• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.195-205
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• 2001

The objective of the paper is to analyze the traffic characteristics for freeway merging area. Freeway merging area is different from basic section due to ramp vehicles. Therefore, to understand the traffic characteristics of (leeway merging area, this study focused on two factors including critical time headway required in merging maneuver and maximum possible merging volume. In this paper, new model that adopts critical time headway instead of critical time gap in calculating the maximum possible merging volume based on probability function was developed In previous studies, for calculating the maximum possible merging volume, it was considered that merging vehicles could merge freely if a given time gap was greater than the critical time gap. Also, the critical time gap was used as the same value in all traffic flow conditions. But, a time gap required in merging maneuver could be changed, even to the same driver, because difference of relative speed varies in different traffic flow conditions. So, in some cases, the critical time gap could be insufficient value in merging maneuver. Therefore, in this study. a calculating procedure for critical time headway in all traffic flow conditions was presented. Also, the maximum possible merging volume and capacity for freeway merging area were calculated by using the previously found critical time headway.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2012.05b
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• pp.772-774
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• 2012

최근 차량과 플랫폼 사이의 공간에 휠체어의 바퀴 또는 승객의 발이 빠지는 등의 안전사고가 보고되고 있어 교통약자의 이동을 제한하는 요소로 작용함에 따라 차량과 플랫폼 사이 공간을 메우는 안전스텝을 개발하게 되었다. 안전스텝으로 기존 플랫폼에 설치하는 고무타입은 고정식 고무발판을 미리 설치해 두어 차량과 플랫폼의 간격을 미리 줄이는 방식이나 직선, 곡선 형태의 각각의 역사가 가지는 조건에 유연하게 대응하고, 차량의 승객수와 플랫폼의 조건에 따라 달라지는 승하차 높이에 유연하게 대응하고자 차량에 설치하는 방식을 개발하게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 개발한 안전스텝의 구성 및 기능을 설명하고 논하고자 한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.177-186
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• 2010

The principal objective of this paper is to develop road design guidelines, especially for managed lane access spacing between the expressway on-ramp (or off-ramp) and managed lane access point. Managed lanes are typically located in the expressway median and are accessed by weaving across the mainlines. The high level of lane-changing activity present in weaving areas affects capacity significantly. One promising tool for the analysis of lane-changing activity is "gap acceptance theory." This paper estimates the capacity of weaving areas based on the estimated degree of traffic turbulence using gap acceptance theory. The degree of traffic turbulence is represented by a function of the probability that lane-changing vehicles can complete their maneuvers successfully in a given weaving distance. In developing road design guidelines based on the developed gap acceptance model, the minimum managed lane access spacing is determined where the capacity with respect to the managed lane access spacing becomes stable.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.4 no.1 s.7
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• pp.27-37
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• 2002

Ideas providing an optimal car route using current traffic condition, maintaining the current location and the history of driven route of a car in the main central office, in where GPS signals transmitted from the driving cars are received, have been proposed. Since GPS signals occurred in certain time interval instead of all GPS signals are transmitted from the car due to the cost of transmission, an algorithm that is able to recover the missing GPS signals is required. In this paper, an efficient algorithm, which finds the driven route and the current location of a car fast, is proposed. To verify the efficiency of the proposed algorithm, it is applied to the various real GIS map and it turns out to be very effective.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.7 no.6
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• pp.165-173
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• 1999

HILS system consists of hardwares which are engine and dynamometer and softwares which is vehicle model without the engine. It is well-known that because of engines's nonlinearity it is difficult to describe an engine exactly and not to lose it reality coincidently. But HILS system is the high technology that can compensate this weakness by using a real engine instead of model. The various experiments regarding the ACC which are not normally available for real vehicle tests have been performed by the HILS system. From the results , the HILS system is expected to decrease the experimental accident rate and save costs and time. Compared with simulation, HILS experimental results show similarities and expected to increase road capacity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.377-382
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• 2003

