• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.170-178
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• 2014

Until now, several research on the relationship of traffic crash occurrences and geometric had been conducted and revealed that projects of road alignment, geometric improvement and hazardous segment selection reduced the number of accidents and accident severities. However, such variables did not consider the non-homogeneous characteristics of roadway segments due to the difficulty of data collection, which results in under-estimation of the standard error affecting the overall modeling goodness-of-fit. This study highlights the importance of non-homogeneity by looking at the effect of the non-homogeneous geometric variables through the modeling process. The model delivers meaningful results when using some geometric variables without relevant geometrics' variables.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.207-215
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• 2009

Generally, traffic accidents can be influenced by variables driving conditions including geometric, roadside design, and traffic conditions. Under the circumstance, homogeneous roadway segments were firstly identified using typical geometric variables obtained from field data collections in this study. These field data collections were conducted at highways located in several areas having various regional conditions for examples, outside metropolitan city; level and rolling rural areas. Due to many zero cells in crash database, a Zero Inflated Poisson model was used to develop crash prediction model to overestimated results in this study. It was found that EXPO, radius, grade, guardrail, mountainous terrain, crosswalk and bus-stop have statistically significant influence on vehicle to vehicle crashes at rural multi-lane roadway segments.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.7 no.4 s.26
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• pp.41-47
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• 2005

Traffic data such as traffic volume, speed, and vehicle Class are very important basic data for the plan and design of highway. Based on traffic data, the future service level of a specific highway and geometry of newly constructed or expended road is predicted and determined. The Ministry of Construction & Transportation has simultaneously surveyed coverage count and permanent count at highways since 1985. Traffic volume survey sections were determined at jointed nodes of highways and jointed nodes of highways and other roads such as freeway and local highway. Volume survey was performed at these sections. The premise to decide these sections is assumed that links between jointed nodes of main highways exhibit similar traffic characteristics. Recently, due to the change of highway geometries such as construction of detour road and installations of traffic facilities such as installation of media, traffic characteristics of the existing traffic volume survey sections was changed. To reflect these changes, traffic characteristics at homogeneous road sections was widely evaluated and analyzed. Using Genetic Algorithms, a model was developed for the evaluation of traffic characteristics at homogeneous road sections. Traffic volume survey sections were then determined through the application of the developed model for current traffic system.

• Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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• v.38 no.8 s.157
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• pp.617-629
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• 2005

In this paper, a hypothesis is tested that division of non-monotonic time series into monotonic parts will improve the estimation of trends through increased homogeneity in direction of time-variation using LOWESS smoothing and seasonal Kendall test. From the trend analysis of generated time series and water temperature, discharge, air temperature and solar radiation of Lake Daechung, it is shown that the hypothesis is supported by improved estimation of trends and slopes. Also, characteristics in homogeneity variation of seasonal changes seems to be more clearly manifested as homogeneity in direction of time-variation is increased. And this will help understand the effects of human intervention on natural processes and seems to warrant more in-depth study on this subject. The proposed method can be used for trend analysis to detect monotonic trends and it is expected to improve understanding of long-term changes in natural environment.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.365-370
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• 2009

The present study proposes the various hypothesis tests and interval estimations for homogeneous and heterogeneous populations in the continuous and discrete process. These results can be used to complement the QC story 15 steps for quality improvement circle and DMAIC processes for six sigma innovation.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.48-54
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• 2024

This study conducted a survey from April 2021 to December 2022 to investigate habitat factors affecting bird diversity in the region between Cheonwangbong Peak and Aghwibong in Baekdudaegan protected area, South Korea. Since the region has a spatial scale of 736.4 km² and is an area where a wide variety of habitats are mixed, we selected 20 survey areas of 3 km x 3 km by analysis of habitat homogeneity. As a result of analyzing the relationship between habitat environment and bird diversity in the survey area, it was found that the diversity of bird communities was directly or indirectly related to the diversity of terrestrial insects, slope, average habitat area, mean size of patches, elevation, and forest type, and distance from agricultural land. The slope of habitat, forest type, and distance from agricultural land affect the occurrence of food sources directly and indirectly, and the average area of habitats and forest type is closely related to the structural diversity of habitats. Therefore, it is determined that the diversity of bird communities is affected by the amount of food generated within the habitat and the diversity of habitats. It is determined that the relationship between bird communities and habitat environments in this surveyed region can be basic ecological data for establishing forest management measures to promote the diversity of bird communities.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.85-94
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• 2013

The Continuous Risk Profile (CRP) has been well known to be the most accurate and efficient among existing network screening methods. However, the classical CRP uses safety performance functions (SPFs) which require a huge investment to construct a database system. This study aims to suggest a new CRP method using average crash frequencies of homogeneous groups, instead of SPFs, as rescaling factors. Hierarchical clustering analysis is performed to classify freeway segments into homogeneous groups based on the data of AADT and number of lanes. Using the data from I-880 in California, the proposed method is compared to other several network screening methods. The results show that the proposed method decrease false positive rates while it does not produce any false negatives. The method developed in this study can be easily applied to screen freeway networks without any additional complex database systems, and contribute to the improvement of freeway safety management systems.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.21-33
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• 1988

