• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.30-44
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• 2013

Traffic congestion has become a serious problem with the recent exponential increase in the number of vehicles. In urban areas, almost all traffic congestion occurs at intersections. One of the ways to solve this problem is road expansion, but it is difficult to realize in urban areas because of the high cost and long construction period. In such cases, traffic signal control is a reasonable method for reducing traffic jams. In an actual situation, the traffic flow changes randomly and its randomness makes the control of traffic signals difficult. A prediction of traffic jams is, therefore, necessary and effective for reducing traffic jams. In addition, an autonomous distributed (stand-alone) point control of each traffic light individually is better than the wide and/or line control of traffic lights from the perspective of real-time control. This paper describes a stochastic optimum control of crossroads and multi-way traffic signals. First, a stochastic model of traffic flows and traffic jams is constructed by using a Bayesian network. Secondly, the probabilistic distributions of the traffic flows are estimated by using a cellular automaton, and then the probabilistic distributions of traffic jams are predicted. Thirdly, optimum traffic signals of crossroads and multi-way intersection are searched by using a modified particle swarm optimization algorithm to realize real-time traffic control. Finally, simulations are carried out to confirm the effectiveness of the real-time stochastic optimum control of traffic signals.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.9-16
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• 2022

The nodes constituting the vehicle ad hoc network (VANET) are vehicles moving along the road and road side units (RSUs) installed around the road. The vehicle ad hoc network is used to collect the status, speed, and location information of vehicles driving on the road, and to communicate with vehicles, vehicles, and RSUs. Today, as the number of vehicles continues to increase, urban roads are suffering from traffic jams, which cause various problems such as time, fuel, and the environment. In this paper, we propose a method to solve traffic congestion problems on urban roads and demonstrate that the method can be applied to solve traffic congestion problems through performance evaluation using two typical protocols of vehicle ad hoc networks, AODV and GPSR. The performance evaluation used ns-2 simulator, and the average number of traffic jams and the waiting time due to the average traffic congestion were measured. Through this, we demonstrate that the vehicle ad hoc-based traffic congestion management technique proposed in this paper can be applied to urban roads in smart cities.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.133-140
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• 2014

An efficient heuristic for two-vehicle-one-depot problems is developed in this research. Vehicle moving speeds are various along hour based time intervals due to traffic jams of rush hours. Two different heuristics are examined. One is that the delivery area assignment is made using Sweep algorithm for two vehicles by splitting the whole area in half to equally divide all delivery points. The other is using common area by leaving unassigned area between the assigned for two vehicles. The common area is reassigned by two stages to balance the completion time of two vehicle's delivery. The heuristic with common area performed better than the other due to various vehicle moving speeds and traffic jams.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.841-854
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• 2020

The paper explains the method to process, analyze and predict traffic patterns in Los Angeles county using Big Data and Machine Learning. The dataset is used from a popular navigating platform in the USA, which tracks information on the road using connected users' devices and also collects reports shared by the users through the app. The dataset mainly consists of information about traffic jams and traffic incidents reported by users, such as road closure, hazards, accidents. The major contribution of this paper is to give a clear view of how the large-scale road traffic data can be stored and processed using the Big Data system - Hadoop and its ecosystem (Hive). In addition, analysis is explained with the help of visuals using Business Intelligence and prediction with classification machine learning model on the sampled traffic data is presented using Azure ML. The process of modeling, as well as results, are interpreted using metrics: accuracy, precision and recall.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.836-841
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• 2012

The repair of road pavement and manhole has been resulted long construction times and traffic jams, environmental pollution from construction wastes, and budget waste due to excessive construction costs. In order to resolve such problems, we have developed the new construction method using C-ring, which can fix and raise the manhole securely. This technology is the method by driving in a wedge after inserting C-ring and expanding it in order to raise manhole to the regular height. This has been approved by the test reports of KOLAS(Korea Laboratory Accreditation Scheme), and was confirmed safety, durability and reliabilty in result. In this paper we approved this technology was able to short working times to around 20% and construction costs to around 50% with compare other construction methods. Also, environmental pollution and civil complaints will be prevented because there will be no longer any noises, vibrations, dust, or construction wastes.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.163-169
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• 2013

PURPOSES: The urban traffic problems can be defined as general problems for smooth traffic flow including maintenance of mass transportation system according to suddenly increased population, traffic regulations for vehicles and pollution problem. As a method for solving traffic jams, one of the traffic problems of late, interest in Intelligent Traffic System(ITS) is increasing sharply, which is a system managing traffic demand by providing passers with information on traffic state of path and road conditions before they pass the road through ATIS, a field of ITS. METHODS: Variable message signs(VMS) is used on the roads as a method for providing information to promote smooth traffic flow and safety and prevent traffic accidents in advance by providing drivers with various information while driving. RESULTS: Recently, as ITS industry has been vitalized and technical factors of VMS have developed, various kinds of information is provided but the effect of VMS has not been maximized due to its limited type. CONCLUSIONS: Therefore, this study intends to provide methods for effective information transfer by analyzing driver's visual behavior characteristics for VMS and presenting a basis for maximizing VMS effect after considering read by expression type.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.147-158
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• 2004

