• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.14-27
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• 2009

Collection of invaluable real-time traffic data becomes available under ubiquitous transportation sensor networks (UTSN). Various research efforts have been made to utilize such useful data for deriving more accurate and reliable traffic information. This study presented a novel concept of decentralized traffic information and method to process traffic data which are obtained from inter-vehicle communications under the UTSN. In addition, an experimental evaluation to investigate the feasibility of the proposed method using probe vehicle data. Predictive travel times were estimated and evaluated for the feasibility investigation. Technical issues were derived and discussed to fully implement the proposed system. The outcomes of this study would be used as a guideline in designing better next-generation traffic information systems.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.14-26
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• 2009

This study presented a novel method to estimate travel times under incident conditions. Predictive travel time information was defined and evaluated with the proposed method. The proposed method utilized individual vehicle speeds obtained from global positioning systems (GPS) and inter-vehicle communications(IVC) for more reliable real-time travel times. Individual vehicle trajectory data were extracted from microscopic traffic simulations using AIMSUN. Market penetration rates (MPR) and IVC ranges were explored with the accuracy of travel times. Relationship among travel time accuracy, IVC ranges, and MPR were further identified using regression analyses. The outcomes of this study would be useful to derive functional requirements associated with traffic information systems under forthcoming ubiquitous transportation environment

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.29-44
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• 2009

A variety of research efforts, using advanced wireless communication technologies, have been made to develop more reliable traffic information system. This study presents a novel decentralized traffic information system based on vehicle infrastructure integration (VII). A major objective of this study was also to devise a methodology for determining appropriate spacing of roadside equipment (RSE) to fully exploit the benefits of the proposed VII-based traffic information system. Evaluation of travel time estimation accuracy was conducted with various RSE spacings and the market penetration rates of equipped vehicle. A microscopic traffic simulator, VISSIM, was used to obtain individual vehicle travel information for the evaluation. In addition, the ANOVA tests were conducted to draw statistically significant results of simulation analyses in determining the RSE spacing. It is expected that the proposed methodology will be a valuable precursor to implementing capability-enhanced next generation traffic information systems under the forthcoming ubiquitous transportation environment.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.15-25
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• 2007

This paper aims at testing the applicability of RFID (radio frequency identification) based link travel time estimation algorithm in urban street settings in Jeju island Korea. For this, we developed algorithm and compared link travel times derived from the RFID probe based algorithm with those from (already available) GPS based link travel time estimation algorithm and with the actual link travel times from survey. RFID readers are composed of master reader and slave reader and the participating passenger cars were supposed to be equipped with RFID tag inside the vehicle. The data were sent to traffic information center and we used those data in comparison. The algorithm produced link travel times in a successful manner and the accuracy of those link travel times was about 88%. For the same link segments, the accuracy of GPS based link travel times was 93%. The t-test showed that both RFID and GPS based link travel times were not different in accuracy from statistical point of view. The applicability of RFID was tested successfully and the algorithm proposed seemed to be used in similar urban settings. Some limits and future research agenda have also been presented.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.2 s.73
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• pp.165-175
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• 2004

본 고는 대전광역시 첨단교통모델도시 건설사업의 일환으로 구축된 DSRC(Dedicated Short Range Communication) 기술을 활용한 교통정보시스템 구축 사례를 소개함을 목적으로 한다. 공공부문에서의 구간정보 수집 및 가공 체계 구축은 본 대전 ITS 사업이 처음이며 더욱이 DSRC 기술을 구간정보 수집에 적용한 최초의 시도이다. 이에 시스템 구축과정에서 적지 않은 쟁점이 도출되었고, 많은 시행착오를 통해 그 해법을 찾아가며 현재 운영중인 시스템을 완공하게 되었다. 노변기지국(RSE)과 차량장치(OBE)간의 통신에 의해 수집된 자료는, 필터링, 검지기 지점정보, 패턴데이터 등과의 자료합성, 평활화, 통계정보 및 패턴정보 생성 등의 과정을 거쳐 구간소통정보가 산출된다. 현재 운영중인 본 시스템은 향후 지속적으로 보완 발전시켜 나가야 하며, 이를 위해 프로브 수집체계 보완, 시스템의 성능평가, 패턴데이터의 적절한 유지관리, 알고리즘의 지속적 발전 등을 향후과제로서 제시하였다. 본 고는 ITS사업에 있어 중요 쟁점중에 한 분야인 소통정보의 가공 절차를 공유함으로써, 관련 분야의 기술개발 촉진과 향후 유사시스템 구축의 시행착오를 줄이는데 기여할 수 있으리라 판단된다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.22-35
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• 2013

