• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.618-624
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• 2017

In Seoul and most metropolitan cities, urban trains are delayed due to high congestion during commute times. The delay effect of passengers boarding and disembarking is also significant. In this study, a wide passenger door system was developed as a way to improve the scheduled speed of urban trains by decreasing the passengers' flow time. The door size was defined experimentally to shorten the entrance time. The optimum door size was also determined to improve the stop precision performance of the train while considering the interference effect with peripheral devices. Because the change in door size changes the structural characteristics of the vehicle, the structural stability of a train was analyzed numerically. A prototype of the wide door system was made, and the proposed design was verified using functional and endurance tests. The systematic development process can be used as design data for door size definition and system production when applying a wide door to improve the scheduled speed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.571-581
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• 2016

This study focused on the characteristics of railway station squares according to layout patterns, which provide transit and links between the station and town. The results were as follows: (1) The analysis examined the characteristics of the railway station to the location and types the proportion: civic center type (59.3%) and ground station (43.7%), and upper railroad station (40.6%). The spatial configurations of the railway station square were obtained: Traffic space and Environment space. (2) The railway station square space configurations was classified as 4 main layout types: Turn place type (PC), Circulation type (PI), Stop place type (PS-1), and Stop place type (PS-2) (3) The average size for each type of railway station square layout patterns of the Location was larger than the civic center type ($16,882.3m^2$) to suburbs type ($37,698.9m^2$). The average form for each type of a railway station square layout patterns of the Location was the civic center type (1.00:0.73) and suburb type (1.00:0.37).

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.59-64
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• 2016

The PSD (Platform Screen Door System) has been installed to enhance the passengers' safety. A total of 592 stations operate the PSD system, which is almost 71.8% of all stations in South Korea. This study compared the opening rate between the PSD and train door, and calculated the exact amount of passengers at peak time. In addition, the evacuation time was simulated by Pathfinder 2015 with the exact input data. Some of the high density stations have extremely high dangerous points about the passengers' evacuation at some situations by the PSD door opening rate. In particular, due to the interference of a fixed door, when it stops at 7 m less than the regular position, its opening rate becomes less than half of the normal state. To solve this problem, it should be made possible to open the fixed door by changing it to an emergency door or improving the PSD module system.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.101-109
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• 2012

It is commonly recognized that railway is one of the representative transportation and it offers public service based on strategies for being rapid, automation, safety. Since the opening of high speed railway, 3-hundred-million people have used it and acknowledged its efficiency. However, derailed accident at Kwangmyeong station in February, 2011, frequent malfunction of KTX-Sancheon, and accidents by engineer's careless fault damaged on credibility of safety, Especially, spreaded accidents through social networking service by cell phones amplified anxiety of public, being criticized by the press. This study analyzed statistics of past accident and cases of passing-by accident, and surveyed 152 KTX captain engineers about their recognition of the accident by careless fault and experiences of possibility of occurrence for preventing engineer's careless fault and restoring trust According to the analysis, engineers worry about responsibility and disadvantages related to the accidents for the most, and they are nervous about malfunction for the second most. This study presents prevention methods regarding the result. First, it is required to improve mental stability and concentration on their work, secondly, advanced ability to cope with malfunction or error through repetitive education and training are required to increase confidence, and for the last, improvement of operational supporting system such as ATP, GPS to prevent errors by human factors. Improvement of the system is expected to lead engineers to prevent careless fault and regain the reputation of railway.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.613-621
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• 2019

In general, transfer in subway stations is defined as transfer between lines and station transfer. In transfer between lines, passengers change from one subway line to another by utilizing horizontal pedestrian facilities such as transfer passages and pedestrian way. Station transfer appears in the situation that subway lines of enter and exit gate terminals differs from those of boarding and alighting trains and passenger trips utilize both vertical pedestrian facilities such as stair and escalator and horizontal facilities. The hypothesis on these two transfers presupposes that all subway lines are operated by either local train or express in subway network. This means that in a transfer case both local and express trains are operated in the same subway line, as a case of Seoul Metro Line 9, has not been studied. This research proposes a methodology of finding the same line transfer in the Seoul metropolitan subway network built based on the smart card network data by suggesting expanded network concept and a model that passengers choose a theirs minimum time routes.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.619-629
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• 2015

