• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.13-22
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• 2018

Buses, one of the representative public transportation modes, are divided into a vareity of service types according to the purpose of operation, operating distance, and management agencies. Although bus-involved crashes may cause large amount of damage due to the higher number of passengers boarded on a bus, prior research has little focused on crash severity according to bus service types. This study aims to investigate factors influencing crash severity in bus-involved crashes and to present policy implications to reduce crash severity by bus service type. To do this, bus-involved crash data from the Traffic Accident Analysis System (TAAS) during five-year period are used. Ordered probit models for three types of bus service, i.e., city bus, suburban and express buses, and charter buses, are estimated to analyze the factors of accident severity. The results show that there are significant differences of factors affecting crash severity among the types of bus services while speed and road surface influence all the types of buses. In case of local buses, time of day, roadway alignment, and installation of a traffic signal are found to be statistically significant factors. Seat belt and road class have significant effects on injury severity of the intercity and express buses. Chartered buses have time of day, driving experience, seatbelt, traffic signal, and day of week as the significant factors. The results of this study are expected to contribute to the reduction of the crash severity by each bus service type.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.63-72
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• 2014

In this paper, characteristics and types of vehicle accidents involving buses that differ from common passenger cars are analyzed. When heavy vehicles are involved in collision accidents, the external impulse conveyed through bus tire from road surface cannot be ignored, so the conventional rigid-body impact model cannot be applied. As a solution, an analysis model which directly considers the tire impulse or considers the bus as moving barrier has been proposed. Also, as there are many instances in which the location of contact point or coefficients related to rotational motion cannot be estimated, utilization of point-mass collision model has been sought. By applying the proposed analysis model to an actual accident case and comparing with the result of the conventional analysis which does not consider the tire impulse, it is shown that the velocity of bus and other values close to the actual amount can be obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.1018-1020
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 통학버스에서의 안전사고에 관련된 여러 사례 중 출입문의 끼임을 방지하기 위하여 통학버스에 영상장치와 전원센서를 부착, 사각지대를 없애고 운전자에게 경보음으로 사고를 미연에 방지하고자 하는 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 출입문의 배경영상을 적용적으로 수집하고 실시간으로 수집되는 영상과 배경영상을 차 연산 하여 문의 끼임을 인식한다. 실험결과 문에 대해서 끼임이 검출되는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.01a
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• pp.481-483
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 어린이통학버스 안전사고 예방을 위한 지능형 탑승객 모니터링 시스템을 개발한다. 지능형 탑승객 모니터링은 통학버스 내 설치된 카메라로 부터 촬영되는 영상을 실시간으로 분석한 후 통학버스 내 발생할 수 있는 다양한 이벤트를 운전자 또는 교사에게 적시에 통보하여 잠재적 안전사고를 지능적으로 회피할 수 있도록 지원하는 시스템을 말한다. 제안한 시스템은 Yolov4, DeepSort, MediaPipe등의 인공지능 관련 SW기술을 활용하여 영상을 분석한 후 싸움과 같은 이상행동, 정차 후 잔류 인원 발생, 하차자와 차량 간의 안전거리 확보 여부를 포함하는 3가지 이벤트를 인식한 후 운전자 또는 교사에게 알림을 제공한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.14-26
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• 2019

For bus drivers' safe driving, a policy that analyzes the causes of the drivers' traffic accidents and then assists their safe driving is required. Therefore, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport set up its plan to gradually expand the equipping of commercial vehicles with FCWS (Forward Collision Warning System) and LDWS(Lane Departure Warning System), from the driver-supporting ADAS(Advanced Driver Assistance Systems). However, there is not much basic research on the analysis of bus drivers' traffic accidents in Korea. As such, the time is appropriate to research what is the most necessary ADAS for bus drivers going forward to prevent bus accidents. The purpose of this research is to analyze how serious the accidents were in the different bus routes and whether the accidents were repetitive, and to give recommendations on how to support ADAS for buses, as an improvement. A model of ordered logit was used to analyze how serious the accidents were and as a result, vehicle to pedestrian accidents which directly affected individuals were statistically significant in all of the models, and violations of regulations, such as speeding, traffic signal violation and violation of safeguards for passengers, were indicated in common in several models. Therefore, the pedestrian-sensor system and automatic emergency control device for pedestrian should be installed to reduce bus accidents directly affecting persons in the future, and education for drivers and ADAS are to be offered to reduce the violations of regulations.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.123-133
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• 2010