부적정한 도로포장 구조물의 설정 및 유지보수의 적정관리 미흡으로 표면의 피해와 소성변형이 장기간 발생된다. 이로 인한 가요성 통제 구조물의 파괴 원인은 일반적으로 포 장재료의 동질성, 선형탄성 상태의 가정 하에서 분석되었다. 그러나 아스팔트 재료의 특성은 엄밀히 분석해서 완전한 선형탄성이라고는 볼 수 없음은 잘 알려져 있다. 따라서 근본적으 로 포장체의 수명과 파양 예측에 오류 발생가능성이 높다 하겠다. 금번 연구는 이와 같은 종전의 경험적인 선형탄성 방법이 아닌 탄성일소성 상태하의 격자(mechano-lattice) 이론이란 새로운 기법을 도입하였다. 특히 마이너(Miner's Law) 이론의 누적손실과 확률을 적용하여 포장체의 피노수명과 손실을 예측할 수 있다. 금번 이론은 실제로 호주 빅토리아주의 멜보른(Melbourne)시 일부 지역구간을 모형으 로 선정되었다. 분석결과 가장 최적화된 도로포장 각층의 두께와 재료 선정을 하기 위하여 일정기간의 교통량, 상대적 손실지수와 잔여응력 및 표면 변위, 대기온도 그리고 습도의 영 향을 종합적으로 고려하여야 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.434-434
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• 2018

에코톱은 가장 작고 균일하며 도면의 단위로 사용 가능한 토지, 일반적인 구성요소의 상태, 잠재자연식생, 잠재생태계 기능을 최소한의 단위로 균일하게 분류가 가능한 요소로서 천이단계 또는 토지이용이 서로 다른 패치들로 이루어진 무생물과 생물이 결합된 생태공간으로서 일반적으로 세가지 특성을 포함한다. (1) 가장 작은 동질성 가진 지도로 분류 가능한 단위, (2) 일반적인 기질조건, 잠재적 자연식생 및 잠재적 생태계 기능에 대한 동질성, 그리고 (3) 서로 다른 연속적인 토지 이용 단계에서의 패치로 구성 된다. 현재 네덜란드, 스페인을 포함한 유럽국가에서는 에코톱분류를 통한 하천을 관리하는 방안을 제시하고 있으며 이에 대한 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 만경강 중류 소양천 합류점의 터지네 구간을 대상으로 하천공간의 복원 이후 연중유황에 따른 에코톱의 변화를 예측하고 이에 따른 개선효과를 정량적으로 분석하는 것이 목적이다. 제방 후퇴, 제방후퇴/구하도 복원, 제방 후퇴/습지 조성 세가지 복원 시나리오를 현재지형과 비교하여 연중 유황별 흐름조건에 따라 에코톱을 도식화 하였으며, 이에 따른 에코톱 다양성 지수를 도출하여 비교분석하였다. 복원 대상지의 복원 시나리오 및 흐름조건에 따른 에코톱의 변화를 분석한 결과 '제방 후퇴/구하도 복원' 일 때 자연요소가 현재지형보다 가장 크게 증가되었으며 3가지 복원 유형 간 자연요소를 비교한 결과 '제방 후퇴/구하도 복원' 일 때 수역과 일년생 초본이 가장 많은 면적을 차지하였으며, '제방 후퇴/습지 조성' 일 때 습지와 다년생 초본이 가장 많은 면적을 차지하였다. 복원 유형 별 연중 유황 조건에 따른 에코톱 다양성 지수분석결과 제방후퇴/습지 조성시 에코톱 다양성 개선효과가 가장 큰 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Conservation Science
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.189-203
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• 2014

In this study, the identification and distribution for rock types of the South Gate Wall of Myeoncheoneupseong Town Wall in Dangjin was investigated, and the homogeneity analysis of rock properties in the wall between the surrounding out crops estimated by examining the possible provenances. The Town Wall consists of variable rock types about 15 kinds. Granitic rocks (61.0%), quartzite (21.0%) and quartz feldspar porphyry (8.7%) accounted over 90% of total survey section. These rock properties are very similar to surrounding rocks of the Town Wall on the basis of occurrences, magnetic susceptibility, petrography, mineralogical and goechemical characteristics. Thus, it is probable that the rock properties of the Town Wall were supplied from the Town Wall around about 8km within at Seongsangri, Yangyuri, Seongbukri, Galsanri and Daedeokdong area. And supplied rock properties in the construction process, easy procurement rather than rock type was most likely seems to be considered.