tendency for high injury severity was confirmed. These findings are expected to help transportation planners and engineers understand which risk factors contribute more to severe injury in the work zones such that they can effectively prepare and implement safety countermeasures.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.85-94
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• 2013

The Continuous Risk Profile (CRP) has been well known to be the most accurate and efficient among existing network screening methods. However, the classical CRP uses safety performance functions (SPFs) which require a huge investment to construct a database system. This study aims to suggest a new CRP method using average crash frequencies of homogeneous groups, instead of SPFs, as rescaling factors. Hierarchical clustering analysis is performed to classify freeway segments into homogeneous groups based on the data of AADT and number of lanes. Using the data from I-880 in California, the proposed method is compared to other several network screening methods. The results show that the proposed method decrease false positive rates while it does not produce any false negatives. The method developed in this study can be easily applied to screen freeway networks without any additional complex database systems, and contribute to the improvement of freeway safety management systems.