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http://dx.doi.org/10.12652/Ksce.2010.30.1D.001

Safety Improvement of Centrally Installed "Hi-pass" Lane of Express Highway  

Yoo, Bong-Seok ((주)건화 교통계획부)
Lee, Soo-Beom (서울시립대학교 교통공학과)
Park, Wan-Yong ((주)건화 교통계획부)
Do, Hyun-Gu (서울시립대학교 대학원 교통공학과)
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KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research / v.30, no.1D, 2010 , pp. 1-10 More about this Journal
Abstract
Safety improvement has been a continuous challenge, especially at toll gate of express highway where traffic conflict often occurs due to frequent lane change by drivers of "Hi-pass" lane and regular "TCS" lane. As a part of research on safety at toll gate, this study videotaped traffic conflict data between vehicles using centrally located "Hi-pass" lane and regular "TCS" lane and analyzed accident risk. According to the correlation analysis of vehicle speed, relative vehicle speed, and sudden vehicle deceleration rate due to traffic conflict, when the relative vehicle speed between centrally located "Hi-pass" lane and regular "TCS" lane increases, sudden vehicle deceleration rate also increases. One of the findings is that centrally located "Hi-pass" lane at toll gate shows different location for traffic conflict, and frequency of traffic conflict and the relative vehicle speed was also different based on vehicle lane use. TA (Time to Accident) analysis shows that accident rate is high at toll gate where Hipass lane is installed in center lane, when the occurrence of sudden vehicle deceleration and deceleration time of vehicles rise for vehicles on "Hi-pass" lane. Furthermore, if the expressway entrance/exit point is closely located to toll gate, TA showed a low value. Thus, it is necessary to reduce the relative vehicle speed in order to improve safety. The Study presents reduction of the relevant vehicular speed and prevention of accidents at the centrally installed "Hi-pass" lane as an important strategy for safety improvement at toll gate.
Keywords
Hi-pass; expressway entrance/exit at toll gate; relative vehicle speed; ta analysis; safety improvement;
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