• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 2018

The living lab is a user-participatory innovation space where users can solve problems by themselves. Living Lab members are able to participate in all aspects of product development from technology conception. In this study, to prevent pedestrian accidents, auto-image sensing signal system was developed in Jeonju City, using the Living Lab method. In addition, we measured effectiveness of the auto-image sensing signal system with respect to pedestrian waiting time, pedestrian and driver signal violation, and pedestrian jaywalking. It was also compared the measures before installation, after installation and after applying Living Lab method. As a result, all of the three measures of effectiveness appeared to be more effective after Living Lab than after installation. Overall, this study is very significant in that it is the first case where the living lab is applied in transportation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1825-1830
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• 2015

In some cases, despite the pedestrian jaywalking pedestrian traffic lights to red, or even wait for the walk signal to stand down in the driveway. If this is the case may be liable to lead to a traffic accident. Thus, using an infrared sensor wateuna adopted the approach that the warning announcement when a pedestrian enters the driveway, curved pedestrian crossing the intersection in this case, it is difficult to install. In this paper, we propose a Fitness referral system utilizes a built-in sensor of the Android mobile devices. For this purpose, the sensor is a proximity sensor using an acceleration sensor. The proximity sensor has a number of disadvantages compared to the high precision battery power, the acceleration sensor accuracy, fast response time, on the other hand, the disadvantage is the lower. Close to reduce battery consumption of the sensor, BMI of the user sensor control mechanism and increase the accuracy of the acceleration sensor (Body Mass Index) obtained after the index was applied to the recommendation algorithm, which like the movement mechanism.

• 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.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.93-102
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• 2023

This study conducted an effect evaluation before and after the installation of a vehicle information guidance system that provides drivers with information about vehicle speed and the presence or absence of pedestrians near pedestrian crossings. There are three types of scenarios: when no information is provided to the driver (S1), when only the vehicle driving speed is provided (S2), and when pedestrians are present on the pedestrian crossing and when both vehicle driving speeds are provided (S3). did. As a result of the survey, the speed reduction rate of the vehicle was found to be about 0.4~0.7km greater in S2 and S3 that provide information to the driver than in scenario S1. In addition, in the scenario S3, the speed reduction rate is 0.2km higher than that in the case where there are pedestrians near the pedestrian crossing, which further reduces the vehicle speed. Statistical analysis also showed that there was a difference in the speed reduction rate of the average vehicle for the three scenarios, and that the speed reduction rate was large in the presence of pedestrians.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.11a
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• pp.5-6
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• 2019

최근 보행자 행태를 반영한 미시적 시뮬레이션 분석이 가능하게 되었다. 차량 분석과 유사하게 보행자 행태 중 가장 빈번히 사용되는 것은 보행속도로 이는 횡단보도 보행자 녹색시간 산정과도 매우 밀접한 관계가 있다. 또한 보도의 밀도를 산정함에 있어서 보행자 속도는 중요한 역할을 담당한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 횡단보도의 보행자 속도를 실측하고, 이를 기반으로 미시적 시뮬레이션인 VISSIM의 주요 파라메타인 보행속도를 이용하여 역삼역 일대의 보행실태를 점검해 보았다. 분석에 사용된 보행속도 실측자료는 서울시 16개 횡단보도에서 조사되었으며, 연령별로 일반인(64세 이하)과 노인(65세 이상)을 구분하여 분석하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.488-496
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• 2015

The main reason to install pedestrian pushbuttons is improving traffic operations. The current guideline for the installation of signal systems with pedestrian pushbuttons is car-oriented. It is difficult to clearly understand the guideline because there isn't an in-depth study to compare the pros and cons of the pedestrian- and vehicle-oriented methods in terms of waiting time. Thus, this study aims to estimate the waiting times of pedestrians and vehicles. The two delay times are compared considering the hypothetical circumstances such as geometry, pedestrian crossing time, pedestrian/vehicle counts and arrival distribution. The results show that when the pedestrian traffic volume exceeds 97 ped/h in the case of a two-lane road (one lane in each direction) the pushbutton system is effective and beneficial to pedestrians. It means that the total waiting time of pedestrians is less than the one of vehicles. Additional four scenarios are designed and tested by varying the number of lanes and design speeds. In conclusion, the pushbutton signal is more beneficial for pedestrians when the number of pedestrians is less than or equal to 85, 70, and 70 ped/h for the three-lane scenario, the four-lane with the design speed of 80km/h scenario, and the four-lane with the design speed of 100km/h, respectively.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.53-66
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• 2017

