• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.4 s.75
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• pp.69-82
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• 2004

Urbanization of Korea reaches up to 90% in the year 2003. What that means is that 90% of population live in the city areas. This phenomenon emphasizes importances of urban streets where people feel accessibility and level of environmental amenity, enjoy recreational activity, and live for a life. However, the current Korean manual for designing road is not enough to accomodate various activities of urban streets since its target is basically rural roads. This study proposes the necessity of a new design manual of urban streets via analyzing the practices of the development countries, and aims to recommend what should be prepared and how those are defined for developing a design manual of urban streets in Korea. It is inevitable that the design manual of urban streets be based on the flexibility and diversity. The manual should be made through consensus among the related stakeholders such as designers, residents and officials. And it also should reflect the characteristics of each city. It is somehow true that without the manual, designing of urban streets can be done although it is not fully acceptable. This does not mean that the necessity of the manual can be ignored. Rather, we should remember that the related stakeholders may not want to reveal what are hidden in developing the design manual of urban streets. What are hidden is that developing the design manual of urban streets is difficult problem to solve. It is a wish that this study triggers the on-going research and interests on developing the design manual of urban streets.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.291-303
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• 2016

The number of traffic accidents at intersections has been increased over the past decade, and in 2014, accounted for 44% of the total traffic accidents. In addition, since most of road accident black spots include signalized intersections, the improvement of safety on signalized intersection is top priority for national road safety program in Korea. For the decision of most effective action plan for the safety of signalized intersection, this study conducted meta-analyses to assess the effects of various road safety facilities at signalized intersection on traffic accidents. We selected 19 articles regarding the prediction of traffic accidents at signalized intersection and calculated 34 individual effect sizes on 8 variables included in the articles. The results found that there was a statistically significant negative relationship between the occurrence of traffic accident and the presence of all of road safety facilities except an exclusive left turn bay. It shows that most of the road safety facilities could prevent traffic accidents, and intersection channelization has the most effective on the reduction of traffic accidents followed by left-turn acceleration lane, lightning, crosswalk, exclusive right-turn lane and median barrier.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.29-38
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• 2007

This study investigated the effects of delineation systems on drivers' maneuver and how the effectiveness of delineation system can be further improved according to the road geometry. The experiments were conducted to collect lateral placement data and detection distance data using GPS equipped vehicles. The main results are summarizedas follows. Firstly, installing the delineation facilities on the roads helps drivers to recognize road alignment. Secondly, the detection distance is longer for delineators than for raised pavement marker in tangent section, while there is no difference in curve section. The chevron show the longest detection distance in the curve section, while the raised pavement markers showed no distinctive performance in terms of detection distance and lateral placement. Therefore, we can recommend install delineators in the tangent sections and chevrons in curve sections, based on the analysis results of effects of delineation facilities.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.6D
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• pp.703-709
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• 2009

This article analyzes the obtained data on consciousness survey of disabled and non-disabled pedestrians, and proposes fundamental data for public strategy in order to enhance facilities in subway stations in advance. This paper conduct literature review, new listing survey related to 'The Code for Improvement of Convenience for Moving Vulnerable Pedestrians', and Modified-Importance-Performance Analysis (M-IPA). The results show that disabled pedestrians want enhancement in information facilities as a whole. In addition, the results show that several improvements needs to be applied to accessible sidewalk, to informative notification, to alarm and evacuation system and to toilet for disabled pedestrians. This indicates that disabled pedestrians heavily concentrate on accessibility to subway station and provided information compared with disabled pedestrians.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.65-70
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• 2002

도로표지는 도로 이용자에게 목적지까지의 방향, 거리, 경로 안내 등 기타정보를 제공함으로써 안전하고 원활한 교통흐름을 제공하여 도로의 이용 효율을 극대화할 수 있는 중요한 도로 부속시설물이다. 이 시설물의 설치 기준인 도로표지규칙의 일부 기준이 미흡하고 운영 및 관리담당 기관이 일원화되지 않아, 전문적 도로표지 관리가 용이하지 않은 실정이다. 이에 도로표지의 통합적 전문적 관리와, 그에 따른 도로표지의 신속하고 정확한 조사가 필요하게 되었다. 본 연구에서는 최적의 조사시스템을 도출하기 위하여 도로시설물의 조사를 위한 여러 방법과 시스템을 비교하고 그 장단점을 분석하였다. 또한, 수치지도를 바탕으로 한 도로망도를 추출하고 DGPS 측량을 실시한 도로망도를 이용하여 현지조사를 실시하였다. 현지 조사 시스템을 공간정보, 속성정보로 구성된 데이터베이스, 표지판등록 및 GPS프로그램으로 구성된 응용프로그램, 소프트웨어와 경로탐색용 네비게이션, 노트북, 디지털카메라, GPS로 구성된 하드웨어로 구성하여 현지조사에 사용하였다. 현지조사 작업은 차량에 설치된 디지털카메라를 이용하여 원격조정으로 도로표지의 사진을 촬영하고, GPS를 이용하여 위치를 측정하였다. 현지조사 시스템은 지도의 축척에 맞는 정확도로 조정이 가능하며, 도로표지 조사뿐만 아니라 교통표지 및 그 외의 도로시설물의 조사에도 활용하고, 무선통신을 이용한다면 실시간 정보의 수정 및 입력이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국도로학회지:도로
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• v.7 no.4 s.26
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• pp.33-45
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• 2005

• 한국도로학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.10a
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• pp.429-434
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• 2004

• 한국도로학회지:도로
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.41-51
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• 1999

• 한국도로학회지:도로
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.27-32
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• 2018

• 도로교통
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• s.99
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• pp.4-19
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• 2005