• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.477-484
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• 2023

The number and age of elderly drivers are continuously increasing according to the extension of the human lifespan. Therefore, in transportation, efforts are being made to differentiate and manage elderly drivers by age group. This study aims to identify the factors affecting the crash severity of early and late elderly drivers, compared to middle-aged drivers, and to identify the characteristics between these groups. Crash data that occurred on nationwide roads for the past 5 years (2017-2021) was applied. Unlike previous studies, this study only targeted drivers in their 40s and older, when presbyopia begins: middle-aged driver (40-64), early elderly driver (65-74), and late elderly driver (75+). As a result of logistic regression analysis, a total of 18 variables were found to affect serious injuries including fatalities in early and late elderly drivers. Most of these variables appeared to lead to severity more sensitively in the late elderly group. The results of this study are expected to be useful as basic information for establishing traffic safety policies for elderly drivers in the future.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.41-59
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• 2002

The present study explored the major behavior patterns of drivers and the environmental settings having an effect on traffic accident using the data collected from drivers and traffic police. Drivers and traffic police read questionnaire which contain the passible causes of traffic accident and selected the major causes on the basis of their latest accidents. Unexperienced drivers were forced to answer the questionnaire by referring to their friends and neighborhoods. The results showed that the major causes of traffic accident were connected with the driver's factors. The most important cause of traffic accidents was inattention/incautiousness. The next were lack of competence, skill, and experience. One interesting fact was that drivers and traffic police attributed differently. Drivers pointed out the lack of ability coping with an emergency and the insufficient skill of defensive driving as causes of the traffic accident. On the other hand, traffic polices indicated the intentional violations such as the disregard for traffic rules, trespassing on the central line of the roadway, speed limit violation, and breaking into the vehicle's line. The implications for appling the this results to driver education institutions were discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.7-10
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• 2008

자동차의 수가 점점 증가함에 따라 교통사고도 그 만큼 증가하고 있다. 교통사고의 주요 원인 중 하나가 졸음운전이나 부주의한 운전에 의한 것이다. 따라서 Real-Time으로 운전자의 제스처를 인식하여 졸음운전이나 부주의에 의한 사고를 사전에 예방하여 보다 안전한 운전을 돕는 서비스가 필요시 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 운전자의 제스처 인식에 전처리 과정으로 운전자의 상반신에 대한 영상데이터에서 Adaboost를 이용하여 복잡한 배경과 다양한 환경에서 강인하게 얼굴 영역을 찾는 알고리즘을 소개한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.14-26
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• 2019

For bus drivers' safe driving, a policy that analyzes the causes of the drivers' traffic accidents and then assists their safe driving is required. Therefore, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport set up its plan to gradually expand the equipping of commercial vehicles with FCWS (Forward Collision Warning System) and LDWS(Lane Departure Warning System), from the driver-supporting ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). However, there is not much basic research on the analysis of bus drivers' traffic accidents in Korea. As such, the time is appropriate to research what is the most necessary ADAS for bus drivers going forward to prevent bus accidents. The purpose of this research is to analyze how serious the accidents were in the different bus routes and whether the accidents were repetitive, and to give recommendations on how to support ADAS for buses, as an improvement. A model of ordered logit was used to analyze how serious the accidents were and as a result, vehicle to pedestrian accidents which directly affected individuals were statistically significant in all of the models, and violations of regulations, such as speeding, traffic signal violation and violation of safeguards for passengers, were indicated in common in several models. Therefore, the pedestrian-sensor system and automatic emergency control device for pedestrian should be installed to reduce bus accidents directly affecting persons in the future, and education for drivers and ADAS are to be offered to reduce the violations of regulations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2021.01a
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• pp.75-77
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• 2021

다양한 원인으로 매년 수많은 사람이 교통사고로 목숨을 잃거나 크게 다치곤 한다. 최근 교통사고 통계자료에 따르면 졸음운전으로 인한 교통사고가 음주운전이나, 과속보다도 높은 비중을 차지하고 있었다. 또한, 사고가 났을 때 안전벨트를 매지 않은 운전자나 동승객은 부상 정도가 훨씬 심각한 것으로 알려져 전 좌석에 안전벨트를 꼭 착용해야 하는 법도 제정되었다. 그런데도 많은 운전자 및 동승자가 안전벨트를 착용하지 않아 크게 부상을 당하는 사고는 줄지 않고 있다. 이러한 사고와 부상을 줄이기 위하여 본 논문에서는 다중 네트워크를 이용하여 운전자의 졸음 감지 및 운전자, 동승자의 안전벨트 착용 여부까지 실시간으로 판별하는 시스템을 설계하고 구현한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.18-34
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• 2021

