• 한국안전학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.98-106
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• 2014

This study proposes severity analysis for pedestrian accidents by improving variables which were used for general severity analysis. The existing variables were collected based on the interviews with policeman or witnesses and evidence of accidents. Therefore, existing variables were subjective and had several measurement errors. In order to improve such problems, this study collected variables from vehicle recorder of taxi which recorded the moment of accidents. As a result, explanatory power of independent variables was enhanced and the complete objective variables could be collected. After collecting variables, ordered probit model was developed by utilizing vehicle recorder database. Fitness of ordered probit model was 0.23. Vehicle speed and pedestrian's eye direction variables were the most critical factors for severity of pedestrian accident. In addition, severity analysis for vulnerable pedestrian was carried out. As a result, it was revealed that vehicle speed, pedestrian's eye direction and safety zone variables affected the severity of pedestrian accidents most. Particularly, vehicle speed variable is the most important factor. Consequently, driver's defensive driving and compliance to the regulations are the priority to reduce severity of pedestrian accidents and prevent pedestrian accident.

• 대한건축학회논문집:계획계
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the causes of conflict that arise from public pedestrian passages installed in apartment complexes through a survey of residents' perceptions and to investigate the effects on the satisfaction with and necessity of the public pedestrian passage. This has significance as a preliminary research into determining solutions to conflict related to public pedestrian passages that are open spaces, accessible 24 hours a day to pedestrians including people who live outside of the apartment complex. The result of the residents' perception survey showed that there is conflict due to the public pedestrian passage. The main problem was the noise-related variables. While management and safety variables were also perceived as problems, privacy and ownership infringement variables were not. These problems were reduced to four factors through a factor analysis: unfavorable incidents, environment management, ownership infringement, and safety crimes. Analyzing the effects of the above factors on the satisfaction with the apartment complex, satisfaction with the public pedestrian passage and the necessity of the public pedestrian passage, demonstrated that the unfavorable incidents factor influenced all the variables. The safety crimes factor, which is an extended concept of the unfavorable incidents, affected both the satisfaction and necessity of the public pedestrian passage. The ownership infringement factor was found to affect the satisfaction of the public pedestrian passage only, and the environment management factor did not affect all the variables. In planning and managing public pedestrian passages, avoiding incidents and crimes should be considered as a priority to increase the satisfaction of residents and solve conflicts.

• 한국전산구조공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산구조공학회 1996년도 봄 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.202-211
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• 1996

A number of typical type of steel-box pedestrian bridges are constructed in the metropolitan highway or heavy traffic urban area. Although it has the advantage of speedy construction because of its simple structural form and prefabricated erection method, it has been reported that many of these bridges are deteriorated or damaged and thus are in the state such that it would give unsafe and uncomfortable feeling to pedestrians. In the paper, for the realistic assessment of safety and residual earring-capacity of deteriorated and/or damaged steel box pedestrian bridges, an interactive non-linear limit state model are formulated based on the von Mises' combined stress yield criterion. It is demonstrated that the proposal model is effective for the reliability-based safety assessment and residual carrying-capacity evaluation of steel-box pedestrian bridges. In addition, this study suggests an effective and practical field load test method for pedestrian bridges.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제32권5호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2017

This study deals with the safety of roundabout. The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors affecting the pedestrian accidents of roundabout near schools. In pursuing the above, this study gives particular attentions to comparatively analyzing the pedestrian accident by number of entry and circulatory lane. The traffic accident data from 2013 to 2015 are collected from TAAS data set of Road Traffic Authority. To develop the pedestrian accident model, the Poisson and negative binomial models has been utilized in this study. Such the dependent variable as the number of pedestrian accidents and the 24 independent variables as geometry, traffic volume and others are used. The main results are as follows. First, 3 Poisson and 2 negative binomial models(${\rho}^2$ of 0.153~0.426) which are all statistically significant are developed. Second, the common variable of models based on the number of circulatory roadway lane is analyzed to be the entry lane width and that of the number of entry lane is evaluated to be the design speed. Also specific variables are evaluated to splitter island, roundabout sign, number of approach road, bus stop and elementary school. Finally, the design speed might be expected to decrease the number of pedestrian accidents near schools.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.77-87
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• 2014

도로 중앙에 설치된 중앙버스전용차로 상의 안전문제가 지적되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 중앙버스전용차로 횡단보도를 이용하는 보행자의 통행행태를 검토하고 잘못된 통행행태를 억제하기 위한 물리적 차단시설의 안전성 증진 효과를 정량적으로 분석한다. 무단횡단이 다수 관측되는 '숙명여대입구 정류장'의 '분리형 횡단보도' 를 조사대상으로 선정하여 횡단보행행태 영상자료를 수집하였다. 수집된 영상속 총 19,649인의 횡단행태를 분석하였고 개개인의 횡단행태를 시공간적으로 분류하였다. 전체 횡단행태 중 약 42%가 위반행태 였으며, 이 중 시간적 위반행태는 8.5%에 해당된다. 시간적 위반 행태를 억제하기 위한 시설로서 보행신호와 연동하여 진출입부를 물리적으로 차단하는 시설의 설치상황을 개선안으로 설정하였다. 해당 시설 설치시 현행법을 위반하는 횡단행태가 정상적인 행태로 개선 가능한지를 판단하였고 이에 따라 현황과 개선 상황에 맞는 보행패턴과 보행량을 결정하였다. 각각의 보행자료를 바탕으로 VISSIM을 이용한 보행모의실험을 수행하였고, FHWA에서 제공하는 상충분석 도구 SSAM을 이용하여 상충발생가능성을 분석하였다. 분석결과, 중앙섬 및 노변보도측 횡단보도 진출입부 8개소에 물리적 차단시설을 설치한 경우 상충발생가능성이 약 24.9% 감소하는 것으로 나타났다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.1562-1582
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• 2024

