• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.202-210
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• 2018

Recently, the subway running in metro environments has a problem in securing the safety of passengers due to the failure of announcement in emergency situations such as breakdown, train accidents and power outage in the underground tunnels. Thus, there is a need to develop an emergency broadcasting system that can provide the announcement to all passenger cars in any emergency situations on the railway route. In this paper, the applicability of various wireless communication technologies for the emergency broadcasting system through the measurement campaign was examined in Seoul metropolitan subway. A WAVE(Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) is communication technology that can use 5.9GHz dedicated frequency band without charge and it is possible to directly communicate between terminals over 200m without the help of additional relay. Especially, it confirms robust communication performance in the various metro environments, and therefore, it is considered to be suitable as a communication method of a radio-connected emergency broadcasting system for urban subway.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.530-535
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• 2008

After train fire accident in Daegue, many research on train fire safety improvement have been carrying out. Since many alternative fire safety measures can be applied in our railway system, the effect of the each safety measure must be quantified prior to the safety investment. In order to estimate the effects of each safety measure quantitatively, fault trees and event trees are constructed in this study. Results can be applied for cost-benefit analysis or sensitivity analysis for safety measures in risk assessment process.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.293-310
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to present the most effective smoke exhaust mode by comparing the quantitatively evaluated risks according to the smoke exhaust mode when a train fire occurs in a subway platform. Therefore, applying the typical subway platform as a model, train fire scenarios are developed with the evacuation start time and location of the fire train for each exhaust mode. The fire accident rates (F) are calculated and the number of fatalities (N) was quantitatively estimated by fire analysis and evacuation analysis for each scenario. In addition, the F/N curve compared with the social risk assessment criteria and the following conclusions were obtained. In the event of a train fire at the subway station platform, the evacuation must start up within 600 s in maximum to ensure the evacuees' safety. To secure evacuation safety, it is advantageous to operate the HVAC system of the platform in the air-supply mode at station without TVF. Comparing the F/N curve for each exhaust mode with the social risk criteria, it turned out that the risk significantly exceeds the social risk criteria in case of no mechanical ventilation. As a result, this paper shows that the ventilation mode in which TVF are exhausted and HVAC system is operated in the pressurized mode are the most effective smoke exhaust mode for ensuring evacuation safety.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.32 no.2D
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• pp.183-187
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• 2012

This study is to prepare the emergency response procedures for an unmanned LRT (Light Rapid Transit) which is being commercially operated recently. This emergency response procedure adds several particular characteristics which happens in the hardware and software aspects at the unmanned LRT in addition to the present emergency response procedures. The emergency response procedure has to conform to the emergency response planning. For doing that this emergency response procedure includes three important sub systems. First of all, the functional emergency response system has been developed. Secondly, Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) is suggested for the better and faster emergency response between emergency response personnel and institutes. Thirdly, emergency response training and drilling system is also provided for emergency response personnel. Finally, a software program for emergency response training and drilling will be developed and suggested to be used for the emergency response personnel.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.724-730
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• 2011

A turnout serves to switch train from one line to another. The turnout consists of a Point which is switchs the rail to induce direction, and a Crossing which is cross over two line on the plane surface, and a Lead where is middle section in Point to Crossing. Point machine, consists of a turnout, is important facilities in railway signal, that is safety issue relates in derailment of the train. Recently, train delay and accident frequently occurred because of the turnout include in a point machine trouble of electrical and mechanical. So in order to prevent train accident the research is advanced, install of normal and reverse indication lamp in a point machine, development of adherence detector for sensing the status of adhesion between the stock rails and tongue rails etc. In this paper investigates the problem which is connected with a turnout trouble, include in a point machine, occurrence at the time of train accident, and then proposed to the safety system model in order to prevent the train accident in turnout.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.2891-2894
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• 2011