차량측량시스템이란 차량에 2대 이상의 CCD 카메라와 위치측정장비(GPS, IMU 등)를 장치하고 도로를 운행하면서 일정한 간격으로 주변의 사진을 연속으로 촬영한 후 이를 이용하여 도로 및 도로시설물의 위치와 크기, 보존상태 등의 정보를 취득하는 새로운 측량 시스템이다. 본 연구에서는 대상물의 3차원 위치결정을 위해 필요한 자료와 자료를 처리하는 각 단계를 체계화하였으며, 사용 편의성과 위치결정정확성을 높일 수 있는 차량측량시스템을 위한 수치사진측량 프로그램을 개발하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.65-71
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 PRT(Personal Rapid Transit) 시스템의 성능과 시스템의 안전에 영향을 미치는 PRT 시스템의 운전시격(Headway)에 대해서 다룬다. 어떤 차량과 다음 차량과의 운전 간격을 나타내는 운전시격은 대중교통수단에서 교통 혼잡의 문제를 풀 수 있는 중요한 단서가 되는 성로용량을 평가하는 중요한 인자들 중의 하나이다. 운전시격을 결정하기 위한 중요한 인자들에는 고장 차량의 감속비, 고장차량의 후미에 있는 차량의 비상 제동 감속비, 차량의 선로속도, 차량의 제동을 위한 지연시간 등이 있다. 이들 인자들을 이용한 간단한 해석적 방정식은 차량의 선속도, 감속도와 운전시격에 대한 상관관계를 예측할 수 있도록 해준다. 본 논문에서는 간단한 해석 방정식을 이용한 수치 해석적 방법을 통해서 최소 운전시격에 대한 평가를 예를 간단한 모의시험을 통해서 보인다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.147-161
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate the psychological state and driving safety of drivers driving around the truck platoon driving. Using the driving simulator, the experimental environment was constructed with the situation of changing lanes to the platoon and driving within the platoon. We tried to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze the driver's psychological state and driving safety through simulation driving experiments. As a result, in the case of the older driver group, there were many cases where they judged themselves to be driving safely, even though they were driving dangerously in the actual lane change to the platoon or driving within the platoon. In particular, this group showed that the narrower the distance between vehicles, the greater the misrecognition. The results of this study are expected to be useful in deriving the optimum interval when the interval between platooning of trucks needs to be temporarily extended.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.145-157
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• 2004

Microscopic freeway simulation models project the uncertain values of performance measures for subject traffic conditions by explaining drivers' driving behavior with lane changing and car-following models. However, the existing lane changing models are limited to gap acceptance oriented passive behavior of drivers and not able to capture more-or-less aggressive driving behavior(e.g. cut-in lane changing) ordinarily obseved in field. This paper suggests the definition of cut-inlane changing and presents its characteristics based on the findings from two different freeway on- and off-ramp sections. In addition, this paper proposes a new lane changing model capable of handling both passive and active drivers' driving behavior for better performance of simulations. The proposed lane changing model was tested with Hanyang Simulatin (HYTSIM), a microscopic freeway simulation program developed for this study. The HYTSIM simulation results reflecting the performance of the proposed lane changing model were compared against the field data. The test results showed that the distribution of gaps collected when vehicles change lanes were statistically identical to the field data at 95% confidence level.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.139-146
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• 2021

Ahead of the commercialization of autonomous vehicles, it's application should be considered into the current transportation infrastructure. Under limited traffic circumstances, effective set of lane change rules alone could bring benefits to the autonomous driving system. In this study, a cooperative movement (local platooning) plan with limited vehicles associated as pocket driving, aiming at effective movement between vehicles in urban environment was proposed. Under congested roadway condition, the gaussian gap between vehicles was introduced to secure gap acceptance for safe lane change maneuver. Proposed lane change method showed 86.6% delay reduction along with traffic volume improvement. This result could be considered as a crucial factor in designing a next-generation roadway infrastructure with autonomous driving.