• 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.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.3-9
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• 2015

Since changes in land use in urban space cause traffic volume and it is closely related to traffic accidents. Therefore, an analysis on the causes of traffic accidents is judged to be an essential factor to establish the measure to reduce traffic accidents. In this regard, the analysis was conducted on the clustering by using the nearest neighbor indexes with regard to the occurrence frequencies of commercial and residential zone based on traffic accident data of the past five years (2009-2013) with the target of local small-medium sized city, Jinju-si. The analysis results, obtained in this study, are as follows: the occurrence frequency of traffic accidents was the highest in spring and the lowest in winter respectively. The clustering of traffic accident occurrence at nighttime was stronger than at daytime. In addition, terms of the analysis on the clustering of traffic accident according to land use, changes according to the seasons was not significant in commercial areas, while clustering density in winter tended to become significantly lower in residential areas. The analysis results of traffic accident types showed that the side-right angle collision of cars was the highest in frequency occurrence, and widespread in both commercial areas and residential areas. These results can provide us with important information to identify the occurrence pattern of traffic accidents in the structure of urban space, and it is expected that they will be appropriately utilized to establish measures to reduce traffic accidents.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.511-513
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• 2001

지능형 교통 시스템(ITS)은 1) 도로의 상황 분석과 2) 위반 차량의 검지를 자동으로 수행하여 원활한 교통 제어를 제공하는 목적을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 교차로에서 위반 차량을 검지하기 위하여 도로위의 차량 검지하고 차량의 진행 경로를 추적하는 기법으로 주간에는 배경 영상을 사용하지 않고 프레임간의 차를 이용하여 차량의 움직임 정보를 추출하고 야간에는 전조등을 검출하여 차량을 추적하는 기법으로 주간의 겨우 차량의 움직임만을 감지하므로 칼만 필터(Kalman Filter) 등에 의한 예측이 불가능하므로 현재 위치와 진행방향으로 움직임 정보를 추적하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법은 주간 그림자의 영향과 야간의 난반사의 영향을 제거할 수 있고 입력 영상을 320x240으로 축소하여 초당 10프레임이상으로 처리하므로 정확한 차량의 움직임을 추적할 수 있다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.111-117
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• 2017

The purpose of forecasting the traffic accident is to reduce the traffic accident. Therefore, the goal of this study is to provide severity of the accident by Forecasting of Probability of Accident. In Korea, accident data are distributed to the public via internet that includes numbers of accident and fatality as well. And crude level of accident severity in accordance with weather information for metropolitan city level are available by weekly. However, It can not reflect personal needs at specific origin of the travel for a certain traveller. This study aims to consider 68 major intersections with precipitation data, and eventually introduces link based accident severity. In estimating the accident severity both dynamic data such as drivers' characteristics, driving conditions and static data such as geometry of road, intersection characteristics are considered. Also, we identifies accident severity according to the accident type - 'vehicle to vehicle,' 'vehicle to person.' Finally, the outcomes of this study suggests taylor-made accident severity information for a specific traveller for a certain route.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.49-57
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• 2011

This study deals with the traffic accident of arterial link sections in the case of Cheongju. The purpose of the study is to develop the traffic accident model by the function of arterial links. In pursuing the above, this study gives particular attentions to developing the appropriate models using the accident data of main and minor arterial roads divided by 472 small link sections. The main results analyzed are as follows. First, as the t test on the accident characteristics of main and minor arterial roads shows that there are differences in the number of accident and EPDO(equivalent property damage only) between two roads, the development of models by function is analyzed to be appropriate. Second, it is analyzed that ZINB models are all statistically suitable to the number of accident and EPDO of main arterial roads. Third, the analysis shows that EPDOs of minor arterial roads fit to ZINB, and the number of the accident fit to ZIP model. Finally, the common variables of main arterial roads are evaluated to be the traffic volume and the number of inflection point, and those of minor be the average grade.

