• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.402-409
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• 2013

현재 운영되고 있는 광역도시철도 시스템에서는 표정속도의 저하에 따라 평균 출퇴근 시간도 계속 증가하고 있으며 이는 도시철도 이용률의 저하와 타 교통수단 대비 졍쟁력 저하로 이어지게 된다. 따라서 열차의 표정속도를 대폭 향상시킬 수 있는 광역도시철도의 효율적인 급행화 방안이 요구되고 있다. 이번 연구에서는 가감속도와 최고속도 성능을 향상시킨 고성능 전동차 투입을 고려하여 급행과 완행으로 분리 투입시 획득 할 수 있는 시간 단축 효과와 경제성을 기준으로, 광역철도간 급행화 방안들을 제안 및 그 결과를 비교 분석하였다. 또한 대피선 설치를 최소화 할 수 있는 최적의 급행화 방안을 분석결과로 제안하였다.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제44권1호
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• pp.51-60
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• 2012

Concrete sleepers are essential components of the conventional railway. As support elements, sleepers are always subjective to a variety of time-dependent loads attributable to the train operations, either wheel or rail abnormalities. It has been observed that the sleepers may deteriorate due to these loads, inducing the formation of hairline cracks. There are two areas along the sleepers that are more prone to crack: the central and the rail seat sections. Several non-destructive methods have been developed to identify failures in structures. Health monitoring techniques are based on vibration responses measurements, which help engineers to identify the vibration-based damage or remotely monitor the sleeper health. In the present paper, the dynamic effects of the cracks in the vibration signatures of the railway pre-stressed concrete sleepers are investigated. The experimental modal analysis has been used to evaluate the modal bending changes in the vibration characteristics of the sleepers, differentiating between the central and the rail seat locations of the cracks. Modal parameters changes of the 'healthy' and cracked sleepers have been highlighted in terms of natural frequencies and modal damping. The paper concludes with a discussion of the most suitable failure indicator and it defines the vibration signatures of intact, central cracked and rail seat cracked sleepers.

• Earthquakes and Structures
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.275-288
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• 2023

Based on the crucial role of high-speed railway bridges (HSRBs) in the safety of high-speed railway operations, it is an important approach to mitigate earthquake hazards by proceeding with seismic risk assessments in their whole life. Bridge seismic risk assessment, which usually evaluates the seismic performance of bridges from a probabilistic perspective, provides technical support for bridge risk management. The seismic performance of bridges is greatly affected by the degradation of material properties, therefore, material damage plays a nonnegligible role in the seismic risk assessment of the bridge. The effect of material damage is not considered in most current studies on seismic risk analysis of bridges, nevertheless. To fill the gap in this area, in this paper, a nonlinear dynamic time-history analysis has been carried out by establishing OpenSees finite element model, and a seismic vulnerability analysis is carried out based on the incremental dynamic analysis (IDA) method. On this basis, combined with the site risk analysis, the time-dependent seismic risk analysis of an offshore three-span HSRB in the whole life cycle has been conducted. The results showed that the seismic risk probabilities of both components and system of the bridge increase with the service time, and their seismic risk probabilities increase significantly in the last service period due to the degradation of the material strength, which demonstrates that the impact of durability damage should be considered when evaluating the seismic performance of bridges in the design and service period.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.569-574
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• 2008

전차선과 팬터그래프는 물리적인 접촉을 통하여 전동차에 전력을 공급하는 장치로, 전동차가 안전하게 운행할 수 있도록 기술적인 규정에 따라 정밀하게 시공되어야 한다. 전차선의 편위 및 높이는 여러 가지 외부 환경요소에 의하여 상태가 변화하며, 허용치를 초과한 진차선의 편위 및 높이는 높은 아크와 순간적인 전기 단전을 유발한다. 이는 팬터그래프와 전차선에 큰 손상을 주며 고장과 사고의 원인이 된다. 따라서 주기적으로 전차선의 상태를 점검하여 유지 및 보수를 할 수 있는 측정 장치의 요구가 증대되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 전차선의 높이 및 편위 검측 시스템에 관하여 기술하였다. 검측 시스템은 Acuity사의 AR4000레이저 거리측정기와 AccuRange 라인 스캐너를 사용하여 전차선 높이 및 편위를 측정한다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권10호
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• pp.685-697
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• 2019

