• Title/Summary/Keyword: Crash performance

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The Safety Evaluation of Expressway Geometries by Cross-sectional Analysis Techniques (횡단면 분석기법을 적용한 고속도로 기하구조 안전성 평가)

  • Seo, Im-Ki;Choi, Jong-Tae;Park, Je-Jin;Park, Shin-Hyoung
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.417-426
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    • 2015
  • The representative design elements of the road geometric structure are longitudinal slope, horizontal curve radius, super elevation, and transition curve. According to the function of a road, the design standards of these elements is applied by diverse combinations of them. This study divided expressway into homogeneous segments based on longitudinal slope and horizontal curve radius. And then, data required for analysis were matched to each segment, and the safety performance function was built by using the established data. crash modification factors which can explain traffic accident exposure rate were calculated. When the threshold value of horizontal curve radius R=1,000 m was set to 1.0, the crash modification factors at R=300 m was calculated as 1.33, which means that the accident exposure rate is increased by 33%. When the threshold value of the longitudinal slope 0% was set to 1.0, the crash modification factors demonstrated that the accident exposure rate decreases on the upward slope and the accident exposure rate increases on the downward slope. The results of this study can be used as basic information in the design of expressway geometries during the improvement or the construction of expressways.

Impact Conditions of Performance Evaluation, and Development of High-Performance Roadside Barrier for Longitudinal Barriers in Smart Highway (스마트하이웨이 종방향 베리어 성능평가 충돌조건과 고성능 노측용 베리어 개발)

  • Kim, Dong-Seong;Kim, Kee-Dong;Ko, Man-Gi;Jang, Dae-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.59-67
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    • 2011
  • To minimize the degree of damage in the SMART highway's punctuality and safety occurred from the car-barrier collisions, the impact conditions for longitudinal barriers in SMART highway was determined to be significantly larger than the existing maximum impact conditions. Results from computer simulation runs show that the existing domestic highest-performance roadside barrier did not satisfy the suggested impact conditions. The newly developed N-class barrier designed with computer simulation model and verified by full-scale crash tests has satisfied the SMART highway impact conditions in terms of occupant safety indexes and structural adequacy.

A Study on the Side Collision Accident Reconstruction Using 3-Dimensional Crash Analysis (3차원 충돌해석 정보를 이용한 측면 충돌 사고 재구성)

  • Jang, In-Sik;Kim, Il-Dong
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.52-63
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    • 2008
  • The side collision reconstruction algorithm is developed using three dimensional car crash analysis. Medium size passenger car is modeled for finite element analysis. Total 24 side collision configurations, four different speed and six different angle, are set up for making side collision database. Deformation index and degree index are built up for each collision case. Deformation index is a kind of deformation estimate averaging displacement of side door of crashed car from finite element analysis result. Angle index is constructed measuring deformed angle of crashing car. There are two kinds of angle index, one is measured at driver's side and the other is measured at passenger's side. Also a collision analysis information in side of cars is used for giving a basis for scientific and practical reason in a reconstruction of the car accident. The analysis program, LS-DYNA3D is utilized for finite element analysis program for a collision analysis. Those database are used for side collision reconstruction. Side collision reconstruction algorithm is developed, and applied to find the collision conditions before the accident occurs. Three example collision cases are tried to check the effectiveness of the algorithm. Deformation index and angle index is extracted for the case from the analysis result. Deformation index is compared to the established database, and estimated collision speed and angle are introduced by interpolation function. Angle index is used to select a specific collision condition from the several available conditions. The collision condition found by reconstruction algorithm shows good match with original condition within 10% error for speed and angle. As a result, the calculation from the reconstruction of the situation is reproducing the situation well. The performance in this study can be used in many ways for practical field using deformation index and degree index. Other different collision situations may be set up for extending the scope of this study in the future.

Effects of Outlet Shape on Vehicle Behavior according to Road Friction Coefficient in Interchange (입체교차로에서 노면 마찰계수에 따른 유출부 형상이 차량거동에 미치는 영향)

  • Park, Hyeong-Seon;Lim, Jong-Han;Yoon, Jun-Kyu
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.213-220
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    • 2016
  • In order to drive on road safely, the type of road design and construction is basically needed to optimize driver's safety and vehicle performance. Although the heavy traffic highways were built by reflecting these factors, the national highways and local roads have still taken a lot of problems. In this study, we analyzed the behavior characteristics of a vehicle according to the speed variation of the vehicle using the PC-Crash program for the traffic accidents reconfiguration at GULUN interchange located Hongcheon in Gangwon Province. the conditions outlet surface of the road for analysis were dry road surface, wet road surface and icy road surface. As a result, we identified the fact that the friction coefficient of road surface and the speed of vehicle affected to vehicle behavior characteristics of outlet shape in GULUN interchange, and showed the possibility that we can verify a problem about road design through to this simulation in advance.

Classifying the severity of pedestrian accidents using ensemble machine learning algorithms: A case study of Daejeon City (앙상블 학습기법을 활용한 보행자 교통사고 심각도 분류: 대전시 사례를 중심으로)

  • Kang, Heungsik;Noh, Myounggyu
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.39-46
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    • 2022
  • As the link between traffic accidents and social and economic losses has been confirmed, there is a growing interest in developing safety policies based on crash data and a need for countermeasures to reduce severe crash outcomes such as severe injuries and fatalities. In this study, we select Daejeon city where the relative proportion of fatal crashes is high, as a case study region and focus on the severity of pedestrian crashes. After a series of data manipulation process, we run machine learning algorithms for the optimal model selection and variable identification. Of nine algorithms applied, AdaBoost and Random Forest (ensemble based ones) outperform others in terms of performance metrics. Based on the results, we identify major influential factors (i.e., the age of pedestrian as 70s or 20s, pedestrian crossing) on pedestrian crashes in Daejeon, and suggest them as measures for reducing severe outcomes.

