• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.67-85
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• 2018

Vehicle platooning through wireless communication and automated driving technology has become realized. Platooning is a technique in which several vehicles travel at regular intervals while maintaining a minimum safety distance. Truck platooning is of keen interest because it contributes to preventing truck crashes and reducing vehicle emissions, in addition to the increase in truck flow capacity. However, it should be noted that interactions between vehicle platoons and adjacent manually-driven vehicles (MV) significantly give an impact on the performance of traffic flow. In particular, when vehicles entering from on-ramp attempt to merge into the mainstream of freeway, proper interactions by adjusting platoon size and inter-platoon spacing are required to maximize traffic performance. This study developed a methodology for establishing operational strategies for truck platoonings on freeway on-ramp areas. Average speed and conflict rate were used as measure of effectiveness (MOE) to evaluate operational efficiency and safety. Microscopic traffic simulation experiments using VISSIM were conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of various platooning scenarios. A decision making process for selecting better platoon operations to satisfy operations and safety requirements was proposed. It was revealed that a platoon operating scenario with 50m inter-platoon spacing and the platoon consisting of 6 vehicles outperformed other scenarios. The proposed methodology would effectively support the realization of novel traffic management concepts in the era of automated driving environments.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.193-202
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• 2021

The update of a high-precision map was carried out by modifying the geometric information using ortho-images or point-cloud data as the source data and then reconstructing the relationship between the spatial objects. These series of processes take considerable time to process the geometric information, making it difficult to apply real-time route planning to a vehicle quickly. Therefore, this study proposed a method to update the road network for route planning using a graph data structure and storage type of graph data structure considering the characteristics of the road network. The proposed method was also reviewed to assess the feasibility of real-time route information transmission by applying it to actual road data.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.161-163
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• 2022

In spite of the recent enforcement of policies to reduce traffic accidents, pedestrian safety accidents on the back road continue to occur. In this paper, we propose a device design to prevent traffic accidents capable of measuring distance and wireless communication to quickly notify pedestrians of the vehicle's approach in a safety blind spot. The accuracy of vehicle and pedestrian distance measurement was tested using ultrasonic and radar sensors with a wide sensing range, and the possibility of responding to accidents that could provide safety for pedestrians in emergency situations was verified through a wireless communication connectivity test between target boards.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.275-282
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• 2018

Mountain trams are an environmental-friendly transportation system that run wirelessly on an embedded track constructed on previous mountain roads, and can run despite the frozen road. On the other hand, there is some difficulty on sharp and steep tracks. In this study, after possible technical problems were defined in mountain trams running on a sharp and steep track, the design solutions for the interface structure of bogie and carbody were proposed. In addition, a prototype was made and its performance was tested to verify the solutions. Because the difference in the distance of the inner and outer rails on a sharp curve is severe enough to interrupt running, independent rotating wheels with different angular speeds were developed and applied. To prevent derailment due to the large attack angle and lateral force caused by the previous vehicle of 2bogie-and-1carbody on the sharp curve, a vehicle with 1bogie-and-1carbody was designed and applied. A prototype vehicle of 1bogie-and-1carbody with independent rotating wheels was made to improve the performance during the test running on a small track. A coupler was designed to absorb the large rotations of 3 degrees-of-freedom between the carbodies of a mountain tram running on the steep curved track. After a small scale prototype was made, the performance was verified by a function test.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.119-131
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• 2024

Understanding accurate traffic performance is crucial for ensuring efficient highway operation and providing a sustainable mobility environment. On the other hand, an immediate and precise estimation of highway traffic performance faces challenges because of infrastructure and technological constraints, data processing complexities, and limitations in using integrated big data. This paper introduces a framework for estimating traffic performance by analyzing real-time data sourced from toll collection systems and dedicated short-range communications used on highways. In particular, this study addresses the data errors arising from segmented information in data, influencing the individual travel trajectories of vehicles and establishing a more reliable Origin-Destination (OD) framework. The study revealed the necessity of trip linkage for accurate estimations when consecutive segments of individual vehicle travel within the OD occur within a 20-minute window. By linking these trip ODs, the daily average highway traffic performance for South Korea was estimated to be248,624 thousand vehicle kilometers per day. This value shows an increase of approximately 458 thousand vehicle kilometers per day compared to the 248,166 thousand vehicle kilometers per day reported in the highway operations manual. This outcome highlights the potential for supplementing previously omitted traffic performance data through the methodology proposed in this study.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.11
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• pp.87-104
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• 2015

Currently the IoT (Internet of Things) environments and related technologies are being developed rapidly through the networks for connecting many intelligent objects. The IoT is providing artificial intelligent services combined with context recognition based knowledge and communication methods between human and objects and objects to objects. With the help of IoT technology, many research works are being developed using the C-ITS (Cooperative Intelligent Transport System) which uses road infrastructure and traveling vehicles as traffic control infrastructures and resources for improving and increasing driver's convenience and safety through two way communication such as bus-only lane and license plate recognition and road accidents, works ahead reports, which are eventually for advancing traffic effectiveness. In this paper, a system for deciding whether the traveling vehicle is possible or not to drive on bus-only lane in highway is researched using the lane and number plate recognition on the road in C-ITS traffic infrastructure environments. The number plates of vehicles on the straight ahead and sides are identified after the location of bus-only lane is discovered through the lane recognition method. Research results and experimental outcomes are presented which are supposed to be used by traffic management infrastructure and controlling system in future.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.438-441
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• 2013

