• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.199-212
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• 2017

Rapid roadway snow removal is significantly important due to difficult occurrence estimation of heavy snowfall disasters by global warming and climate change. Local governments of S. Korea have snow removal equipments and vehicles based on past experiences without considering snowfall and roadway characteristics. The objective of this research is to develop the demand estimation procedure for snow removal equipments and vehicles based on regional snowfall and roadway characteristics. This research first classifies regional snowfall characteristics using KMO's ten-year snowfall data. Second, roadway snow removal length is computed for local governments. Real possession data is compared with demand estimation of snow removal equipments & vehicles for each local government with roadway snow removal scenarios. Finally, required demands of snow removal equipments & vehicles are predicted by concerning regional snowfall amount and required snow removal hours. Results from this research are used for developing heavy snowfall disaster management policies for optimal demands and snow removal routes of 229 local governments.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.138-146
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• 2024

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to find cases of using information and communication technology and smart mobility technology in snow removal vehicles and equipment for rapid and efficient road snow removal in the event of a snowstorm, and to find ways to utilize them. Method: Cases of domestic and overseas snow removal methods are investigated, and snow removal operation methods incorporating new technologies are presented. Result: Most of the operation of snow removal equipment in Korea uses GPS, CCTV, and road traffic information systems, and in the case of overseas, road weather information systems and road snow removal monitoring systems are used. It is expected that snow removal technology using autonomous snow removal vehicles, which are smart mobility, will be developed in the future. Conclusion: The results of this study can contribute to the policy of using snow removal equipment and snow removal vehicles of local governments and related organizations.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.127-128
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• 2017

최근에는 발생되고 있는 염화물계 제설제의 도로 손상, 차량 부식 및 미끄럼으로 인한 교통사고 문제를 해결하기 위해 친환경 제설제의 사용이 권장되고 있다. 그러나, 현재 수행되고 있는 친환경 제설제의 성능 시험 방법은 실내에서 얼음을 이용하여 실시되고 있으나, 실제 현장 성능과의 상관 관계가 낮은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 현재 수행되고 있는 제설제 성능평가 방법을 소개하고 국내 실정에 부합하는 제설제의 성능 검증을 위한 현장 시험 방법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.07a
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• pp.101-103
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• 2023

기존의 제설작업은 인력에 의존하여 시간과 비용이 많이 소요되고, 작업 중 발생할 수 있는 안전사고의 위험성이 존재한다. 본 논문은 제설작업의 효율성과 안전성 그리고 신속성을 높이기 위해 임베디드시스템을 활용한 드론용 제설장치의 설계에 대해 다루고 있다. 임베디드시스템은 RF모듈을 구성하고 무선으로 제어조종이 가능하도록 고안하였다. 드론에 장착되는 제설장치의 임베디드시스템으로는 아두이노메가2560을 채택하였다. 아두이노메가2560은 제설장치의 제어에 필요한 실시간 데이터수집, 처리, 응답을 처리와 RF모듈에서 오는 데이터에 대한 연산 및 제어 수행을 할 수 있다. 제설장치를 장착한 드론은 기존의 제설작업보다 안전하고 신속하게 수행될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.381-388
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• 2016

The snow control storage facilities have the physical requirements that are an anti-icing and deicing operations. They are efficiently and quickly performed, and composed of a vehicle depot for the snow removal equipment and truck, anti-icing and deicing chemical storages, and the control utilities. This study is to investigate the planning guidance of foreign countries, and the actual conditions of the snow control chemical storage facilities for expressway, the national highway and the local road, and is to suggest the planning guidelines. As some of the authorities have no fixed structures for the snow control storage, this study analyze the 5 cases constructed lately. From the result of the case studies, the operations performed in the snow control storage facilities and drawback of the facilities are analyzed with respect to layout, size, plan, and structure, and the improvement planning guidance is also suggested.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.15-26
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• 2008

