• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.160-173
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• 2021

Recently, research on the development of autonomous vehicles has increased worldwide. Moreover, a means to identify and analyze the characteristics of traffic accidents of autonomous vehicles is needed. Accordingly, traffic accident data of autonomous vehicles are being collected in California, USA. This research examined the characteristics of traffic accidents of autonomous vehicles. Primarily, traffic accident data for autonomous vehicles were analyzed, and the text data used text-embedding techniques to derive major keywords and four topics. The methodology of this study is expected to be used in the analysis of traffic accidents in autonomous vehicles.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.7 s.85
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• pp.35-42
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• 2005

Few studies have been carried out to find out the interaction of design speeds, operating speeds, and posted speeds though they have a complementary relationships. As an attempt to find the relationships, this study measured the speeds of the free flowing vehicles at four lane rural highways. In comparison of 95th percentile speeds and inferred design speeds determined from the road design manual with the geometric features of each sites, operating speeds were constantly higher than the inferred design speeds at the sites where the inferred design speed is under 110km/h. and the reverse situation was observed at the sites where the inferred design speed is over 130km/h. In the comparison of operating speeds and posted speeds. the range of the 85th percentile speeds at the sites where posted speeds is 80km/h was distributed from 95km/h to 110km/h. and the range was distributed from the 105km/h to the 120km/h at the sites where posted speeds is 90km/h. Multiple regression analysis was used to develop prediction equations for mean. 85th. and 95th percentile speeds at approach and curve midpoint locations. At the midpoint, only posted speeds influenced the mean, 85th. At the approach locations, the mean, 85th, 95th percentile speeds were influenced by posted speeds and length of the approach tangent.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.62-77
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• 2022

A cooperative driving automation system is imperative to overcome the limitation of the stand-alone automated driving technology. By definition, a cooperative driving automation system refers to a technology in which an automated vehicle cooperates with other vehicles or infrastructure to increase driving efficiency and safety. Specifically, in this study, the technical elements necessary for the cooperative driving automation technology and the technological research trends were investigated. Subsequently, implications for future cooperative driving automation technology development were drawn through the research trends. Finally, the importance of cooperative driving automation technology and infra-guidance service for automated vehicles were discussed.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.95-102
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• 2011

This paper presents a Driving Risk Model (DRM) based on driving speed choices using an Ordered Response Probit (ORP) model. The DRM is conceptualized based on the relation between speed deviation and the occurrence of crashes found by Solomon. The impacts of various driving risk factors are revealed by applying the DRM to evaluate the effectiveness of In-Vehicle Traffic Warning Information (IVTWI) in expressway driving. Regarding driving risk, the results show that: (1) the risk is lower among male drivers, those with more driving experience and those with less accident history, (2) the risk is higher when driving takes place on wet road surface, in the afternoon, and under conditions of low traffic volume, and (3) the risk is also higher on both downgraded and long curve sections. Additionally, the results provide evidence that provision of IVTWI can decrease the driving risk. The proposed DRM provides a solution for assessing the traffic safety impacts of countermeasures on roadways when there is a shortage of traffic accidents data.

• 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.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.287-300
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• 2022

The introduction of Connected and Automated(CAD) technology has a growing interests especially in areas with low demand for transport, where often the local transport services do not connect to peripheral areas for more efficient and convenient mobility services. However, there are few researches on CAD-based mobility services in areas with low demand for transport. Because current researches are mainly focuses on introduction of CAD-based mobility services in area with high demand for transport such as urban and highway. These two areas have different road environments and these differences require different driving technology especially related to Operational Design Domain(ODD). ODD is important factors for introduction of CAD-based mobility services. Therefore, we compare the road environments of areas with low demand for transport and areas with high demand for transport in terms of ODD. In addition, this paper proposes suggest guidance for the introduction of CAD-based mobility services in areas with low demand for transport such as rural and suburban areas.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.202-217
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• 2021

Following the fatal accident of pedestrians caused by Autonomous Vehicle by Uber, the world's largest ride-hailing company, two people were killed in a self-driving car accident by Tesla in April. There is a need to ensure the safety of road users. Accordingly, in order to secure the safety of Autonomous Vehicle driving, it is necessary to evaluate Autonomous Vehicle driving technologies in various situations based on the road and traffic environment in which the Autonomous vehicle will actually drive. Therefore, this study used UC-win/Road ver.14.0 based on general driver's license test questions to present a virtual reality-based Autonomous Vehicles driving ability evaluation tool among various driving ability test method. Based on this, it was intended to test driving ability for unexpected situations in complex and diverse driving environments, and to confirm its practical applicability as an optimal tool for Autonomous vehicle ability test and evaluation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.81-84
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 1대의 CCD카메라로 주행 중 차선과 선행차량을 인식하고 선행차량까지의 거리를 실시간으로 계측하는 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 도로와 카메라간의 기하구조를 분석하여 사영행렬을 추출하였고, 주행 중 차간 거리를 실시간으로 계측하는데 이용하였다. 또한 차선 인식을 위해서 Hough Transform을 적용하여 처리시간을 단축하였다. 도로상의 장애물은 인식된 주행차선 내로 한정하였고 도로 영상에서 수평에지성분을 구한 후 히스토그램 투영을 적용하여 장애물을 검출하였다. 거리가 점차 멀어질수록 계측오차가 증가함을 볼 수 있었으나 기존의 방법에 비하여 주행 중에 운전자가 장애물을 판단하여 제동을 취할 수 있는 정도의 유효한 오차특성을 보였다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.132-152
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• 2017

Network performance measure has been more and more important in transportation sector because traffic congestion has been steadily increasing in urban area. VKT is defined a sum of traveled distances of whole vehicles on the road network and one of the most important measure of effectiveness (MOE) for network performance measure. This paper aims to propose a methodology for estimating VKT and to apply it to calculate VKT in 6 major cities in Korea. We calculate VKT in 6 major cities by estimating traffic volumes on the uncollected road sections using regression kriging. It is expected that the proposed methodology can be applied various cities.

• 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.