• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.63-74
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• 2009

One of the effective countermeasures for preventing traffic accidents is to provide traffic safety warning information to drivers. Provision of warning information would lead to safer driving to avoid accident occurrence. This study investigated the effects of in-vehicle warning information on driver's behavior. A variety of warning information contents using text, sound, and pictograms were prepared for the field experiments. Individual vehicle speed and acceleration data, which represent quantitative drivers' behavior in response to in-vehicle warning information, were collected using differential global positioning systems (DGPS). Statistical analyses including ANOVA and Tukey's pairwise comparison were conducted. It is expected that the results could be invaluable for designing more effective warning information.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2001.12a
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• pp.157-160
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 강수량과 자동차 주행속도 등의 환경조건에 따라 와이퍼 속도를 일정하게 적용한 기존의 시스템을 개선하여 운전자의 개인 특성에 의해서도 속도 변경이 가능하게 함으로서 인간에게 조금 더 친밀감을 제공하는 시스템을 구현하였다. 초기 와이퍼 속도는 입력받은 강수량과 자동차 주행 속도로 추론하여 구하였다. 추론된 와이퍼 속도를 운전자의 개인 특성에 따라 변경하고자 할 경우, 해당 음성명령을 입력받아 재 추론하였다. 음성인식을 위해서는 고립단어 인식에 적절한 DTW방식을 사용하였고, 와이퍼 속도는 퍼지 추론을 적용하여 구하였다.

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.398-407
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• 1998

본 연구는 도시고속도로의 교통사고감소를 이한 정성적인 척도를 제시하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 도시고속도로에서 발생하고 있는 교통사고의 일반적 특성을 분석하였으며, 교통사고 발생요인과 운전자 원인과 교통사고형태와의 영향정도를 수량화이론 II류를 사용하여 분석하였다. 분석에 사용된 정성적인 자료는 1994년부터 1995년까지의 대구시 신천대로의 교통사고자료를 대상으로 하였으며, 경찰청의 교통사고보고서를 기초로 하였다. 분석결과, 70%이상의 교통사고가 운전자의 안전거리미확보와 안전운전의무위반에 의한 추돌사고였으며, 외적기준인 운전자 원인과 교통사고형태에 영향을 많이 미치는 요인으로서는 사고직전의 피해자 진로, 사고발생차선, 시간대, 차종 등의 영향이 깊은 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.601-607
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• 2010

비신호교차로 사고를 대상으로 신호기 운영방법과 차로폭에 따른 고령운전자 교통사고 특성을 파악하기 강화군, 무주군, 원주시, 보령시의 3년간(2007년-2009년) 교통사고 데이터를 사용하여 일반운전자와 고령운전자의 사고를 비교, 분석하였다. 그 결과, 고령운전자 교차로 교통사고는 점멸신호기로 운영되는 교차로사고는 일반운전자보다 다소 높았으며, 정면충돌사고 일반운전자 사고의 8배나가 높게 나타났다. 또한 고령운전자 교차로 교통사고는 차로폭이 6m초과 13m이하의 교차로에서 41.0%가 발생하여 왕복 3-4차로에서의 교차로에서 고령운전자의 교통사고 발생률이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 고령운전자의 교차로 교통사고 예방을 위해서는 6m초과 13m이하의 도로에 대한 대책이 마련되어야 할 것이며, 점멸신호기로 운영되는 교차로에 대한 점검이 필요하다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Cognitive Science Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.241-250
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• 2002

본 연구의 목적은 최근 운전자 행동에 대한 연구 방법으로 매우 중요하게 대두되고 있는 운전 시뮬레이션 방법을 이용하여 운전자들이 보이는 기본적인 운전 수행 능력 및 이러한 운전 수행 능력과 관련이 가장 깊은 것으로 기존의 연구들이 밝혀왔던 기본적인 지각적/인지적/운동적 수행 능력을 측정하여 운전자 수행을 평가하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 특히 운전자의 운전 수행 및 운전과 관련된 기본적인 정신/운동 수행 능력은 정보 처리적 관점에서 측정되고 분석되었으며, 이를 통해 운전자들이 보이는 기본적인 정보처리 능력의 패턴에 대한 전반적 이해를 시도하였다. 본 연구에서는 기본적인 운전 수행 능력을 평가하는데 사용되는 차량의 속도 유지와 차선 유지에 대한 측정치와 더불어 운전과 관련한 인간 수행 중에서 단순 반응 능력, 선택 반응 능력, 속도 추정 능력, 청각적 주의나 시각적 주의의 분산 능력 등이 운전 시뮬레이션을 통하여 운전 중에 실시간으로 측정되었다. 본 연구에서 수집된 자료는 운전자들의 실제 운전 수행 및 이와 관련된 정보 처리 활동에 대한 표준화된 준거를 제시하는데 기초적 자료로 사용될 수 있으리라 생각된다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.7-16
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• 2002