Pedestrian deaths in Korea due to traffic accidents are 40 percent of the fatalities in traffic accidents, which is about twice the average of OECD member countries. To reduce severe pedestrian accidents, it is necessary to apply the accident reduction measures to high-risk drivers (novice, elderly, and commercial vehicle drivers) who are more likely to cause traffic accidents than general drivers. Therefore, this study analyzed the effect of safe driving education on high-risk drivers' behavior. Here, the safe driving education is chosen as the measure to reduce traffic accidents. As part of the study, sudden pedestrian crossing situations were implemented in the driving simulator, and the vehicle trajectory data were collected to compare the driving behavior before and after the education. Most surrogate safety measures showed no improvement in the driving behavior of novice and elderly drivers, and the effect of safe driving education was found to be significant only in the group of commercial vehicle drivers. The results implied that additional measures such as pedestrian safety infrastructure and driver assistance systems, apart from the safe driving education, may be needed for novice and elderly drivers to reduce pedestrian accidents caused by them. With the findings mentioned above, this study is expected to provide a foundation to establish a plan to reduce pedestrian accidents caused by high-risk drivers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.551-557
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• 2003

2002년도 사고건수 등을 통한 사고가 잦은 운수업체와 대형 교통사고 발생업체를 선정하여 전반적인 안전관리실태를 조사하여 문제점을 파악하고 이를 토대로 운수업체의 효율적인 운전자관리를 위한 개선방안을 제시하는데 활용할 목적으로 조사 및 분석을 실시하였다.(중략)

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.161-171
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• 2023

It is largely agreed that elderly drivers (over 64 years) are more likely to cause fatal crashes than other age groups. According to national road crash statistics 2021, the number of road fatalities per 10,000 drivers over 64 years old was 1.77, while that of drivers in their 30s was 0.55. This indicates a 2.67 times higher probability of causing crashes among the former than the latter. The current study estimates how rear-end crashes may be reduced by installing Automatic Emergency Braking Systems (AEBS), particularly for elderly drivers. We analyzed data from Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance. The results show that the Odds Ratio of rear-end crash occurrence between vehicles with AEBS and without AEBS is 0.75, implying there were lesser rear-end crashes in the vehicles installed with AEBS. The Odds Ratio of male drivers was determined to be 0.78, which was lesser than the 0.81 Odds Ratio obtained for female drivers. Elderly drivers who had installed AEBS in their vehicles showed an Odds Ratio of 0.76, implying crash reduction. In particular, the Odds Ratio of male elderly drivers was found to be the lowest at 0.49. We believe incentivizing by giving discounted insurance premiums to the elderly who drive vehicles installed with AEBS will help reduce rear-end crashes.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06b
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• pp.420-422
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• 2011

2009년 경찰청 통계자료에 따르면 교통사고 사망자 중 안전 운전 불이행, 중앙선 침범, 신호 위반, 안전거리 미확보 등 운전자의 부주의에 의해 이루어진 사고가 약 90%이상을 차지하고 있어 심각한 사회적 경제적 문제를 초래한다. 이러한 운전자의 운전습관 개선 및 안전운전에 대한 사회적 요구, 사고 기록 등의 요구에 부응하기 위하여, 디지털 주행기록계 차량용 블랙박스 등 다양한 형태의 시스템이 사용되고 있으나, 이러한 시스템은 사고 후 차량데이터를 기반으로 위험운전여부를 분석하여 운전자를 관리하기 때문에 실시간으로 운전자를 관리하기에는 큰 한계가 있다. 이에 본 연구는 3축 가속도 센서와 GPS를 사용하여 위험운전 여부를 판단하고, 그 결과를 계수화하여 운전자의 정숙 운전 지수를 계산하여 보여줌으로써, 안전 운전과 급정차 급출발에 따른 연비 악화를 개선할 수 있도록 한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.118-127
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• 2009

This study tries to develop model in order to assess personal factors of senior traffic accidents that are widely recognized as one of the social problems. For the current practice. it gathers data (Simulation & Questionnaire Survey) of KOTSA and conducts Poisson and Negative Binomial Regression Analysis to develop traffic accident severity model. The results show that elderly drivers' accidents are mainly affected by attentiveness selection, velocity prediction ability and attentiveness distribution ability in a positive(+) way. Second, non-senior drivers' accidents are also positively(+) influenced by attentiveness selection, velocity prediction, distance perception, attentiveness distribution ability and attentiveness diversion ability. Therefore, influencing factors of senior and non-senior drivers to vehicle accidents are different. This eventually poses a indication that preliminary education for car accident prevention should be implemented based up[n the distinction between senior drivers and non-senior drivers.