The prediction of pedestrian trajectory is conducive to reducing traffic accidents and protecting pedestrian safety, which is crucial to the task of intelligent driving. The existing methods mainly use the past pedestrian trajectory to predict the future deterministic pedestrian trajectory, ignoring pedestrian intention and trajectory diversity. This paper proposes a multi-modal trajectory prediction model that introduces pedestrian intention. Unlike previous work, our model makes multi-modal goal-conditioned trajectory pedestrian prediction based on the past pedestrian trajectory and pedestrian intention. At the same time, we propose a novel Gate Recurrent Unit (GRU) to process intention information dynamically. Compared with traditional GRU, our GRU adds an intention unit and an intention gate, in which the intention unit is used to dynamically process pedestrian intention, and the intention gate is used to control the intensity of intention information. The experimental results on two first-person traffic datasets (JAAD and PIE) show that our model is superior to the most advanced methods (Improved by 30.4% on MSE_0.5s and 9.8% on MSE_1.5s for the PIE dataset; Improved by 15.8% on MSE_0.5s and 13.5% on MSE_1.5s for the JAAD dataset). Our multi-modal trajectory prediction model combines pedestrian intention that varies at each prediction time step and can more comprehensively consider the diversity of pedestrian trajectories. Our method, validated through experiments, proves to be highly effective in pedestrian trajectory prediction tasks, contributing to improving traffic safety and the reliability of intelligent driving systems.

• 자동차안전학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2012

In 2014 Flex-PLIfor the pedestrian protection will be applied to NCAP test. The most significant feature of Flex-PLI is constructed with segmental bone cores for the femur and tibia regions. So it can be more reproducible by representing pedestrian injuries such as knee ligament and tibia injury during the pedestrian crash against vehicle. In this paper, Analyzed the characteristics of Flex-PLI through the structural analysis and the test results by using Flex-PLI for our compact vehicles. Finally countermeasures into compact vehicle were proposed to fulfill the injury criteria of Flex-PLI.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.699-709
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• 2018

With increasing traffic volumes and rising vehicle traffic, especially in cities, the number of pedestrian bridges has also increased significantly. Like all other structures, pedestrian bridges also suffer damage. In order to increase the safety of pedestrians, it is necessary to identify existing damage and to repair them to ensure the safety of the bridge structures. Owing to the shortcomings of local methods in identifying damage and in order to enhance the reliability of detection and identification of structural faults, signal methods have seen significant development in recent years. In this research, a new methodology, based on cone-shaped kernel distribution with a new damage index, has been used for damage detection in pedestrian truss bridges. To evaluate the proposed method, the numerical models of the Warren Type steel truss and the Arregar steel footbridge were used. Based on the results, the proposed method and damage index identified the damage and determined its location with a high degree of precision. Given the ease of use, the proposed method can be used to identify faults in pedestrian bridges.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.1-17
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• 2022

우리나라 교통사고 사망자 중 보행 중 사망자가 높은 비율을 차지하고 있으며, 정책적으로 보행안전에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 특히, 보행자 교통사고가 많이 발생하는 신호교차로에서 보행환경 개선을 위하여 다양한 보행자 중심의 교통신호 운영기법 개발이 필요한 시점이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 잔류보행 기반 시간대별 보행신호 운영기법을 연구하였다. 본 연구에서는 보행수요와 잔류보행자가 증가하는 시간대에 한해서 보행신호시간을 더 늘려서 운영하는 잔류보행기반 시간대별 보행신호 운영기법을 현장에 적용하였으며, 제안한 보행신호 운영기법 적용에 따른 안전성의 차이를 통계적으로 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 현시 단위 잔류보행자율은 적용 전 20%(3.3명), 적용 후 8%(1.4명)으로 감소하였으며, 적색신호 시 횡단보도 내 잔류하는 잔류보행자율이 12%(1.9명) 감소하고, 그리고 잔류보행자의 위치는 적용 전 5.2m에서 적용 후 1.9m로 3.3m 감소하는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.55-73
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• 1994

The objective of this research is to evaluate the pedestrian signal time involving green and flashing green times. The minimum pedestrian green indication should give time for pedestrian to start crossing safely, and the flashing green indication should give time to complete the crossing. An average pedestrian crossing speed of 1.1(m/s) was estimated by analyzing the field data which was slower than the 1.2(m/s) currently used. Furthermore, the study proposed that design speed for the flashing green time should be slow speed for considerations pedestrian safety, not the average speed. The 0.78-1.01(m/s) of pedestrian speed was estimated at the elementary school areas that indicated 0.2(m/s) slower than the other areas. The pedestrian starting time (perception/reaction time) and time headway from front to back of herd was estimated to determine minimum pedestrian green time. the pedestrian starting time was estimated to determine minimum pedestrian green time. The pedestrian starting time was ranged 2.52-4.29 seconds. The time interval between the pedestrian rows was found to be 1.25-1.86 seconds, which declines as the pedestrian rows increases, The equation to calculate the pedestrian signal, which declines as the pedestrian rows increases. The equation to calculate the pedestrian signal time is proposed using the pedestrian starting time, the time interval between the pedestrian rows, and pedestrian crossing speed given area types (commercial, business, mixed, and elementary school areas), number of both-directional pedestrians for a cycle, crosswalk length and width.