• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.4 no.2 s.7
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• pp.13-22
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• 2005

The purpose of this research is how to estimate the traffic queue length in the signal intersection accurately. The current traffic queue length algorithm in COSMOS has been using the congestion diagram which comes from the speed of an average separated vehicle - using average vehicle length and the occupancy time from loop detectors. So some errors were occurred by the speed estimation method using average vehicle lengths. And Operators had been difficult to optimize some variables for measuring the traffic queue length estimation algorithm in COSMOS. Therefore the traffic queue length estimation algorithm on the basis of the relation between distances and occupancy rates from loop detectors was developed in this thesis. This thesis had the advantage of using occupancy rates which came out from loop detectors easily and no need to optimize some variables for the established algorithm in COSMOS. And the results of testing this algorithm in some sites which had installed COSMOS system showed better results than COSMOS system's results. But it was noted that further studies which carry it out in various sites and under various cases are necessary for applying to actual intersections.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.8 s.86
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• pp.181-191
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• 2005

This study developed an algorithm for real-time signal control based on the detection system that can collect sectional travel time. The signal control variable is maximum queue length per cycle and this variable has a sectional meaning. When a individual vehicle pass through the detector, we can gather the vehicle ID and the detected time. Therefor we can compute the travel time of an individual vehicle between consecutive detectors. This travel time informations were bisected including the delay and not. We can compute queue withdrawing time using this bisection and the max queue length is computed using the deterministic delay model. The objective function of the real-time signal control aims equalization of queue length for all direction. The distribution of the cycle is made by queue length ratios.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.109-121
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• 2001

본 연구는 공간적 정보를 수집할 수 있는 영상검지기를 이용하여 주어진 대기행렬길이를 기반으로 하는 최적주기 알고리즘을 개발함으로써 교통신호 제어에 대한 새로운 신호계획을 제공한다. 본 연구에서는 교통수요의 공간적인 정보를 획득하는 방안으로서 영상검지기 기반의 대기행렬길이를 사용한다. 전략적 측면에서 다양한 교통상태를 적용하였으며, 주요 결과는 아래와 같다. 1. 영상검지기 기반의 대기행렬길이 계산방안을 제안한다. 이 방법은 한 링크의 상류부와 하류부에 2대의 영상검지기를 설치하여 대기행렬길이를 산출하는 방안이다. 2. 신호제어 변수인 주기 계산모형이 개발된다. 이 방법 역시 영상검지기를 기반으로 하는 대기행렬길이를 사용한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.52-59
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• 2016

COSMOS system which was developed in Seoul for real-time signal control was designed to judge traffic condition for practicing signal operation. However, it occurs efficiency problem that stop line detection and queue length detection could not judge overflow saturation of street. For that reason, following research process GPS data of Seoul city's corporationowned taxi to calculate travel speed that excluded existing system of stop line detection and queue length detection. Also, "Research of calculating queue length by GPS data" which was progressed with following research expressed queue length. It is based on establishing algorithm of judging congestion situation. The algorithm was applied to a few areas where appeared congestion situation consistently to confirm real time traffic condition with established network. [Entrance of the National Sport Institute ${\rightarrow}$ Gangnam station Intersection, Yuksam station intersection ${\rightarrow}$ National Sport Institute.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.275-284
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• 1998

신호화 교차로는 한정된 시간 자원을 각 접근로별로 서로 다른 수요에 적절하게 효과적으로 배분함으로써 그 운영효율이 극대화될 수 있다. 현재 서울시 기존 전자신호시스템은 검지기체계를 갖추고 있으나 주로 시간대별 제어방식(TOD제어)을 사용하고 있다. 이에 대한 대안으로 실시간 교차로신호제어시스템인 이른바 첨단신호시스템이 개발되어 서울시 강남지역 61개소에서 시범운영중에 있다. 첨단신호시스템은 접근로별 수요에 따라 녹색시간을 배분하는 방식을 적용하고 있는데, 본 논문에서는 첨단신호시스템의 운영효율성을 평가하기 위하여 실제 교통수요와 운영녹색시간을 비교·분석하였다. 그 결과로 얻은 결론은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 방출차량에 의한 포화도의 비율을 고려하여 주기 및 녹색시간을 결정하는 첨단신호제어시스템의 알고리즘은 비포화시 직진이동류에 대한 녹색시간은 수요에 비해 과대산출운영되고 있다. 둘째, 좌회전의 경우 대기차량의 패턴이 불규칙할 때, 실시간 녹색시간제어기능이 미흡하다. 따라서, 향후에는 교통수요를 고려할 수 있는 알고리즘의 보다 심도있는 연구·개발이 요구되며, 또한 비포화 상황이 아닌 과포화 상황에도 적용될 수 있는 알고리즘의 개발이 이루어져야할 것으로 보인다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.2 no.1 s.2
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• pp.63-73
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• 2003

COSMOS(Cycle, Offset, Split Model for Seoul), a real-time traffic adaptive signal system. estimates queue lengths on each approach on the basis of arithmetic average spot speeds calculated on loop detectors installed at each of two adjacent lanes. In this paper, A new method, a traffic volume-weighted average method, was studied and compared with the existing arithmetic average method. It was found that the relationship between the ratio of volumes of two lanes and the difference of average speed of each lane has a linear form. With field data, The two methods were applied and the proposed method shows more stable and reasonable queue estimation results.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.179-187
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• 2009

This study develops a real-time signal control algorithm based on sectional travel times and includes a field test and evaluation. The objective function of the signal control algorithm is the equalization of delay of traffic movements, and the main process is calculating dissolved time of the queue and delay using the sectional travel time and detection time of individual vehicles. Then this algorithm calculates the delay variation and a targeted red time and calculates the length of the cycle and phase. A progression factor from the US HCM was applied as a method to consider the effect of coordinating the delay calculation, and this algorithm uses the average delay and detection time of probe vehicles, which were collected during the accumulated cycle for a stabile signal control. As a result of the field test and evaluation through the application of the traffic signal control algorithm on four consecutive intersections at 400m intervals, reduction of delay and an equalization effect of delay against TOD control were confirmed using the standard deviation of delay by traffic movements. This study was conducted to develop a real-time traffic signal control algorithm based on sectional travel time, using general-purpose traffic information detectors. With the current practice of disseminating ubiquitous technology, the aim of this study was a fundamental change of the traffic signal control method.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.2 no.1 s.2
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• pp.75-84
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• 2003

Current techniques for road-traffic monitoring rely on sensors which have limited capabilities, are costly and disruptive to install. The use of video cameras coupled with computer vision techniques offers an attractive alternative to current sensors. Video based traffic monitoring systems are now being considered key points of advanced traffic management systems. In this paper, we propose the new method which extract the traffic information using video camera. The proposed method uses an adaptive updating scheme for background in order to reduce the false alarm rate due to various noises in images. also, the proposed extraction method of traffic information calculates the traffic volume ratio of vehicles passing through predefined detection area, which is defined by the length of profile occupied by cars over that of overall detection area. Then the ratio is used to define 8 different states of traffic and to interpret the state of vehicle flows. The proposed method is verified by an experiment using CCTV traffic data from urban area.