• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.32 no.4
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• pp.410-420
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• 2014

This research suggests a new tram signal priority model which determines signal timings and tram intersection waiting time using analytical method. This model can calculate the signal timings for Early Green and Green Extension among the active tram signal priority techniques by tram detection time of upstream detector. Moreover, it can determine the tram intersection waiting time that means tram intersection travel time delay from a vantage point of tram travel. Under the active tram signal priority condition, priority phases can bring additional green time from variable green time of non-priority phases. In this study, the signal timing and tram intersection waiting time calculation model was set up using analytical methods. In case studies using an isolated intersection, this study checks tram intersection waiting time ranged 12.7 to 29.4 seconds when variable green times of non-priority phases are 44 to 10 seconds under 120 seconds of cycle length.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.21-28
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• 2012

The continuous deployment of Urban Traffic Information System (UTIS) in Korea has increased the need for developing more practical applications utilizing the standard functions of UTIS facilities installed on urban arterials beyond its basic applications like gathering traffic data and providing traffic information. The UTIS-based bus signal priority may be one of UTIS-based applications meeting such demands. However, the studies on BSP have not been sufficient for actual field deployment in terms of theories and algorithms so that there have been few actual installations on real urban arterials. Thus, this study was aimed at developing a UTIS-based bus priority signal system and evaluating its effectiveness through a field study. To this end, this study presents the system development processes by dividing the UTIS-based bus priority signal system into hardware and software. In addition, the positive effectiveness of the UTIS-based bus priority signal system was verified through a field application test which was conducted at Gyeonggi Global Trade High School intersection.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.15-25
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• 2014

Bus signal priority is a name for various techniques to speed up bus public transport services at intersections with traffic signals. In this study propose methodology to optimize signal times for Early green, Green extension out of the active bus signal priority using deterministic delay model in isolated intersection on median bus lane. Fluctuation is found in the vehicle delay and person delay in the event that using this methodology redistributed to green time and checking slack green time is correct value by sensitivity analysis. As a result of the study, car delay is increased a little and person delay is decreased. As a result of slack green time sensitivity, delay is not much in it if variation of slack green time under 30%. But this methodology effectiveness is under claimed capacity if variation of slack green time over 30%.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.39-47
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• 2012

In this paper, we have developed the system of emergency vehicle preemption signal control based on UTIS(Urban Traffic Information System) which have been deployed and operated in the national capital area. It considered the turning direction(through or left turn) of emergency vehicle at the signalized intersection in order to provide the consecutive progression of emergency vehicle and minimize the control delay of passenger cars. we adopted several EVP control modes such as phase insertion and phase adjustment mode. Also, we evaluated the possibility of field implementation via simulation analysis using CORSIM RTE(Run Time Extension) based HILS(Hardware In the Loop Simulation). We expect that the result of this research contribute to providing the right-of-way to emergency vehicle in this country.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.1593-1598
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an intelligent signal control method based on fuzzy logic applicable in real time. We design membership functions to model occupied time and the number of vehicles for each lane. A priority for each signal phase is computed by the popular Max-Min fuzzy inference based on control rules and membership degrees of prepared two functions at any given time. A tie breaking scheme is considering weighted sum of the rate of occupied time per number of vehicles in that block and the standard deviation of these blocks. Only a signal phase with the highest priority is opened and all others are closed and the duration of the phase opening is computed proportional to the rate of number of weighting vehicles in that signal per all weighted vehicles. The simulation result shows that the proposed method is more efficient than the static control in all simulation conditions in $2{\times}3$ experimental designs with the number of vehicles in intersection and congestion degrees that have all three levels.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.897-905
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• 2015

This research suggested the traffic signal calculation model of active transit signal priority using a shockwave model. Using this signal priority timing optimization model, the shockwave area is computed under the condition of Early Green and Green Extension among active transit signal priority techniques. This study suggested the speed estimation method of backward shockwave using average travel time and intersection passing time. A shockwave area change is calculated according to signal timing change of transit signal priority. Moreover, this signal timing calculation model could determine the optimal signal priority timings to minimize intersection delay of general vehicles. A micro simulation analysis using VISSIM and its user application model ComInterface was applied. This study checked that this model could calculate the signal timings to minimize intersection delay considering saturation condition of traffic flow. In case studies using an isolated intersection, this study checked that this model could improve general vehicle delay of more over ten percentage as compared with equality reduction strategy of non-priority phases. Recently, transit priority facilities are spreading such as tram, BRT and median bus lane in Korea. This research has an important significance in that the proposed priority model is a new methodology that improve operation efficiency of signal intersection.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.79-86
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• 1999