Recently, the rise of the rail temperature is accelerating further due to the global warming, and the track stability(buckling) problem result from the axial force in the continuous welded rail(CWR) have become the most important issue. This track stability threatens the security of running trains in the hot summer. In order to prevent the track buckling in the hot summer and ensure the safety of the running train, as a part of the safety control plan for KORAIL high-speed railway, the train speed restriction according to the rail temperature was introduced in 2004. However, the conceptual and theoretical background of train-speed restriction is uncertain. In this paper, the theoretical study about the reasonable train-speed restriction is performed. For this purpose, the risk-based probabilistic stability evaluation of the track buckling is applied.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.651-668
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• 2010

철도 시스템은 차량, 전력, 신호, 선로구축물시스템이 유기적으로 결합된 복합시스템으로 사고 발생 시 원인규명이 어렵고 인명에 치명적인 결과를 초래하게 되며 사소한 고장이라도 열차지연에 미치는 파급효과는 지대하여 시스템의 신뢰성확보가 매우 중요하다[26]. 실제로 세계 각국의 철도산업은 시스템의 신뢰성 향상을 위해 신뢰성 기법에 기반을 둔 다양한 이론을 통해 신뢰성 향상과 안전성 향상에 최선을 다하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 철도 신뢰성관리와 관련된 국내 연구동향과 철도 운영기관 및 기업에서 적용하고 있는 신뢰성 적용 현황을 분석한다. 그리고 국외 연구 동향과 주요 적용 현황을 정리한다. 또한 철도 신뢰성과 관련된 국내외 규격을 조사하고 이들 규격의 내용을 분석한 후 국내 적용방향을 제시한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.407-409
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• 2001

도시철도 공사, 지하철 공사, 철도청 등 각각의 운영기관이 독자적으로 정보화를 추진함으로서 국가적으로 중복투자 및 예산이 낭비되고 각 시스템간 호환성이 부족하여 정보를 공유할 수 없어 비효율적인 시스템 구축이 이루어지고 있는 실정이며 표준화된 정보의 부재 및 부정확한 표준에 의한 업무의 비효율성이 가중되고 사고예방 및 신속한 복구지원을 통한 대국민 안전서비스 제공 및 열차운행의 안전성 확보에 미흡한 실정이다. 본 논문은 국내 도시철도분야를 세계적인 경쟁력을 가진 분야로 육성하고 수명주기비용(Life Cycle Cost)을 최소화 및 최적화하여 경제성을 극대화시킨 도시철도 정비유지체계 정보화 시스템의 개발 및 시범적용을 위해 정보전략계획 (ISP)을 수립하기 이전에 수행한 선행연구 결과이다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1518-1523
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• 2008

Train collision and derailment are types of accident with low probability of occurrence, but they could lead to disastrous consequences including loss of lives and properties. The development of the risk assessment model has been called upon to predict and assess the risk for a long time. Nevertheless, the risk assessment model is recently introduced to the railway system in Korea. The classification of the hazardous events and causes is the commencement of the risk assessment model. In previous researches related to the classification, the hazardous events and causes were classified by centering the results. That classification was simple, but might not show the root cause of the hazardous events. This study has classified the train collision and derailment based on the relevant hazardous event including faults of the train related the accidents, and investigates the causes related to the hazardous events. For the risk assessment model, FTA (fault tree analysis) and ETA (event tree analysis) methods are introduced to assess the risk.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.492-494
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 철도선상에서 발생할 수 있는 자살 사고를 예방하기 위한 전단계로서 열차의 철도를 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 방법은 철도 영상에서 각각의 RGB 채널 값을 추출한다. 추출된 각각의 RGB 채널 값을 삼각형 타입 의 소속 함수에 적용하여 상한 값과 하한 값을 퍼지 스트레칭 기법으로 철도 영상의 명암 대비를 강조시킨다. 퍼지 스트레칭 기법이 적용된 영상에서 각각의RGB 채널 값을 이용하여 배경을 제거한 후에 그레이 영상으로 변환한다. 변환된 그레이 영상에서 캐니 마스크를 적용하여 철도선의 에지를 검출하고 에지가 검출된 영상에서 허프 변환 기법과 유클리디안 거리를 적용하여 철도를 검출한다. 제안된 방법의 성능을 확인하기 위해서 다양한 각도의 철도 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 철도 검출에 가능성 있는 방법인 것을 확인할 수 있었다.