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Analysis of the Effectiveness of Providing National Highway Detour Information via Variable Message Signs on Expressway Operations - Case of Yeongdong Expressway - (도로전광표지를 이용한 국도우회정보 제공이 고속도로 운영에 미치는 효과 분석 -영동고속도로를 중심으로-)

  • Yang, Sun-Pil;Choi, Yun-Taik;Lee, Kang-Hoon;Han, Eum;Yun, Ilsoo
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.97-104
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    • 2015
  • PURPOSES : Expressways experience chronic and recurring congestion, especially during weekends and holidays, because of the increased demands for leisure-related travel. The alternatives to solve chronic and recurring congestion may be three-fold: (1) physical expansion of expressway capacities, (2) road pricing, and (3) temporal and spatial distribution of traffic demands. Among these, the third alternative may be the most cost-effective method for the Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC) that can be achieved by using the existing ITS infrastructure. METHODS : KEC initiated a pilot study in which the traffic on congested expressways was managed by providing traffic condition information (i.e., travel times) of neighboring national highways for taking detours via variable message signs (VMS). This study aimed to estimate the detour rate, and the two pilot studies on Seohaean and Yeongdong expressways yielded many benefits. RESULTS : It was revealed that the total length of congestion segments decreased by 7.8 km, and the average travel speed increased by 5.3 km/h. CONCLUSIONS : Based on these findings, it was concluded that the propagation of detour information via VMSs during congestion hours can help reduce congestion on expressways and increase the benefits of the entire network.

Technology Readiness as Moderator for Satisfaction and Destination Loyalty in Augmented Reality Environments

  • Taehyee Um;Jingwen Jia;Tie Xiaorui;Namho Chung
    • Asia pacific journal of information systems
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.220-235
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    • 2021
  • Technology has been changing the travel experience of visitors. Particularly, augmented reality (AR) is one of the emerging technologies, which widely used in cultural heritage tourism sites. This study is based on a new technology acceptance model and future modified this model to examine the relationship between product beliefs, consumer satisfaction with AR, and destination loyalty in cultural heritage sites. Moreover, this paper examined the role of technology readiness (TR) forming travellers' loyalty of destination with a kind of travel technology--AR. The results show that perceived usefulness and perceived ease of use have significant effects on the satisfaction of AR towards the travellers' loyalty of destination. TR is found to have moderating effects on this model.

Keyword Analysis of Arboretums and Botanical Gardens Using Social Big Data

  • Shin, Hyun-Tak;Kim, Sang-Jun;Sung, Jung-Won
    • Journal of People, Plants, and Environment
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.233-243
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    • 2020
  • This study collects social big data used in various fields in the past 9 years and explains the patterns of major keywords of the arboretums and botanical gardens to use as the basic data to establish operational strategies for future arboretums and botanical gardens. A total of 6,245,278 cases of data were collected: 4,250,583 from blogs (68.1%), 1,843,677 from online cafes (29.5%), and 151,018 from knowledge search engine (2.4%). As a result of refining valid data, 1,223,162 cases were selected for analysis. We came up with keywords through big data, and used big data program Textom to derive keywords of arboretums and botanical gardens using text mining analysis. As a result, we identified keywords such as 'travel', 'picnic', 'children', 'festival', 'experience', 'Garden of Morning Calm', 'program', 'recreation forest', 'healing', and 'museum'. As a result of keyword analysis, we found that keywords such as 'healing', 'tree', 'experience', 'garden', and 'Garden of Morning Calm' received high public interest. We conducted word cloud analysis by extracting keywords with high frequency in total 6,245,278 titles on social media. The results showed that arboretums and botanical gardens were perceived as spaces for relaxation and leisure such as 'travel', 'picnic' and 'recreation', and that people had high interest in educational aspects with keywords such as 'experience' and 'field trip'. The demand for rest and leisure space, education, and things to see and enjoy in arboretums and botanical gardens increased than in the past. Therefore, there must be differentiation and specialization strategies such as plant collection strategies, exhibition planning and programs in establishing future operation strategies.

