• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.116-129
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• 2023

Recently, interest in autonomous driving has drawn attention to autonomous cooperative driving, which considers the development of driving technology of autonomous vehicles and the development of infrastructure that constitutes a driving environment. According to the concept of autonomous cooperative driving, This study analyzes the new infrastructure for autonomous driving that can complement the information of existing precise road maps and adding HD map layer as the new infrastructure. The new infrastructure for autonomous driving presented two types of improved facilities and one type of sensor only facility. Analysis of HD maps shows that information such as junction points rarely changes, but it is expected that infrastructure for autonomous driving can be added to convey the meaning of paying attention to obstacles that may arise at the junction. In this way, the new infrastructure for autonomous driving needs to support the roles of guidance, instruction, and attention that existing road facilities.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.123-133
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• 2024

Existing autonomous driving technology has been developed based on sensors attached to the vehicles to detect the environment and formulate driving plans. On the other hand, it has limitations, such as performance degradation in specific situations like adverse weather conditions, backlighting, and obstruction-induced occlusion. To address these issues, cooperative autonomous driving technology, which extends the perception range of autonomous vehicles through the support of road infrastructure, has attracted attention. Nevertheless, the real-time analysis of the 3D centroids of objects, as required by international standards, is challenging using single-lens cameras. This paper proposes an approach to detect objects and estimate the centroid of vehicles using the fixed field of view of road infrastructure and pre-measured geometric information in real-time. The proposed method has been confirmed to effectively estimate the center point of objects using GPS positioning equipment, and it is expected to contribute to the proliferation and adoption of cooperative autonomous driving infrastructure technology, applicable to both vehicles and road infrastructure.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.214-227
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to find the driving difficulty of automated vehicles in terms of road infrastructure operation. It was judged out of this study that the level of automated driving would be enhanced if the road situation recognition ability was advanced through the presentation of infrastructure information during the difficult driving situations. The difficulty evaluation index was divided into three stages, and a survey of experts and an AHP were conducted. The result of the AHP showed that the driving difficulty of the interrupted flow was much higher than that of the uninterrupted flow. The AHP results also showed that and the driving difficulty of unsignalized intersections and roundabouts under an interrupted flow was evaluated as the highest. The top six driving situations with high difficulty were also evaluated to occur under unsignalized intersections and roundabouts.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.1-15
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• 2022

In order to trust and use autonomous vehicles, safe driving on the road must be guaranteed. For this, the first infrastructure to be equipped with autonomous driving is traffic safety facility. On the other hand, autonomous vehicles(Level 3) and general vehicles are driving on the road, it is necessary to additionally manage existing general traffic safety facilities. In this study, a field management system for traffic safety facilities based on autonomous driving infrastructure was studied, and a pilot field management system was implemented in the demonstration area(Pangyo). The pilot system consists of a GNSS(Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver, a field management equipment, and a field management app. As a result of field demonstration,, it was confirmed that traffic safety facility information was easily transmitted and received even in downtown areas and that could be efficiently operated and managed. It is expected that the results of this study will be used as reference materials for the spread of autonomous driving infrastructure to local governments and infrastructure construction in the future.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.19-33
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• 2019

There have been enormous efforts to develop an innovative public transport bus service for enhancing its operational efficiency based on Automated Vehicle(AV). However, since the vehicle operating environment in the public transport system varies with the purpose and method of mobility service, it is necessary to preferentially evaluate the current roadworthiness for an effective way to introduce the AV. Therefore, this study classified and redefined AV-based mobility service based on literature reviews. This research conducted the roadworthiness test for checking the feasibilities of the AV-based mobility services. Furthermore, we suggested some deployment strategies of the AV-based mobility service considering the Level-Of-Service (LOS) of road infrastructure based on the results of roadworthiness tests. The proposed direction would have a great potential to introduce the AV-based public transport system in the near future.

• Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2023

With the advent of the 4th industrial revolution era, interest in autonomous driving technology is increasing. Accordingly it is necessary to seek safe driving by recognizing surrounding situations using sensors attached to autonomous vehicles along with the applicability of existing traffic facilities to autonomous driving lanes and the utilization of HD maps. In this study, in order to deduce the role of sensor only physical facilities which recognized through a laser scanner on an autonomous vehicle developed to improve road and traffic infrastructure, through comparative analysis with existing road facilities such as road signs, safety signs, and gaze guidance facilities. Sign facilities can promote driving safety by allowing autonomous vehicles to perform specific actions directly. In order to promote safe driving by recognizing sign facilities by using sensors for autonomous vehicles, it is necessary to prepare standards for installation, management, and use, and it is considered that management and supervision should be carried out continuously according to the standards.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.112-123
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• 2018

The C-ARS(Cooperative Automated Roadway System) refers to a road infrastructure system that links automated vehicles with road infrastructure and communicates with each other via V2X communication to support automated vehicles. The purpose of this study is to suggest a performance evaluation method of C-ARS service. This study exemplifies the 'Work zone information service' among I2V service that provide information to automated vehicles in road infrastructure. First, we define the requirements and service scope needed to check the use case analysis and service performance of the service, and propose an evaluation system for performance evaluation of these services. In addition, the evaluation system was used to verify the feasibility of evaluation through the field test of 'Work zone information service'.

• Broadcasting and Media Magazine
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.73-83
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• 2019

현재 자율주행 셔틀, 택시, 공유 차량을 이용한 교통서비스제공의 실현 가능성을 검증하는 단계에 있으며, 세계 각국에서는 자율주행 셔틀을 활용한 대중교통 서비스 제공을 목표로 실증을 경쟁적으로 하고 있다. 본 고에서는 자율주행 셔틀 기술 개발과 실증 현황을 소개하고 대중교통 분야에 적용할 때 고려해야 할 사항을 검토하여 서비스제공 측면, 자율주행 기술과 안전성 확보 측면, 인프라 확충 측면, 수용성 개선 측면의 쟁점을 도출해 보고자 하였다. 이를 토대로 쟁점과 문제점을 해결하기 위한 방안과 정책 제언을 제시하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39B no.3
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• pp.180-187
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• 2014

This paper introduces reliable multicast MAC protocol for cooperative unmanned vehicles. cooperative unmanned vehicles communicate with infrastructure and other unmanned vehicles in order to increase driving safety. They exchange information related to driving and thus it requires real-time and reliable multicast. However, the international vehicular communication standard, IEEE 802.11p WAVE, does not provide a reliable multicast scheme on the MAC layer. To address the problems of reliability, we propose a reliable multicast protocol called WiVCL, which avoids contention and collision. Our evaluation shows that the WiVCL achieves a high degree of reliability and real-time features.

• 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.