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Establishing an integrated support system for tourism transportation in a marine city area - A comparison of Yeosu and the Bay Area - (해양도시권 관광교통 통합지원체계 구축방향 연구 - 여수시권과 Bay Area의 비교연구를 중심으로 -)

  • Choi, Chang-Ho
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.121-140
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    • 2015
  • The present study examines how to construct a transport system for tourism in the marine city area of Yeosu. An effective tourism transport system is needed in Yeosu to promote ocean tourism in Korea's southern coastal region. The problems in Yeosu's transport system for ocean tourism were identified by comparing it with the Bay Area in the United States; future improvement methods were deduced accordingly. The transport support system for ocean tourism in Yeosu area was insufficient in many aspects compared with the Bay Area, such as intercity transportation, urban transport systems, and transport information systems. Thus, this study suggests various approaches to building a new ocean tourism transport support system in Yeosu. Connecting transport modes and ocean tourism resources, such as linking intercity and urban transport modes with ocean tourism transport modes, is suggested. It is also recommended that a cooperative transport support system be established for ocean tourism in the neighboring regions of Yeosu. Furthermore, an integrated transport information system for ocean tourism needs to be provided to connect the system efficiently with ocean tourists. This integrated transport support system could lead to a decrease in the cost and time needed for travel.

Analysis and comparison of the 2D/1D and quasi-3D methods with the direct transport code SHARK

  • Zhao, Chen;Peng, Xingjie;Zhang, Hongbo;Zhao, Wenbo;Li, Qing;Chen, Zhang
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.54 no.1
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    • pp.19-29
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    • 2022
  • The 2D/1D method has become the mainstream of the direct transport calculation considering the balance of accuracy and efficiency. However, the 2D/1D method still suffers from stability issues. Recently, a quasi-3D method has been proposed with axial Legendre expansion. Analysis and comparison of the 2D/1D and quasi-3D method is conducted in theory from the equation derivation. Besides, the C5G7 benchmark, the KUCA benchmark and the macro BEAVRS benchmark are calculated to verify the theory comparisons of these two methods with the direct transport code SHARK. All results show that the quasi-3D method has better stability and accuracy than the 2D/1D method with worse efficiency and memory cost. It provides a new option for direct transport calculation with the quasi-3D method.

The Analysis on Competitiveness of Railroad Transport Focused on Container, Cement, Steel (컨테이너, 양회, 철강을 중심으로 한 철도의 화물수송경쟁력 분석)

  • Kim, Eun-Mi;Park, Dong-Joo;Ko, Young-Seung;Kim, Hyun-Seung;Park, Hyeong-Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.613-622
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    • 2009
  • The modal spilt of highway has been increased and the one of railway has been decreased from 17.2%(1990) to 6.3%(2006). In this context, it is meaningful to examine the competitiveness of the railroad of Korea. The objective of this study is to analyze the competitiveness of railroad with the highway so that countermeasures improving the competitiveness of railroad could be suggested. For this, firs of all, indicators representing the competitiveness of the railroad transport are determined. The main influencing factors for mode choice include transport time, transport cost and level of service. Three types of commodity, container, cement and steel are the target for the analysis. It was found that the overall competitiveness of railroad transport is weaker compared with highway even for the main freight origin-destination pairs. It means that the freight transport system is focused on road rather than railroad. Therefore, we need to remeasure the competitiveness of railroad transport related to methods for freight railroad competitiveness improvement.

A Study on Social Welfare Reflecting Road Maintenance Cost: the Case of Cheonan$\sim$Nonsan Lines (도로유지비용을 고려한 사회적 후생에 관한 연구 : 천안$\sim$논산 구간을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Woong-Yi;Park, Sang-Zoon;Kang, Kyung-Woo
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.7 no.5
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    • pp.159-169
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    • 2008
  • The aim of this paper is to research the changes of social welfare by internalizing external cost, especially the maintenance cost. Main target of this paper is the Cheonan$\sim$Nonsan Line, where private capital highway, national highway and local road are competing against each other. Considering the realistic difficulties in applying the First Best pricing, this paper applied the Second Best pricing, applying the maintenance cost, in lieu of the already mentioned. The demand functions of the toll roads were built through regression analysis. By reflecting the maintenance cost to the toll fee, It was able to confirm the variation of social welfare deriving from the traffic assign change but also the aspects of toll revenue at the same time. Result of applying the Second Best pricing shows merely a small change in social welfare. However, in the aspect of finance, it is analyzed that there will be about 13 billion won worth of financial effectiveness which will contribute to the reduction of the national financial support.

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Comparision Study of Social Costs Internalization for the Main Transportation Modes; Between Kwangyang Port and US Great Lakes (주요 운송수단별 사회적 비용 내부화 비교 연구 - 한국 광양항과 미국 오대호연안을 대상으로 -)

  • Shin, Seung-Sik
    • Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.85-110
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    • 2011
  • The purpose of this study is to evaluate the social costs of inland trucking and maritime transport between Kwangyang Port in Korea and the Great Lakes in US. Also, this study compares these social costs each other, and finds the way how to internalize them for the efficiencies of national logistics policies. This study uses the Contingent Valuation Method to evaluate the social costs for the two transport modes in each country. The final result is that the social cost difference between inland trucking and maritime transport around US Great Lakes area is not so significant that there are not many chances to enhance the maritime transport in the region. However, in case of Korea, there is significant difference in social costs between the two transport modes, so that Korea government may have a lot of chances to improve the seaborne trade by way of various internalization policies.

