• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.176-190
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• 2019

The prevention of pedestrian accidents in crosswalks and intersections is very important. The C-ITS services provide a warning service for preventing accidents between cars and pedestrians. In the current pedestrian collision prevention warning service according to the C-ITS standard, however, it is difficult to provide real-time service because it detects pedestrians from a video-analysis server in the control center and sends service messages through the ITS system. This paper proposes a pedestrian collision-prevention warning system that detects pedestrians in the local field using an edge camera and sends a warning message directly to the driver through a roadside unit. An evaluation showed that the proposed system could deliver the pedestrian collision prevention-warning message to the driver satisfying the delay time within the 300 ms required by the C-ITS standard, even in the worst case.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.4634-4643
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• 2014

The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of LED safety block using the government database. To evaluate these effects, the night accident data was obtained from 2007 to 2011 from the database. At the LED-installed area, compared to the uninstalled area, the number of night traffic accidents, injured and mortality had decreased by 26.2%, 21.2% and 38.3%, respectively. The LED-installed intersections are safer than the LED-uninstalled roads from a traffic accidents perspective. In conclusion, a LED safety block is quite effective in decreasing the number of traffic accidents. Although this study was conducted using the data from Changwon city, where LED safety blocks have been installed so far, these results can provide valuable data to other cities considering the implementation of these LED safety blocks.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.147-148
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• 2010

최근 타 교통수단으로 인해 발생하는 교통사고나 환경오염 등의 문제들을 보완하는 녹색 교통수단의 하나로써 보행교통에 대한 관심과 연구가 활발하게 증가되고 있다. 하지만 차량교통에 관한 연구에 비해 보행 교통에 관한 연구는 미미하며, 특히 우리나라 여건에 맞는 보행 환경의 서비스 수준과 보행 안전도 등에 대한 객관적 평가 모형의 개발이 필요한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 도시 내 보행 환경 요소를 정량적으로 계산하고 측정할 수 있는 평가 지표인 그린 스코어(Green Score)를 개발하고자 하였다. 본 논문에서 제시한 그린 스코어 측정 모형은 실제 물리적인 보행공간을 기반으로 가상의 시스템에 적용되어 보행 이동 패턴의 가시화, 보행 환경의 쾌적성과 편의성 평가 예측에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.59-72
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• 1998

교통신호기는 다양한 교통 통행에 우선권을 부여하는 교통안전시설물로써, 교통소통에 지대한 영향을 끼치는 매우 중요한 통제시설이다. 그러나 현행 부적절한 신호기 설치 및 미설치로 차량 교통의 흐름을 방해하거나 교통사고를 증가시키는 경우가 있다. 본 연구 는 교통안전시설실무편람에 제시된 9가지 신호기 설치기준중 보행자 신호기 설치 기준에 대하여 국내 도로상황 및 보행자 특성 등에 맞는 새로운 설치기준을 제시하는데 목적이 있다. 보행자가 보도상에서 기다릴 수 있는 최대한도 대기시간은 단일로상의 무신호 횡단보도에 교통신호기가 설치되었을 경우를 가정하여 설정하였으며, 보행자 신호기 설치를 위한 차량 교통량과 보행자 교통량을 도로폭 관련 차로수별로 도출하였다. 왕복 2차로 도로인 경우 차량 교통량은 시간당 990대, 4차로인 경우 420대, 6차로인 경우 120대를 보행자 신호기 설치를 위한 최소 차량 교통량 기준값으로 하고, 차로수에 무관하게 보행자 교통량은 시간당 150명을 최소 기준값으로 제시하였다. 또한 차량 교통량과 보행자 교통량 상관관계에 의한 신호기 설치, 설치고려, 미설치 영역을 그래프로 작성하여 실무자의 편의를 도모하고자 하였다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.54-63
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• 2014

Traffic accident frequency and severity level in Korea are known to be very serious. Especially the number of pedestrian fatalities was much worse and 1.6 time higher than the OECD average. According to the National Police Agency, the flash signals are reported to have many safety benefits as well as travel time reduction, which is opposed to the foreign studies. With this background of expanding the flash signal, this research aims to investigate the overall impact of the flash signal operation on safety, investigating and comparing the accident occurrence on the flash signal and the full signal intersections. For doing this accident prediction models for both flash and full signal intersections were estimated using independent variables (geometric features and traffic volume) and 3-year (2011-2013) accident data collected in Seoul. Considering the rare and random nature of accident occurrence and overdispersion (variance > mean) of the data, the negative binomial regression model was applied. As a result, installing wider crosswalk and increasing the number of pedestrian push buttons seemed to increase the safety of the flash signal intersections. In addition, the result showed that the average accident occurrence at the flash signal intersections was higher than at the full signal-operated intersections, 9% higher with everything else the same.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.1-17
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• 2022

