• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.97-106
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• 2010

Environmental issues resulting from climate change and energy crises have become global issues, and cycling has gained greater popularity for sustainable transportation. Though many cities are trying to build bicycle roads, it is not easy to implement bicycle roads because there is little available space for bicycle facilities. Therefore, road diets have become more popular in Korea. However, there has been no intensive research to date of their impacts. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effects of road diets and construction of bike lanes. Every benefit, including energy benefit, environmental benefit, and health benefit is considered, while only time savings benefit has been considered in previous studies. The benefit analysis for the Seoul metropolitan area as a case study shows that road diets have a (1) time saving benefit for only five percent of the mode share and (2) enough total benefit even if bicycle mode share is less than two percent.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.3D
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• pp.263-270
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• 2010

This research has reviewed the ways to improve the benefits of shortening of transit hours among the benefit items in analysis of economic efficiency. The existing way of calculating the benefits of shortening the transit hours in analysis of economic efficiency has been using O/D in peak to multiply by 365. This method has a problem of not considering the change of traffic according to the month and the day of the week. To improve such problem, the volume of traffics at 361 regular research branches of the chronological statistics of traffic volume was used to analyze the pattern change of traffic volume per day of the week and per month by t-test and cluster analysis. The results show a difference in traffic volume according to the day of the week and the month. In the research example, a supposed O/D and network were used to apply weight per day of the week and per month to see a slight difference with the existing method of calculating benefits of shortening the transit hours. This signifies the necessity to study about the weight to consider the change pattern of traffic volume.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.1300-1305
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• 2011

Environmental Impact is getting more attention in many feasibility studies for railroad-related projects and research items. For sustainable growth and green transportation, the benefits typically used for feasibility studies in railway-related projects, are composed mostly of economic criterions which is not considering growing attention on changing paradigm. Based on the analysis of current methodologies, improvements in estimating environmental impact especially on noise and pollution are suggested.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.31 no.1D
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• pp.7-15
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• 2011

The travel time value is important factor for the evaluation of feasibility the transportation facility investment. The existing method for calculation of the travel time for each mode uses daily average trip purpose. So the value of travel time is constant because it is estimated with only daily average proportion. This daily constant time value can distort the results of future demands of toll roads or economic appraisals for the projects. The proportion of the trip purpose varies by time periods. Accordingly the value of travel time also varies by time periods. In this study, times periods are classified as morning peak, evening peak, business time off-peak, and non-business time off-peak. And trip purpose proportions are sorted by each time period from raw data of Seoul household trip study, then the value of travel time for each time period is estimated with these sorted purpose proportions. A case study of Seoul Jung-gu and Yongsan-gu performed with newly estimated time value by time periods. The result of benefit calculation with the daily constant time value is overestimated approximately annual 2.5 billion Won compared by time values by time periods. The demands of toll roads are also overestimated with the existing daily constant time value by daily 3,500 vehicles and total revenue of toll roads are overestimated by annually 1 billion Won. In conclusion, the value of travel time by each time period enables the more precise economic evaluation of the transportation facility investment projects, mode choice behavior, and route choice behavior especially for toll roads.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.509-509
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• 1998

점차 증가하는 도로상에서의 승용차의 비율은 전체 도로교통여건의 악화뿐만이 아니라 국가경제에 있어서도 물류비용의 증가를 가져와 국제경쟁력에서의 약화 및 수출조건의 악화의 원인이 되고 있다. 이러한 물류비용의 감소를 위하여 고속도로에 있어서의 화물전용차선의 설치가 논의되고 있으나 화물전용차선의 설치에 따른 사회 각 분야의 경제적 이익과 불이익을 정확히 산출하여 새로운 교통시설 공급의 효과를 정확하게 파악하지 못한 채로 정책적인 대안의 일환으로 논의되고 있으며, 기존의 고속도로의 교통혼잡비용의 연구에 있어서도 화물통행의 시간가치를 화물차의 운전자의 시간가치로 분석하여 개별 화물통행의 시간가치를 간과하여 분석하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구는 이러한 배경하에 화물통행의 시간적 가치를 측정하는 방안을 정립하고 고속도로에 있어서의 화물전용차선의 설치가 기존의 교통체계에 미치는 효과를 정확히 분석하고 시설공급에 따른 경제적 편익을 체계적으로 분석하여 이에 따른 화물전용차선 설치의 평가기준을 마련하는데 그 목적이 있다. 본 연구를 통하여 나타난 결과는 다음과 같다. -첫째, 연구대상구간 전체를 기준으로 볼때에 모든 대안에서 화물전용차선의 설치시는 화물전용차선의 미설치시보다 오히려 사회전체의 편익이 감소하는 것으로 나타났다. -둘째, 구간별로 구분하여 분석하였을 경우에는 대안3의 경우 일부구간에서 화물전용차선에 설치에 따른 편익이 발생하는 것으로 분석되었는 바, 상행선의 경우 17:00∼21:00시에 신갈∼오산구간에서 실시하는 것이 가장 높은 편익을 발생하며, 하행선의 경우 06:00∼10:00시에 신갈∼오산구간에서 실시하는 것이 가장 편익이 높게 분석되었다. -셋째, 화물의 통행가치의 증가 및 화물교통량의 증가를 예상하여 5%, 10%, 20%의 증가에 대한 민감도 분석을 실시한 결과 대안1의 경우 교통량의 변화 및 화물통행의 시간가치의 증가시 사회적 편익이 오히려 감소하였고, 대안2와 3의 경우 사회적 편익이 증가하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 이는 경부고속도로의 화물차량의 구성비에 따라 대안 1의 경우 오히려 화물차의 통행시간이 증가함에 그 원인이 있다 할 것이다. 이상과 같은 결론을 통하여 경부고속도로상의 화물전용차선의 설치시는 수답렬 교통량의 구성비와 구간 평균교통량에 의하여 그 효과가 다르게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 물류비용 절감차원에서의 화물전용차선의 설치는 본 연구에서 나타낸 방법과 같이 수단간의 경제적 편익을 고려한 구간별 시간대별 효과분석을 통하여 정책의 시행여부가 결정되어야 할 것이다. 한편, 화물전용차선의 설치로 인한 물류비용의 절감을 보다 효과적으로 달성하기 위해서는 종합류류 전산망의 시급한 구축과 함께 화물차의 적재율을 높이고 공차율을 낮출 수 있는 운송체계의 수립이 필요한 것으로 판단된다. 그라나 이러한 화물전용차선의 효과는 단기적인 치유책일 수밖에 없기 때문에 물류유통 시설의 확충을 위한 사회간접자본의 구축을 서둘러 시행하여야 할 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2004.05b
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• pp.771-776
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• 2004

