• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.139-146
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• 2011

Travelling vehicles on roads may slip or overturn due to strong cross wind. This paper presents the path deviation equation and the overturning equation of vehicle, and the process of evaluating the cross wind risk. Case studies for cars and trucks are carried out. It explains the mechanism why the deviation occurs according to the types of vehicles. It shall help to prepare the measures for reducing the risk of travelling vehicles in high wind speeds.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.28-41
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• 2022

A road system with CV(Connected Vehicle)s, which is often referred to as a cooperative intelligent transportation system (C-ITS), provides various road information to drivers using an in-vehicle warning system. Road environments with CVs induce drivers to reduce their speed or change lanes to avoid potential risks downstream. Such avoidance maneuvers can be considered to improve driving behaviors from a traffic safety point of view. Thus, empirically evaluating how a given in-vehicle warning information affects driving behaviors, and monitoring of the correlation between them are essential tasks for traffic operators. To quantitatively evaluate the effect of in-vehicle warning information, this study develops a method to calculate compliance rate of drivers where two groups of speed profile before and after road information is provided are compared. In addition, conventional indexes (e.g., jerk and acceleration noise) to measure comfort of passengers are examined. Empirical tests are conducted by using PVD (Probe Vehicle Data) and DTG (Digital Tacho Graph) data to verify the individual effects of warning information based on C-ITS constructed in Seoul metropolitan area in South Korea. The results in this study shows that drivers tend to decelerate their speed as a response to the in-vehicle warning information. Meanwhile, the in-vehicle warning information helps drivers to improve the safety and comport of passengers.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.74-88
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• 2020

A Cooperative Intelligent Transportation System (CITS) provides useful information on upcoming hazards in order to prevent vehicle collisions. In addition, the availability of individual vehicle travel information obtained from the CITS infrastructure allows us to identify the level of road safety in real time and based on analysis of the indicators representing the crash potential. This study proposes a methodology to derive road safety content, and presents evaluation results for its applicability in practice, based on simulation experiments. Both jerk and Stopping Distance Index (SDI) were adopted as safety indicators and were further applied to derive road section safety information. Microscopic simulation results with VISSIM show that 5% and 20% samples of jerk and SDI are sufficient to represent road safety characteristics for all vehicles. It is expected that the outcome of this study will be fundamental to developing a novel and valuable system to monitor the level of road safety in real time.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.27-33
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• 2016

자율 주행(스마트) 자동차는 첨단 IT기술을 이용하여 사람의 개입을 줄여서 운행하는 자동차를 말한다. 자율 주행(스마트) 자동차는 자율적으로 차량 주변 환경 및 상황을 판단하여 정해진 목적지까지 안전하게 이동하는 차량을 의미한다. 자율 주행(스마트) 자동차는 주행 안전성과 운전자의 편의성을 향상시키기 위한 연구 형태로 주로 이루어지고 있다. 자율 주행(스마트) 자동차 기술은 자율 주행의 정도를 적용하여 단계별로 개발이 진행될 것으로 보인다. 자율 주행 자동차 기술은 인간 세상에 또 다른 변혁을 몰고 오고 있다. 자율 주행 자동차와 관련한 기술은 첨단 IT기술을 기계 자동차에 접목하는 것인데, 적용하는 IT 기술은 HW, SW기술로 나눌 수 있다. IT HW 기술로는 환경 인식에 필요한 HW, 위치 인식 HW, 판단/제어를 위한 여러가지 센서 HW 등이 있다. IT SW 기술로는 IT HW를 구동하기 위한 실시간 OS, IT HW 전장장치를 구동할 수 있는 여러가지 SW 관련 기술, 자율 주행을 위한 경로 알고리즘 등이 있다. 본 고에서는 자율 주행 자동차에 적용되는 IT SW 기술 중심으로 살펴본다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.04a
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• pp.170-172
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• 2014

트래픽 텔레매틱스 어플리케이션으로 알려진 차량 무선통신 서비스는 현재 교통에 대해서 차량 주행환경에 대해 더욱 안전하고 효율적으로 연구되고 발전하고 있는 추세이다. 차량 통신에서는 WAVE (Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments) 표준을 채택함으로써 차량 간 통신 과 차량과 기지국 간 통신에 WAVE 표준을 지킨다. 차량 통신에서는 다양한 주행환경에 따라 전파에 따른 경로 손실 모델이 적용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 파라미터에 따른 주행환경을 구분하고 구분된 주행환경에 따라 적합한 경로 손실 모델에 대해서 연구한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.961-966
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• 2009

