• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.95-106
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• 2012

Driver's capability of identifying the change in freeway alignments and environments is one of important factors associated with traffic safety on freeways. In particular, driver's visibility and recognition capability are highly dependent on the altitude of the sun by sunset, sunrise, and nighttime. The purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of geometric conditions affecting crash occurrences at sunset, sunrise, and nighttime. Poisson and negative binomial regressions were adopted to predict freeway crash frequency in this study. Freeway crash data during 2007~2010 were used for developing the crash frequency models. A set of variables representing the characteristics of geometric conditions were identified as significant ones affecting crash occurrences. The results of this study would be useful in deriving effective countermeasures for preventing traffic crashes that mainly occur at sunset, sunrise, and nighttime on freeways.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.637-643
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• 2014

Recently there have been an increasing amount of bicycle accidents along with the increased usage of bicycles. Bicycle accidents occur frequently by perpendicular collision at the inner intersection. Bicycle traffic is especially concentrated in residential areas and around schools which results in the vulnerability of cyclists. This paper is to inform the potential risks of collisions between bicycles and cars turning right at the intersections using simulation analysis which focuses on the pavement edge of intersection geometric designs factor and checks on the drivers behavior. The result of the analysis shows that as the curve radius of pavement edge at the intersection becomes larger and the more attention drivers are paying to the rear by turning their heads to the right, the potential risk of collisions between bicycles and cars turning right will decrease.

• Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.1036-1056
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• 2017

The rapid increase of ageing population and chronic disease patients cause high medical expenses, and it led an increased attention to digital healthcare. Smart car technologies for healthcare have been developing to recognize drivers' status and predict diverse driving environments. The present study aimed to understand the research trends of autonomous vehicle technologies of Korea and the United States through time series analysis, network analysis, visualization, and comparison between the two countries. The results suggest that cooperative study needs to be done in common research areas such as driver's safety and algorithms. It is also needed to conduct studies and benchmark about liking technique related to part-to-part and vehicle-to-vehicle as America's competitive advantaged area. In the US, diverse approaches of autonomous vehicle technologies have used to consider the characteristics of various age groups and passengers' health status through sensor, while in Korea, only one aspect, older drivers, is mentioned. Implications for the development direction of autonomous vehicle technologies with competitiveness in considering public health, ethics, and driver's safety and convenience are discussed in detail.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1996.02a
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• pp.87-114
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• 1996

심각한 노인교통사고를 줄이기 위하여 가장 높은 점유율을 보이는 노인보행자의 횡단사고 유형, 특성 및 사고원인을 분석했다. 횡단사고의 약 60%가 횡단보도 및 그 부근에서 발생했고, 70%이상이 노인여성이었으며, 절반정도가 야간에 발생했고 피해정도는 치사율이 12%, 부상은 평균 6주의 중상이었다. 사고원인은 특히 횡단보도 및 그 부근에서의 운전미확인이 가장 많았고, 노인보행자측의 원인은 고의위반 또는 법의 부지가 가장 많았다. 노인보행자의 횡단사고를 줄이기 위해서 운전자에게 횡단보도 정지선 엄수, 횡단보도 부근뿐 아니라 생활도로 및 상업지역 도로에서의 철저한 안전확인 등의 교육, 홍보, 훈련이 필요하다. 노인보행자를 위한 훈련프로그램은 성별로는 특히 노인여성에게 집중적 훈련이 요구되며, 훈련내용으로는 야간횡단의 위험성 인식 및 반사재 부착, 안전한 횡단장소 선택 및 횡단절차의 훈련, 상대방은 운전자와의 의사소통 훈련 등이 중점적으로 개발되어야 한다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.12-19
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• 2011

Real-world accident cases were investigated to understand injury characteristics of the elderly driver. A total 10 cases of car-to-car frontal crash accidents from passenger car including SUV claimed to domestic car insurance company were reviewed. The injury characteristics of the elderly were analyzed from personal information (gender, age), medical treatment record (medical certificate, curative days), vehicle information (model, air-bag, seatbelt) and damage information. This study showed that elderly driver has higher possibility of thorax injury than non-elderly's. Moreover, Injury type and severity were more severe than non-elderly driver at similar type accident conditions. Also, elderly driver's medical treatment period needs 3 times more than non-elderly driver's.

• Proceedings of the Korea Technology Innovation Society Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.11-20
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• 1999

전동차 시뮬레이터는 제한된 공간상에서 영상 및 음향, 운동, 운전석에 있는 각종 계기와 모니터 시스템들을 이용해 운전자에게 실제 주행하고 있다는 현실감을 제공하는 일종의 가상현실 장비이다. 시뮬레이터의 유효성은 각종 차량 특성과 운전조건 변화에 대해 CAB 상의 승무원에게 실제에서 경험할 수 있는 각종 주행환경을 제공하는 데 있다. 주행 현실감을 확보하기 위해서는 CAB 승무원에게 소리, 영상, 운동, 촉각 신호 등과 같은 큐(Cue)를 현실적으로 제공해야 한다. 대부분의 큐는 운전자의 조작 명령에 반응하는 차량의 동특성 해석을 통해 결정되어 시각, 음향, 모니터 등에 제공된다. 그러므로, 시뮬레이터 운용에 있어서 핵심적인 위치를 차지하고 있는 실시간 전동차 시뮬레이션 시스템의 전동차 모델은 차량의 운동을 현실적으로 모사할 수 있어야 하며, 실시간으로 시뮬레이션 되어야 하는 서로 상충되는 조건을 만족시켜야 한다. 실시간 전동차 시뮬레이션을 수행하기 위해서 특히 공학적으로 검토되어야 할 요소는 전동차 모델의 적절성, 적분기법, 운용 소프트웨어 및 실시간 시뮬레이션용 컴퓨터 등에 관하여 연구하였다.

• Journal of Power System Engineering
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.61-68
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• 2003

Steering characteristics is an important factor in the evaluation of vehicle quality. To estimate steering characteristics in the vehicle conceptual design stage, vehicle dynamics simulation methods are very efficient. However, it is often difficult to simulate vehicle dynamics for the specific driving scenarios in open-loop driving environment. An efficient driver-in-the-loop vehicle model will be efficient for this job. A good tire model is also very important for the accurate vehicle dynamics simulation. In this research, a driver model is used to simulate vehicle steering dynamics for a 8-dof vehicle model with STI(Systems Technology, Inc.) tire model. For the demonstration of this model, a SUV(sports utility vehicle) and a sedan were simulated.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.597-600
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• 2012

본 연구의 목적은 눈 폐쇄 상태 검출 알고리즘을 개발하고, 그것을 바탕으로 모바일 환경의 졸음운전 감지 시스템을 구현하는 것이다. 개발한 알고리즘은 검출된 눈 영역의 이미지를 히스토그램 분석을 통해 실험적으로 얻은 문턱 값으로 이진화 시킨 후 운전자 눈의 폐쇄 상태를 판단한다. 구현한 시스템은 얼굴과 눈 검출이 완료된 상태에서 검출된 눈이 폐쇄 상태인지를 판단한다. 폐쇄 상태인 경우 이상태가 지속되면 시스템은 운전자가 졸음운전 상태임을 감지하고 경고해준다. 자원이 제한된 모바일의 특성상 이미지 처리의 정확성뿐만 아니라 처리속도의 효율성도 중요한데 이 특성에 맞는 알고리즘을 개발하였고, 이를 바탕으로 졸음운전 감지 시스템 구현에 성공하였다.

• Transportation Technology and Policy
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.57-64
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• 2012

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.275-276
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• 2008