치수사업에서 실시하는 경제성분석은 계획하고 있는 사업의 사회적 후생의 극대화 측면에서 경제적 타당성을 분석 평가하는 것으로서 일반적으로 편익${\cdot}$비용분석이 사용되고 있다. 이러한 경제성분석시의 문제점으로 직접편익뿐 아니라 간접편익 및 비계량편익에 해당하는 사업의 효과도 편익부분의 계산에 포함할 수 있는 방법이 필요한 실정이다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 홍수에 의한 교통두절로 인한 피해를 간접편익으로 고려하여 오산천지역에 적용해 보았다. 교통두절피해 편익의 항목으로서 주로 차량운행비용 절감과 통행시간비용 절감의 두 항목을 고려하였으며, 이 두 항목에 내한 결과에서 홍수지체시간당(단위 1일당) 적지 않은 편익이 발생하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구를 통해 일반적인 치수사업 경제성분석에서 이뤄지지 않았던 교통두절에 의한 피해항목을 간접편익으로 고려함으로써 홍수로 인한 교통두절피해를 정량적으로 계량할 수 있었으며, 실질적으로 편익에 영향이 가장 큰 편익가치(재화가치, 시간가치)에 대한 연구가 계속적으로 수반된다면 이후의 다른 치수사업 경제성분석시에 효과적인 분석이 이뤄질 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Hazard Mitigation
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.45-52
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• 2010

The relationship between climate changes and transportation could be separated by two approaches. One of methods was to find how climate changes affected transportation, and the other way was how transportation affected climate changes. In this study, we reported from the former standpoint, how climate changes affected transportation fields. When there is a lot of snowfall in Seoul, it starts ripple effect through the travel patterns. They can be explained by travel time and operating cost. The travel costs were calculated in this paper for analysing the effect of disbenefit by climate changes. Snow Melting System was also studied for relieving negative influences under the unpredictable weather condition. As a result, the system was effective for minimizing disbenefit by climate changes.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.179-184
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• 2012

Environmental impact is getting more attention in many feasibility studies for railroad-related projects and research items. For sustainable growth and green transportation, the benefits typically used for feasibility studies in railway-related projects, are composed mostly of economic criterions which is not considering growing attention on changing paradigm. Based on the analysis of current methodologies, improvements in estimating environmental impact especially on noise and pollution are suggested. Active steering bogie has been proposed to satisfy stabilizing and steering performance of railroad. This paper describes the feasibility study of the active steering bogie for a urban railway vehicle based on environment-related criteria.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.17-34
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• 2017

This study aims to analyze the freight transport demand and benefit for the introduction of an automated freight transport system focusing on the Global Industry and Logistics City (GILC) in Busan. In pursuit of this aim, four alternatives were calculated - using the freight volume estimating methods and included, the number of businesses, the number of employees set up, future estimated cargo volume, and switched volume from other transport modes into the GILC. Economic benefits were analyzed against social benefits and costs accordingly. The result of the freight transport demand forecast found, the cargo volume of "Alternative 2-1" to be the most advantageous, applying the number of employee unit method and proportion of employees in Gangseo-gu, Busan. In addition to the conventional analysis of direct benefit items (reduction of transport time, traffic accidents and environmental costs), this study also considered additional benefit items (congestion costs savings, and road maintenance costs in terms of opportunity cost). It also considered advanced value for money research in guidance on rail appraisal of U.K, Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 of Germany, and RailDec of the United States. The study aims to further contribute to estimating minimum cargo transport demands and assess the economic feasibility of the introduction of new intermodal automated freight transport systems in the future.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.6
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• pp.19-31
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• 2007

When estimating the benefits from an investment project in the transportation sector, errors caused by many factors may exist. This study focuses on user equilibrium traffic assignment methods and stopping criteria. According to previous studies, when using a user equilibrium assignment model, the benefits of travel time savings can be effected by the relative gap value. As the stopping criteria decreases, the time needed for traffic assignment increases, so that lowering the criteria cannot be the best solution. Therefore, an effort is necessary to reduce this change rate and thus improve reliability. This paper considers three methods: reducing the links subject to benefit calculation, extracting sub-area O/D tables and networks, and applying the mean value of successive traffic assignment results. The results of the analysis show that the method using the mean value of five results is more proper than the other methods. Using the sub-area analysis method, if the study area is small the benefits of a project might be over- or under-estimated. This paper used a nationwide O/D table and network at peak time as a case study. The resulting patterns can differ according to basic data to be used in analysis. So further analysis using the data from metropolitan areas are needed.