• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.70-77
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• 2012

Dial-a-ride is the most widely available transit service for disabled persons or seniors in the United States and Europe. This paper studies a static dial-a-ride problem considering multiple depots, heterogeneous vehicles, and soft time windows. In this paper, we apply a heuristic based on clustering first-routing second(HCR) to a real-world large dial-a-ride problem from Maryland Transit Administration(MTA). MTA's real operation is compared with the results of developed heuristic for 24 cases. The objective function of the proposed model is to minimize the total cost composed of the service provider's cost and the customers' inconvenience cost. For the comparison, the objective function values of HCR do not include waiting cost, delay cost, and excess ride cost. The objective function values from HCR are better than those from MTA's operation for all cases. This result shows that our heuristic method can make the real operation better and more efficient.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.2 s.95
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• pp.39-50
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• 2007

This study investigated how drivers' cognitive characteristics, such as perception-motor skills and safety-seeking motivation; personal characteristics, such as sensation-seeking disposition coping with physical and social dangers; their self-perceived driving ability; and their normal driving behaviors influence the number of driving violations. 352 drivers participated in the study. MANOVA was performed in order to test the differences in their driving behaviors according to their level of sensation-seeking disposition and driving ability, and Structural Equation Modeling was used to examine the causal relationships among their demographic characteristics, sensation-seeking dispositions, driving ability, driving behaviors and the number of violations. The results indicated that drivers who had higher perception-motor skills seemed to be careful with pedestrians. From the results, drivers who had somewhat higher safety-seeking motivation tended to violate fewer traffic regulations intentionally or accidentally and showed more positive driving behaviors. Furthermore, drivers who had higher perception-motor skills, higher sensation-seeking disposition, and lower safety-seeking motivation had a tendency to violate intentionally more traffic regulations. The older drivers showed driving behaviors that were careful of pedestrians. The drivers who had higher sensation-seeking disposition and longer driving careers violated more traffic regulations, both intentionally and accidentally. Results from LISREL indicated that the predictive variables directly or indirectly influenced on drivers' violation numbers ($x^2$=341.62(p=.00), GFI=.94. RMR=.10).

• Korean Journal of Culture and Arts Education Studies
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.45-61
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• 2014

Recently, there is a discussion about culture theory in the area of traffic safety regulation. It has the view that the subject of criticism, etc. by drivers' regulation interpretation, awareness about the danger of regulation violation and nonacceptance of regulation can be changed according to the way drivers' cultural bias was formed. According to the culture theory, fundamental views of the world in particular social relations surrounding individuals, world view or cosmology, are formed and the world view makes an effect on individual behavior and attitude. In this context, cultural cognition and cultural learning theory which are suggested in Christoph Wulf's study on historical-cultural anthropology provide new approach toward this phenomenon. According to his insistence, core mechanisms which can explain cultural cognition and cultural learning are systematized by five things; physical characteristic, mimesis, performance theory, rite and image. The purpose of this research is to investigate the changes by the way Korean people cognize traffic regulations culturally and experiences of traffic regulation violation through the analytic frame of Christoph Wulf's five core mechanisms. To achieve it, cognition of traffic culture was analyzed by analytical phenomenology for drivers who had been educated due to their violation of traffic regulations. Value, lifestyle and practicing methods which are pursued by people work in sociocultural context rather than are influenced by cognitive structure of individuals.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.236-238
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• 2022

According to the current Road Traffic Act, the 2020 amendment bill is currently in effect as a system that designates vehicle types for each lane for the purpose of securing road use efficiency and traffic safety. When comparing the number of traffic accident fatalities per 10,000 vehicles in Germany and Korea, the number of traffic accident deaths in Germany is significantly lower than in Korea. The representative case of the German autobahn, which did not impose a speed limit, suggests that Korea's speeding laws are not the only answer to reducing the accident rate. The designated lane system, which is observed in accordance with the keep right principle of the Autobahn Expressway, plays a major role in reducing traffic accidents. Based on this fact, we propose a traffic enforcement system to crack down on vehicles violating the designated lane system and improve the compliance rate. We develop a designated lane enforcement system that recognizes vehicle types using Yolo5, a deep learning object recognition model, recognizes license plates and lanes using OpenCV, and stores the extracted data in the server to determine whether or not laws are violated.Accordingly, it is expected that there will be an effect of reducing the traffic accident rate through the improvement of driver's awareness and compliance rate.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.32-39
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• 2011

Even if the traffic light is green, if vehicles enter a jammed intersection, they are violation of the law. The police is enforcing law as a part of a nation wide campaign. Because, using the camcorder, the police can not do enforcement the offending vehicle, there are other techniques. Our research group proposed automated photographic equipment enable to enforce moving violation in intersection. Using new license plate recognition technology and backtracking technology to trace the offending vehicle, once the system detects a violator, it records 8 wide pictures and 1picture from the front vehicle, showing it enter and proceed through the intersection. Field experimental results obtained in the system, the following conclusions. The three measures of effectiveness investigated were recognition rate 83.5, mis-match recognition rate 1.5%.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.3D
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• pp.367-374
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• 2006

