• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.245-246
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• 2017

현재 고령자는 65세 이상으로 정해져 있고 고령 운전자 사고에 관련된 연구들은 65세를 기준으로 일반 운전자와 고령 운전자를 구분한다. 하지만 실질적으로 교통약자로 분류되어야 하는 신체 능력을 가진 고령 운전자를 구분하는 연구는 부족한 실정이다. 분석결과 차종별 주요 사고특성에 대해 70세 이상의 경우 사고 발생에 미치는 영향력이 높아지는 것으로 나타났으며, 70~80세 구간에서 사고 발생 빈도가 상대적으로 낮았던 승용차에 대해서도 주요사고특성을 분석한 결과 75~84세 구간에서 사고 발생에 대한 영향력이 높아지는 것이 나타났다. 이는 고령화가 진행되고 평균 수명이 늘어나 고령자 구간 폭도 증가하기 때문에, 고령자 내에서도 특성이 나뉘게 되고 본 연구를 통해 연령군집별로 사고 발생에 대한 영향력이 달라지는 것을 확인하였다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.31 no.3D
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• pp.391-401
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• 2011

The Implementation Semi-Public Management System of Intra-City Bus brings improvements of the position stability, work environment and welfare of the bus drivers. As these benefits prevent drivers' job changes, average age of the drivers increases. Some side effects such as fatality increase after the implementation of the new system are becoming social problems. To minimize such problems, it is necessary to prepare the measurements reflected drivers' age increase and driving characteristics of old drivers to decrease traffic accidents of intra-city buses. The existing measurements are mostly simple policy. To get over such limitations, this study grasped driving characteristics by surveys and driving aptitude test targeting old drivers and non-old drivers who brings about traffic accidents actually. As a result, the characteristics of the old drivers were understood precisely. The measures of decrease of the traffic accidents are suggested by the analysis of the behavior characteristics of the old drivers through the structural equation model.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.601-607
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• 2010

비신호교차로 사고를 대상으로 신호기 운영방법과 차로폭에 따른 고령운전자 교통사고 특성을 파악하기 강화군, 무주군, 원주시, 보령시의 3년간(2007년-2009년) 교통사고 데이터를 사용하여 일반운전자와 고령운전자의 사고를 비교, 분석하였다. 그 결과, 고령운전자 교차로 교통사고는 점멸신호기로 운영되는 교차로사고는 일반운전자보다 다소 높았으며, 정면충돌사고 일반운전자 사고의 8배나가 높게 나타났다. 또한 고령운전자 교차로 교통사고는 차로폭이 6m초과 13m이하의 교차로에서 41.0%가 발생하여 왕복 3-4차로에서의 교차로에서 고령운전자의 교통사고 발생률이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 고령운전자의 교차로 교통사고 예방을 위해서는 6m초과 13m이하의 도로에 대한 대책이 마련되어야 할 것이며, 점멸신호기로 운영되는 교차로에 대한 점검이 필요하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.205-206
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• 2017

도로교통공단 교통사고 분석시스템(TAAS)에 따르면 2016년 기준 전체사고의 약 11%가 고령운전자 사고이며, 고령운전자 사고로 인한 사망자수는 759명에 달한다. 본 연구에서는 고령운전자의 신체적 특징을 감안하여 전기(65세~74세), 중기(75세~84세), 후기(85세 이후)로 나누고 로지스틱 회귀분석을 이용하여 고령운전자의 연령대별 사고특성과 사망사고에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하고 그 특성을 고려한 안전대책을 제시하고자 하였다. 분석결과 차량단독사고일 때 고령자 전 연령대에서 사고위험도가 높게 나타났으며, 도로이탈로 인한 사고인 경우 다른 사고요인에 비해 위험도가 높게 나타났다. 사고원인별로 살펴보면 안전운전의무 불이행, 중앙선침범으로 인한 사고인 경우가 높았으며, 기상상태별로 볼 때 전기고령자에서 중기, 후기 고령자로 갈수록 흐릴 때의 사고위험도가 높아지는 것으로 나타났다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.827-835
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• 2017