이 연구는 중국의 여객 철도 네트워크의 구조를 분석하여 중국 도시 네트워크의 특성과 변화를 살펴보는 것이 주요 목적이다. 사회 네트워크 분석 도구인 NetMiner4.0을 활용하였으며, 2008년, 2013년, 2018년 각 연도의 전체 중국 여객 열차 운행 O/D데이터를 가공하여 연결중심성, 매개중심성, 근접중심성 분석 및 열차유형에 따른 네트워크 특성 파악을 수행하였다. 또한, 연도별 네트워크의 구조적 특성변화와 네트워크 상위도시를 비교 분석 하였다. 철도 네트워크의 연결중심성은 3개년도 대부분 베이징, 상하이, 광저우, 우한, 시안, 청두, 하얼빈, 선양 지역이 높게 나타났고, 매개중심성 분석을 통해 우루무치, 구이양, 선양, 쿤밍 지역이 개발 잠재력이 내제된 도시로 밝혀졌다. 또한, 근접중심성 분석으로 베이징, 상하이, 광저우 등의 대도시의 철도 접근성이 높음을 확인하였다. 그리고 고속 철도 및 일반철도의 비교 분석을 통해 베이징과 톈진사이의 연계성이 계속 강화되고 있음을 파악할 수 있었다. 이러한 철도 교통의 발전과 운행에 따라 철도역을 중심으로 인접한 도시와 네트워크를 형성하고 향후 네트워크의 범위가 확대될 것으로 예측된다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.129-142
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• 2016

본 연구는 미래 철도망에서 이용될 예정인 LTE 기반 철도통합무선통신망 서비스의 효과에 대하여 경제성 분석방법을 이용한 평가를 수행한 것으로, 철도통합무선통신망을 설계할 때 편익을 극대화 하는 요소가 무엇인지 확인하고 이를 설계에 반영하도록 평가 결과를 활용하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 본 연구에서 경제적 효과 분석의 주요 대안으로 기존의 무선통신 방식(VHF로 구축할 경우와 TRS로 구축할 경우)을 신규노선에 설치하는 경우에 대비하여, LTE-R 방식의 무선통신 방식을 철도망에 설치할 경우에 대한 도입 효과를 분석한다. 주요 변수로는 직접 편익 항목별 편익기여율 변수를 이용하여 민감도 분석을 수행하였다. 사례 연구로 2018년 도입되는 원주-강릉 노선에서의 무선통신 서비스의 편익기여율이 10%이상 증대될 때 BCR이 1.0이상이 되기 때문에 이를 고려한 ICT 설계가 요구됨을 확인하였다. 향후 원주-강릉 노선에 LTE-R 통신 서비스 도입시, 세부 무선통신 서비스별 편익기여도를 높이기 위한 설계가 요구되고, 실제 구축 이후의 편익기여도에 대한 검증을 통하여 경제적 효과를 확인할 수 있을 것으로 예상된다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.41-48
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• 2008

Enhanced machine reliability has dramatically reduced the rate and number of railway accidents but for further reduction human error should be considered together that accounts for about 20% of the accidents. Therefore, the objective of this study was to suggest a new taxonomy of performance shaping factors (PSFs) that could be utilized to identify the causes of a human error associated with railway accidents. Four categories of human factor, task factor, environment factor, and organization factor and 14 sub-categories of physical state, psychological state, knowledge/experience/ability, information/communication, regulation/procedure, specific character of task, infrastructure, device/MMI, working environment, external environment, education, direction/management, system/atmosphere, and welfare/opportunity along with 131 specific factors was suggested by carefully reviewing 8 representative published taxonomy of Casualty Analysis Methodology for Maritime Operations (CASMET), Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method (CREAM), Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), Integrated Safety Investigation Methodology (ISIM), Korea-Human Performance Enhancement System (K-HPES), Rail safety and Standards Board (RSSB), $TapRoot^{(R)}$, and Technique for Retrospective and Predictive Analysis of Cognitive Errors (TRACEr). Then these were applied to the case of the railway accident occurred between Komo and Kyungsan stations in 2003 for verification. Both cause decision chart and why-because tree were developed and modified to aid the analyst to find causal factors from the suggested taxonomy. The taxonomy was well suited so that eight causes were found to explain the driver's error in the accident. The taxonomy of PSFs suggested in this study could cover from latent factors to direct causes of human errors related with railway accidents with systematic categorization.

