• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.431-440
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• 2015

This study aims to quantify the railway freight performance using various indicators, to compare it over many countries, and to evaluate efficiency of railway freight in Korea. The indicators developed in this study was classified into two categories; country-specific and company-specific indicator. The former includes freight train density, average gross train load and average haul while the latter contains revenue/ton-km, ratio of operating costs to revenue, revenue per employee, ton-km per employee, costs per ton-km and ratio of labor costs to total operating costs. The results of this study shows that Korail performance is in low efficiency due to multi-frequency small amounts transport. The productivity of railway freight in Korea represented as ton-km per employee appears to be lower than that of other oversea companies considered in this study.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.116-130
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• 2023

Expressways play pivotal roles in cargo transportation because of their superior accessibility and mobility compared to rail and air. On the other hand, there is a limit to the accurate calculation of cargo transportation performance using existing highways owing to the mixture of vehicle types and difficulty in identifying cargo loads of individual cargo vehicles. This paper presents an algorithm for calculating more reliable cargo transportation performance using big data. The traffic performance (veh·km/day) was derived using the data collected from Toll Collecting System. The average tolerance weight for each vehicle type and the cargo load unit (ton/unit) considering it was calculated using vehicle specification information data and high-speed and low-speed axis data. This study calculated the cargo transportation performance by section and type using various online integrated highway data and presented a method for calculating the transportation performance by linking open business offices and private highways.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.47-61
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• 2016

The present study analyzed the railway transport characteristics of bulk cargo flowing in and out of trade ports in South Korea. Bulk cargo transport in freight stations located behind trade ports was examined using actual flow data, and new implications were drawn accordingly. The results showed that bulk cargo volume in freight stations located behind trade ports is gradually decreasing, and it is also failing to secure a competitive edge against road transport. This downfall can be mainly attributed to the decrease in competitiveness of railway transport as well as the emergence of new trade ports that do not have lead-in track for port. Therefore, greater effort is required to strengthen the connection between new trade ports and railway freight stations.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.33-39
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• 2001

TSR(Trans Siberian Railway)노선은 남한과 북한, 일본, 중국등 동북아시아와 유럽대륙을 연결하는 기간 운송망으로 그간 많은 국가에서 이를 활용해 왔다. 일본의 경우는 1971년 3월 일본과 나호드카항로에 컨테이너 선박을 취항하여 유라시아컨테이너복합 운송망사업에 참여하였으며, 남한의 경우도 1980년 중반부터 TSR을 이용해 운송하기 시작하였다. 남한의 TSR을 이용한 운송실적은 1991년 25,648Teu에서 1999년에 42,560Teu로 계속증가하고 있는 실정으로 그중 남한과 러시아의 직교역이 약 58%를 차지하고, 러시아를 통과하는 화물이 42%에 이르고 있다. (중략)

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.24 no.2 s.88
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• pp.53-63
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• 2006

The objective of this study is to estimate Korean transportation service index (KTSI), and to explore possible uses of the KTSI. The KTSI was monthly index to represent the level of passenger and freight services by road, railroad, air and maritime modes, which was developed from eight series. Four of these series measure the level of passenger services (passenger-kilometers) by road, railroad. air and maritime modes : monthly data from January 1995 to December 2004. Similarly. the remaining four series measure the level or freight activity (tonnage) by four modes during the same period. Given the weights of modal revenues, component series were aggregated into two indexes (passenger index and freight index) and a composite index using Chained Fisher Ideal index. which was a geometric mean of the Laspeyres index and the Passche index. The Fisher Ideal index is one of the 'superlative' indexes, which diminish 'substitution bias' as current-weighted indexes. As a result, the freight index and the composite index explain economic conditions better than the passenger index. Based on the composite index. the newly estimated KTSI shows an average lag time of one and a half years at peaks and three months at troughs in comparison with domestic business cycles. Nonetheless. the following efforts are needed for more credible and useful estimates; establishment of data collection scheme in time. credibility uplift of used data, development of various indexation methods.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.395-398
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• 2003

인터넷이 활성화 됨에 따라 공간이나 시간적 제약이 감소하였다. 인식 부족과 사용자 환경에 의해 미진하였던 철도 물류 정보 시스템도 웹을 기반으로 서비스 체제를 변경함으로 인해 효율적이고 편리한 서비스를 제공할 수 있었다. 제안한 시스템은 기존 XML로 처리되는 데이터 뿐만 아니라 철도를 통해 운송되는 화물(컨테이너 등)에 대한 추적 정보를 제공하거나 화물 운송에 대한 실적 및 정산 정보를 알 수 있다. 또한 철도를 통해 운송된 화물에 대한 통계 자료나 화차에 대한 운송 현황 자료 등을 추출하여 물동량 파악이나 철송 업무에 활용할 수 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.833-843
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• 2016

Recently, in the field of rail freight transportation, the number of trains dedicated for shippers has been increasing. These dedicated trains, which run on the basis of a contract with shippers, had been restricted to the transportation of containers, or so called block trains. Nowadays, such commodities have extended to cement, hard coal, etc. Most full freight cars are transported by dedicated trains. But, for empty car distribution, the efficiency still remains questionable because the distribution plan is manually developed by dispatchers. In this study, we investigated distribution models delineated in the KTOCS system which was developed by KORAIL as well as mathematical models considered in the state-of-the-art. The models are based on optimization models, especially the network flow model. Here we suggest a new optimization model with a framework of the column generation approach. The master problem can be formulated into a transportation problem with additional constraints. The master problem is improved by adding a new edge between the supply node and the demand node; this edge can be found using a simple shorted path in the time-space network. Finally, we applied our algorithm to the Korean freight train network and were able to find the total number of empty car kilometers decreased.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.388-393
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• 2012

Recently, various attempts are made to increase the efficiency of railway freight transport including bulk cement, the most important transport item of railway transport market. The major seven cement companies have started common use of private bulk cement car since April 2008 for the efficiency of railway freight transport. At that time, major seven cement companies owned 75% of whole bulk cement car. Railway companies forecasted that this project will decrease the amount of cost and transport time of freight car. With these data, it analyzed the effectiveness of the joint use of freight car on actual used data.