• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.31-43
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• 2002

Traffic signal control methods are suggested to improve the operational effectiveness of COSMOS system in Seoul. First. a method that improves progression of the corridor traffic flow within a common sub-area was explored. Applying this method, both frequency and magnitude of offset transition were reduced as compared to the existing method. In addition, the level of connection among neighboring corridors increased by applying the method, thus the qualify of progression was also improved. Second, a practical guideline on signal phase design was proposed to improve the efficiency of actuated operations for the left-turn movement. Last, a method for estimating optimal queue length parameters was surveyed and evaluated. An evaluation study was performed for the suggested methods through both field and simulation studies. Results showed that the proposed methods gave better performance than the existing methods. It is expected that the use of proposed methods can improve operational performance of COSMOS.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.2
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• pp.165-171
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• 2013

WAVE(Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) is a representative V2V communication protocol and its standards of MAC and PHY parts except for security were published. In order to control traffic flow and ensure driver's safety using V2V communication, various projects are conducting. In particular, safety application has been researched. Therefore, in this paper, we designed the safety application algorithm, which informs a driver of the dangerous status when driver tries to turn left in an intersection and we also implemented the algorithm. Proposed algorithm configures a model for a host vehicle and a vehicle coming in opposite lane and in case that there is collision hazard it provides warning message to driver by using HMI. In order to evaluate the proposed algorithm's performance, we configured the test bed using test vehicles and we tested the algorithm on proving ground with the composed test scenarios. As test results, our system showed excellent performance. If the infrastructures for V2I communications are constructed, we will optimize our system more precisely and stably.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.13-21
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• 2015

This study focuses on operational analysis of 2 types of intersection shared lanes. First, the analysis showed that a through & right-turn shared lane is always less used than the adjacent through-only lanes and as a result, operational efficiency deteriorates. To improve the efficiency fine-tuning in signal timing optimization using lane-by-lane traffic volume data is required. Further improvement can be achieved by guiding drivers to equally use the shared lane. For left-turn & U-turn shared lanes, it was found that saturation flow rate is affected by interference between U-turn and conflicting right-turn movements. However, since such interference does not occur in every cycle, a statistical model must be established to develop realistic adjustment factor for saturation flow rate of the shared lane.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.45-58
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• 2021

It is generally known that a two-lane roundabout has some problems in safety such as increasing conflicts, typically merging and diverging conflicts and conflicts between entering traffic and exiting as well as turning traffic. To solve these problems, a turbo-roundabout had been developed and has successfully brought safer and more efficient operation in other countries. In this study, micro simulations using VISSIM were conducted to investigate the maximum value of service traffic volume. It was found that operation of turbo-roundabouts was influenced by traffic volume for each turning traffic, and the maximum values of traffic volume were values between 2,400 and 2,800 vehicles per hour as rates of traffic volume for each turning traffic. Typically, turbo-roundabouts have limited to operate in conditions with more than 30% for left-turning traffic volume.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.8
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• pp.69-75
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• 2022

In this paper, a method for predicting the speed for each lane from the link speed using an artificial neural network is presented to increase the accuracy of predicting the required time of a driving route. The time required for passing through a link is observed differently depending on the direction of going straight, turning right, or turning left at the intersection of the end of the link. Therefore, it is necessary to predict the speed according to the vehicle's traveling direction. Data required for learning and verification were constructed by refining the data measured at the Gongpyeong intersection of Gukchaebosang-ro in Daegu Metropolitan City and four adjacent intersections around it. Five neural network models were used. In addition, error analysis of the prediction was performed to select a neural network experimentally suitable for the research purpose. Experimental results showed that the error in the estimation of the time required for each lane decreased by 17.4% for the straight lane, 4.4% for the right-turn lane, and 3.9% for the left-turn lane. This experiment is the result of analyzing only one link. If the entire pathway is tested, the effect is expected to be greater.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.77-81
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• 2009

