• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.180-190
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• 2017

The subway station is not only an effective means to solve urban traffic problems, but also a kind of representative city shelters with a variety of functions such as urban beauty and disaster prevention. At the same time, the subway station as public facilities need activate the urban functions and through the effective design schemes for a variety of the facade of underground entrance to improve users' awareness and reliability for the subway station as a city shelters. This study is conducted to purpose the design direction considering design and disaster preventing characteristics of the underground subway station entrance. In addition, it will provide a basic reference for the subway station in the renovation and construction. The study is composed of literature reviews and field survey. The literature reviews through papers and documents related to the city shelters, the components and characteristics of city shelters, and components and characteristics of facade design of underground entrance at subway station. Before the field survey through the online surveys with evacuation capabilities and screening only the subway station. And field survey is conducted on the site with careful observation and confirmation. Last cluster analysis were applied to the finally selected samples by the SPSS Win18.0

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.1418-1425
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• 2011

Subway operators in the country have their own heavy maintenance facilities for maintaining rolling stock(EMU). However, it is true that the heavy maintenance facilities are not utilized 100% with the recent trend of lengthening maintenance cycle(intervals). With the fact, this enabled the existing maintenance facilities to be utilized for other purposes. By taking advantage of spare facilities and the maintenance staff with rolling stock assembly abilities, subway operators can assemble rolling stock by procuring parts for the assembly instead of purchasing trains from other companies. It is estimated that this will enhance the operator's technology and have a great impact on the management skill as well. This study attempts to find out how the heavy maintenance factory can be utilized for rolling stock assembly.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.1953-1959
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• 2011

Subway stations have a characteristic that the facilities in the ceiling should be checked, replaced and expanded frequently. The new installation of supports (steel anchors) for new facilities and workers moving-around in the ceiling result in the damage in the ceiling finish material and concrete structure which also result in construction cost increase. In addition, the noise, vibration and dust generated during the work harm the station environment. There are civil complaints on these which give difficulty to ceiling works. Accordingly, this study suggests a ceiling frame construction method that considers the convenience, economy and efficiency of ceiling work by improving the support installation method for facilities in ceiling.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.9 no.2 s.33
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• pp.200-205
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• 2006

Subway widely used as a major mean of public transportation both at home and abroad contributes to ease chronic traffic congestion in cities. However, subway operating expense is expected to increase continuously because subway requires vast amount of money at the construction stage, huge sum of maintenance cost is spent during operation, and passenger needs for more convenient facilities is increasing. on the contrary to enormous operating expenses, fare that is occupying most of operating income doesn't come up to its prime cost causing chronic operating deficit. It is urgent to prepare fare system improvement measures to increase operating income in order to resolve financial difficulty of a subway operating organization. Therefore, the current study analyzed present condition and problems of subway fare system, and suggested improvement measures such as improvement of fare adjustment procedure, improvement of free-ride system, diversification of ticket, etc.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.15-19
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• 2009

Due to the Japan's Kobe earthquake in 1995, a cut-and-cover tunnel, which is one of subway facilities, collapsed unexpectedly. As a result, also in Korea, seismic performance needs to be secured for the cut-and-cover tunnel and currently, the subway seismic design standard is based on the seismic performance. However, there is no standard for the damage level or stability level of a member for securing the seismic performance, and the definition of multi-level seismic performance is not sufficient. By contrast to this situation, in the Japan's evaluation method of seismic performance, design earthquake ground motion having reflected there into the subway driving stability is clearly defined and the seismic performance required for structures is classified in detail. This study analyzes the Japan's systematic evaluation method of seismic performance for cut-and-cover tunnels of subway.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.38-44
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• 1999

Subway is one of the most important transportation and its facilities are increased by the drift of population to cities in these days. But heat generation results from lighting, human and traffic increase in subway, half-closed space, gives uncomfortable sense to the subway passengers. Therefore, natural ventilation by piston effect is done to relieve uncomfortable sense. But train wind by piston effect gives uncomfortable sense to the subway passengers, too. So the numerical calculation of inflow and outflow amounts is important to predict thermal environment and reduce train wind. In case of actual survey of train wind in target station, the amount of train wind are about $3100m^3/train$ at the minimum, about $6000m^3/train$ at the maximum, about $4200m^3/train$ on average. When comparison between simulation for train wind prediction and actual survey for accuracy was done train wind prediction program showed similar results.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.1328-1334
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• 2010

As the life quality is higher and higher, the requirement for the clean air in a subway station is strongly being increased. Therefore, many researches have been performed about that. Seoulmetro has taken many parts and has applied latest products for the higher level of air quality. However, by various kinds of facilities, it is hard to maintain the facilities and verify their performances. Therefore it is better to use qualified air filter system by the performance test at subway stations than to apply newly developed one without any verification. This study is focused on the performance verification for a panel structure, which consists of non-woven fabric, to suggest the standard of air filter systems.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.433-444
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• 2008

Nowadays, subway station has provided not only transportation but living spaces for everyday activities. Therefore, a variety of facilities have been installed for a safety of citizens such as fire-fighting equipment, platform screen doors and giving high level of benefits such as air-conditioning and heating equipment, escalators, lighting apparatus. In order to operate these facilities appropriately, it is needless to say that electric power supply must be reliable. Many protection relays have been installed to protect electric apparatus and power system, nevertheless it..s study has been insufficient in the concrete. From this paper, through analyzing of protection relay system of electric room operated in line 2 of Seoul metro, we can help to improve stable power supply system of subway station.

• Proceedings of the SAREK Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.270-275
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• 2007

Pollutants emitted by Diesel trains seriously affected on the ventilation characteristics in the subway or railway tunnel network systems. Thus, numerical prediction results and analyses are required to engineers who should design ventilation facilities. So here, this paper presents some numerical results about the ventilation characteristics, such as pollutants distributions and a suitability of the ventilation facilities pre-designed in case that diesel trains use the same railway track with normal passenger trains

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.8-14
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• 2013

In the subway, various fires continue to take place across the world. In the Daegu subway accident in 2003, many people were damaged by shortened visibility range caused by toxic gas and smoke. This paper, assuming that a subway fire happens in the Mandeok Station of the subway system in Busan, analyzed different smoke-spreading situations depending on the ventilation situation at its platform (opening of the train doors, operation of ventilation facilities in the tunnel, and working of fire door), using FDS. The calculation proved that it would be more effective to secure evacuation route when the ventilation facilities of the tunnel are not operated, than when they are on. And, it was also found that the case where the doors of the platform to the escape route and only the platform-facing doors of the subway car on fire office are open would be more effective to ventilation than the case where all the doors are open. And, it was found to be important that the fire doors of the platform are working properly.