With the rapid progress of ageing several issues concurrently occur, and one important social issue that must be resolved is accidents involving Elderly drivers. Efforts to reduce the frequency of such accidents is a must in order to be prepared to face a superaged society. Currently people aged 65 or older are prescribed as an "Elderly person." Therefore, various studies concerning accidents involving Elderly drivers apply this age criteria to separate regular drivers and Elderly drivers. However, there is no criteria to practically discern Elderly drivers with certain physical features as vulnerable road users based on a level of acceptable accuracy. Therefore, this studies intends to compare the possibility of accidents by age group of Elderly drivers by correlation analysis to analyze the accident characteristics by age group. Results showed that for drivers aged 75 and older, their influence on major accident characteristics by vehicle type increased with higher age groups. In particular, passenger cars had a relatively low accident frequency rate for drivers aged between 70 and 80, but for drivers aged 75 to 84, they had higher influence on accidents for the same vehicle type. This demonstrates that as ageing progresses and the average life expectancy increases, the age span of elders continues to increase, meaning that characteristics differ by age group among the aged. This study confirmed that the influence on the possibility of accidents differs by age group among the aged.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.477-484
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• 2023

The number and age of elderly drivers are continuously increasing according to the extension of the human lifespan. Therefore, in transportation, efforts are being made to differentiate and manage elderly drivers by age group. This study aims to identify the factors affecting the crash severity of early and late elderly drivers, compared to middle-aged drivers, and to identify the characteristics between these groups. Crash data that occurred on nationwide roads for the past 5 years (2017-2021) was applied. Unlike previous studies, this study only targeted drivers in their 40s and older, when presbyopia begins: middle-aged driver (40-64), early elderly driver (65-74), and late elderly driver (75+). As a result of logistic regression analysis, a total of 18 variables were found to affect serious injuries including fatalities in early and late elderly drivers. Most of these variables appeared to lead to severity more sensitively in the late elderly group. The results of this study are expected to be useful as basic information for establishing traffic safety policies for elderly drivers in the future.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.561-571
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• 2014

This study analyzes traffic accident severity of old age drivers in fourteen cities and counties of Jeonbuk Province. It is assumed that traffic accident effecting factors have two staged structure by personal and driving environment and urban characteristics. Multilevel Analysis Model is used under the assumption of hierarchical characteristics to analyze factors effecting severity. As the driver's age increases after sixty-five years old, accident damages become severe. The drunk driving is likely to make traffic accident damage more severer. The number of fatal accident by old age drivers is about three time more than by no old age drivers. Old age drivers have higher number of night traffic accidents but severer ones in daytime. Old age drivers show the higher number of traffic accidents but severer ones in fine weather. Wet road surface also influences damage severity and especially old age drivers show higher serious damage and fatal than no old drivers.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

Traffic accident by aging drivers is expected to be on the rise rapidly as the number of aging drivers is rising along with the aging trend being progressed. In this study, traffic accident features depending on the classification of aging population and non aging one was evaluated. As a result of this evaluation, effect factors influencing over the aging population was found to be expressed differently from that of the non aging one. Odds ratio between the aging population and non aging one was evaluated through logit model and a model with potential accident probability of the aged drivers was developed. Accident risk of the aged drivers under the condition of curved road, cutting section and moistured road was revealed to be higher than that of the non aging population.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.33-40
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• 2009

This study deals with the traffic accidents of elderly drivers. The objectives are to comparatively analyze the characteristics of accident between the elderly and other drivers, and to develop the models of traffic accidents. In pursuing the above, this paper gives particular attentions to testing the differences between the above two groups, and developing the models(Poisson and negative binomial regression) using the data of Cheongju 4-legged signalized intersections. The main results analyzed are as follows. First, the differences between the elderly and other drivers' accidents were clearly defined by the time of day, accident type, etc. Second, 3 accident models which were all statistically significant were developed. Finally, the differences between elderly and other drivers' models were comparatively analyzed using the common and specific variables.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.133-144
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• 2012

This study focused on estimating influential factors of traffic accidents and analyzing traffic accident severity of elderly and non elderly using traffic accident data. In order to reclassify elderly and non elderly traffic accident by a statistical method from entire traffic accident data, multiple discriminant analysis was applied. Also ordered logit model was applied for analyzing traffic accident severities using traffic accident severities as an independent variable and transportation facilities, road conditions and human characteristics as dependent variables. As results of the comparison between elderly and non elderly traffic accident, the traffic accident severity was affected by the age, types of traffic accidents, human characteristics and road conditions as well. Also, transportation facilities and road conditions affected to more elderly traffic accident than non elderly. Therefore, traffic accident severity would be decreased with the improvement of transportation facilities and road conditions for the elderly.