Development of Korea-China Train Ferry System An Example of Short Sea Shipping in Northeast Asia

  • Lee, Jae-Wook;Lee, Seung-Hee;Kang, Young-Jin
    • Journal of Ship and Ocean Technology
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.36-48
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    • 2006
  • The train ferry, accommodating trains roll on and off, is often called as 'Railway on the Sea' or 'Blue High-way' since she can connect the railways or roads segregated by the sea and improve the accessibility and continuity of land transport systems. The ferry is especially appropriate to the intermodal transport routes mostly passing through the land but have relatively short sea segment. As the train ferry can considerably reduce the cost and time for cargo handling and modal shift and unnecessitates excessive initial investment on infrastructures such as large harbor cranes or vast container yards, introduction of train Ro-Ro ferries lessen the total transport cost for door-to-door transportation with full exploitation of the existing railway system. All the ports placed in Shandong, Liaoning and Jiangsu provinces of China are connected to the hinterlands via well developed railway and road systems. Therefore, realization of the Incheon-Yantai train ferry system will link Korea railways to TCR and the 4,131-kilometer-long Longhai-Lanxin Railway, along the famous Eurasian Continental Bridge. In the present paper, the Incheon-Yantai train ferry will be introduced as a good example of an efficient multimodal short sea shipping system for Northeast Asia.

Optimization of structural elements of transport vehicles in order to reduce weight and fuel consumption

  • Kovacs, Gyorgy
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.71 no.3
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    • pp.283-290
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    • 2019
  • In global competition manufacturing companies have to produce modern, new constructions from advanced materials in order to increase competitiveness. The aim of my research was to develop a new composite cellular plate structure, which can be primarily used for structural elements of road, rail, water and air transport vehicles (e.g. vehicle bodies, ship floors). The new structure is novel and innovative, because all materials of the components of the newly developed structure are composites (laminated Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) deck plates with pultruded Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic (GFRP) stiffeners), furthermore combines the characteristics of sandwich and cellular plate structures. The material of the structure is much more advantageous than traditional steel materials, due mainly to its low density, resulting in weight savings, causing lower fuel consumption and less environmental damage. In the study the optimal construction of a given geometry of a structural element of a road truck trailer body was defined by single- and multi-objective optimization (minimal cost and weight). During the single-objective optimization the Flexible Tolerance Optimization method, while during the multi-objective optimization the Particle Swarm Optimization method were used. Seven design constraints were considered: maximum deflection of the structure, buckling of the composite plates, buckling of the stiffeners, stress in the composite plates, stress in the stiffeners, eigenfrequency of the structure, size constraint for design variables. It was confirmed that the developed structure can be used principally as structural elements of transport vehicles and unit load devices (containers) and can be applied also in building construction.

Construction Cost Analysis of HPC Method by PC Construction Project Cases (사례분석에 의한 HPC공법의 공사비 분석)

  • Noh, ju-seong;Kim, Jae-yeob
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Building Construction Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.101-102
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    • 2017
  • This study was carried out as basic study to apply to construction site the HPC method which is being developed. The construction cost of HPC method was analyzed in comparison with conventional method (half slab method). With regard to research method, it was decided that data on construction work carried out by half slab method was analyzed. According to the results of study, in case of being applied to the construction work using a divided column, the number of columns was decreased. So, it was shown that member production cost, and transport and assemblage cost reduced. In case of being applied to construction work using an undivided column, the analysis showed that there was little difference in construction cost. Therefore, the analysis showed that, if HPC construction method was applied to large structure using a large column, the construction cost was reduced to some extent in comparison with conventional half slab method.

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A Study on the Driving Trajectory of AGV for Container Transport (컨테이너 운송용 AGV의 운동궤적에 관한 연구)

  • Park Jeong-Bo;Kim Min-Ju;Lee Seung-Soo;Kim Joong-Wan;Jeon Eon-Chan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.96-102
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    • 2004
  • In this study, we have developed the simulation tool in order to investigate driving trajectory of AGV for container transport. AGV for container transport is different from the indoor AGV in that it is a large size structure at being loaded the weight of 40 ton. and AGV for container transport is applied to front wheel steering, rear wheel steering, all wheel steering, and crap steering. Therefore, we have developed the simulation tool considering dynamic problems and a center of turning in accordance with fourth ways of steering mode. As the result of this study, we have confirmed that this tool is useful and cost-effective in the dynamic analysis or large size vehicles. Also, it is useful to calculate the minimum radius of turning for large size vehicles.

The effect of nanoparticles on the economics study of railway logistics transport based on mathematical model

  • Yanlong Zhao;Mohsen Nasihatgozar;F. Ming
    • Advances in nano research
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.521-529
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    • 2024
  • The integration of nanoparticles into various industries has spurred interest in understanding their impact on logistics and transportation systems. In this study, we investigate the effect of nanoparticles on the economic aspects of railway logistics transport using a mathematical model. By incorporating factors such as transportation costs, time efficiency, and environmental considerations, we aim to assess the overall economic feasibility of integrating nanoparticles into railway logistics operations. Through mathematical modeling and analysis, we explore how the introduction of nanoparticles affects cost-benefit analyses, resource allocation, and decision-making processes within railway logistics. Our findings provide valuable insights into the economic implications of nanoparticle integration in railway transport, offering potential strategies for optimizing logistics operations and enhancing overall efficiency and sustainability.