This research revealed the operation problems of the current crossing control systems through inspecting and testing the obstacle detection systems and gate control systems for the crossings. To resolve the problems of the crossing control systems, this research developed new algorithms of four-quadrant gate system and obstacle detection systems combing the functions of rasar sensors and magnetic sensors and tested the reliability of the systems. Currently, the obstacle detection systems and gate control systems controls approaching and departing traffic by simply detecting vehicles and obstacles but do not consider traffic movements at the crossings. In addition, they do not make signal cooperation for gate controls. As a result, such inefficient crossing controls result in unsafe gate controls for drivers. Therefore, the newly developed crossing control systems through this study will provide more effective crossing control services with more strengthen information cooperation within control systems. Besides they will help to reduce train crashes at the crossings by gate control systems considering various driving behaviors.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.149-159
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• 2012

The evaluation of public transit service quality is more complicated than evaluating other aspects of transportation service. Although various measures of effectiveness [MOEs] for transit service have been studied and applied, a more comprehensive and accurate MOE is still required. In the past, either data from user surveys or the experience of bus agency administrators and/or engineers used to measure the quality of service. However, recently, with reliable and accurate real time data from BMS(Bus Management System) and BIS(Bus Information System), more reliable and accurate MOEs are available. This study develops a service evaluation model from users' perspectives, which is based on user' cost models that consider passenger access time, riding time, waiting time, and discomfort due to in-vehicle overcrowding, violation of traffic laws, and accident rate. For validating proposed model, data from the BMS and transit-fare cards (T-Money Card) for Seoul's No. 472 main bus line were used. Models developed in this study provided reliable results.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.389-397
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• 1998

공공기관에서 발간하는 통계자료들을 살펴보면 대부분 관찰값으로 빈도수나 또는 전체를 기준으로 하여 그 빈도수가 차지하는 퍼센트정도로 나타나 있다. 그러나 우리는 꾸준히 변하는 사회에 살고 있는데 객관적인 자료는 쉽게 설명되지 않으며 이해하기 어렵다. 예를 들어 모든 자동차 사고 가운데 승용차의 사고는 다른 종류보다 제일 많은 60%이상을 차지한다. 그러나 승용차는 등록된 모든 차량종류에서 70% 이상을 점유하고 있으므로 다른 차종보다 사고율은 제일 낮다. 따라서 교통사고 건수가 제일 많은 승용차가 다른 차종에 비하여 제일 사고율이 낮고 가장 안전한 차종이라는 것을 경험할 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 1991년부터 발표된 교통사고에 대한 일반적인 통계자료를 우리들의 생활 속에서 느낄 수 있는 위험 인지도로 바꾸어 계산하여 분석하였다. 차종별, 지역별, 연령별, 도로종류별, 사고 유형별, 교통수단별, 시간별, 법규위반별로 구분된 교통사고의 위험에 대한 인지도를 총 인구수(시도별)와 등록된 여러 종류의 자동차의 대수 또는 여러 종류의 도로 길이 등과 같은 요인들을 고려하여 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.207-222
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• 1999

공공기관에서 발간하는 통계자료들을 살펴보면 대부분 관찰값으로 빈도수나 또는 전체를 기준으로 하여 그 빈도수가 차지하는 퍼센트 정도로 나타나 있다. 그러나 우리는 꾸준히 변하는 사회에 살고 있는데 객관적인 자료는 쉽게 설명되지 않으며 이해하기 어렵다. 예를 들어 모든 자동차 사고 가운데 승용차의 사고는 다른 종류보다 제일 많은 60% 이상을 차지한다. 그러나 승용차는 등록된 모든 차량종류에서 70% 이상을 점유하고 있으므로 다른 차종보다 사고율은 제일 낮다. 따라서 교통사고 건수가 제일 많은 승용차가 다른 차종에 비하여 제일사고율이 낮고 가장 안전한 차종이라는 것을 경험할 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 1991년부터 발표된 교통사고에 대한 일반적인 통계자료를 우리들의 생활 속에서 느낄 수 있는 위험 인지도로 바꾸어 계산하여 분석하였다. 차종별, 지역별, 연령별, 도로종류별, 사고 유형별, 교통수단별, 시간별, 법규위반별로 구분된 교통사고의 위험에 대한 인지도를 총 인구수(시도별)와 등록된 여러 종류의 자동차의 대수 또는 여러 종류의 도로 길이 등과 같은 요인들을 고려하여 비교 분석하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.173-184
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• 2008

Development of an accident estimation model based on accident data can be made after accident occurrences. However, the taking of historical accident data is not easy, and there have been differences between real accident data and police-reported accident data. Also, another difficult shortcoming is that historical traffic accident data better consider driver behavior or intersection characteristics. A new method needs to be developed that can predict accident occurrences for traffic safety improvement in black spots. Traffic conflict decision techniques can acquire and analyze data in time and space, requiring less data collection through investigation. However, there are shortcomings: as existing traffic conflict techniques do not operate automatically, the analyst's opinion could easily affect the study results. Also, existing methods do not consider the severity of traffic conflicts. In this study, the authors presented traffic conflict decision criteria which consider conflict severity, including opposing left turn traffic conflict and cross traffic conflict decision criteria. In order to test these criteria, the authors acquired three signalized intersection images (two intersections in Sungnam city and one intersection in Paju) and analyzed the acquired images using image processing techniques based on individual vehicle tracking technology. Within the analyzed images, level 1 conflicts occurred 343 times over three intersections. Some of these traffic conflicts resulted in level 3 conflict situations. Level 3 traffic conflicts occurred 25 times. From the study results, the authors found that traffic conflict decision techniques can be an alternative to evaluate traffic safety in black spots.