As pedestrian deaths account for a high proportion of traffic accident deaths in Korea, interest in pedestrian safety is growing. In particular, it is necessary to develop various pedestrian-centered traffic signal operation techniques to improve the pedestrian environment at signal intersections. Therefore, in this study, a method for time-of-day operating a pedestrian signal based on residual pedestrians was studied. To this end, the pedestrian signal operation technique in response to the pedestrian demand, which is operated by extending the pedestrian signal time only during the time when the pedestrian demand and the number of remaining pedestrians increase, was applied to the field. The difference in safety according to the application of the new pedestrian signal operation technique was statistically analyzed. As a result of the analysis, the residual pedestrian rate decreased by 20% (3.3 people) before application and 8% (1.4 people) after application, and the residual pedestrian rate in the crosswalk at the time of red signal decreased by 12% (1.9 people), And it was analyzed that the position of the residual pedestrian decreased by 3.3m from 5.2m before application to 1.9m after application.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.255-260
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• 2017

In Korea, traffic accidents between pedestrians and vehicles in 2015 account for 38.8% of all accidents. This study proposes a system design that can measure the risk of conflict between a vehicle and a pedestrian. Firstly the systemdetect and estimate the position, speed, and directional data of the vehicle and the pedestrian. And then it estimate the conflict point between a vehicle and a pedestrian. The risk of conflict is quantified by estimating the pedestrian safety margin (PSM), which is the time difference between the arrival of the pedestrian at the crossing point to the point of conflict and the vehicle approaching the point. In this system each data is acquired through an external monitoring based evaluation module and an individual wearing module. In the future, such a system can be used for decision making such as the design of road hazard improvement facilities and the designation of the elderly protection area.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.2280-2289
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• 2009

The death rate of pedestrians in car accidents in Korea is about 2.5 times higher than the average of OECD countries'. If a system that can detect pedestrians and send alarm to driver is built and reduces the rate, it is worth developing such a pedestrian detection system (PDS). Since the accident rate in which pedestrians are involved is higher at nighttime than in daytime, the adoption of nighttime PDS is being standardized by big auto companies. However, they are usually using expensive night visions or multiple sensors for their PDS. In this paper we propose a method for nighttime PDS using a monochrome visible spectrum camera. We could verify its superiority in both performance and real?time operation to existing algorithm through tests against video data taken in several different environments.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1998.10b
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• pp.408-408
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• 1998

교통신호기는 다양한 교통통행에 우선권을 부여하는 교통안전시설물로서, 교통소통과 안전에 지대한 영향을 끼치는 매우 중요한 통제시설이다. 그러나 현행 부적절한 신호기 설치로 차량 교통의 흐름을 방해하거나 교통사고를 증가시키는 경우가 있다. 본 연구는 교통안전시설실무편람에 제세된 9가지 신호기 설치준거 중 보행자 신호기 설치 준거에 대하여 국내도로상황 및 보행자 특성에 맞는 새로운 설치준거를 제시하는데 목적이 있다. 교통운영 측면에서 보면, 보행자 신호기는 보행자가 도로를 횡단하는데 적절한 간격을 찾을 수 없을 때 인위적으로 횡단간격을 만들어 주기 위한 교통제어시설이다. 따라서 보행자가 횡단보도에서 최대로 대기할 수 있는 시간을 기준으로 설치 여부를 결정하는 것으로 가정하고, 보행자가 보도상에서 기다릴 수 있는 최대한도 대기시간은 단일로상의 무신호 횡단보도에 교통신회가 설치되었을 경우 한 주기에서 녹색시간을 감한 시간으로 가정할 수 있다. 무신호 횡단보도 현장조사를 통하여 보행자 횡단행태, 횡단보행속도, 보행자 대기시간 등을 분석하였다. 차량의 간섭에 의한 보행자 회단간격과 차량 교통량과의 관계를 도출하고, 보행자 간섭에 의한 차량 교통량과 보행자 교통량과의 관계를 도출하였다. 결론적으로 차로수별로 차량 교통량과 보행자 교통량 상관관계에 의한 신호기 설치, 설치고려, 미설치 영역을 구분하여 보행자 신호기 설치준거(안)을 제시하였다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.54-62
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• 2010

The scientific analysis of car-pedestrian accidents is not an easy task because of the characteristic of the accidents itself. Since the analysis involved human being, there were few experimental data that could be used for the analysis. The coefficient of friction of human body was the one of crucial data for accident analysis, but no field experiment report was available for various roadway conditions. This study intends to measure the coefficient of friction of human body through field studies. Results showed that the coefficient of friction of human body for dry asphalt pavement conditions was 0.59~0.62, and for dry concrete pavement conditions was 0.59~0.61. In addition, the coefficients for wet asphalt pavement and for wet concrete pavement conditions were 0.56~0.59 and 0.51~0.54 respectively, indicating 5.0% and 8.3% reduction compared to the dry conditions. The deduced coefficients were validated using the simulation program. It has been confirmed that the experiment values were close to the simulation results.