• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 2007.02a
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• pp.306-314
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• 2007

This paper is to develop a model for evaluation of highway alignment design considering the driver's behavior in order to enhance the highway safety. Under the conditions, this research included a new evaluation criteria development and an analysis on how to change evaluation criteria according to roadway alignments, to evaluate safety. The vehicle spacing and speed deviation are suggested as new evaluation index The evaluation criteria model can be used to compare the anticipated safety performance of two or more geometric alternatives for a proposed highway improvement.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.159-166
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• 2009

On freeways, factors inducing traffic accidents consist of two major elements such as driver factors and road environment factors. Research have been done and shown that there would be relationship between design elements such as radius, slopes, superelevations, and observed speeds and accident rates. The present paper confirms that these elements are correlated with accident rates. Furthermore, the paper identifies standard deviation of these elements as the design consistency and compare them with reduction of accident rates. This type of work leads to identify the fact that standard deviations based design consistency are correlated with accident rates. The results of the paper may contribute to encourage the quantified use of design consistency during highway design.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.195-212
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• 1998

본 연구는 새로운 설계일관성 검토기법의 정립을 위하여 수행되었으며, 이를 위해 속도추정 모형을 개발하였다. 본 연구를 통해 개발된 모형은 차량의 주행속도에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 주 요소를 고려한 장점을 지니고 있다. 즉 평면곡선에서는 운전자의 시각적 판단을 기초로 등판차량의 주행속도를 추정하였다. 또한 이러한 속도추정이 승용차뿐만 아니라 트럭의 경우로 나누어 이루어짐으로써, 차종별 고려가 가능하도록 하였다. 다음은 본 연구를 통해 이루어진 결과이다. 평면곡선에서는 승용차와 트럭의 속도가 같게 추정되었으며, 시거를 통해 산정된 추정속도는 곡선반경과 밀접한 관계를 갖는다. 종단선형에서 승용차의 속도는 구배의 영향을 받지 않으나, 트럭은 구배의 영향으로 속도가 감소한다. 이 때 트럭에 작용되는 가속도는 모두 세 종류로써, 첫째, crawl speed에 도달할 때까지 작용한 가속도$(a_1)$와 둘째, crawl speed 이후 작용한 가속도$(a_2)$ 그리고 셋째, 하향구배 주행시 작용된 가속도$(a_3)$로 구분된다. Watanatade가 제시한 것과 같이 평지에서 나타나는 평면곡선의 주행속도와 구배지에서의 속도를 단순 비교 함으로써, 작은 속도의 궤적을 따라 평지에서 나타나는 평면곡선의 주행속도와 구배지에서의 속도를 단순 비교함으로써, 작은 속도의 궤적을 따라 합성선형의 속도를 추정하는 것은 합성선형이 차량의 주행속도에 미치는 영향을 간과한 것으로 판단할 수 있다. 그러나 본 모형에서는 합성선형의 영향을 고려하여 승용차와 트럭의 주행속도를 추정함으로써, 보다 현실적으로 주행속도를 추정하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 도로의 설계일관성을 검토하는데 매우 유용한 도구가 될 것이며 향후 운전자의 희망속도 결정, 감속율의 산정, 교통류의 고려, 도로설계의 전산화 자료와 연결 등을 통해 보다 실용적인 결과를 산출할 수 있을 것이다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

Five bases for of highways are sight distance, vehicle stability, driver comfort, drainage and aesthetics. Among these bases, the sight distance is the most critical one in the highway alignment design. It is certain that highways and drivers' observation actions are 3-dimensional in nature. But, the highway alignment design and the sight distance analysis have been performed on 2-dimensional planes because of various constraints and complexity of calculating 3-dimensional sight distance. The purpose of this study is to derive a model for determining exact available sight distance in 3-D combined horizontal and vertical alignments. Application of the model is illustrated using numerical examples. The proposed model should be useful in quantifying the criteria for 3-D highway alignments.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.57-67
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• 2008

