• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.73-81
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• 2003

The Government presented improvement plans such as "Traffic Accident Frequent Point" and "Hazardous Roads" to reduce traffic accidents on the increase after 1980s. In case of the hazardous roads, they are expressed by grades which are marked by geometric elements such as width, radius, grade. sight distance. and other environmental factors. As each business for improving roads goes by only focusing on improvement of geometric elements, excessive expense can be invested too much nowadays causing economical waste. Therefore, as improvement plans approached by economic access are needed, this paper shows the cost-effective improvement of the business to keep safety related to traffic accident and economical waste. The hazardous roads which authorized by Gwang-ju National Road Preservation Office of Construction and Transportation Ministry in 1995 for business for improvement of roads, were investigated before 1999. First of all, estimating traffic accident models are presented by using existed data statistically. The models help to maximize traffic accident decrease through control of the presented factor. Secondly, optimum construction cost of improvement is presented to prevent overcapitalization. However, this paper is limited because it was difficult to sort the data with various areas and to approach various ways.

• 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.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.39-46
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• 2011

Speeding is a major cause of traffic accidents that affects the safety of pedestrians and harms drivers and their families, property and mental health. However, most researches on speeding behavior have been conducted by survey method, so the relationship between cause and effect is not clear. The reliability of the research cannot be carefully examined because most researches involve retrospective methods. It is clear that conducting experimental research is important for overcoming these limitations, but it is impossible to perform tests with real cars in real traffic situations due to the inability to control situational factors (e.g., other vehicles, traffic signal) which affect participants' behavior. A car simulator experiment was designed and the theory of planned behavior was applied to the experiment. Each participant was grouped and assigned to either high speeding intention group or low speeding intention group according to their levels of speeding intention and analyzed the difference of driving behavior indexes between two groups. The results revealed statistically significant differences between two groups on driving speed, speeding frequency, and accelerator pressure deviation. Finally, the limitations and the implications of this study were discussed.

• Korean journal of aerospace and environmental medicine
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.67-71
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• 2019

The health of licence holders (flight crew members and air traffic controllers) is recognized as an important element of aviation safety. The medical emergency symptoms that occur during the flight duty period without prior notice can interfere with human performance capabilities and threaten aviation safety. To prevent this, ICAO has been required to conduct a periodic medical assessment process of licence holders including routine analysis of in-flight incapacitation events and medical findings during medical to identify areas of increased medical risk and continuous reevaluation of the medical assessment process to concentrate on identified areas of increased medical risk. The supply and demand of licence holders have become a major issue due to the increase in air traffic around the world, and the pilot retirement age has been extended to 65 years. But, there is no significant change in the aviation medical assessments process. The follow up of the result of medical examination discovered through aviation medical examination is a very important part, but it has not been properly implemented, and the sick leaves and medical inflight incapacitation reporting system should be improved. The management of health risk factors for licence holders must be implemented to prevent aircraft accidents or aviation safety problems caused by health problems. In this paper, we propose the development plan and concrete improvement plan of the health risk management system of licence holders in Korea in terms of aviation safety.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.305-311
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• 2016

Even though automakers have actively been conducting studies on autonomous navigation thanks to the development and application of wireless Internet technology, the traffic accident has been kept unsolved. The causes of the accident are drowsy driving, a mistake of a driver, environmental factors, and a wrong road structure; Driving manner and characteristics of a driver among the causes are significantly influential for the accident. In this paper, a study to measure characteristics of zigzag driving that can be seen before an occurrence of an accident regarding traffic accidents that can be incurred while driving manually or autonomously was conducted. While existing studies measured zigzag driving based on characteristics of the change of lateral angular velocity by imaging techniques or driving manner on the first and second lane, this study proceeded to measure zigzag driving by setting a lateral moving distance and a critical value range by utilizing the value of a sensor.