• 한국철도학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.349-356
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• 2008

최근 열차제어시스템과 관계된 안정성 기반 시스템 개념이 변화되고 있다. 기계적이거나 전자 기계적인 장치들은 프로그램 가능한 전자 장치들로 대체되고 또한 이들은 통신망들을 통해 원거리에서 제어된다. 결과적으로 열차제어시스템 개발과 관계된 엔지니어들은 전자 부품들의 오류나 사용자 오류 등에 대해서 시스템 구현 시 대책을 강구해야 할 뿐만 아니라, 또한 시스템에 의해 제공되는 서비스를 붕괴시키는 악의적인 개체의 공격에 대해서도 대비해야 한다. 열차제어시스템에서 요구되는 통신의 특성이 절대적 안정성 기반 특징임을 감안하면, 해당 통신 인프라는 여러 가지 안정성 요구조건을 절대적으로 만족시켜야 한다. 예를 들어 시스템 오류에 관계된 것 또는 사용자 오류와 관계한 것, 그리고 정상적인 시스템 동작을 방해하는 악의적인 공격자의 고의적인 행위에 대한 보호 등을 들 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 열차제어시스템에서 요구되는 안전성 전략에 대해 논하고 또한 한국 철도통신시스템을 위한 보호 메커니즘에 대해서 제안한다. 아울러 제안된 보호 메커니즘에 바탕을 둔 개발한 통신 안정성 평가 도구를 설명한다. 마지막으로 여러 가지 위협들, 즉 가장, 도청, 비인가자의 통신 메시지 조작 등으로부터 제안된 도구의 보호 능력 등에 대해서도 평가한다.

• International Journal of Railway
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• 제1권4호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2008

During maintenance or construction works in or at the tracks of railways, high risks for passengers and railway staff, especially for the workers on the construction site exist. The high risks result out of the movement of rail vehicles, like trains or construction vehicles, which must be faced by using any available technical and operational technologies for securing them against the environment. Therefore, it is necessary to evaluate the level of protection continuously and to identify new and innovative methods and technologies for the protection of the gang (construction worker, machines and material). Especially on construction sites at line sections with two or more parallel tracks but also with single tracks, there are still a lot of incidents and accidents mostly with seriously injured persons or fatalities. These were mainly gang members that breach the railway-loading gage. By using proper warning or protection systems, the avoidance of such accidents must be achieved. The latest developments. in gang protection systems concern on the one hand fixed barriers in the middle between the construction site and the operated track and on the other hand construction vehicles equipped with automatic warning systems. The disadvantage of such protection methods is that the gang can be warned against an approaching train but a monitoring of the gang members cannot be performed. Only one part of a potential dangerous situation will be detected. If the gang members will overhear the acoustic warning signal of the security staff and the workers will not leave the danger zone in the track, the driver of the approaching train had no chance to react to the dangerous situation. An accident is often inevitable. While the detection of acoustic warning signals by the gang members working on a construction site is very difficult, the acoustical planning of an automatic warning system has to be designed for an acoustic short range level of one meter besides the construction vehicle. The decision about the use of today's technical warning system (fixed systems, automatic warning systems, etc.) must be geared to the technical feasibility and the level of safety which is needed. Criteria for decision guidance to block a track should be developed by danger estimation and economical variables. To realize the actual jurisdiction and to minimize the hazards of railway operations by the use of construction vehicles near the tracks further developments are needed. This means, that the warning systems have to be enhanced to systems for protection, which monitor the realization of the warning signal as a precondition for giving a movement authority to a train. This method can protect against accidents caused by predictable wrongdoing. The actual state of the art technique of using a collective warning combined with additional security staff is no longer acceptable. Therefore, the Institute of Transportation System of the German Aerospace Center in Braunschweig (Germany) will develop a gang warning and protection system based upon imaging methods, with optical sensors such as video in visible and invisible ranges, radar, laser, and other. The advantage of such a system based on the possibility to monitor both the gang itself and the railway-loading gauge either of the parallel track or of the same track still in use. By monitoring both situations, the system will be able to generate a warning message for the approaching train, that there are obstacles in the track, so that the train can be stopped to prevent an accident. And also the gang workers will be warned, while they breach their area.

• International Journal of Railway
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.60-69
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• 2009

In recent years, technology developments in different countries, especially in newly industrialized countries, are extremely indebted to appropriate technology transfer by these countries. Nevertheless the technology transfer process in the present situation is complex, and its success is related to the coordination rate with the political, economic, social, and environmental objectives of countries. Today debates related to the transfer of the technical know how accompanied by equipment hardware has found remarkable importance such that countries seek increasing comprehensive capabilities in the field of transferred technology for which Preventive Maintenance (PM) is one of the aspects. This research with the purpose to determine the technological capability level and to study the role of PM in the effective & appropriate technology transfer in subway industry is carried out for presenting a suitable model for the technology transfer in this industry with an attitude towards the effects of principal PM factors. For this purpose, after the study of different and relevant models existing in the field of suitable methods for technology transfer, some equipment PM theories and models were selected as the base for the compilation of the questionnaire. With the help of questionnaire, main PM factors that are effective in the field of technology transfer were extracted, and finally, their effects on technology transfer were analyzed, identified and a comprehensive model suggested in this connection.