• 한국항만학회지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.333-350
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• 1999

Today freeway is thought to be a very important transportation facility carrying tremendous traffic flow as the main corridor within the area of between the areas. However freeway is experiencing severe congestion and accidents by increased entrance ramp flow especially at peak time period. Ramp meters on the freeway entrance ramps that supply traffic to the freeway in a measured or appropriately regulated amount are needed for alleviating freeway congestion. Because ramp meters can be operated to discharge traffic at a measured or regulated rate thus maintaining more uniform speed on the mainline section maximizing the throughput to the freeway within the capacity of a downstream bottleneck and reducing the congestion related accidents. Thus the objectives in this study were to analyze the traffic characteristics on the freeway I-94 with ramp metering system before/after ITS technology in Detroit (Michigan) area compare shifts of the traffic characteristics on the freeway I-94 before/after ITS technology and finally suggest a better ramp metering strategy for the freeway system The following results were obtained: i)Flow occupancies and speeds on the mainline merge section of freeway were shown to be a big difference depending on the peak periods areas and directions based on the distribution of traffic flow characteristics on the freeway. ii)Reduced speed was shown to be more than 5 mph and ramp flow was also shown to be more than 240 vph at peak periods if there was the ramp metering system constructed on the freeway. iii)Ramp metering system was shown to be optimally operated on the freeway if ramp flow could be maximized within the range of over 900 vph and reduced occupancy could be also maximized by no more than 2 percent at peak periods. iv)The average flows on the freeway after the ITS technology were shown to be a decrease of over 20% depending on the peak periods areas and directions when compared with those flow on the freeway before the ITS technology. over 20% depending on the peak periods areas and directions when compared with those speeds on the freeway before the ITS technology. vi)The average metering rates on the freeway after the ITS technology were shown to be an increase of over 10% depending on the peak periods areas and directions when compared with those metering rates on the freeway before the ITS technology.

• 한국항만학회지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.113-122
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• 1999

Congestion and traffic accidents occur on the merge and diverge sections in the interchange of the freeway. Studies have been conducted to reduce the traffic delay and accidents on the merge section in the freeway since 1960s. but a study was not conducted to estimate the speed variation on the merge section construct models estimated for the speed variation and suggest the appropriate measures. The purpose of this study was to identify the traffic flow characteristics on the merge section in the freeway construct the models estimated for the speed variation on the merge section in the freeway and finally establish the appropriate measure for reduction of traffic delay and accidents on the merge section in the freeway. The following results were obtained: I) Speed variations in the urban freeway appeared to be about 3.2mph, 6.5mph and 7.4mph based on the morning peak period, afternoon peak period and 24-hours period but those in the suburban freeway appeared to be about 8.0mph, 11.1mph and 10.1mph based on the same periods respectively. So different speed reduction signs need be installed to reduce delay and accidents on the merge section in the freeway based on the areas and periods as the freeway traffic management system(FTMS). ii) These models estimated for speed variation need to be studied with the changeable message sign(CMS) technique based on the real-time data so that the traffic flow could be maximized and the traffic delay and accidents be on the merge section in the freeway as more efficient freeway traffic management system(FTMS) in the near future.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2003