• Proceedings of KOSOMES biannual meeting
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.75-83
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• 2003

The navigation area approach to Mokpo port consists of narrow channels with 30mile section, and the route is crossed with many fairways. Specially, except Mokpo-Gu fairway routeing is not assigned and there are many threatening factors against the safe operation of vessel because fishing and mining areas are designated Therefore, this paper proposed a plan for safe passage through a maritime transportation environmental assessment with the analysis of surrounding environment, danger element of navigation, traffic observation and marine accidents.

• 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.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.433-438
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• 2008

In Gwangyang port, huge reclaiming work and developing harbor facilities are underway to built industrial complexes. So it is estimated that towing barges will increase and make overtaking, head-on, crossing situations with a lot of cargo vessels in narrow passages. And it is possible to cause severe marine accidents inside of the harbor. This paper has a purpose to produce some policies making navigational safety of towing-barge on Gwangyang Hysco temporary passage. So it is considered how the change of marine traffic capacity and the risk factors in passage navigation influence to towing-barge navigation. And also the questionnaire survey of pilots and VTS operator was conducted to find out what they think about the navigational safety of towing-barge incoming and outgoing in No.1 Yulchon industrial complexes.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.103-111
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• 2011

The speed is one of the significant factors affecting accident occurrence. In particular, freeway accidents are highly associated with the speed because vehicles travel on the freeway at higher speed leading to greater potential of severer injury. Efforts attempting to relating speed with accident occurrence have not been significantly made in Korea. The objective of this study is to model the relationship between speed and accident rate on freeways. Loop detector data and accident data obtained from a stretch of Kyungboo freeway during the recent five years, 2005-2009, were used to establish the model. Multiple linear regression analyses showed that median, minimum and standard deviation of speed were contributing variables in the model. The statistical significance identified by the analyses supports the feasibility of the model in evaluating various transportation policies and operations strategies in terms of traffic safety.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.143-153
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• 2002

본 연구는 교통사고의 발생원인에 대한 인식유형과 감소대책에 대한 인지 유형별 영향요인의 정도를 분석하기 위하여 수량화이론 II류와 CHAID 분석법을 이용하여 분류모델과 판별모델을 구축하였다. 수량화이론 II류에 의한 교통사고 발생원인에 대한 인식 유형별 영향요인 판별모델은 전체 적중률이 78.4%로 매우 높게 나타났다. 편상관계수는 설명변수의 항목 중 학력, 성별, 운전경력 년 수, 소유 차종의 순으로 영향을 미치고 외적 변수인 교통사고 발생원인에 대한 유형에서는 기여 정도가 교통단속 부재 > 교통체계 미비 > 승용차 과다 사용 >잘못된 의식 때문의 순으로 나타났다. 교통사고 감소 대책에 대한 인지유형별 영향요인 판별모델은 전체 적중률이 59.9%로 높게 나타났으며, 편상관 계수는 학력, 성별, 운전경력 연수, 연령의 순으로 영향을 미치고 있고, 외적 변수인 교통사고 감소 대책에 대한 유형에서는 기여 정도가 교통단속 강화 > 대중교통수단 이용 유도 > 교통체계 개선 > 의식 개혁의 순으로 나타났다. 또한 CHAID 분석법에 의한 교통사고 발생원인에 대한 인식 유형별 영향요인 분류모델에 있어서는 예측변수로 학력, 연령, 성별, 통행수단의 네 가지 변수가, 교통사고의 감소 대책에 대한인지 유형별 영향요인 분류모델에 있어서는 학력, 운전경력 연수, 성별 그리고 통행수단의 네 가지 변수가 카이제곱 통계량 이 5%의 유의수준에서 유의한 것으로 판단되었다. 교통사고 발생원인 인식과 감소 대책의 인지 유형에 대한 빈도분석과 교차분석은 의식과 관련한 유형이 가장 높게 나타났으나 판별.분류모델에서는 교통단속과 관련한 유형이 기여 정도가 높고 의식 관련 유형이 상대적으로 낮게 나타나는 등 반대양상을 보이고 있어 심리적으로 내재되어 있고 표면에 잘 드러나지 않았던 의식 수준의 낮음이 분류모델을 통해서 명확하게 드러났다.