• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.83-95
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• 2009

The railway crossing is very dangerous because the track intersects with the road there. Thus, The laws were designed for safety of the railway crossing and they are classified as to the acts for the road and the railroad. For safety of the railway crossing, there are 'Road/Railroad Crossing Improvement Promotion Act', 'Enforcement Decree of Road/Railroad Crossing Improvement Promotion Act', 'Rules on Construction of Railroad', 'Rules on Safety Standards of Railroad Installations', and 'Enforcement Ordinance of Cable way/Railway Track Act' in the acts for the railroad and there are 'Road Traffic Act', 'Enforcement Ordinance of The Road Traffic Act', 'Ruled on Structure and Facility Standards of The Road', 'Rules on Structure And Facility Standards Of The Rural Road' and 'Rules on Structure and Facility Standards of The Installations for Bicycle' in the acts for the road. Both the acts for the road and the railroad have standards for the structure of the railway crossing. However, they have different standards. Besides, they don't have standards for new facilities which were recently installed for safety of the railway crossing. Therefore, we suggest new standards for safety of the railway crossing.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.24 no.2 s.88
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• pp.91-100
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• 2006

This paper examines the situation and tasks of UK rail privatization, especially focusing on after the Hatfield rail accident. Earlier research which focused on the UK's Privatization had little knowledge of the explanations for recent changes. Moreover they had difficulty making a direct comparison between national rail and the privatized rail. Therefore we aye left without a good explanation which has a comprehensive perspective. I attempt to show the change in the rail privatization Process and its outcome, focusing on after the Hatfield rail accident. This Paper argues that the UK's vail privatization process has a regulatory framework which is too complicated with overlapping responsibilities that brought about inefficiency, increasing costs and a superficial safety regime. Especially the planning of rail and infrastructure maintenance did not come to play an appropriate role. However after 2000, the government took charge of setting the strategy for railways, and the Office of Rail Regulation covered safety performance and cost. explain that these changes present a good opportunity to solve the problem of passing the buck for poor performance. Through the analysis, I find that the passenger rail network is well-suited to deliver long distance business and commuters and that the subsidy from the government is decreasing. However, performance, for example punctuality and reliability. should be improved. Especially the Hatfield rail accident caused a reduction in the satisfaction of passengers. In future. the problems of rising costs and monopoly franchise system should be addressed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.31-45
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• 2017

According to the railway accident statistics in recent years, the frequency of accidents has been significantly reduced, due to the advance of related technologies and the establishment of safety information management systems. Nonetheless, accidents due to errors in the operation and maintenance phase and faults in safety design continue to occur. Therefore, to prevent accidents, guidelines for the safety design and manufacture of railway vehicles were established, and a request for the independent safety evaluation of safety designs was made. To respond to this, rail system developers must prepare safety cases as a safety activity product. One of the main items of these safety cases is the safety-related application conditions (SRAC) and, thus, the question of how to develop these SRAC is an important one. The SRAC studies reported so far focused only on the simplicity of the derivation procedure and the specific safety activities in the design phase. This method seems to have the advantage of quickly deriving SRAC items. However, there is a risk that some important safety-related items may be missing. As such, this paper proposes an improved method of developing the SRAC based on the idea of performing both the safety design and safety evaluation activities throughout the whole system lifecycle. In this way, it is possible to develop and manage the SRAC more systematically. Especially, considering the SRAC from the initial stage of the design can allow the safety requirements to be reflected to a greater extent. Also, an application case study on railway signaling systems shows that the method presented herein can prevent the omission of important safety-related items, due to the consideration of the SRAC throughout the system lifecycle.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.50-57
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• 2017

This study investigated the causes and problems of train operation impediments through the statistics analysis of 8 years'internal data of Daejeon Metropolitan Express Transit. By evaluating the risks regarding the system, equipment, and parts of high risk group, this study measured the Risk Index Severity, and applied the $5{\times}5$ Risk Assessment Matrix which is a method of risk management to calculate the scale of risk to analyze the safety level and allowance range. As a result, the car sector, the most serious risk, followed by machinery and equipment sector showed that the inherent risk. In particular, the door broken and the door rail signaling and control devices due to defects of the vehicle is high, but also the severity, and frequency are showing very frequent additional potential accidents. PSD also had defects in the machinery sector appeared to be the most dangerous of the PSD poor safety gates, it was found that the glass also involve the risk of mishandling and breakage of the PSD. This study intended to contribute to the transportation benefits through the safety and stable operation of Metropolitan Express Transit.

• JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL WORLD
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• s.261
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• pp.70-76
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• 1998

철도분야에서의 전기$\cdot$신호설비 고장은 열차의 정상운행에 차질을 일으켜 사회적으로 커다란 영향을 끼치게 되므로 설비의 유지관리를 위해서는 많은 노력이 필요하다. 또 이러한 보전작업에는 철도 설비가 널리 산재되어 있기 때문에 이동을 수반하는 작업, 열차가 통과하지 않는 야간 작업, 만일의 경우 위험을 수반하는 작업 등, 이 분야 특유의 작업이 있다. 한편 보전작업에 종사하는 기술자는 해마다 줄어들고 있으며 앞으로 젊은 근로자의 부족은 더욱더 심해질 것으로 보인다. 그러한 이유로 설비보전의 자력화, 미연의 고장방지, 고장의 조기복구와 재발방지를 목표로 지금까지 사람의 손에 의지해 오던 설비보전을 기계화하고 자동화하는 시스템을 개발하게 되었다. 이 시스템은 대상설비에 따라 다음의 3가지 시스템으로 분류된다. $\cdot$신호설비 보전시스템 $\cdot$변전$\cdot$수배전설비 보전시스템$\cdot$연선전기설비 보전시스템 이들시스템에 공통적인 주요 특징을 들면 아래와 같다. (1)사고를 미연에 방지하고 사고원인을 규명 이벤트발생 전후의 변화나 중장기트렌드를 원격감시할 수 있다. (2)시스템의 변경$\cdot$증설이 용이 인텔리전트단말에 의하여 처리를 계층화하였기 때문에 빌딩블록식으로 시스템을 확장할 수 있다. (3)경제적인 시스템 필드 네트워크의 채용으로 공사비를 삭감할 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.473-485
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• 2012

최근 현대사회는 자동차, 철도 및 항공 등 대형 복합 시스템의 체계 속에서 지내고 있으며, 고장 및 사고로 인한 시스템의 안전 설계에 대한 고려와 안전에 대한 인식이 증가하고 있다. 따라서 기존의 시스템공학 프로세스에서 다루는 시스템 설계에 대한 단계별 안전 활동의 강화의 필요성 역시 강조되고 있다. 그 중에서도 시스템 설계의 최종 활동에 해당하는 검증 단계 활동이 제대로 수행되어야만 초기에 의도한 시스템 설계의 안전도 향상을 바라볼 수 있을 것이다. 본 논문에서는 안전 활동을 고려한 시스템공학 프로세스의 검증 단계의 개선사항 도출과 모델링을 통해 안전중시 시스템인 철도 차량 운전실 시스템을 대상으로 적용 및 조정 구축에 대한 내용을 기술하고 있다. 본 연구의 결과를 토대로 향후 품질 향상 및 비용 절감과 데이터의 관리 및 추적기능을 개선함으로써 안전사고 발생 가능성을 줄일 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1185_1186
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• 2009

철도신호시스템은 열차들의 운행간격과 열차진로를 제어하는 기능을 담당함으로써 열차를 안전하고 효율적으로 운영하는 데 있어 핵심적인 역할을 수행한다. 철도신호시스템의 고장은 열차운행중지를 비롯하여 열차충돌이나 탈선등과 같은 치명적인 사고로 직결될 수 있기 때문에 시스템의 신뢰성과 안전성이 매우 중요하다. 현재까지 철도신호시스템에서는 지존의 지상신호방식이 많이 사용되어 왔으나 지상에 설치된 신호기 현시상태를 기관사가 확인하여 열차속도를 제어함으로써 기관사의 인적 오류 등의 사고 위험이 있다. 아울러 시스템의 수명이 다 되어 시스템절체의 필요성이 있다. 이에 따라 최근에는 컴퓨터 및 통신기술을 이용하여 열차속도제어 정보를 차상으로 송신하고, 차량에서 열차속도를 제어하는 차상신호방식이 도입 적용 되어 효과를 보고 있다. 따라서 수명이 다된 신호시스템을 교체하기 위하여 승객을 위한 운행서비스를 하면서 새로운 방식으로 절체 하는 것이 필요하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 시스템 절체과정의 절차와 시스템검증을 위한 일련의 과정중 간섭의 문제점을 시험평가를 통해 확인하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.82-91
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• 2012

This paper deals with the development and feasible study of the train to pedestrian protection airbag. The concept of the airbag system is to protect the pedestrian like as workers on railroad. The airbag system includes cushions, gas generators, a housing, sliding fixture, anti-bouncing airbag, and a leg protection bumper. Those things were designed and fabricated. The performance of the airbag system was evaluated in the sense of the static deployment test, drop test, dynamic motion test and field(train level) test. The deployment logic, TTF(Time to fire), and the inner pressure of the cushion were also investigated for the airbag.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1180-1186
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• 2007

This paper contains that the current emergency response procedure through the railroad accident type at domestic and foreign, and the response program which is more systematic as a result of improving weaknesses. Because the response program at home is less sufficient than developed country's, we have made an investigation into system of classification in America, British, Germany, Japan for organizing separate emergency response code. we have researched the recognition response of five senses for minimizing the accident damage in a way of spreading the emergency response type analyzed through the accident procedure according to the feature of five senses by the first recognizer. Based on the first recognitions response of five senses, the scenario has been established according to each types and the criteria of accident has been researched through classifying the recognition of five senses response level, early response level, self-response level, outside support level.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.302-306
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• 2004

Many long railway tunnels without emergency evacuation system or ventilation system are under construction or in-use in Korea. In the case of tunnel-fire, many fatalities are occur in current condition. Current safety level is estimated in this study, for the efficient investment on safety. But so many uncertainties in major input parameters make the safety estimation difficult. In this study, probabilistic techniques are applied for the consideration of uncertainties in major input parameters. As results of this study, accident scenarios and survival ratio under tunnel fire accident are determined for various conditions.