A Study on Crash Analysis of Vehicle and Guardrail using a LS-DYNA Program (LS-DYNA 프로그램을 이용한 차량과 가드레일의 충돌해석에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, O-Hyun;Baek, Se-Ryong;Yoon, Jun-Kyu;Lim, Jong-Han
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.179-186
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    • 2016
  • A study is to research crash barriers for vehicles that prevent road breakaway of vehicles and protect car passengers and pedestrians as absorbing impulse. Protection performance tests on vehicle passengers were simulated by using a LS-DYNA program. Through repetitive simulation on various speed and angles, passenger protection performance according to different impact condition was contemplated. Variable setting for the simulation was calculated as the mean weight of domestic car sales. By analyzing NASS (National Automotive Sampling System) of NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) of the U.S., the actual speed and collision angle section of accidents were computed. As a result, we confirmed that THIV (Theoretical Head Impact Velocity) and PHD (Post-impact Head Deceleration) are increased according to the impact speed and angle. Also, when the vehicle hit the guardrail post, we could be confirmed that the passenger protection performance greatly decreased.

Evaluation of Fracture Behaviours of Cementitious Composites by High-velocity Projectile Impact (고속 비상체 충격에 의한 시멘트 복합체의 파괴거동 평가)

  • Min, Ji-Young;Cho, Hyun-Woo;Lee, Jang-Hwa;Kim, Sung-Wook;Moon, Jae-Heum
    • Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2015
  • An importance of infrastructures' protection against crash or blast loading has been an emerging issue as structures are becoming much bigger and population densities in downtown are growing up. However, there exists no such a standard to evaluate the protection performance of construction material itself. Prior to building standards for protection assessment techniques, this study performed gas-gun propelled projectile impact tests with series of contact-type monitoring systems to investigate the applicability of each sensing type. Through the impact tests, failure modes and protection performances of both normal concrete and UHPC (Ultra High Performance Concrete) reinforced by steel fibers were also evaluated. The results showed that LVDT could be applicable for the impact test among contact-type sensors and UHPC with fibers had a remarkable potential to improve protection against impact loading.

Design and Implementation of NVM-based Concurrent Journaling Scheme (저널링 파일 시스템을 위한 비휘발성 메모리 기반 병행적 저널링 기법의 설계 및 구현)

  • Pak, Suehee;Lee, Eunyoung;Han, Hyuck
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.7
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    • pp.157-163
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    • 2021
  • A single write operation in a file system can modify multiple data, but these changes in the file system are not atomically written to disk. Thus, for the consistency of the file system, conventional journaling guarantees crash consistency instead of sacrificing the system performance. It is known that using non-volatile memory as a journal space can alleviate performance degradation due to low latency and byte-level accessibility of non-volatile memory. However, none of the journaling techniques considering non-volatile memory provide scalability. In this paper, journal space on non-volatile memory is divided into multiple regions for scalable journaling, thus dispersing concentrated operations in one region. Second, the journal area-specific operator structure is used to accelerate data write operations to storage devices. We apply the proposed technique to JFS to evaluate it on multi-core servers equipped with high-performance storage devices. The evaluation results show that the proposed technique performs better than the existing technique of the NVM-based journaling file system.

Development and Exploration of Safety Performance Functions Using Multiple Modeling Techniques : Trumpet Ramps (다양한 통계 기법을 활용한 안전성능함수 개발 및 비교 연구 : 트럼펫형 램프를 중심으로)

  • Yang, Samgyu;Park, Juneyoung;Kwon, Kyeongjoo;Lee, Hyunsuk
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2021
  • In recent times, several studies have been conducted focusing on crashes occurring on the main segment of the highway. However, there is a dearth of research dealing with traffic safety relating to other highway facilities, especially ramp areas. According to the Korea Expressway Corporation's Expressway Information Service, 6,717 crashes have occurred on ramps in the five years from 2015~2019, which accounts for about 15% of all highway accidents. In this study, the simple and full safety performance functions (SPFs) were evaluated and explored using different statistical distributions (i.e., Poisson Gamma (PG) and Poisson Inverse Gaussian (PIG)) and techniques (i.e., fixed effects (FE) and random effects (RE)) to provide more accurate crash prediction models for highway ramp sections. Data on the geometric characteristics of traffic and roadways were collected from various systems and with extensive efforts using a street-view application. The results showed that the PIG models present more accurate crash predictions in general. The results also indicated that the RE models performed better than FE models for simple and full SPFs. The findings from this study offer transportation practitioners using the Korea Expressway Corporation's Expressway a dependable reference to enhance and understand traffic safety in ramp areas based on accurate crash prediction models and empirical evidence.

A Recovery Technique Using Client-based Logging in Client/Server Environment

  • Park, Yong-Mun;Lee, Chan-Seob;Kim, Dong-Hyuk;Park, Eui-In
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2002.07a
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    • pp.429-432
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    • 2002
  • The existing recovery technique using the logging technique in the client/sewer database system only administers the log as a whole in a server. This contains the logging record transmission cost on the transaction that is executed in each client potentially and increases network traffic. In this paper, the logging technique for redo-only log is suggested, which removes the redundant before-image and supports the client-based logging to eliminate the transmission cost of the logging record. Also, in case of a client crash, redo recovery through a backward client analysis log is performed in a self-recovering way. In case of a server crash, the after-image of the pages which needs recovery through simultaneous backward analysis log is only transmitted and redo recovery is done through the received after-image and backward analysis log. Also, we select the comparing model to estimate the performance about the proposed recovery technique. And we analyzed the redo and recovery time about the change of the number of client and the rate of updating operation.

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