• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.119-124
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• 2010

Light rail is an electric railway system, characterized by its ability to operate single or multiple car consists (trains) along exclusive rights-of-way at ground level, on aerial structures, in subways or in streets, able to board and discharge passengers at station platforms or at street, track, or car-floor level and normally powered by overhead electrical wires. Depending upon the specific system, the light rail lends some major advantages to urban settings. The evaluation of light rail technology as a potential component of regional transit systems has been the subject of extensive studies throughout the country in the past decade. For the study, feasibility was defined as "the ability of an LRT system to achieve certain level of transportation market in comparison with other transportation alternatives." This paper describes the feasibility study to evaluate a proposed light rail development project. The minimum are those LRT systems that would met to make a project feasible for further evaluation.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.193-199
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• 2001

In this study, the carbody design of the rubber tired AGT(Automated Guide-way Transit System) under development by KRRI was numerically analysed to evaluate its structural strength according to the standard specifications for Korean LRT (Light Rail Transit). The numerical results showed that the detail design of the carbody was strong enough to satisfy the specifications with respect to the axial compression strength, the vertical strength and the vertical stiffness(natural frequency). However, the carbody design had some problems on the fatigue strength by twist loadings. So, it was recommended that the carbody design should be modified to improve the twisting strength by reinforcing the front end structures.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.1743-1753
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• 2011

Seoul Metropolitan Government has performed alternative transit system, light rail transit(LRT), for settling the problems of urban public transit system based on conventional bus service and heavy rail transit(HRT). LRT projects of total 8 lines(about 73.6km), including Ui-Sinseol line, have been planned as Build-Transfer-Operate(BTO) projects. For the first LRT, Ui-Sinseol line, however, design of structure had met standard for design of HRT, because of no domestic design code for LRT when participates of Ui-Sinseol project submitted the design proposal. This case study reports a successful example of LRT design minimizing the scale of stations designed in base of HRT code. The problems, like oversized structures compared with LRT vehicles, excessive costs for construction, had been resolved through negotiations with the participates of Ui-Sinseol line. Result suggests that present and future costs for construction and maintenance of the LRT projects in Seoul be considerably reduced in advance.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 2015

Modern systems development becomes more and more complicated due to the need on the ever-increasing capability of the systems. In addition to the complexity issue, safety concern is also increasing since the malfunctions of the systems under development may result in the accidents in both the test and evaluation phase and the operation phase. Light rail transit(LRT) with passenger capacity between bus and subway is driven by an unmanned control, so safety issues of LRT in emergency shall be considered more carefully than other rolling stock. Modern railway system is a complex system and many actions in emergency are required. In this view, interoperability approach is effective to identify the related elements in emergency. In this paper, we propose the method to generate the fire response scenario of unmann ed LRT based on the outputs of systems engineering architecture design methodology. The proposed method is could be contributed to establish more reliable and applicable fire response scenario.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.166-174
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• 2015

A direct demand model requires relatively little analysis time and incurs a low cost. It is also known to be useful for the preliminary screening of promising configurations or concepts. This study reviews direct demand models of 12 existing urban railways using demographic data based on a block group level which is approximately 1/24 of a traditional zone area. However, direct demand models are limited. Therefore, a new approach is suggested. The proposed method is based on a field study and an empirical analysis. The study finds factors that affect ridership at the station level. As a case study, the proposed approach is tested using 54 light railway transit stations. The results of this empirical study demonstrate its applicability to improve the error rates of the predicted ridership at the station level.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.46-53
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• 2016

LED light sources have been known to have a long life and good energy efficiency compared to traditional light sources. Recently, headlamps using LED light sources have ensured the forward visibility and safe operation of high-speed rolling stock. However, assessing the lifespan of LED headlamps based on real test data is not easy because it depends on the multiple stress factors such as a fixed driving current, junction temperature, vibration and so on. Generally, LED headlamps have failed before their advertised life span mainly due to temperature. Thus, the performance assessment of a temperature control unit should be done before a life cycle test of LED headlamps. This study attempted to develop a prototype temperature control module for a lifecycle test system using a commercial LED headlight and verified the system through experiments.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.424-432
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• 2008

This paper presents theoretical explanations about the spill-over effects of domestic production of light rail transit and empirically investigates its effects on output, value-added and employment in the Korean economy. We distinguish net gains of domestic production from gross effects that bring about whether localized or imported cars are used. The input-output analysis is employed to fully capture the interaction among various industries involved. The empirical results reveal that net gains of domestic production such as import substitution, improvement of trade balances, and increase in output, value-added and employment are enormous. The cost reduction in construction, E&M systems, cars, management, and tariff and transportation is also significant.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.22-32
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• 2003

차륜없이 전자석에 의해 부상하고, 리니어모터에 의해 추진하는 시스템이다. HSST의 가장 큰 장점은, 접촉지짖에 의한 저소음 및 공기저항외에는 주행저항이 없기 때문에 고속주행이 가능하다. HSST도 당초에는 최고속도 200∼300km/h 정도의 시스템 HSST-200, HSST-300 타입을 목표로 개발을 진행해왔지만, 최근에는 급구배 및 급곡선 통과가 가능한 특성을 활용하여 도시내 교통을 대상으로 하는 최고속도 100km/h 정도의 시스템 HSST-100 타입 개발에도 주력함으로써 실용화에 달하고 있다. 경량전철로서의 취급하고 있는 시스템은 HSST-100 타입이다.(중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.45-58
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• 2002

우리사회는 교통시설부족으로 인하여 많은 사회적 비용을 지불하고 있다. 이에 따라 꾸준한 지하철, 도로등 교통시설을 확대하고 있으나 지하철과 도로망 확대 모두 재원 문제로 많은 어려움을 겪고 있다. 따라서 지하철보다는 수송용량은 떨어지나 건설비 및 운영비를 절감 할 수 있고, 도로건설에 따른 도시에서의 용지 확보문제를 동시해결 할 수 있는 경량전철이 계속 심도있게 부각되고 있다. 본 글은 우리 철도학회 회원들에게 경량전철의 개황과 현재 운영 또는 개발되어 있는 각종 시스템을 소개함으로서 경량전철을 이해하는데 도움을 주고자하여 이글을 기고합니다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.1197-1204
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• 2004

The metropolitan cities and operation companies of urban transit railway are driving to construct the LRT(light rail transit) system because of the advantage of construction cost and environmental serviceability. This study suggests the optimal design method of steel box girder considering dynamic characteristics of LRT with rubber wheel. The behavior and design constraints are formulated based on the structural design criteria for LRT. Genetic algorithm is applied to the minimum weight design of structural system. A typical example is solved to illustrate the applicability of the proposed minimization algorithm. From the results of application example, the optimum design of steel box girder is successfully accomplished. Therefore, this system can act as a consultant to assist novice designers in the design of steel box girder for LRT with rubber wheel.