When constructing a high-speed railroad, the reduction of the distance between track centers and the width of track bed will save the construction cost. However the shortening the distance between track centers may cause the stability problems due to higher wind pressure. Therefore the extensive technical review and aerodynamical study should be performed to determine the adequate distance between track centers. In this study, the impact that the increase in wind pressure due to the change of aerodynamic phenomena with the change of the distance between track centers may have on two trains passing by each other was predicted, and the stability of train operation was analyzed in order to review the distance between track centers suitable to Honam HSR trains. We conducted the parametric study of the effects of train wind on the running stability.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.7 no.4 s.26
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• pp.185-202
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• 2005

In this research, to get over restrictions of a field expreiment, we modeled a planning road through the 3D Virtual Reality and achieved data about dynamic response related to sector fluctuation and about driver's visual behavior on testers' driving the Driving Simulator Car with Eye Camera. We made constant efforts to reduce the non-reality and side effect of Driving Simulator on maximizing the accord between motion reproduction and virtual reality based on data Driving Simulator's graphic module achieved by dynamic analysis module. Moreover, we achieved data of driver's natural visual behavior using Eye Camera(FaceLAB) that is able to make an expriment without such attaching equipments such as a helmet and lense. In this paper, to evaluate the level of road's safety, we grasp the meaning of the fluctuation of safety that drivers feel according to change of road geometric structure with methods of Driving Simulator and Eye Camera and investigate the relationship between road geometric structure and safety level. Through this process, we suggest the method to evaluate the road making drivers comfortable and pleasant from planning schemes.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.109-118
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• 2009

The conventional lane changing model has been developed without acceleration or deceleration of vehicles at target lane. Thus, existing lane changing models have limitation to apply in real world. In this paper, lane changing model considered acceleration or deceleration, and calculated the safety distance between subject vehicle and adjacent vehicles for lane changing as well. Simulation was conducted to verify the validity and the efficiency of the developed lane changing model in this paper. Several scenarios were carefully examined by safety distance between subject vehicle and adjacent vehicles. In the result, it was verified that if gap between subject vehicle and adjacent vehicles is larger than safety distance, lane changing behavior between subject vehicle and adjacent vehicles avoids collision. The suggested lane changing model may be applied at the future driver assistance system and advanced safety vehicle.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.95-95
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• 2004

철도차량용 주행장치인 대차는 차체의 하중을 지지하고, 승객 및 차량의 안전, 주행성능 및 승차감에 지대한 영향을 미치는 핵심 구조부품이다. 주행장치는 크게 대차틀, 차륜 및 차축, 1차 2차 현가장치, 제동장치, 전동기 및 동력전달장치 등으로 구성되며, 대차틀은 형상이 복잡하고 하중을 직접 지지할 뿐만 아니라 하중조건도 정적 및 동적하중이 복합적으로 작용하고 있다. 대차틀은 차체 자중 및 승객 하중에 의한 정하중과 곡선주행, 제동시 발생하는 하중 및 불규칙한 선로와 차체, 주행장치, 윤축의 운동모드에 의한 동하중을 받고 있다.(중략)

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.141-146
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• 1999

본 연구는 평면곡선부의 차량속도변화와 교통사고에 대한 영향을 분석하기 위해 수행되었으며, 이를 위해 곡선반경별로 진입부 직선도로 - 곡선부 - 이탈부 직선도로로 구분하여 각 주행속도를 산정하였다. 본 연구에서는 선행차량에 의해 영향을 받지 않는 속도를 이용하여 평면곡선부 기하구조의 영향을 분석하였다. 이러한 곡선부의 주행 속도를 분석한 결과, 곡선반경별 최저속도와 그 속도가 나타나는 위치를 분석하였고, 해당 도로구간의 교통사고자료를 분석하여 평면곡선부의 차량주행속도변화와 교통사고 발생간의 관계를 규명하였다. 연구 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 운전자들은 곡선시작지점에 도착하기 전에 충분히 속도를 줄이고, 곡선부에서 가장 낮은 속도가 나타나는 위치는 곡선시점의 후방에서 나타나고 이는 운전자의 시거에 의한 영향이다. 둘째, 곡선부에서의 속도변화폭이 클수록 사고위험성은 크고 실제 교통사고의 발생건수는 높다. 본 연구의 결과에 의해 도로 주행의 안전성을 고려한 평가지표를 개발할 수 있으며, 이에 의한 일관성 있는 도로설계를 유도할 수 있다.