Virtual Walking Tour System (가상 도보 여행 시스템)

  • Kim, Han-Seob;Lee, Jieun
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.605-613
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we propose a system to walk around the world with virtual reality technology. Although the virtual reality users are interested in the virtual travel contents, the conventional virtual travel contents have limited space for experiencing and lack of interactivity. In order to solve the problem of lack of realism and limited space, which is a disadvantage of existing contents, this system created a virtual space using Google Street View image. Users can have realistic experience with real street images, and travel a vast area of the world provided by Google Street View image. Also, a virtual reality headset and a treadmill equipment are used so that the user can actually walk in the virtual space, which maxmizes user interactivity and immersion. We expect this system contributes to the leisure activities of virtual reality users by allowing natural walking trip from famous tourist spots to even mountain roads and alleys.

A Study on the Influence of Family Affection Interaction Behavior on Experience Value in Family Tourism (가족여행에서 가족 간의 상호작용 행동이 체험 가치에 미치는 영향에 관한연구)

  • Wang, Yue;Sim, Jae-yeon;Kim, Hyung-Ho
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.10 no.12
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    • pp.101-108
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    • 2019
  • Family tourism has become the mainstream demand of the tourism market, and it is also an effective way to obtain happiness. This paper takes family tourists as the research object, takes the family tourism family affection interaction behavior and the experience value relationship as the link, Empirically tests the family tourism "interaction behavior-social support-experience value" conceptual model and the relationship hypothesis. The results showed that interaction of family affection had a positive and significant effect on the functional, cognitive and emotional experience value of family tourists. Family interaction in family tourism has a significant positive impact on social support. Social support has significant positive effects on functional, cognitive, emotional and overall experiential values. This conclusion expands the theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between interaction behavior and experience value, and provides a basis for understanding the interaction behavior and experience value of family love from the perspective of tourism experience essence.

A Study on the design access method of the modern hotel - Focus on the case study of design hotel - (현대 호텔의 디자인 접근방법에 관한 연구 - 디자인 호텔 사례를 중심으로 -)

  • 김호정;이정욱
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.93-97
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    • 2003
  • Since late 20th century, modern society formed various thinkings. Therefore, moderns wished to exuviate law and standardization. Together, fast economic growth increased moderns' travel, These phenomenons became development opportunity of the hotel. Moderns want new culture and experience. Also, moderns preferred the special design hotels which can do different experience. I choose three typical designer of the design hotel and Wish to study about their design access method design hotel. Because their design's character have effect on other design hotel design. Therefore, this study should like to become design access method of design hotel.

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Management of Visitors in the Seonunsan Provincial Park through an Analysis on Visitors' Travel Motivations (탐방객 방문 동기 분석을 통한 선운산도립공원 관리 방안)

  • Sung, Chan Yong;Kim, Dong Pil;Cho, Woo
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.30 no.6
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    • pp.1047-1056
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    • 2016
  • This study aims to provide managerial implications for provincial parks through an analysis on visitors' characteristics and motivational factors. The information was collected by surveying 290 visitors. The survey questionnaire consisted of questions regarding visitors' socioeconomic characteristics, characteristics of their travel behavior, visitors' motivation to visit the park, and the degree of satisfaction derived from visiting the park. Results show that most respondents appeared not to collect any information on the park prior to their visit. It was also seen that most visitors do not visit other tourist sites nearby, and are not aware of the Gochang UNESCO biosphere, which indicates that Gochang-gun, which is responsible for park management, needs to make more efforts to promote the park. A factor analysis on the visitors' motivation to visit the park extracted three factors to visit the Seonunsan Provincial Park: 'to hike,' 'to experience and observe nature,' i.e., nature learning field trip and camping, and 'to build and nurture bonding with family and friends.' To examine the effect of these various motivational factors had on the visitors' satisfaction level upon visiting the park, we conducted a multiple regression analysis with the three extracted factors to visit the park and the respondents' socioeconomic characteristics as independent variables, and the degree of recommendation of visiting the park as a dependent variable. The result shows found that, of the three travel factors, only the 'hiking' factor statistically significantly affected the degree of recommendation of visiting the park. This result suggests that the Seonunsan Provincial Park only satisfied hikers and failed to meet the demands for nature experience and observation. It is therefore suggested that the park managers develop new experience-based tourism programs, such as guided tours conducted by professional eco-interpreters.