고속도로 이용자의 상당부분이 단거리통행이고 단거리통행은 대부분 도시권역 주변의 통행으로 통행목적이나 대체도로의 유무 등 특성상 장거리통행에 비해 쉽게 대체노선으로 전환될 수 있다. 따라서 현재 고속도로에서는 최저요금제와 장거리할인제 등 수요관리 측면의 요금체계를 적용하여 단거리통행을 억제하고 장거리통행을 장려하고 있다. 그러나 현재 시행중인 수요관리 요금체계는 그 기준거리들이 정책적 판단으로 결정되었기 때문에 수요관리의 효과를 극대화시키지 못하고 있으며, 일부 민원제기에도 효과적으로 대처하지 못하고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 현행 고속도로 수요관리요금체계의 문제점을 검토$.$분석하고 이의 합리적이고 과학적인 개선방안을 수렴시킨 요금체계 결정방안을 제시하고자 한다. 연구의 방법은 기 개발된 통행료를 반영한 경로기반 배정모형과 고속도로 수요관리 요금체계 결정방안에 대한 효과분석 및 평가를 서울-대전간 고속도로망과 병행하는 대체도로망에서 수행하고, 최종적으로 고속도로 수요관리 요금정책의 새로운 기준거리를 도출하고자 총 사회적 비용 최소화와 통행료수입 최대화의 관점에서 최저요금 기준거리와 장거리할인 기준거리를 분석한다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.67-77
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 고속도로 버스전용차로 단속시스템을 개발하여 현장 성능평가를 수행하였다. 영동고속도로 마성터널 입구 버스전용차로에서 조사한 결과, 버스전용차로를 위반하는 차량의 비율이 99%에 달하는 것으로 조사되었다. 하지만 현재의 경찰관에 의한 인력식 단속은 단속율도 낮고 불필요한 안전문제 및 지체를 발생시킨다. 고속도로 버스전용차로는 6인 이상 탑승한 9인승 이상 승합차도 통행이 가능하기 때문에 승합차량의 승차인원을 검지하는 기술개발이 필요하다. 조도에 관계없는 승차인원 검지를 위해 적외선 카메라를 사용하였고 짧은 차두시간을 감안한 신속한 영상처리 기법으로 YOLOv5 딥러닝 알고리즘을 사용하였다. 개발시스템 성능 검증을 위해 테스트베드 및 실 현장 평가를 실시한 결과, 테스트베드와 실 현장에서 각각 7%, 8% 오차를 나타내 만족할 만한 성능을 보였다. 본 연구 결과물을 현장에 적용할 경우 고속도로 버스전용차로 운영 효율화 및 단속에 따른 불필요한 지체를 감소시킬 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2015

PURPOSES: This study analyzes the characteristics of traffic flow on freeway sections under daytime and nighttime conditions to improve traffic safety, and suggests a method to estimate an accurate freeway capacity value that reflects these characteristics. METHODS : The trends and differences in capacity were investigated using comprehensive field data collected under both daytime and nighttime conditions on freeway sections with designated speeds of 80, 100, and 120 kph. RESULTS : The capacity values under nighttime driving conditions were reduced by 3.3%, 6.9%, and 8.8% at 80, 100, and 120 kph, respectively. Several nighttime adjustment factors were deduced for each designated speed category from the analysis results. CONCLUSIONS : It is expected that more accurate capacity values can be estimated for freeway sections under nighttime conditions by applying the resulting adjustment factors. In addition, traffic safety will be improved through the increased efficiency of traffic management on these freeway sections.

• 한국항만학회지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.419-427
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• 2000

Today travel demand continues to increase with spread of economic zones. Also, urban freeway plays an important role in intra-zone transportations as a major corridor in a big city. However, most of urban freeways experience a severe congestion with the excess of inflowing or outflowing traffic through freeway ramps. The purpose of this study is to identify the traffic characteristics, analyze the relationships between the traffic characteristics and finally construct the speed predictive models on the ramp junctions of urban freeway under the intelligent transportation system(ITS) settings. From the analyses of traffic characteristics following results were obtained: ⅰ) 24 hours average traffic characteristics flow, occupancy, speed under the ITS settings showed about 40%, 38%, 8.8% increase each on urban freeway junctions period when compared with that under the non-ITS settings each other. Free flow speed and traffic flow on the mainline sections of urban freeway under the ITS settings also showed about 20% and 17% increase when compared with that under the non-ITS, respectively. ⅱ) The upstream when compared speed( $S_{u}$)and downstream occupancy( $O_{d}$) were especially shown to have higher explanatory powers on the stable flow ramp junctions, but the upstream speed( $S_{u}$) and downstream flow( $V_{d}$) were especially shown on the unstable flow ramp junctions of urban freeway under the ITS settings.ngs.ngs.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제22권49호
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• pp.125-133
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• 1999