It is very important to research drivers' visual behavior. Angle of vision is very important and accounts for more than 90% as the source of driving information. In curve sections, drivers can know the front circumstances and drive more safely and comfortably through facilities guiding their eye movements. Therefore, the standards of installation and effectiveness of these facilities to guide drivers' gaze need to be reconsidered considering characteristics of drivers' eyes The national road no. 34 (Jincheon IC, Buckamri-Yiriangmun section), which is a high-accident-frequency location, is chosen for experimental place. The aim of this study is to understand the process of drivers' visual movement which is drivers' visual behavior and to check the facilities to guide their eyes. Another goal of this study is to improve facilities to guide drivers' eyes on a result basis of considering drivers' visual behavior especially for traffic safety in a high-accident-frequency curve sections.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.999-1011
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• 1994

Driving maneuvers in car-following are affected not only by the factors related to road and traffic conditions, but also by factors related to drivers' cognition to them. This paper attempts to analyse drivers' car-following distance tests on road characteristics. Driving maneuvers are directly observed by video recorder sets in the vehicle. At the same time drivers are interviewed about their cognitive degree of car-following distance according to a given level of cognitive language. As a result, linguistical cognition of car-following distance is well fitted in with Weber-Fechner's law. This paper suggests a modeling method that takes into account the driver's cognition for acquiring traffic visible information on driving maneuver.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.91-104
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• 2011

According to statistics, drunk drivers who repeatedly violate the DUI (Driving under influence) regulation have been continuously increased, and now the habitual drunk drivers become a societal problem. Employing a confirmative factorial analysis of structural equation model to analysis psychological characteristics of habitual drunk drivers and also seek countermeasures, this study identify the difference among three different groups of drivers: 1) sober drivers, 2) drivers with a DUI violation record, and 3) drivers with more than two records. The results of this study are as follows: First, remedies and educational contents to rectify drunk drivers can be differentiated according to their drunk driving records. Second, using defense mechanism (e.g., rationalization, projection, sublimation), drunk driving psychology (such e.g., sense of guilt, shame, embarrassment) and self-esteem (e.g., affirmation, denial) as theory variables, a Structural Equation is constructed to represent Psychological Characteristics of drunk driving according to records on drunk driving. Third, as a result of analysis of the Psychological Characteristics Model, measures for prevention and reduction of drunk driving suitable for the characteristics of respective group are also suggested. Forth, drunk driving measures based on drinking individuality are complemented by concurrence analysis on records of drunk driving records and National Alcoholism Screening Test (NAST) score. Also, two or more times recorded drunk drivers are classified as inveterate drunk drivers.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.71-80
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• 2008

Typically uncontrolled intersections are characterized by the absence of signal, stop and yield sign, and by very light traffic volume. In this study, a gap acceptance model for such uncontrolled intersections has been modeled. The motivation is to identify the behavior of drivers so that the traffic flow phenomena can be easily understood. For this, actual traffic survey was accomplished at intersections in Suwon and the data have been fed into modeling process. The logit model was used and the results showed that total delay experienced by drivers, turning right movement, age, sex, and the existence of passenger affected gap acceptance. For example, male drivers, with experiencing longer delay and having passenger(s) with them, accepted shorter gaps. These identified characteristics regarding gap acceptance could be used for facility design and/or safety oriented traffic information dissemination near uncontrolled intersections.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.2 s.95
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• pp.95-105
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• 2007

Speeding and drunken driving make drivers fail to detect hazards and cope with various driving situations. These behaviors also raise the possibility of being involved in traffic accidents and tend to increase the number of fatalities. The authors compared the driving behavior determinants of a rockless drivers group, consisting of individuals who have committed traffic accidents or offended regulations through drunken driving, with a normal drivers group. In the results, the reckless drivers group showed high scores of 'speeding' and 'drunken driving', and they also stated that they had more experiences of speeding, drunken driving and traffic accidents. In the path analysis study, it was found that the impacts of the rockless drivers group's 'risk sensitivity' and 'situational adaptability' on traffic accidents were stronger than those of normal drivers. This means 'risk sensitivity' and 'situational adaptability' can explain the origins of traffic accidents better in the reckless drivers group than accidents of the normal drivers group.