자동차 관련 기술은 점차 전기, 전자 장치로 빠르게 바뀌어 가고 있다. 차량 내 연결되어 있는 전자 제어 장치들도 그에 따라 증가하게 되었고 장치간의 통신 성능도 중요하게 되었다. 가장 널리 사용되고 있는 차량용 네트워크 프로토콜로는 CAN(Controller Area Network)을 들 수 있다. 그러나 최근 통신 복잡도가 증가함에 따라 주기적 메시지 통신의 메시지 전송 지연 및 중단이 발생되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제에 대한 해결 방안을 제시하기 위해 메시지들의 스케줄 가능성 및 응답시간에 따른 실 시간성 검증 모델을 제안한다. CAN 메시지 수신 시 RMA(Rate Monotonic Algorithm)기반으로 메시지 스케줄 가능성 평가 모델을 개발하였다. 또한, CAN 메시지를 송신할 경우 RTA(Response Time Analysis)를 고려한 실 시간성 평가 모델을 제시하였다. 실험 1 에서는 기존 RMA 기법으로 통신을 수행한 결과 통신 중 중단되는 현상을 확인하였고 이후 제안 모델에서는 23%정도의 추가 시간을 확보하여 통신을 완료하는 것을 증명하였다. 실험 2 에서는 메시지 통신의 응답시간이 모두 제안된 Worst-case 응답시간 이내로 측정되어 실 시간성을 만족함을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.145-155
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• 1998

대도시 가로망의 대부분은 신호교차로와 신호교차로가 연결되는 가로(link)로 구성되어 있어 가로의 통행시간은 가로의 주변여건, 차량간의 상호작용 및 교통신호등과 같은 요소에 영향을 받게된다. 따라서 본 연구의 목적은 대도시 가로망에서 신호 연동체계로 운영되는 가로의 통행시간을 예측할 수 있는 모형을 개발하는데 있다. 본 연구는 대구광역시 가로망을 대상으로 연동가로의 교통흐름을 가장 잘 나타내는 Greenberg모형을 이용하여 연동가로의 통행시간 모형을 도출하였다. 도출된 연동가로의 통행시간 모형은 임계통행시간$(t_m$)과 교통량 대가로최대교통량비$(q/q_m)$의 함수로 이루어졌다. $t_m$모형은 안정류상태의 통행시간 및 불안정류상태의 통행시간의 비를 이용하여 개발하였고 가로 용량모형은 상류부와 하류부의 신호조건에 따른 변수와 가로길이를 변수로 하는 모형을 개발하였다. 개발된 모형은 대구광역시를 대상으로 조사한 12개의 연동가로의 자료를 적용하여 연동으로 운영되는 가로의 통행시간 모형을 도출하였다. 도출된 통행시간 모형은 도로용량에 제시한 모형에 비하여 간단하게 가로의 통행시간을 추정할 수 있으며 교통계획에 적용되는 통행시간모형 비하여 가로의 신호 및 운영조건을 포함한 세부적인 통행시간 모형이다.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.217-228
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• 2009

Sections under the influence of merging in an uninterrupted facility create irregular interaction between vehicles, such as lane change, speed acceleration and deceleration because of the merging of ramp traffic flows which have traffic characteristics different from those of the main line. This causes a confused traffic flow phenomenon(turbulence), which is considered an unstable traffic characteristic between various continuous points in consideration of v conditions. In this study, in merge influence sections, detectors by lane-point were installed to create time and space-series -traffic data. The least significant difference(LSD), as the criteria for discriminating a significant speed change between points, was calculated to examine the turbulence. As a result, turbulence in merge influence section was found to change the zones of such occurrence and the seriousness levels according to traffic condition. Thus, the maximum merge influence section due to the turbulence was created in the traffic condition before congestion when traffic increases. According to characteristics of changes in speed, merge influence section was divided into upstream 100m$\sim$downstream 100m(a section of speed reduction), and downstream 100m$\sim$downstream 400m(a section of reduced speed maintenance and acceleration).

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.155-164
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• 2008

Variable Message Signs (VMS) is one of the major components for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) services that provides real-time traffic and incident information to drivers. The objective of this research was to develop a method determining the optimal location of VMS considering safety and driving characteristics of various drivers. A driving simulator was utilized to evaluate how drivers can safely exit to off-ramp depending on various VMS locations while information relating route diversion was provided. The binary logistic regression and factor analysis were applied in developing a probability model that predicts the success of safe off-ramp exiting. Based on the developed probability model, a method to estimate the spacing between VMS and off-ramp is suggested. It is expected that the products of this study would be utilized as a tool in determining VMS locations for ITS planners and designers.