• 한국노년학
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.843-853
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to find out the characteristics of elderly pedestrian accidents and to suggest policy implications to enhance the level of elderly pedestrian safety. Although much efforts has made to enhance traffic safety environment, pedestrian traffic accidents among elderly population are not significantly decreased. This is mainly because current traffic safety measures do not much consider the characteristics of elderly pedestrians in the aspects of physical and psychological conditions. Main findings from vehicle-pedestrian traffic accident data and survey are as follows. First elderly pedestrians have high probability of traffic accident near crosswalks or cross streets rather than on crosswalk or cross streets. Second they need more green light time for crossing the streets. Third, they feel motor cycles running on the side walk and parked vehicles on the side walk are the most dangerous factors. Forth, general drivers do not have reasonable understanding for the walking behaviors of elderly pedestrians. Fifth, elderly pedestrians frequently need to rest while walking. Sixth, elderly people do not see clearly or understand traffic signs. Finally, many elderly pedestrians experience accidents or inconvenience while walking on the sidewalk.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Disaster Information Conference
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• 2023.11a
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• pp.178-179
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• 2023

인구의 고령화로 인한 노인여가복지시설에서 실질적인 생활거점과 복지시설로 역할이 변화하면서 경로당의 이용자가 증가하는 추세이다. 그러나, 다중의 고령층이 장시간 이용하는 시설임에도 불구하고 경로당에서 발생하고 있는 재난 및 안전사고에 관한 기초적인 정보 수집이 전무한 상황이다. 이에, 본 연구는 노인여가복지시설 중 경로당을 중심으로 현장을 직접 방문하여 관련자 인터뷰와 통계자료를 분석하여 재난 및 안전사고 실태를 조사하고자 한다. 또한, 현재 경로당에서 운영하는 프로그램을 조사하고, 노인의 건강하고 안전한 여가생활에 도움을 줄 수 있는 프로그램이 될 수 있도록 활성화 방안을 도출하고자 한다. 본 연구결과가 신(新) 노년 세대를 위한 노인여가복지정책 연구에 기초자료로 활용되길 기대해본다.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1996.02a
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• pp.87-114
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• 1996

심각한 노인교통사고를 줄이기 위하여 가장 높은 점유율을 보이는 노인보행자의 횡단사고 유형, 특성 및 사고원인을 분석했다. 횡단사고의 약 60%가 횡단보도 및 그 부근에서 발생했고, 70%이상이 노인여성이었으며, 절반정도가 야간에 발생했고 피해정도는 치사율이 12%, 부상은 평균 6주의 중상이었다. 사고원인은 특히 횡단보도 및 그 부근에서의 운전미확인이 가장 많았고, 노인보행자측의 원인은 고의위반 또는 법의 부지가 가장 많았다. 노인보행자의 횡단사고를 줄이기 위해서 운전자에게 횡단보도 정지선 엄수, 횡단보도 부근뿐 아니라 생활도로 및 상업지역 도로에서의 철저한 안전확인 등의 교육, 홍보, 훈련이 필요하다. 노인보행자를 위한 훈련프로그램은 성별로는 특히 노인여성에게 집중적 훈련이 요구되며, 훈련내용으로는 야간횡단의 위험성 인식 및 반사재 부착, 안전한 횡단장소 선택 및 횡단절차의 훈련, 상대방은 운전자와의 의사소통 훈련 등이 중점적으로 개발되어야 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.151-160
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to deduce improvement plan through analysis of the type and characteristics of traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers, and to establish the traffic safety policies for the elderly drivers. The analyzed result of road traffic accident situation are as follows. Firstly, Traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers were frequent on local roads of poor traffic safety facilities such as lighting. Secondly, The most frequent time zone of Traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers was 18:00 to 20:00, this time zone was mainly darkened. Thirdly, Traffic accidents are often caused by lack of attention occurred by no implementation of safe driving. Institutional Improvement of cosideration for elderly drivers and Traffic Safety Facilities maintenance considering regional particularities is needed for reducing traffic accidents and the safety of our society. Their driving skills of elderly drivers should test themselves constantly, and elderly drivers must hold down driving yourself using the alternative transportation.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.437-447
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• 2020

Following the extension of human life expectancy, the number of elderly traffic accidents that have been increasing at a rapid pace since 2018 has also emerged as a social problem. The traffic accident rate among those aged 65 and older is increasing, but traffic safety policies are insufficient. Based on the analysis of traffic accident status for senior citizens and traffic accident for the past five years from 2014, the reduction plan is to be presented in three main aspects. First, the system needs systematic management by strengthening the system of senior citizens' transport policy departments and driver's license for senior citizens in government agencies, such as the United States, Britain and Japan, from an institutional perspective, so that the walking time and crosswalk traffic environment for the vulnerable should be improved from an environmental perspective. In addition, in human terms, the ability to cope with real-time changes in traffic conditions should be enhanced by training transportation safety experts to secure the effectiveness of education for elderly drivers and by strengthening safety education for those with driver's license and expanding experienced traffic safety facilities to enhance the ability of senior citizens to cope with the changing traffic conditions in real time.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.593-599
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• 2010