• KLA journal
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• no.5
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• pp.5-12
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• 1957

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.40-46
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• 2020

As interest in traffic safety increases, research on autonomous driving, which reduces the incidence of traffic accidents, is increased. Object recognition and detection are essential for autonomous driving. Therefore, research on object recognition and detection through traffic image big data is being actively conducted to determine the road conditions. However, because most existing studies use only daytime data, it is difficult to recognize objects on night roads. Particularly, in the case of a light source object, it is difficult to use the features of the daytime as it is due to light smudging and whitening. Therefore, this study proposes Yolo based light source object detection for traffic image big data processing. The proposed method performs image processing by applying color model transitions to night traffic image. The object group is determined by extracting the characteristics of the object through image processing. It is possible to increase the recognition rate of light source object detection on a night road through a deep learning model using candidate group data.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.6D
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• pp.759-766
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• 2008

Road classification system is the first step for determining the road function and design standards. Currently, roads are classified by various indices such as road location and function. In this study, we classify road using various traffic indices as well as to identify traffic characteristics for each type of road. To accomplish the objectives, mixture model was applied for classifying road and analyzing traffic characteristics using traffic data that observed at permanent traffic count stations. A total of 8 variables were applied: annual average daily traffic(AADT), $K_{30}$ coefficient, heavy vehicle proportion, day volume proportion, peak hour volume proportion, sunday coefficient, vacation coefficient, and coefficient of variation(COV). A total of 350 permanent traffic count points were categorized into three groups : Group I (Urban road), Group II (Rural road), and Group III (Recreational road). AADT were 30,000 for urban, 16,000 for rural, and 5,000 for recreational road. Group III was typical recreational road showing higher average daily traffic volume during Sunday and vacational periods. Group I showed AM peak and PM peak, while group II and group III did not show AM peak and PM peak.

• Proceedings of the Korea Inteligent Information System Society Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.159-173
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• 1999

본 논문은 교차로에 설치된 영상검지기로부터 들어온 교통정보 중 공간교통정보에 해당하는 차량 대기길이를 측정을 하는 방법으로 각 차선(lane)별 검지영역에 대하여 웨이브렛 변형(Wavelet Transforms)을 하여 차량을 검지하고, 검지영역 내에서 차량의 대기길이를 측정하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존의 방법으로는 차량 윤곽선 추출(edge detection)을 이용한 대기길이 측정 방법이나 배경(background)정보를 사전에 입수한 후 임계값 이상의 변화가 있을 때 차량을 검지하여 대기길이를 측정하는 방법 등이 연구되어 왔으나 이러한 방법들은 영상의 노이즈에 대하여 크게 영향을 받는다는 문제점이 있다. 그러나 본 알고리즘은 영상의 노이즈에 대하여 크게 영향을 받지 않을 뿐만 아니라 시간대 변화에 따른 도로의 명암값(intensity or gray level)을 추정할 필요가 없다는 특징이 있다. 특히, 야간 영상인 경우 차량 헤드라이트로 인한 검지오류도 감소할 수가 있다. 본 논문에서 실험은 주간, 야간 각각 1개 차선의 80개 표본크기로 실험을 하였으며, 대기길이는 정지 대기길이(standing queue length)와 이동 대기길이(moving queue length)로 나누어 측정을 하였다. 그 결과 주간, 야간의 경우 정지 대기길이는 2.14%, 2.24%, 이동 대기길이는 2.59%, 2.74%의 오차율로 측정이 되었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.91-102
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• 2024

This study aimed to investigate the sleep-wake patterns, social jetlag (SJL), and daytime sleepiness (DS) among air traffic controllers (ATCs) with rotating shifts. A total of 133 shift-rotating ATCs participated by completing self-report questionnaires regarding their sleep-wake patterns and DS. SJL, indicating the mid-sleep difference between workdays (W) and free days (F), was calculated for each shift. Night-shift workdays had the shortest sleep duration (SD) (5.28 hours), whereas free days following day shifts had the longest SD (6.66 hours). SJL for day and night shifts was 2.73 and 2.71 hours, respectively. The average DS score was 7.92 out of 24, with a 28.6% prevalence of DS. There was a negative correlation between SD following day shifts and SJL for the day shifts. Given these findings, it is recommended to implement effective interventions and work schedules to maintain consistent sleep patterns and minimize social jetlag to address sleep issues for shift-working ATCs.