논문은 지능형 자동차 개발을 위한 마이크로마우스를 활용한 차량-도로 간 통신, 모터제어, 영상처리와 물체감지 센서들을 활용한 도로 상황정보 인식 시스템 등을 활용하여 지능형 자동차의 운행을 구현하고 테스트 할 수 있다. 이를 활용하여 검증된 기술들을 실제 차량에 적용하기 위해서 다양한 실험과 테스트를 실시한다. 또한 누구나 쉽게 간단한 마이크로 컨트롤러를 통한 지능형 자동차를 위한 다양한 아이디어를 접목할 수 있도록 시스템을 설계한다. 이를 활용하여 영상처리를 통한 차선인식과, 직진 좌회전 및 도로의 교통표시마크를 읽어 들여 차체를 컨트롤하고 차량-도로간 통신을 이용해서 신호등의 정보를 입력받아 교차로를 안전하게 통과하게 된다. 또한 앞 차량을 인식하여 자동으로 속도조절과 차량 간 거리를 유지하는 시스템을 구현한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.53-74
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• 1997

신호연동화모형에서 통과폭모형은 지체를 최소화하지 못하고 지체도모형은 좌회전현시순서를 최적화하지 못한다. 이러한 모형의 단점을 극복하고자 개발된 KS_SIGNAL은 지체를 최소화하는 신호연동화모형이지만 지체를 산정하는데 있어 많은 한계를 갖고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존에 개발된 KS_SIGNAL의 지체모형을 개선하여 보다 우수한 연동신호시간과 현시순서를 산정해주는 신호최적화모형(KS_SIGNAL II)을 개발하여 FORTRAN 언어로 전산화하였다. 개발된 모형은 다양한 평가를 통하여 기존 모형들보다 전반적으로 우수한 것으로 입증되었다. 본 모형을 통하여 차량 출발 및 도착형태에 따른 대기차량 소거시간을 고려하는 옵셋 산정이 가능해져 지체를 최소화하는 간선도로의 신호최적화모형으로 활용될 경우 도로기능제고 및 지체도 감소에 의한 편익을 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.3-14
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• 1986

This study was undertaken to develop the gap acceptance model of left-turn drivers on the major road at intersections. Typical unsignalized intersections on the two-lane and four-lane streets in Masan City were selected for the study intersection. For the gap distribution model, the lognormal, negative exponential, shifted negative exponential, and Gamma distributions were tested using the x2 and K-S tests. Based on the results for both streets, it was concluded that among the distributions tested the lognormal distribution represented the gap distribution best, followed by the shifted negative exponential distribution. Stochastic models of the gap-acceptance behavior of left-turn drivers on the major road at unsignalized intersections were programmed using SLAM Ⅱ, a simulation computer language. A stochastic model was selected for the gap-acceptance behavior to compare the results of the simulation with the observed data. The model assumes that a fixed critical acceptance gap is assigned to each left-turn driver based on a normal distribution and the gap distribution of the opposing traffic stream follows the shifted negative exponential distribution.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.5
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• pp.185-194
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• 2008

The objective of this paper is to design the dynamic route guidance system(DRGS) and develop an ant algorithm based on routing mechanism for finding the multiple shortest paths within limited time in real traffic network. The proposed ant algorithm finds a collection of paths between source and destination considering turn-restrictions, U-turn, and P-turn until an acceptable solution is reached. This method can consider traffic constraints easily comparing to the conventional shortest paths algorithms.

• Journal of Industrial Technology
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• v.21 no.A
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• pp.231-240
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• 2001

U-turn and P-turn as well as left-turn restriction exist in real traffic network. the optimal route should be selected for considering these using shortest path algorithms. But, the traditional algorithms have some limitations to use for considering there. The objective of this paper is to modify Dijkstra algorithm in order to find the optimal path in real traffic network. The continuous three nodes are used to check turn-restrictions and exclude these from and optimal path. A virtual connection is used to consider U-turn and P-turn.