With the increase in image detectors, concerns about the reliability of traffic information are increasing. In this paper, we propose a method to generate reliable traffic volume using analysis of the point detector data as a representative value. Therefore, targeting expressway, we analyzed the difference in traffic volume collected by loop and image detector, and verified statistically using t-test, and finally analyzed the error rate compare to the real traffic volume. Analysis revealed that there was a statistically difference the traffic date collected by the loop detector and the image detector, in the same period, the same time, respectively. In addition, the difference between the actual traffic volume and traffic that have been collected in a loop detector was the lowest Therefore, creating a traffic volume of representative value, we proposed a method to use loop detector than the average traffic volume collected by each detector. It shows that it is more important to use one high-quality data rather than various low-quality data to produce a representative value.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.5D
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• pp.731-738
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• 2006

Facing congestion, people want to know traffic information about their routes, especially real-time link travel time (LTT). In this paper, as a sequel paper of the previous non-taxi based LTT generating study by Choi et al. (1998), taxi based GPS probes have been tried to produce LTT for urban arterials. Taxis in itself are good deployment mode of GPS probes although it by nature experiences boarding and alighting time noises which should be accounted. A heuristic real-time dynamic outlier filter algorithm for taxi GPS probe has been developed focusing on urban arterials. An actual traffic survey for dynamic link travel times has been conducted using license plate method for the test arterials of Seoul city transportation network. With the algorithm, it is estimated that 70% of outliers have been filtered and the relative error has been improved by 73.7%. The filtering algorithm developed here would be expected to be in use for other spatial sites with some calibration efforts. Some limitations and future research agenda have also been discussed.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.5
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• pp.78-88
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• 2012

AVIs on the road are installed for (1) security (2) and for traffic, and they are various managed by (1) police department, (2) local government, (3) national highway management, (4) Korean highway corporation. But although the collected data of the plate number, the travel time, the picture of the car are same, they are used in purposes of its installation because the managements are different and the data are difficult to be connected with each other. For this reason, this study is to appraise the application for creating traffic information by integrating these data, and to suggest the introduction of spatial detection system which integrated security-traffic AVI DB for the purpose of reliability improvement of center's velocity. The estimating sections of link travel information seems to be expanded, and the error rate between the center's velocity and the experimental value will be reduced if integrated DB of traffic and security AVIs is used for creating traffic information. Also, the crime prevention and arrest rate is expected to rise in the future.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.5D
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• pp.571-578
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• 2009

This paper shows the results of the comparative analysis of differences and similarities between GPS-based and RFID-based traffic information collection systems for testing the applicability of RFID system in urban street settings in Jeju island, Korea. For this, we reviewed both traffic information collection systems in terms of accuracy, link design scheme and cost. Regarding accuracy and real world applicability, the GPS-based system is superior and accurate. In terms of the operational cost during the first 10 years, however, the cost of RFID-based system was identified lower than that of GPS-based system. The applicability of RFID-based system, in spite of the weakness of accuracy and applicability, was tested successfully in urban settings. Some limitations and future research agenda have also been presented.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.57-69
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• 2010

The ubiquitous transportation system environments make it possible to collect each vehicle's position and velocity data and to perform more sophisticated traffic flow management at individual vehicle or platoon level through V2V and V2I communication. It is necessary to develop a new data processing methodology to take advantage of the ubiquitous transportation system environments. This paper proposed to build 3-dimension data profiles to maintain the detailed traffic flow information contained in the individual vehicles' data and at the same time to keep the profiles from the meaningless fluctuations. Also methods to build the platoon profile and the shock wave speed profile are proposed, which have not been possible under ITS(Intelligent Transportation System) environments.