Traffic jams of our country are due to the shortage of roadway as compared with the traffic, however. they are sometimes due to inconsistency of the roadway capacity. Inconsistency of the roadway capacity comes from the difference of cycle length, phase length and number of Phase between major intersection and minor intersection. Specialty increasing number of Phase due to left-turn movements bring out decrease of the arterial capacity, deterioration of the arterial offset. The Purpose of this research is to introduce and analyze the continuous flow intersection to solve the bottleneck of the major intersection. The major contents of this research introduce the concept and design consideration for the continuous flow intersection and also analyze delay, fuel consumption and emissions among multiphase intersection, grade separated intersection and continuous flow intersection. This research analyze the sensitivities according to change of the left-turn traffic volume and also evaluate the cost-effectiveness through the total cost analysis among three of them.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.110-119
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• 2017

This study develops a passive traffic signal priority control algorithm for emergency vehicles. The passive priority control estimates and applies signal times for each signalized intersection on the emergency vehicle's route when an emergency call is received. As signals are controlled before the emergency vehicle leaves for its destination, it is possible to clear the queues at each intersection more effectively. Most of the previous studies applied preemption, which ends green time of cross streets when the emergency vehicle arrives at each intersection. This study applies green extension and early green in order not to shift the order of phases, and guarantees minimum green time for each phase. Simulation results show that the delay of emergency vehicles decreases when the signals are controlled. It is expected that delays can be decreased further by integrating the active priority control with the passive priority control algorithm presented in this study.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.157-165
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• 2016

To provide the baseline for pricing, this paper proposes pricing-by-rating (PBR) as pricing model at micro-foundations level that can work as the baseline for all pricing models as well as an assessment criterion of business model in all circumstances. It sets up firstly WTP (willingness to pay/purchase) model from explicit needs and develops PBR based on the ordinal scale of the difference between the WTP and the WTS (willingness to supply/sell) by comparing individually the corresponding element/component of a firm's actual marketing mix 4P with that of the best SPEC (solution, price indicator by WTP, encouragement, channel) as an ideal 4P a customer expects and also by comparing the interaction between the 4P and the best SPEC as a whole collectively. And through illustrations it shows its applicability to evaluating business model in practice and finally asserts that PBR works as the baseline for pricing policy and as a criterion of business model evaluation in any circumstances.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.08a
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• pp.57-61
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• 2008

우리나라의 자동차의 수는 1990년부터 계속 증가하고 있다. 계속되는 자동차수의 증가로 인해 휴일, 출퇴근 시간에 교통이 혼잡 또는 마비되는 문제가 발생한다. 하지만 기존의 신호등 체계는 통계적인 수치에 의해 결정되기 때문에 항상 일정하지 않은 차량의 수를 제어하기에는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실시간으로 변하는 차량의 수와 점유시간에 따라 퍼지 제어 기법을 이용하여 신호를 제어하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 교통 신호 제어 방법은 교차로에 대기하는 차량의 수와 점유 시간을 퍼지 제어 기법에 적용하여 차량의 진행 신호에 대한 우선순위를 부여한다. 가장 높은 우선 순위를 가지는 현시에 대해 진행 신호를 부여하고 나머지는 대기하게 된다. 그리고 진행 신호의 시간을 교차로에 대기하는 모든 차량의 수와 차량의 비율, 진행 신호를 부여받은 차량의 수를 이용하여 계산한다. 본 논문에서는 제안된 펴지 신호 제어 기법과 정적인 신호 제어 기법에 대해 시뮬레이션을 통해 실험한 결과 차량 혼잡도와 상관없이 제안된 차량 신호 제어 기법이 동일한 시간에 더 많은 차량이 원활하게 소통되는 것을 확인하였다.