An Ecological Approach to Housing Experience of Korean Women in Malaysia (생태학적 접근으로 본 말레이시아 거주 한인 여성의 주거경험)

  • Hong, Hyung Ock
    • Human Ecology Research
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    • v.53 no.4
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    • pp.375-390
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    • 2015
  • This study was designed to understand the residential experience of Korean women living in tropical country. For qualitative research, interviewees were selected by snowball sampling among Korean women living in Malaysia for over 20 years. The selection criteria for interviewees included husband's nationality, occupational experience, future living plan, frequency of travel to Korea. In-depth group and individual interviews were conducted from August 23 to October 7 2014. Subsequently (1) interviewees' general residential experiences in Malaysia were summarized, (2) interviewee's identity and lifestyle with housing pathways approach were clarified, (3) interviewees' residential experiences in 5 issues, reciprocity in residential area, intention of environmental change, meaning of housing and interaction, housing adaptation, and residential satisfaction/dissatisfaction were prescribed and interpreted. In conclusion, the reflection of interviewees' experiences in tropical country, suggested variations of housing structure type within a residential complex, air well and pocket by setback in building block for improving ventilation and noise prevention from neighbors, and ceiling fans in the house were suggested for the upcoming subtropical climate in Korea. Full option and minus options were also suggested for the presale market to reduce before occupancy remodeling needs. The research results implies valuable suggestions for a multicultural society, ecological housing and stronger communities.

Steering Characteristics of an Autonomous Tractor with Variable Distances to the Waypoint

  • Kim, Sang Cheol;Hong, Yeong Gi;Kim, Kook Hwan
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.2 no.2
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    • pp.123-130
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    • 2013
  • Autonomous agricultural machines that are operated in small-scale farmland frequently experience turning and changes in direction. Thus, unlike when they are operated in large-scale farmland, the steering control systems need to be controlled precisely so that travel errors can be minimized. This study aims to develop a control algorithm for improving the path tracking performance of a steering system by analyzing the effect of the setting of the waypoint, which serves as the reference point for steering when an autonomous agricultural machine moves along a path or a coordinate, on control errors. A simulation was performed by modeling a 26-hp tractor steering system and by applying the equations of motion of a tractor, with the use of a computer. Path tracking errors could be reduced using an algorithm which sets the waypoint for steering on a travel path depending on the radius of curvature of the path and which then controls the speed and steering angle of the vehicle, rather than by changing the steering speed or steering ratio which are dependent on mechanical performance.

A Study on the Practical Use of UCC Tourism Information (UCC 관광정보의 활용방안 연구)

  • Yang, Sung-Soo;Choi, Byoung-Kil;Hong, Sung-Hwa;Jo, Sung-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.9 no.11
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    • pp.416-423
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    • 2009
  • From marketing perspectives, WOM(Word-of-Mouth) is one of the communication methods for travelers. It can be an instrument of the effect on tourist decision. The growing predominance of internet use has further highlighted the need for understanding of UCC(User-created contents) tourism information such as travel experience and travel recommendation. This paper was to examine usage patterns of UCC tourism information using experimental design and contents analysis. The result indicated that there were qualities of UCC tourism information. That is useful implication to tourism information-related marketers in destination marketing.