• Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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• v.1 no.1 s.1
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• pp.87-94
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• 2000

Crack sealing, a routine and necessary part of pavement maintenance, is a dangerous, costly, and labor-intensive operation. Within the North America, about ${\$}200$ million is spent annually on crack sealing, with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) spending about ${\$}7$ million annually (labor alone accounts for over 50 percent of these costs). Prompted by concerns of safety and cost, the University of Texas at Austin, in cooperation with TxDOT and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has developed a unique computer-guided Automated Road Maintenance Machine (ARMM) for pavement crack sealing. In 1999, successful field tests have been undertaken in 8 States around the U.S. This paper first describes significance of the automated crack sealing and technical advances in automated crack sealers including the ARMM, developed in the U.S. It then discusses the ARMM's field implementation and performance evaluation results, and improvements and modifications suggested through the technology evaluation during the field trials. Current research efforts and future work plans in its further development are also presented in this paper.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.1289-1298
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• 2014

Pavement crack sealing method, which is one of the methods to maintain and repair the road, prevents the extending of cracks by repairing cracks in its early occurrence and has already been applied to many roadworks in advanced foreign country for a long time. But in the conventional crack sealing method, traffic accidents occur frequently during the repair because it's commonly performed on the heavy traffic road or highway. It also has some difficulties in securing the safety of workers from the risk of burns caused by heated sealant. In an effort to solve these problems, automated pavement crack sealing machines such as ARMM, OCCSM, TTLS have been developed in advanced foreign country since early 1990s. Also APCS in 2004 and ACSTM in 2013 were already developed domestically. However, since these automated crack sealers developed from a number of research institutions have different test-bed conditions and productivity measurement models, it's difficult to compare and evaluate them objectively. In this study, the image processing time of the respective machines and the movement time of each motion on the work process were estimated by using fully autonomous mapping and semi-automatic mapping in order to measure the productivity in the same environmental conditions. In addition, the productivity measurement test-bed reflected domestic road characteristics was designed to estimate and compare the productivity of the automated crack sealing machines.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.441-452
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• 2000

이동 컴퓨팅 환경에서 멀티미디어 트래픽을 효율적으로 지원하기 위해서 가장 중요한 이슈는 이동호스트(클라이언트)에게 QoS(Quality of Service)를 지속적으로 보장하는 것이다. 그러나 핸드-오프를 필요로하는 클라이언트의 이동성으로 인해 클라이언트와 네트워크간에 협상된 QoS가 보장되지 못할 수도 있다. 본 논문은 이동 컴퓨팅 환경에서 클라이언트에게 지속적으로 QoS를 지원하기 위한 ARMM을 제안하였다. 각 셀은 핸드-오프 호를 위해 이웃 셀에게 대역폭을 예약하며 예약된 대역폭은 단지 핸드-오프 호들만이 사용할 수 있다 만약 핸드-오프 호를 위해 대역폭을 너무 많이 예약한다면 신규 호의 블록킹 확률이 증가하므로 예약할 대역폭의 크기를 정확히 결정하는 것이 중요하다 본 논문에서는 이 대역폭의 정확한 크기를 결정하고 네트워크 상태에 따라 크기를 적응적으로 조정하기 위해 MPP와 2-계층 셀 구조를 기반으로 한 기법을 제안하였다. 본 논문에서 제시된 대역폭 예약 메커니즘의 성능을 평가하기 위해 신규 호블록킹률, 핸트-오프 호 종료율 대역폭 이용률을 측정하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 본 논문의 대역폭 예약 메커니즘의 성능이 No Reservation Fixed Reservation Adaptive Reservation과 같은 기존의 메커니즘보다 우수함을 알수 있었다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.121-131
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• 2020

This study aims to investigate the interplay between education and local roads on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the Philippines, using economic growth as an instrument. The study used the quantitative research design applying both descriptive and inferential statistics. A combination of Two Stage Least Square Regression Model and three approaches in Panel Regression Model such as Pooled Least Square, Fixed Effect Model, and Random Effect Model were utilized in order to study the effects of education and local roads on foreign direct investment of the Philippines. Based on Fixed Effect regression results, higher education graduates and local road investments, as conditioned by economic growth, were significant factors in order to increase the foreign direct investment in the Philippines. Accordingly, a unit increase in higher education graduates, as conditioned by economic growth, leads to 8.758 unit increases in the foreign direct investment. While, a unit increased in local road investments, as conditioned by economic growth, leads to a 0.002 decrease in foreign direct investment. The regression results of the study suggest that the Foreign Direct Investment in the regions such as CAR, I, II, IV-B, V, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and ARMM are higher compared to Region IV-A.

• The Southeast Asian review
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.133-190
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• 2014

We have examined its current economic conditions and status of the Bangsamoro in Mindanao and derived some important policy recommendation to build the future development plan. For this purpose, we first estimate the economic size and GRDP per capita and investigate next several economic and social indicators such as poverty rate and industrial structure. We find that the Bangsamoro is the least developed region in Philippines whose average income is the lowest and whose poverty rate is the highest in the Philippines. In addition, its industrial structure is very falling behind. Applying simple theory of economic growth, we find that several economic reasons such as lack of private and public investment caused by the political instability, high illiterate rate and less education, incapability of local government account for it. As a result, several policy recommendations are suggested to make the development plan of the Bangsamoro. First, the plan should be very comprehensive and second, it should be a very sustainable one equipped with the long run one and short run one. Third, the plan should be harmonized with that of the central government and those of neighboring local governments. Fourth, it should exploit the assistance of international development organization.