Nonrecurring congestions are generally caused by random or less predictable events, such as accidents, spilled loads stalled or broken-down vehicles that, temporarily reduce the capacity of the freeway. The purpose of this paper is to present the effect of incidents on the traffic congestion on the urban freeway by simulation method. The simulation scenario is composed of two level traffic conditions, two level incident severities, and eight level incident durations. After incident, the recovering duration to the normal traffic flow, increased by linear of incident duration. Total vehicles travel time increased and average travel speed decreased by squares curve of incident duration. Considering incident impacts, incident management system is evaluated the major function of the urban freeway traffic management system. Also, necessary the related research to detect, verify, and develop effective response strategies for traffic incidents.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.8-15
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• 2007

Freeway corridors consist of urban freeways and parallel arterials that drivers can use alternatively. Ramp metering in freeways and signal control in arterials are contemporary traffic control methods that have been developed and applied in order to improve traffic conditions of freeway corridors. However, most of the existing studies have focused on either optimal ramp metering in freeways, or progression signal strategies between arterial intersections. There have been no traffic control systems in Korea that integrates the freeway ramp metering and arterial signal control. The effective control strategies for freeway operations may cause negative effects on arterial traffic. On the other hand, traffic congestion and bottleneck phenomenon of arterials due to the increasing peak-hour travel demand and ineffective signal operation may generate an accessibility problem to freeway ramps. Thus, the main function of the freeway which is the through-traffic process has not been successful. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated control model that connects freeway ramp metering systems and signal control systems in arterial intersections. And Optimization of integrated control model which consists of ramp metering and signal control is another purpose. The design of experiment, neural network, and simulated annealing are used for optimization.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.127-134
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• 2014

PURPOSES : To operate more efficient traffic management system, it is utmost important to detect the change in congestion level on a freeway segment rapidly and reliably. This study aims to develop classification method of congestion change type. METHODS: This research proposes two classification methods to capture the change of the congestion level on freeway segments using the dedicated short range communication (DSRC) data and the vehicle detection system (VDS) data. For developing the classification methods, the decision tree models were employed in which the independent variable is the change in congestion level and the covariates are the DSRC and VDS data collected from the freeway segments in Korea. RESULTS : The comparison results show that the decision tree model with DSRC data are better than the decision tree model with VDS data. Specifically, the decision tree model using DSRC data with better fits show approximately 95% accuracies. CONCLUSIONS : It is expected that the congestion change type classified using the decision tree models could play an important role in future freeway traffic management strategy.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제8권5호
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• pp.38-47
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• 2009

이용자의 서비스 고급화 및 다양화에 대한 요구수준이 증대함에 따라 차세대 기술을 이용한 고속도로교통관리시스템 제공과 체계적인 운영이 필요하게 되었으며, 이에 따라 향후 차세대 고속도로 교통관리시스템(exTMS)을 제공하고자 한다. 이러한 exTMS 기반의 고속도로 교통관리방안의 정량적 효과분석을 통한 시스템 도입의 타당성을 마련해야하며, 체계적인 운영이 이루어질 수 있도록 효과를 기반으로 한 운영 기준이 필요하다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 교통상황(V/C=0.5/0.8/1.2)에 따라 각 상황별 전체시스템 및 개별시스템(갓길LCS/VMS(Hi-pass기반의 교통정보제공, VMS의 기능 및 서비스 개선포함)/램프미터링)을 적용하여 효과를 분석하였다. 그 결과 전 시스템 및 개별시스템이 적용되었을 경우 모두 통행속도가 개선되는 효과가 나타났으며, V/C가 높은 교통상황일수록 시스템의 적용효과가 큰 것으로 분석되었다. 개별시스템 중 갓길 LCS의 효과가 가장 크게 나타났으며, 교통정보제공을 통한 우회율이 11%일 경우도 효과가 비교적 높게 나타났다.