Recently, various damages such as corrosion of rebar, scaling on concrete pavement and environmental deteriorations caused by using the chloride-containing deicer have been reported. To solve these problems, several substitute deicers have been developed by other researchers. However, studies on evaluation of performance for the developed deicers have been limited in the basic laboratory testing. It is necessary to establish the resonable and systematic test procedure for evaluating the deicing performance. In this study, rational and practical test methods were set up through literature review and deicing performance of Eco-Friendly Deicer(EFD), which is a kind of low chloride-containing deicer developed by our research group, was evaluated by the presented test methods. As results of the laboratory tests, initial deicing performance of EFD was similar with that of Pre-Wetted Salt(PWS) which has been used in highway deicing and it was verified by executed field tests in twice that EFD had passable deicing performance compare with PWS.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Building Construction
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.369-375
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• 2017

This study suggests PSO(Particle Swarm Optimization) algorithm that optimizes the snowplow route allocation and the location of the snow control material storage to improve the efficiency in snow removal works. The modified PSO algorithm for improving the search capacity is proposed, and this study suggests the solution representation, the parameter setting, and the fitness function for the given optimization problems. Computational experiments in real-world case are carried out to justify the proposed method and compared with the traditional PSO algorithms. The results show that the proposed algorithms can find the better solution than the traditional PSO algorithms by searching for the wider solution space without falling into the local optima. The finding of this study is efficiently employed to solve the optimization of the snowplow route allocation by minimizing the workload of each snowplow to search the location of the snow control material storage as well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.362-363
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• 2017

최근 기후변화에 따라 여름철 태풍, 호우와 겨울철 대설, 한파 등의 기상재난이 증가하고 있다. 대설재난은 교통, 건물, 시설물 등에 다양한 피해를 발생시키기 때문에 신속한 대처가 필요하다. 대설재난이 도시안전에 영향을 주고 있으나 우리나라의 대설재난 대처는 미흡하고, 정책 연구도 부족한 상황이다. 본 연구는 대설재난이 발생할 때 신속한 도로 제설을 위하여 제설차량과 장비에 GPS 기술을 활용한 사례를 분석하고, 시사점을 도출한다. 도로 제설장비에 GPS 장비를 부착하면 긴급 상황시 제설차량과 장비의 위치를 파악하여 인근지역의 도로 제설을 응원할 수 있다. 본 연구의 사례 분석은 향후 지자체 제설장비의 효율적 이용을 위해 활용될 수 있다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.7 no.3 s.25
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• pp.53-62
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• 2005

Efficient snow-removing work is one of important processes of winter road management. Calcium chloride has been used as a typical deicing agent in Korea. It presents superial performance as snow deicing agents, however it has been known to give serious environmental problem and to deteriorate durability of concrete structure in road by corrosion. The environment-friendly road deicing agents made from the waste material which is liquid phase organic matter that is Ca Mg and reactant of organic acid (nitric acid and propionic acid) have been introduced by number of researchers. They indicated the calcium magnesium salt of organic acids have advantage over the calcium choride in terms of lower production unit cost by resources recycling and can solve environmental problem and durability deterioration of structures. In this study, the deicing performance of calcium magnesium salt of organic acids(CMO) is investigated based on the series of experiments including the test for heat of dissolution, freezing point, ice melting test and ice penetration test.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.715-727
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• 2008

This study analyzed changes on the best condition of temperature and relative humidity for making artificial snows in the Yongpyong Ski Resort using data from Daegwallyeong. Depth of snowfall and snowfall days have decrease since 1990s. If the Yongpyong Ski Resort has only to depend on natural snows, it would be difficult to make and maintain ski slope. There are two times of snowmaking during ski seasons: one is the first snowmaking (October-November) for opening ski slopes and the other is the reinforcement of snowmaking (December-March) for maintaining snow quality during the seasons. Days having the best condition for the first snowmaking (daily minimum temperature below $-1^{\circ}C$ and daily average relative humidity 60 to 80 percent) decreased after 1970s. Days having the best condition for the reinforcement of snowmaking also decreased. While temperature changes are more evident than humidity changes for the first snowmaking, humidity changes are more obvious than change of temperature for the reinforcement of snowmaking. In the future climate projection by A1B scenarios, the length of ski seasons projected to decrease a 10 to 40 percent against the period of 1973-2008. The climate condition for the snowmaking projected to be poor, especially the due to increase of temperature.