• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.103-111
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• 2011

To evaluate highway safety countermeasures or identify high risk sites, the expected crashes for a site (or segment) have been estimated using the panel crash data. Past studies show that two different methods can be employed to estimate the expected crashes: observed crash based method and empirical Bayes (EB) method. This study conducts a simulation study to analyze how the estimation errors of the two estimates are affected by the different structures of the panel crash data and the presence of the change in safety over time. The results disclose that the estimation errors of the observed crash based estimates (i.e. the mean observed crash and comparative parallel estimate) are always greater than those of the EB estimates regardless of the structure of the panel crash data and the presence of the change in safety over time. Thus, it is highly recommended that the EB method be used in the study of traffic safety to obtain more reliable estimates for the expected crashes. In addition, this study corroborates that the estimation errors of the two estimates decrease as the analysis periods increase if safety does not change over time. Hence, it is also recommended that the 1-year analysis period used for identifying high risk sites in Korea be extended to produce more efficient estimates of the time-constant expected crashes.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.30 no.5D
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• pp.453-459
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• 2010

In the study of traffic safety, it is utmost important to obtain more reliable estimates of the expected crashes for a site (or a segment). The observed crashes have been mainly used as the estimate of the expected crashes in Korea, while the empirical Bayes (EB) estimates based on the Poisson-gamma mixture model have been used in the USA and several European countries. Although numerous studies have used the EB method for estimating the expected crashes and/or the effectiveness of the safety countermeasures, no past studies examine the difference in the estimation errors between the two estimates. Thus, this study compares the estimation errors of the two estimates using a Monte Carlo simulation study. By analyzing the crash dataset at 3,000,000 simulated sites, this study reveals that the estimation errors of the EB estimates are always less than those of the observed crashes. Hence, it is imperative to incorporate the EB method into the traffic safety research guideline in Korea. However, the results show that the differences in the estimation errors between the two estimates decrease as the uncertainty of the prior distribution increases. Consequently, it is recommended that the EB method be used with reliable hyper-parameter estimates after conducting a comprehensive examination on the estimated negative binomial model.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.304-305
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• 2018

충돌확률은 선박 충돌, 좌초사고를 교통량 관측에 기초한 사고 발생건수와 수로의 지형적인 조건에 따른 기하확률로 정량화한 자료이다. 1970년대 Fujii와 Macduff의 연구를 시작으로 많은 연구기관에서 충돌확률을 제시하였지만, 우리나라 해역의 조건에 적합한 충돌, 좌초확률은 없는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구는 부산항 제5항로에서 등부표 접촉사고 발생건수를 바탕으로 진입항로, 직선항로, 변침항로를 구분하여 좌초발생확률($P_a$) 및 준사고(좌초)발생확률($P_c$)을 도출하였다. 사고 발생율이 높은 진입항로에서 좌초발생확률($P_a$) $2.26{\times}10^{-5}$, 준사고(좌초) 발생확률($P_c$) $2.30{\times}10^{-3}$으로 산출되어 타 항로보다 등부표 접촉사고 확률이 높은 것으로 분석되었다. 추후 각 해역별 충돌확률을 도출하여 선박 안전성 평가의 기준을 구하고자 한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.74-91
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• 2023

Several that analyzed the effectiveness of traffic safety facilities a method of comparing changes in the number of accidents, accident severity, speed through traffic accident data before and after installation or speed data collected from vehicle detection systems (VDS). , when traffic accident data is used, it takes a long time to collect because must be collected for at least one year before and after installation. , the road environment may change during this period, such as the addition of other traffic safety facilities in addition to the facilities to be analyzed. , the location of the VDSs for speed data is often different from the location where analysis is required, and there is a problem in that the investigators are exposed to the risk of traffic accident during on-site investigation. Therefore, this study a case study by establishing a methodology to determine effectiveness video images with a drone, extracting data using a program, and comparing vehicle driving speeds before and after speed reduction facilities. Vehicle speed surveys using drones are much safer than observational surveys conducted on highways and have the advantage of tracking speed changes along the vehicle, it is expected that they will be used for various traffic surveys in the future.