The national standards for the installation of pedestrian crosswalks prohibits installation of crosswalks within 200 meters of nearby overpasses, underpasses, or crosswalks. In case the exceptional installation is required, the feasibility study is to be thoroughly conducted by the local police agency. However, it is an undeniable fact that the specific installation standards for optimal types and locations of crosswalks are not yet to be established. This paper examines the development of traffic accident prediction model applicable to different types and locations of bus stops(type A and type B) at mid-block intersections. Furthermore, it develops the poisson regression model which sets the "number of traffic accidents" and "traffic accident severity" as dependent variables, while using "traffic volumes", "pedestrian traffic volumes" and "the distance between crosswalks and bus stops" as independent variables. According to the traffic accident prediction model applicable to the type A bus stop location, the traffic accident severity increases relative to the number of traffic volumes, the number of pedestrian traffic volumes, and the distance between crosswalks and bus stops. In case of the type B bus stop model, the further the bus stop is from crosswalks, the number of traffic accidents decreases while it increases when traffic volumes and pedestrian traffic volumes increase. Therefore, it is reasonable to state that the bus stop design which minimizes the traffic accidents is the type C design, which is the one in combination of type A and type B, and the optimal distance is found to be 65 meters. In case of the type A design and the type B design, the optimal distances are found to be within range 60~70meters.

• LP가스
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.26-28
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• 2011

지난해 CNG버스 폭발사고 이후 CNG차의 안전성에 대한 문제가 제기되고 있으며, 그 일환으로 CNG자동차 용기에 대한 재검사제도가 도입된다. 이와 관련 지난 7월 18일, 19일 연속 보도된 관련 기사를 게재한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.77-86
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• 2008

Firstly, this study is to compare two types of productivity changes in Seoul's urban bus industry by public transport reforms: one with considering accident costs (ML), the other without considering accident costs (M). The directional distance function (DDF), which is a form of data envelopment analysis, and the Malmquist (Luenberger) productivity index (ML, M) are used for the analysis. The results show that productivity increased regardless of accident costs over time, and the ML index is a little higher than the M index, which means that most firms experienced more of a reduction ratio of accident costs than a reduction ratio of inputs. Secondly, this paper is to analyze how reforms affect productivity changes. The results show that operational speed improvements or passenger increases most affect productivity increases, which means that the installment of median bus lanes or introduction of free transfers among public transport modes were effective in reducing both inputs and accident costs. However, operational system reforms including mid-public management were related with productivity changes but they were not as effective.

• LP가스
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.6-10
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• 2010

지난 8월9일 오후 서울도심 한가운데서 승객을 태운 천연가스(CNG)버스가 신호 대기중 폭발하는 사고가 발생해 승객과 길을 가던 행인 등 18명이 중경상을 입는 끔찍한 사건이 발생했다. 이 사고를 계기로 국민들은 가스자동차에 대한 막연한 불안감을 가지게 되었고 또 일부는 LPG자동차의 안전성에 의문을 가지게 되었다. 이에 LPG자동차의 안전성과 관련해서 정확한 정보를 제공하고 우리나라 LPG자동차의 대내외적 위상을 재조명해보고자 한다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.233-251
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• 2023

Metropolitan buses are managed as either a direct seat type or a metropolitan express type according to the 「Passenger Transport Service Act」. However, a management system that reflects the characteristics of metropolitan buses is not currently established. Therefore, in this study, the driving characteristics of metropolitan buses, dangerous driving behavior characteristics of metropolitan bus drivers, metropolitan bus accident characteristics, and the safety management system of domestic and foreign buses and other means were investigated. Through this, a plan for strengthening the safety management of metropolitan buses suitable for Korea was presented by dividing it into short-term and mid to long term. The short-term plan is a plan that can be carried out through consultation between metropolitan bus agencies and transportation companies, and the mid to long term plan is a plan that can be implemented only when related laws are revised. Through this study, it is expected to serve as an opportunity for in-depth discussions by the government, business operators, and related experts to strengthen the safety management of metropolitan buses.