• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.38-48
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• 2017

Link attributes, such as speed, occupancy, and flow, are essential factors for transportation planning and operation. It is, therefore, one of the most important decision-making problems in intelligent transport system (ITS) to determine the optimal location of a sensor for collecting the information on link attributes. This paper aims to develop a model to determine the optimal location of a sensor to minimize the variability of traffic information on whole networks. To achieve this, a network sensor location model (NSLM) is developed to reflect discrete characteristics of data collection. The variability indices of traffic information are calculated based on the summation of diagonal elements of the variance-covariance matrix. To assess the applicability of the developed model, speed data collected from the dedicated short range communication (DSRC) systems were used in Daegu metropolitan area. The developed model in this study contributes to the enhancement of investment efficiency and the improvement of information accuracy in intelligent transport system (ITS).

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.36-54
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• 2017

The purpose of this paper is to develop a multi-sensor fusion-based traffic information acquisition system with robust to environmental changes. it combines the characteristics of each sensor and is more robust to the environmental changes than the video detector. Moreover, it is not affected by the time of day and night, and has less maintenance cost than the inductive-loop traffic detector. This is accomplished by synthesizing object tracking informations based on a radar, vehicle classification informations based on a video detector and reliable object detections of a infrared range finder. To prove the effectiveness of the proposed system, I conducted experiments for 6 hours over 5 days of the daytime and early evening on the pedestrian - accessible road. According to the experimental results, it has 88.7% classification accuracy and 95.5% vehicle detection rate. If the parameters of this system is optimized to adapt to the experimental environment changes, it is expected that it will contribute to the advancement of ITS.

• TTA Journal
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• s.63
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• pp.51-59
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• 1999

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.143-148
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• 2015

In order to design and plan a city, the importance of collecting traffic information increases. However, current method to collecting traffic information by using sensors layed on the roads is not appropriate for exceptional cases such as national highway or newly planned city area, where sensors are already not layed. To scope the cases, the traffic information is estimated from traffic information of surroundings area. This paper develops portable traffic volume measuring equipment utilizing two or radar detector, so that more useful traffic information can be obtained in any environments. Furthermore, the system allows users to be able to instantly analyze gathered data on the site. The system has been tested in the field and proved the excellences theough the field test.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.32 no.2D
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• pp.129-136
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• 2012

In the US, Japan and Germany the Aerial-Based Vehicle Detection System, which collects real-time traffic data using the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), helicopters or fixed-wing aircraft has been developed for the last several years. Therefore, this study was done to find out whether the Aerial-Based Vehicle Detection System could be used for real-time traffic data collection. For this purpose the study was divided into two parts. In the first part the possibility of retrieving real-time traffic data such as travel speed from the aerial photographic image using the image processing technique was examined. In the second part the quality of the retrieved real-time traffic data was examined to find out whether the data are good enough to be used as traffic information source. Based on the results of examinations we could conclude that it would not be easy for the Aerial- Based Vehicle Detection System to replace the present Vehicle Detection System due to technological difficulties and high cost. However, the system could be effectively used to make the emergency traffic management plan in case of incidents such as abrupt heavy rain, heavy snow, multiple pile-up, etc.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.107-118
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• 2010

Wireless communication technologies including vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) enable the development of more sophisticated and effective traffic information systems. This study presents a method to estimate vehicular travel times in a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) environment. A novel feature of the proposed method is estimating individual vehicle travel times through advanced on-board units in each vehicle, referred to as self-estimated travel time in this study. The method uses travel information including vehicle position and speed at each given time step transmitted through the V2V and V2I communications. Vehicle trajectory data obtained from the VISSIM simulator is used for evaluating the accuracy of estimated travel times. Relevant technical issues for successful field implementation are also discussed.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.02a
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• pp.1234-1239
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• 2006