At present engineers use the highway design speed concept to develop the horizontal alignment. This concept has a strength of attaining consistent horizontal alignments because of its use of a single speed value. Yet it shows a critical weakness that when opened the operating speed for the vehicles on the road can be a lot different than the design speed. To resolve this, many countries already develop the horizontal alignment by adopting procedures that weigh vehicle operating speeds, and this research joins them by developing an operating speed based horizontal alignment design. We have collected vehicle speed samples over the nation, selected some speed influential design elements by doing a statistical analysis, provided a set of models for two-lane roads and four lane roads, and showed a stepwise feedback procedure by doing a case study. It is underscored that in the case study the proposed procedure has scaled down the speed inconsistency problem, and we are of opinion that our procedure would coin both investment efficiency and speed consistency in future highway projects.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.125-133
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• 2008

Achieving consistent geometric design is an important goal in highway design to ensure obtaining safe, economical and smooth traffic operation. Most evaluation of consistency is based on 'speed change' in speed profile. According to literature, the speed depends on geometric elements, speed on tangent section prior to a curve, and background around roads. Especially, the radius is the most main element mentioned in various literature. Therefore, this paper shows two ways of calculating horizontal radius on real road, that is, three-dimensional road. First of all, the radius of horizontal curve is calculated based on physical method. The calculated radius contains not only superelevation but also longitudinal grade while the current minimum radius is calculated by considering superelevation and side friction according to the point-mass equation. Secondly, the problem of composed curves with distorted appearance by overlaying sag or crest vertical alignment has been known. To quantify the extent of distortion effects, the method of calculation of real seen so called 'Perspective Radius' is developed. The paper presents the perspective radius and recommended perspective radius.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.247-255
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• 2008

According to "A guide Book to Highway Design", most road elements are chosen based on a certain design speed in order to ensure obtaining safe and smooth traffic operating. However, road safety in practical way is corelative to not only all element of roads but also road shape, for example, between straight line and curves line and between curved lines. Also, it is relates to alignments such as horizontal alignment, vertical alignment, and cross section. That is, the practical road design should be examined in both sides of 3 dimension and consecutiveness as the practical road is a 3-dimensional successive object. The paper presents a concept for acceleration to evaluate consistency of road considering actual road shape on 3-dimension. Acceleration of vehicle is influential to road consistency based on running state of vehicle and state of drivers. Especially, the magnitude of acceleration is a quite influential element to drivers. Based on above, the acceleration on each point 3-D road can be calculated and then displacement can be done. Computation of acceleration means total calculation on each axis.

• 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.26 no.3
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• pp.187-197
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• 2008

While driving a highway, A driver gets lots of information through geometrical structure, traffic situation, signs on the road. He gets most of the information by visual sense. Acceleration or deceleration and driving direction depend on sight distance. Therefore, it's essential to secure a driver's sight distance for a safe drive. However, design guides of geometrical structure and sight distance suggest respective standards of horizontal and vertical alignment. They do not indicate quantitative standard of combined alignment. Currently, element separated on a two-dimensional projected plane are available, but they do not guarantee safe and pleasant design. I will use the existent model analysing three-dimensional sight distance through mathematical calculation and sort a variety of geometrical structure element and type. In these researches, we will look at how much three-dimensional sight distance is overestimated or underestimated compared to two-dimensional. I will develop a program which predicts traffic velocity on the curvature of two-lane provincial road. stopped sight distance and three-dimensional sight distance will be compared at a predicted drive velocity. I will suggest the way to evaluate road consistency.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.5 s.83
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• pp.35-45
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• 2005

The speed enforcement camera has been regarded as one of the most important safety countermeasures. Drivers decelerate in front of the speed enforcement camera and gain speed up after passing the camera. So there is a strong need to develop the method how to place the camera to overcome this problem. This study applied the concept of design consistency to the installation of the camera, so speed difference along the road sections should be controlled within the predetermined boundary. Specially, this study also regarded camera as the one of the elements of the road alignments which can change the speed of drivers abruptly, and suggested the way to put this concept into the selection of the placement of the camera.