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http://dx.doi.org/10.7470/jkst.2017.35.4.261

Identifying Roadway Sections Influenced by Speed Humps Using Survival Analysis  

YOON, Gyugeun (Department of Transportation System Research, The Seoul Institute)
JANG, Youlim (Transportation Big Data Center, Korea Transportation Safety Authority)
KHO, Seung-Young (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University)
LEE, Chungwon (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seoul National University)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.35, no.4, 2017 , pp. 261-277 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study defines influencing sections as the part of the road section where passing vehicles are traveling with the lower speed compared to speed limit due to speed humps. The influencing section was divided into 3 parts; influencing section before the speed hump, interval section, and influencing section after the speed hump. This analysis focused on the changes of each part depending on installation types, vehicle types, and daytime or nighttime. For the interval section, especially, the ratio of distance traveled with lower speed than speed limit to interval section is defined as effective influencing section ratio to be analyzed. Vehicle speed profiles were collected with a speed gun to extract influencing section lengths. The survival analysis was applied and estimated survival functions are compared with each other by several statistical tests. As a consequence, the average length of influencing section on the 50m sequential speed humps was 75.3% longer during the deceleration than that of isolated speed hump, and 18.9% during the acceleration. The effective influencing section ratio for the 30m and 50m sequential speed humps had a small difference of 81.0% and 76.0% while the absolute values of the section that passing speed were less than the speed limit were longer on 50m sequential speed humps, each being 24.3m and 38.0m. Using the log rank test, it was evident that sequential speed humps were more effective to increase the length of influencing sections compared to the isolated speed hump. Vehicle type was the strong factor for influencing section length on the isolated speed hump, but daytime or nighttime was not the effective one. This research result can be used for improving the efficiency selecting the installation point of speed humps for road safety and estimating the standard of the distance between sequential speed humps.
Keywords
effective influencing section ratio; influencing section; speed hump; speed profile; survival analysis;
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