신속하고 정확한 교통정보 서비스의 제공은 원활한 교통소통을 위하여 필수적인 요소이다. 특히, 교통사고, 도로보수 그리고 자연재해와 같은 유고가 발생할 경우, 운전자에게 즉시 통보해주어 우회할 수 있도록 조치하는 것이 필요하다. 이를 위하여 다양한 교통정보 수집기에서 수집된 교통정보를 바탕으로 실시간으로 유고상황을 판별하는 연구가 많이 진행되고 있다. 유고상황 분석은 다양한 환경요인으로 인해 판별이 어렵고, 최근에 활용되고 있는 인공지능 기법은 검지에 드는 시간 비용이 많다는 문제를 가지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 과거에 발생한 각종 돌발 상황을 분석하여 실시간으로 유고상황을 검지하는 것이 목적이다. 유고검지를 위해 GPS를 탑재한 probe car에서 수집된 차량속도와 온라인으로 제보된 유고정보를 ANFIS를 이용하여 분석 후 유고상태를 판별한다. 본 연구를 통해 실시간 도로 이용자들이 유고 발생 지역의 정보를 제공받고 그 상황에 신속하게 대처하게 함으로써 교통 혼잡 완화에 기여할 것으로 기대한다.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.85-97
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• 2005

In this paper, we construct the traffic information database by using the acquired data from the traffic information devices installed in road network, and, by referring to this database, propose the intersection simulation system which can dynamically manage the real-time traffic flow for each section of road from the intersections, This system consists of hierarchical 3 parts, The lower layer is the physical layer where the traffic information is acquired on an actual road. The traffic flow control framework exists in the middle layer. The framework supports the grouping of intersection, the collection of real-time traffic flow information, and the remote monitoring and control by using the traffic information of the lower layer, This layer is designed by extending the distributed object group framework we developed. In upper layer, the intersection simulator applications controlling the traffic flow by grouping the intersections exist. The components of the intersection application in our system are composed of the implementing objects based on the Time-triggered Message-triggered Object(TMO) scheme, The intersection simulation system considers the each intersection on road as an application group, and can apply the control models of dynamic traffic flow by the road's status. At this time, we use the real-time traffic information collected through inter-communication among intersections. For constructing this system, we defined the system architecture and the interaction of components on the traffic flow control framework which supports the TMO scheme and the TMO Support Middleware(TMOSM), and designed the application simulator and the user interface to the monitoring and the controlling of traffic flow.

• Journal of KIISE
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• v.41 no.10
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• pp.745-761
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• 2014

To address the problems of existing traffic information acquisition systems such as high cost and low scalability, wireless sensor networks (WSN)-based traffic information acquisition systems have been studied. WSN-based systems have many benefits including high scalability and low maintenance cost. Recently, various sensors are studied for traffic surveillance based on WSN, such as magnetic, acoustic, and accelerometer sensors. However, ultrasonic sensor based systems have not been studied. There are many issues for WSN-based systems, such as battery driven operation and low computing power. Thus, power saving methods and specific algorithms with low complexity are necessary. In this paper, we introduce optimal methodologies for power saving of ultrasonic sensors based on the modeling and analysis in detail. Moreover, a new vehicle detection algorithm for low complexity using ultrasonic data is presented. The proposed methodologies are implemented in a tiny microprocessor. The evaluation results show that our algorithm has high detection accuracy.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.177-182
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• 2007

최근 텔레매틱스 분야에서 GPS 수신기를 장착한 probe car를 통해 교통 정보를 수집하는 방법에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 이 방법은 기존에 교통 정보를 수집하기 위해 활용되고 있던 고정식 검지기들에 비해 수집되는 정보가 높은 신뢰성을 가지고, 도로 환경에 민감하지 않으며, 낮은 유지비용으로 운용할 수 있다는 장점을 가지고 있다. 하지만, probe car는 자신의 위치 정보를 교통 정보 센터로 전송해 주어야 하기 때문에 프라이버시가 노출될 수 있고, 주차되어 있는 시간에는 통행 정보를 보내줄 수가 없다. 이런 이유로 대중 교통차량이나 상업용 차량이 주로 probe car로 활용되어지게 되는데, 그 수가 많지 않을뿐더러 운행 구간이 고르게 분포되지 않아 probe car가 지나지 않는 구간, 즉 교통 정보 누락 구간이 존재할 수 있는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 교통 정보 누락 구간의 처리를 위해 과거의 이력 정보로 대체하는 방법, 주변 도로의 구간 정보로 예측하는 방법, 회귀 분석을 통한 예측 방법 등을 기술하고 실제 probe car들로 수집된 서울시 강남대로 구간의 자료로 각 방법에 대한 실험을 실시하여 각각의 방법에 대한 결과를 비교 분석한다.