• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.19-26
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• 2002

The purpose of this paper is to study the fundamental characteristics of bicycle flows. Several experiments were conducted to obtain the characteristics of bicycle flows, speed variation along a curve radius, bicycle driver's travelling territory and saturation flow rate at signalized intersection. Bicycle facilities are categorized into uninterrupted and interrupted, the capacity of uninterrupted is approximately 5000bic/h, and that of the interrupted (at signalized intersection) is approximately 3000bic/h, when a curve radius is over 20m, bicycle speed is not increasing. Bicycle driver's travelling territory is used to occupancy area, it is the same concept as pedestrian's. Bicycle occupancy area is to be divided into circulation zone, comfort zone. and collision zone. Circulation zone is over 2.21$\times$4.1m and collision zone is less than 0.96$\times$2.47m. Comfort zone is defined as intermediate state between two zones.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.43-55
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• 2012

Bicycle is an environment-friendly transport mode contributing to a more sustainable transportation systems. To innovatively increase the use of bicycle as a significant transport mode, bicycle-friendly roadway environment should be provided. This study proposes a method to evaluate cycling environment based on the analysis of data collected from an specially equipped probe bicycle. The inertial measurement unit(IMU) consisting of a gyro sensor, accelerometer, and a global positioning systems(GPS) receiver was installed on the probe bicycle. Cycling stability index(CSI) and bicycle speed data were used as inputs of the proposed evaluation framework adopting the Fault Tree Analysis, which is a well-known technique for the risk analysis. The outcomes of this study will serve as an intelligent assesment tool for cycling environment.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.23 no.8 s.86
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• pp.203-213
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• 2005

Recently, with the increase of the interest to global environmental problems, bicycle has been recognized as the most environmentally friendly transportation mode. To promote cycling, it is necessary to ensure road space that bicycle can keep running safely and smoothly. This paper aims to evaluate the district with rearranged road space and network, given priority to bicycle, comparing the traditional district which are given priority to car from viewpoints of environment, safety and accessibility. As evaluation indicators, the carbon dioxide emission on the environment. the number of collision between car and bicycle on safety and an accumulated frequency measure on accessibility were used. As the result, it was clarified that bicycle road measures to create bicycle road by reallocation of road space and form bicycle exclusive network were effective.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.9
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• pp.89-96
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• 2016

According to the promoting policy for bicycle riding, the bicycle road infrastructure in Korea has been widely established. As the number of bicycle rider increases, bicycle traffic accidents also increase year after year. In this paper, we analyze bicycle traffic accident data from 2007 to 2014 which is provided by Road Traffic Authority and present statistical results of bicycle traffic accidents. And also regression analysis is applied to predict the number of daily traffic accidents in Seoul using ASOS(Automated Synoptic Observing System) climate data observed in the Seoul sector which are provided by Korea Meteorological Administration. In addition, decision tree analysis techniques are used to forecast the level of traffic accidents severity. In the analytic results of this research, we expect that it will be helpful to establish the collective policy of bicycle accident data and protective strategy in order to reduce the number of bicycle accidents.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.45-56
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• 2022

Recently, bicycle sharing system is introduced and the usage of shared bicycles is increasing in Suwon city. Despite the need to expand the bicycle road infrastructure, this is not the case. Therefore, this research attempts to propose a method for bicycle lane installation in Suwon city. For this, this research conducted location analysis based on the shared bicycle usage data and trip inducing facility data. Using location analysis results, appropriate routes for bicycle lanes are selected. As a result, two routes are selected. These routes have advantages that it is easy to connect with the existing bicycle roads or traffic inducing facilities and to install using the existing bicycle roads. However, these routes also have disadvantage that traffic congestion may occur due to the occupancy of the existing road space. It is expected that this research may contribute to expansion and maintenance of bicycle lane infrastructure, the bicycle and PM sharing service usage, implementation of sustainable urban transportation systems in Suwon city.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.579-588
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• 2014

