• The Monthly Technology and Standards
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• s.19
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• pp.58-58
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• 2003

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.109-115
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• 2012

Pedestrian safety is becoming a major priority on the nation's roadway policy. Numerous strategies have been experimented with nationwide in an attempt to reduce the accidents of pedestrian-vehicle crashes, especially in pedestrian crosswalk. We suggest the wireless controlled in-pavement flashing light system to reduce the accident at pedestrian crosswalk. We have recommended the use of wireless controlled systems as a tool to manage the In-pavement flashing light system that have retain high visibility goals for pedestrian preserving or enhancing pedestrian safety. Then we have compared this system with any other legacy systems in respect of cost and effects.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.181-187
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• 2016

Typical Retro-reflectors installed on road have problems such as limiting a driver's visibility at night when it is foggy or rainy. On the other hand, LED illuminated studs, called cat's eye system, extends a driver's visibility under these conditions. In this paper, we present a design of the LED cat's eye system using solar energy that can sustain vehicles with about 30-ton weight and is compliant with the IP68 code for water proof as IEC standard 60529. In addition, we propose a scheme of designing a LED driving circuit consuming low power to take into accounts cold weather or rainy season with limited sunlight. This LED cat's eye studs is currently installed and used on expressway and bike route nationally as well as overseas.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.282-289
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• 2019

Reflective and solar LED road studs are being used as a way of securing visibility for road environments. Road markers have various advantages and disadvantages in terms of versatility, efficiency, simplicity and visibility as individual products of reflective type and solar LED. However, in addition to the above, it is possible to prevent secondary accident after accident, It has a common drawback that it is difficult to have. In this paper, we propose a road stud system incorporating a wireless control function using RF - based communication with existing solar LED road studs and a system for controlling them. The proposed system is called the smart road stud system and it can control the equipment through the central control unit and the relay unit connected to the central control room by incorporating the RF communication function in the existing solar LED road stud. In addition, since it is possible to control the lighting method, color, etc. according to the road condition, it is possible to provide the driver with the state of the road to perform the function for preventing the second accident after the accident. It also adds features that minimize the ongoing power consumption of LED and RF communications. In order to verify the validity of the proposed system, prototypes were produced and it was confirmed that it is possible to act as a university for prevention of accident after accident by linking with other traffic system besides accident prevention function by securing existing visibility.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.4A
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• pp.216-223
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• 2003

This study concerns implementation of the roadstud traffic-signal system with RF wireless telecommunication. It is used for improving the problem and limit of the roadstud that currently being used simply for leading deceleration of vehicles and indicating center line of roads. With the use of wireless roadstud traffic signal system, not only it is possible to improve the problem and limit of the currently being used roadstud but also it is possible to reduce installing and repairing fee of it.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.249-257
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to construct a virtual reality simulation environment for searching and evaluating evaluation criteria for road safety facilities with new technologies. Virtual reality simulation requires high realism and accurate behavior data extraction. To do this, we used the Unreal Engine to create the environment by dividing it into an external environment and a vehicle environment. After that, a sample simulation for the luminescent road markers and preliminary experiments were conducted. As a result, luminescent road markers showed better 5m interval than 10m interval. It can be confirmed that it can be used in the simulation for searching the evaluation criteria for the new road safety facilities that incorporate the new technology in the future. In the future, it will be possible to simulate various environments by adding modeling and sample components for other road facilities.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.29-38
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• 2007

This study investigated the effects of delineation systems on drivers' maneuver and how the effectiveness of delineation system can be further improved according to the road geometry. The experiments were conducted to collect lateral placement data and detection distance data using GPS equipped vehicles. The main results are summarizedas follows. Firstly, installing the delineation facilities on the roads helps drivers to recognize road alignment. Secondly, the detection distance is longer for delineators than for raised pavement marker in tangent section, while there is no difference in curve section. The chevron show the longest detection distance in the curve section, while the raised pavement markers showed no distinctive performance in terms of detection distance and lateral placement. Therefore, we can recommend install delineators in the tangent sections and chevrons in curve sections, based on the analysis results of effects of delineation facilities.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.100-109
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• 2008

Traffic accidents at night occur more than any other time because of improper road light facility and delineators. Therefore, cost-effective criteria of installing delineators are needed instead of expensive road light facility, especially, on rural road including light volume of traffic. This paper presents the criteria of installing 'Chevron Alignment Sign' considering driver's visual behavior characteristics and 'Raised Pavement Marker' considering critical encroachment angie of both straight section and curve one in order to reduce both the number of accidents on curve sections and the number of road encroachment accidents, respectively. The characteristics of visual behaviors can be expressed by visual angle involving curve radius and intersection angle. The estimated installing angles are $1^{\circ}{\sim}2.5^{\circ}$ by radii, which is based on changes in sensitivity across visual field by exogenous attention. Also, the raised pavement marker is installed every 2m, 3m, and 4m considering critical encroachment angles by radii.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.129-142
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• 2017

Accident Black Spot Improvement Project is the representative road safety intervention to eliminate environmental risk factors on the roadway by installing road safety facilities. Although it is one of the main road safety projects in Korea, there has been a lack of effort analyzing the traffic accident reduction effects of this project. In this study, therefore, we selected 4,171 road black spots from 2004 to 2013 and investigated the traffic accident reduction effects of 5 road safety facilities by using "Comparison Group(C-G)" method. Through the analysis, it was found that the number of traffic accidents were lowered by 4.45% with traffic islands, 32.17% with road paved markers, and 24.13% with speed cameras, respectively. However, 0.61% with pedestrian fencing and 1.67% with skid resistant pavement were increased on the other hand. In addition, we also analyzed traffic accident reduction facilities' performance on specific types of collision mentioned in manual on road safety facilities by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport. It was shown that the number of bad weather traffic accidents were reduced by 52.96% with road paved markers, pedestrians accidents were reduced by 62.77% with pedestrian fencing and rear-end collisions were reduced by 26.00% with skid resistant pavement.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.21 no.6 s.78
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• pp.82-87
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• 2006

The existing raised pavement marker, however, have some limitations. Most of them are square-shaped which makes only forward and backward retro-reflection, their orientation can be easily changed by impact of vehicle, and the surface reflector can be readily contaminated leading poor functioning. In addition, maintenance for broken raised pavement marker is not easy. The purpose of the study is to design and manufacture a new and improved type of raised pavement marker. The new raised pavement marker has round-shaped upper structure. Its body was separated from the holder and the reflector was surrounded by acrylic cover. We tested performances of the constituent parts, optimum load after installation, and reflection efficiency. The new raised pavement marker will be an initiation of studies on the improvement of the shape and performance of raised pavement markers.