SWP(Stochastic Wave Propagation: 확률파장전파) 모형은 Cellular Automata(CA) 이론을 기반으로한 간략한 차량모형을 이용하여 개별차량의 확률적 형태와 혼잡의 전파를 모사하고, 통계물리학을 기반으로 교통류를 거시적으로 해석한다. SWP모형은 이산적 시공간 구조와 정수형 자료를 이용한 프로그램 지향적 모형구조를 가지며 연산수행속도가 빨라 대규모 가로망의 실시간 시뮬레이션을 가능하게 하였다. 그러나 비현실적인 충돌회피과정으로 인한 자연발생적 혼잡(Spontaneous jam)의 형성 때문에 미시적으로는 혼잡내에서 잠금현상(Lockup)이 발생하여 혼잡내 차량의 저속을 설명할 수 없고, 거시적으로는 혼잡의 밀도와 전파속도를 설명하기 어렵다는 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 비현실적인 차량의 정지과정을 보다 현실적으로 모사하기 위한 정지조작규칙(SMR: Stopping Maneuver Rule)과 혼잡내에서 차량의 낮은 가속을 설명하기 위한 저가속규칙(LAR: Low Acceleration Rule)을 기존의 SWP모형인 NaSch모형에 추가하였다. 이를 통해 미시적으로 보다 현실적인 차량의 정지과정을 모사하면서 혼잡내에서 잠금현상을 방지하고, 거시적으로 혼잡의 밀도와 전파속도를 설명함으로써 보다 다양하게 연속 교통류를 구현하는 모형을 구축하였다.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.353-361
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• 2020

급격한 도시화로 인해 출퇴근 시간의 차량 정체, 상시 정체지역 발생 등 다양한 교통문제들이 발생하고 있다. 이러한 교통문제들을 해결하기 위해서는 신속·정확한 교통량 예측 및 분석이 필요하다. ITS (Intelligent Transportation System)는 최신 ICT (Information and Communications Technology) 기술들을 활용하여 최적의 교통관리를 수행하는 시스템이며, 다양한 기법을 통해 신속·정확한 교통량을 분석하기 위한 많은 연구가 수행 되었다. 본 연구에서는 높은 정확도로 실시간 교통량 분석을 위해 UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) 동영상을 활용한 딥러닝(deep learning) 기반의 차량탐지기법을 제안하고자 한다. 이를 위해, UAV를 활용하여 다양한 차량이 통행하는 교차로에서 학습 및 검증에 필요한 정사 동영상 촬영을 수행하였으며, 승용차(sedan), 트럭(truck), 버스(bus)로 분류하여 차량을 학습시켰다. 딥러닝 알고리즘은 대표적인 객체탐지 알고리즘 중의 하나인 YOLOv3 (You Only Look Once V3)를 이용하였으며, 실험결과 전체 차량 검출율은 90.21%이며, 정확도와 재현율은 각각 95.10%와 85.79%이다. 본 연구를 통하여, 드론을 이용한 영상으로부터 차량 탐지를 통한 실시간 교통량 분석이 가능함을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권12호
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• pp.2355-2373
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• 2011

Vision-based vehicle detector systems are becoming increasingly important in ITS applications. Real-time operation, robustness, precision, accurate estimation of traffic parameters, and ease of setup are important features to be considered in developing such systems. Further, accurate vehicle detection is difficult in varied complex traffic environments. These environments include changes in weather as well as challenging traffic conditions, such as shadow effects and jams. To meet real-time requirements, the proposed system first applies a color background to extract moving objects, which are then tracked by considering their relative distances and directions. To achieve robustness and precision, the color background is regularly updated by the proposed algorithm to overcome luminance variations. This paper also proposes a scheme of feedback compensation to resolve background convergence errors, which occur when vehicles temporarily park on the roadside while the background image is being converged. Next, vehicle occlusion is resolved using the proposed prior split approach and through reasoning for rule-based tracking. This approach can automatically detect straight lanes. Following this step, trajectories are applied to derive traffic parameters; finally, to facilitate easy setup, we propose a means to automate the setting of the system parameters. Experimental results show that the system can operate well under various complex traffic conditions in real time.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.281-291
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• 2017

Nowadays, as traffic jams are a daily elementary problem in both developed and developing countries, systems to monitor, predict, and detect traffic conditions are playing an important role in research fields. Comparing them, researchers have been trying to solve problems by applying many kinds of technologies, especially roadside sensors, which still have some issues, and for that reason, any one particular method by itself could not generate sufficient traffic prediction results. However, these sensors have some issues that are not useful for research. Therefore, it may not be best to use them as stand-alone methods for a traffic prediction system. On that note, this paper mainly focuses on predicting traffic conditions based on a hybrid prediction approach, which stands on accuracy comparison of three prediction models: multinomial logistic regression, decision trees, and support vector machine (SVM) classifiers. This is aimed at selecting the most suitable approach by means of integrating proficiencies from these approaches. It was also experimentally confirmed, with test cases and simulations that showed the performance of this hybrid method is more effective than individual methods.