In order to improve traffic flow and vehicular safety, installation of roundabouts is encouraging recently. Roundabouts are generally installed at which traffic flow and pedestrian flow is relatively low intersections. Roundabouts reduce vehicle speed, minimize vehicle weaving, and reduce critical conflict points. For these reasons, roundabouts are generally operated unprotected pedestrian crosswalk, thus a shortcoming for pedestrian safety always exists at roundabouts. The purpose of this study is developing a dynamic signal metering algorithm for traffic and pedestrian at four-way-approach with two-lane roundabouts in which three different operation algorithms(fixed-time pedestrian, vehicle signal metering, and vehicle and pedestrian signal metering) are suggested and its performance is tested by using VISSIM. The results of the fixed pedestrian signal operation show that there is a big average delay increase in general and that increases up to 51.4 seconds/vehicle(42.5%) when the total number of approaching vehicle is 3,800 vehicle/hour. However, the results of the simultaneous dynamic signal metering operation for the vehicle and pedestrian crossing with push button show that there is a substantial average delay reduction up to 40.6 seconds/vehicle(42.7%) when the total number of approaching vehicle is 3,000 vehicle/hour.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.93-99
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• 2017

The rate of traffic accidents that occurred in Korea last year is 10 out of every 100,000 people, ranking it 6th among the 35 OECD member countries. The accident rate of children with disabilities and elderly people is also high. The purpose of this study is to introduce traffic safety facilities which have been developed for the reduction of traffic accidents in non-urban areas in Korea through an analysis of the related literature, the accident factors using traffic accident analysis system data and traffic accident characteristics. Traffic safety integrated facilities for ICT-based pedestrian crossings are subject to cross-sectional coverage of child protection zones. The smart safety fence prevents vehicles from parking illegally and informs pedestrians that there is an access vehicle on the pedestrian crossing. The smart bump is designed to warn drivers who are not aware of the pedestrians. In order to standardize the appropriate form and size of the traffic safety facilities for pedestrian crossings, we constructed a standard model for each type, considering the road function, press classification, power, lane number, geometric form, etc. As a result, the rate of traffic accidents involving vulnerable people was reduced. In addition, it is anticipated that the maintenance costs will be reduced by the use of a solar power supply and their compatibility with the existing installed safety fences.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.83-89
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• 2007

When allocating traffic signal at the signalized intersection, minimum green time and clearance time for bicyclists should be significantly considered in order to enhance safety aspects to bicyclists when crossing intersections, especially where intersections with exclusive bicycle paths that are physically separated from pedestrians. In this study, field measurements related to bicycle crossing time, including minimum peen time and clearance time, were collected and analyzed according to bicycles crossing types at the signalized intersections where high rate of bicyclists exists. Three types of bicycle crossing are defined as follows 1) stopping: completely stop before crossing (at least one foot on found) 2) riding: crossing with riding bicycle 3) pulling: crossing without riding bicycles. Minimum green time based on pedestrian speeds should be used as crossing time in this case. For bicyclists, speed of bicycle that is applicable to estimate the minimum green time is in the 1.36m/sec($15^{th}$ percentile) to 1.60m/sec($25^{th}$ percentile) range in case of its stopping. Also it is in the 0.75($15^{th}$ percentile) to 0.87($25^{th}$ percentile) range for pulling at crosswalk. In addition, speed of bicycle to consider for calculating the clearance time is in the 2.51m/sec($15^{th}$ percentile) to 2.79m/sec($25^{th}$ percentile). These values also resulted from $15^{th}$ percentile or $25^{th}$ percentile speeds of riding. The results of this study are expected to be supported in traffic signal allocation process, reflecting bicyclists' characteristics.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.7 s.78
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• pp.147-154
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• 2004

The purpose of this paper is to improve the existing phase split algorithm considering the minimum green time in COSMOS. In the case of a signalized intersection where two wide and narrow streets intersect each other, the time required for the pedestrian crossing is frequently longer than the time alloted to the through traffic on a minor street. In order to meet the minimum green time requirement for the pedestrian less time in alloted automatically to the left-turn traffic, creating heavy congestion on the left-turn approach. To solve this problem, this study suggests a new algorithm which shares the barrier using minimum green time and shares the burden with signal phases alloted to the crossing street traffic on the basis of the equal ratio of the degree of saturation, while maintaining the minimum green time requirement. The new algorithm was compared with the existing algorithm by using a microscopic simulation model for COSMOS evaluation developed at Ajou University. The simulation results show that the new algorithm produces better performance than the existing one.