The train conflict resolution problem refers to an adjustment of the train operation schedule in order to minimize the delay propagation when a train conflict is predicted or when a train conflict occurs. Previous train studies of train conflict resolutions are limited in terms of the size of the problems to be solved due to exponential increases in the variables. In this paper, we propose a train conflict resolution model using a time-space network to solve the train conflict situation in the operational phase. The proposed model adjusts the size of the problem by giving only the dwell tolerance in the time-space network only for stops at the station after a train conflict. In addition, the proposed model can solve large problems using a path flow variable. The study presents a train delay propagation analysis and experimental results of train conflict resolution assessments as well using the proposed model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.21-24
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 광대역 무선 데이터 서비스용으로 표준화된 WLAN IEEE 802.11a Convolutional 부호기의 펑처링 패턴에 따른 성능을 분석하고, 간략화 된 구현 방법을 제시한다. 제한된 주파수 대역에서 Convolutional 부호기의 구조를 변경함이 없이 정보 전송율을 향상시키기 위해 부호기에서 출력되는 비트열을 일정한 비트 간격마다 1비트씩 생략하는 펑처링 기법이 주로 이용된다. IEEE 802.11a WLAN 채널코딩에서도 부호율이 l/2, 구속장 7인 Convolutional 부호기를 기반으로 2/3와 3/4과 같은 높은 부호율을 얻기 위해 펑처링 기법을 채택하고 있다. 본 논문에서는, 단일 하드웨어 구조를 사용해서 1/2의 기본 부호율로부터 전송율에 따라 WLAN IEEE 802.11a의 펑처링에 의한 부호율 2/3와 3/4에서, 부호기의 구조를 간략화하기 위해 펑처링 패턴 구조에 따른 부호화 성능을 조사하고 단일하드웨어 구조를 사용해서 이들 부호율의 시스템을 구현할 수 있도록 한다. 모의 실험에서는 부가 백색 가우시안 잡음 현상이 존재하는 채널을 모델링 해서, BPSK와 QPSK의 변조방법에 대해 WLAN IEEE 802.11a 펑처링 패턴에 따른 부호화 성능을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.211-216
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• 2005

The authors carried out experiment, Computer Fluid Dynamics(CFD) and energy simulation of simulator. As a results of experiment and CFD, diffuser velocity is very important design factor for occupied zone air conditioning in Under Floor Air Distribution(UFAD) system. Then, in contrast to energy consumption of the Overhead system, the UFAD system could reduce 6.4% of the total energy because of occupied tone air conditioning. It concluded that tile UFAD system is more effective in energy Performance than the Overhead system.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.11b
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• pp.673-678
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• 2008

In crushed service areas of Metro railway lines, there are problems such as the buildup discontent, the irregular operation time and rotation of rolling stocks, caused by frequently occurred train delay. Train delay is affected by operation conditions or infrastructure capacities such as train schedule, line capacity, car rotation plan, shunting movements at origin and destination, and also by transport demand characteristics. Furthermore, a delay produce another delays and spread over the following trains. So it is not easy to build up a protection and recovery plan. In this research, we conduct experimental analysis study based on the real metro data, and as a result, present the relation between the traffic demand and the dwell time. And finally, propose future research themes for improving the operation efficiency of metro railways.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.423-432
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• 2018

Since the Daegu subway fire accident, people's perception of safety has increased, and all materials inside the train have been changed to incombustible materials. However, there is still a lack of development of fire extinguishing systems. Train components are mostly made of steel plates, and therefore it is very difficult to extinguish the train fire by using general fire extinguishing equipment. In this regard, this paper investigated rapid and easy methods of extinguishing the train fire by using compressed air foam systems through full-scale fire tests. To extinguish the fire of train at rescue station, window breakers were used to quickly destroy the train windows, and the compressed air foam system was inserted inside the train. As a result, the train windows were destroyed in 5 seconds, and the 11.88-MW fire was put out in 30 seconds by the compressed air foam discharged from the compressed air foam system inserted inside the train. For the future work, there is a need for further experimental studies to prevent the spread of fire and protect tunnel structures with the use of compressed air foam systems.