In this study, three signal control strategies such as Bike box, Hook-turn, and 6-phase were assessed for various traffic conditions at signalized intersections incorporating bicycle left-turn traffic. Results showed that the size of a waiting zone mainly affected the performance of signal control in both Bike box and Hook-turn. Both Bike box and Hook-turn yielded an identical vehicle delay, but Bike box produced less bicycle delay than Hook-turn by 2.5~29.9 sec/veh for undersaturated traffic conditions. For saturated traffic condition, Bike box produced less vehicle delay than Hook-turn and 6-phase strategies, but bicycle delay was found to increase at the 700 vph of bicycle traffic compared to 6-phase. Bicycle delay was greatly increased under Hook-turn and Bike box strategies when bicycle traffic was greater than 300 vph and 500 vph, respectively. It was also shown that bicycle delay could be significantly reduced by providing appropriate size of queueing space. In addition, Bike box was likely to yield less vehicle and bicycle delay than Hook-turn for traffic volume patterns investigated in this study.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.9 no.2 s.32
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• pp.1-11
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• 2007

The rapid growths of economy and automobiles since the 1970's have caused serious traffic jams and environmental disruption in urban areas. To relieve these problems caused by urbanization, there should be considered alternative means of transportation modes. Many developed countries have accepted bicycles as a so called "Green Mode" for environmentally oriented strategies to increase the qualities of urban lives. Korea have also attempted various means to raise bicycle usages. In this research, significant factors affecting bicycle crashes at signalized intersections in urban areas were studied. The model results showed that Poisson regression is the best fit methodology for data modeling and revealed that traffic volume, a number of driveways, configuration of the ground, presence of bicycle path, school, and bus stop, residential area, size of intersection are significant factors affecting the bicycle crashes.

• Transportation Technology and Policy
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.93-96
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• 2010

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.216-225
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• 1998

본 연구는 자전거 관련 연구의 세계적 동향을 파악하기 위한 것으로써 70년대 이후자전거 연구와 관련된 세계 각 국의 학위논문, 단행본, 학회발표논문, 기사 등을 분석의 대상으로 하였다. 이를 통하여 세계 각 국의 자전거 연구의 흐름을 살펴보고, 앞으로 자전거 연구의 추세를 전망하며, 우리나라의 자전거 관련연구 및 정책에의 방향을 제시하는데 그 목적이 있다. 70년대 이후 최근까지 자전거 관련연구를 살펴보면, 주제의 양적인 면에서 자전거 관련시설(Facilities, 정책(Policy), 이용의 형태(Type of cycling)등이 전체의 52%를 차지하고 있으며 국가별로 북미의 미국, 캐나다, 유럽의 영국, 독일, 네덜란드 등 주로 선진국에서 활발한 연구가 진행되고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 시기별 자전거 관련연구의 변화추이를 보면 70년대 이후 80년대 전반가지 자전거 관련연구의 초창기에는 시설,(Facilities), 정책(Policy), 이용형태 등이 연구의 많은 비중을 차지하였지만 80년대 이후 점차 교육(Education), 타 교통수단과의 관계(Relationship), 안전(Safety), 등에 관한 주제의 연구 비중이 높아지고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 국가별·시기별 자전거 연구에 있어서 전체적으로 정책 및 시설에 있어 국가간에 비슷한 비율로 연구되고 있는 것으로 나타났으나 유렵의 경우 설계(DESIGN)의 비중이 높으며 북미지역에서는 교육에 대한 비중이 높은 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 우리나라는 총 61편중 90년대 이후의 연구가 전체의 74%를 차지하고 있어 비교적 최근에 관심을 가진 것으로 나타났으며 주제별로 보면 효과(Effectiveness), 정책, 계획 등에 관련된 주제가 64%를 차지하고 있다. 특히 시설, 교육, 안전에 관련된 연구는 매우 부족하여 자전거 관련연구 및 정책의 초창기에 있는 우리나라에 시사하는 바가 크다고 볼 수 있다. 따라서 앞으로의 연구방향에 있어 도로, 시설 등의 기초분야와 더불어 안전과 교육에의 관심이 필요하다고 하겠다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.173-180
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• 2010

This research aims to enhance the security and safety of bicycle facilities by utilizing convergence technology of ubiquitous sensor network in the transportation system. To achieve the aim, U-bike system has developed by utilizing sensor network technology, and the serviceability and safety function of public facilities in the system have enhanced. This research also presents a plan for the construction of U-bike using ubiquitous sensor network and safety infrastructure of facilities by analyzing bicycle traffic reports and characteristics of service through studying the literature on the security of bicycles and the safety of facilities on bicycle lanes. The result of this research will contribute to the enhancement of safety function of bicycle lanes and facilities around National 4 major rivers bicycle lanes in the future.