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http://dx.doi.org/10.12815/kits.2016.15.2.085

Study on the improvements for Managerial Efficiency of the Designated Lane Law  

Lee, Seung-Jun (Ajou Univ.)
Lee, Choul-Ki (Ajou Univ.)
Lee, Yong-Ju (Ajou Univ.)
Kim, Yong-Man (KoROAD)
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The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems / v.15, no.2, 2016 , pp. 85-94 More about this Journal
Abstract
Lane Designation is defined as reasonable road management to ensure the road safety and enhance road efficiency. While the lane designation system was abolished in 1999, it was redefined because of the increasing number of large vehicles in the passing lane, violent on driving and traffic accidents in 2000. The needs of improvement on operating the lane designation has been increasing more in recent due to the low ratio of compliance with the system and difficulties to keep the right lane due to need of turning and demand of widening of designates lane for two-wheeled vehicles and truck. In this study, we presented the improvement plan through the question survey, simulation analysis, safety evaluation. It found a problem that the low-speed vehicle is to use the upper level roadway, difficulties of supervision, the imbalance in the lane use, imbalance traffic and does not match the international standards. This study suggested five different alternatives through the survey. micro simulation has used in order to examine each alternative by management effectiveness and feasibility. It analyzed the traffic speed, efficiency, traffic balance of alternatives. Also, safety evaluation conducted in terms of the range of field-of-view to ensure the easiness of field of view by various configurational difference between the vehicles. By the analysis results of such indicators, This study presents proposals for improvement in operating designated lane that low-speed-big-sized vehicles keep to the right lane, and high-speed-small sized vehicles keep to the left lane.
Keywords
Designated Lane Law; Criteria according to lane of driving car; Road management; Traffic safety; Road use efficiency;
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