우리나라 노년층의 교통사고 사망자와 보행 중 사망 비율은 증가하고 있으나 노년층을 대상으로 한 안전대책이나, 안전시설 및 보행환경 개선 등이 미비하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 과적인 노인보행자 교통안전대책을 마련할 수 있도록 기초자료를 제공하기 위하여 서울시와 경기도 지역의 5개 노인종합복지관을 이용하는 노년층을 대상으로 노년층 보행자의 통행실태 및 교통안전의식, 보행행태를 알아보기 위하여 설문을 실시하였다. 그 결과 노인의 50% 이상이 매일 외출하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 횡단보도를 건널 때 신호를 지키지 않는 차량으로 인하여 사고의 위험을 느끼며, 보행자 신호시간 부족하다고 응답하였다. 따라서 노인 보행자의 교통사고 예방을 위해서는 과속이나 신호위반이 잦은 곳에 과속 및 신호위반 단속카메라를 설치하고 도로폭이 넓은 곳에서는 보행섬을 설치하고 횡단보도의 보행자 신호시간 연장의 확대추진 등이 필요한 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.341-350
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• 2021

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to present an analysis method to select priorities for areas where the traffic safety system is applied to reduce pedestrian accidents. Method: Using Kernel density analysis using the coordinate information of the accident point, we performed density analysis of elderly walking accidents and elderly jaywalking accidents, and analysis of the weight of two types of walking accidents. Result: As a result of density analysis of the weight considering elderly jaywalking accidents, it was analyzed that the density of pedestrian traffic accidents for th elderly was higher in Gunsan-si, Jeongeup-si, and Gimje -si compared to Jeonju-si, where the number of elderly pedestrian accidents were high. Conclusion: The analysis results of this study are judged to be possible to use objective indicators for the selection of target sites for the introduction of the traffic safety system.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.149-155
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to find out the connection between the safety awareness of elder who lives alone and the residential environment, and to find and derive improvement measures to enhance safety awareness through the frequency and type of accidents of the elderly living alone between them. This study surveyed a total of 67 senior citizens living alone in Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si with the help of 22 life-care workers. A survey was completed using a safety awareness diagnostic tool. As a result of analyzing the accident experiences of the elderly living alone according to the residential environment, there were significant differences in the type of accident and the location of the accident. In addition, through a survey on the safety consciousness of the elderly living alone, we newly found out that there is a significant relationship between the time out and safety consciousness.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.63-72
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• 2012

While the number of crashes and fatalities has decreased for the last few decades, the proportion of elderly-involved crashes has continuously increased from 19.5% in 2001 to 29.6% in 2008. This paper aims to evaluate the effectiveness of traffic safety education to seniors, which has been conducted for the purpose of providing more systematic knowledge such as safety regulations and making the elderly more aware of the risks of crashes, and eventually to reduce elderly-involved crashes. First, we investigated the levels of traffic safety knowledge of the elder people who attend senior community centers and social welfare centers in Seoul and provided traffic safety education. Then, the effectiveness of traffic safety education was evaluated by using the before-and-after analysis. We set up two different groups to improve the reliability of evaluation: one for control group and the other for comparison group. The results showed that the average scores of the control group after education were significantly improved at the 95% significance level compared to the average scores before education, whereas the comparison group did not show a significant differences in the average scores before and after education except for two questions. This indicates that the levels of traffic safety knowledge of the control group have been improved through education and therefore, the safety education seem to be effective to some extent.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.336-344
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• 2019

Currently, Korea is entering an aging society, causing the issues of older adults in a wide range of fields. This study focuses on the health and safety issues of the older adults. As a theoretical background, Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory was applied, and a new theory was established in connection with the physiological needs and safety needs of the 5 stages of desire in relation to the health and safety issues of the older adults. Health issues applying to physiological needs for the older adults are examined in detail in the body, perception and psychology areas, and safety accidents occurring indoors and outdoors are examined in relation to safety needs. Naver DataLab, a big data portal, shows that the number of bugs regarding health and safety of the older adults is steadily increasing. And through Google Trends, we can understand the interest setting up related search keyword about the older adults. According to the related search keywords, social part related to health in health issues is ranked high and kewords related to accident type in safety issues is ranked high. These findings will be an important basis data for research and solution to the issues of older adults.