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Development of a Safety Performance Function for Expressway Tollgates

고속도로 영업소 구간 안전성능함수 개발

  • Lee, Taehun (Department of Transportation Systems Research, The Seoul Institute) ;
  • Kwak, Ho-Chan (Transportation Systems Research Team, Korea Railroad Research Institute) ;
  • Kim, Dong-Kyu (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kho, Seung-Young (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • 이태헌 (서울연구원 교통시스템연구실) ;
  • 곽호찬 (한국철도기술연구원 교통체계분석연구팀) ;
  • 김동규 (서울대학교 건설환경공학부) ;
  • 고승영 (서울대학교 건설환경공학부)
  • Received : 2014.08.20
  • Accepted : 2014.12.08
  • Published : 2015.02.28

Abstract

Crashes that occur at tollgates have different characteristics compared to those of the mainline on expressways in terms of crash cause, crash type, and vehicle type. Due to this fact, the safety performance function (SPF) focused on the expressway tollgates, apart from the mainline, should be developed. The aim of this study is, therefore, to identify the influential factors and develope a SPF for crashes at tollgates. Firstly, we established independent variables affecting crashes at tollgates through literature review and descriptive statistical analysis. Based on these variables, two negative binomial regression models with different form of independent variables were developed and goodness-of-fits of each model were compared. According to the results, the number of crashes increases i) as AADT, Hi-pass rate, and heavy vehicle rate increase, ii) as average lane width decreases, iii) on the mainline tollgate type. The safety performance function developed in this study could be applied to select hot-spots for expressway tollgates.

고속도로 영업소에서 발생하는 교통사고는 사고발생 원인, 사고 유형, 사고 차종 측면에서 본선 구간 교통사고와 다른 특성을 보이므로, 본선 구간과는 별도로 고속도로 영업소에 초점을 맞춘 안전성능함수의 개발이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 고속도로 영업소의 교통사고 발생건수에 유의한 영향을 미치는 요인들을 규명하고, 이를 기반으로 사고예측을 위한 안전성능함수를 개발하고자 한다. 기존 문헌 및 사고 특성 분석을 통해 고속도로 영업소에서 발생하는 사고에 영향을 미치는 설명변수들을 설정하였으며, 설명변수의 형태에 따라 사고 예측을 위한 두 개의 음이항 회귀모형을 구축하여 모형 간 설명력 비교를 통해 고속도로 영업소에 대한 최종 안전성능함수를 제시하였다. 모형 구축 결과 AADT, 하이패스차로비율, 중차량 혼입률이 증가할수록, 평균 차로폭이 감소할수록, 그리고 본선형 영업소 유형에서 사고 건수가 증가하는 것으로 분석되었다. 본 연구에서 제시된 안전성능함수는 고속도로 영업소 사고다발지점 선정을 위한 근거로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

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