• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.43 no.5
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• pp.651-657
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• 2023

Railroad alignment improvements and operating speed increase occupy considerable portion in recent railroad market. Developing countries have limitations to construction of new high speed railroads due to the burden of budgets and the lack of demands, and the projects of operating speed increase arepracticallyrecommended. Thisstudy developed the methodologyto provide the railroad alignment design alternatives and the costs by upgrading the "Intelligent Railroad Alignment Design Program (ei-Rail)" which has been used to obtain the alignment plans and construction costs for railroad construction projects. The program provides the cost for alignment improvement, design drafts and the effects of operating speed increase with the input of target improvement speed and the prevailing railroad alignment on the numerical map. It is then expected for the ei-Rail program to be used for the supporting tool for the railroad alignment improvement projects.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.399-408
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• 2006

Railroads have been developed as public transportation and made a great contribution to national economic growth. But after the mid-20th century, its qualities have been getting low because of focusing on the investment and development of cars and airplanes. Its role which is getting the excellent merits on the mass transportation, rapid transit, safety, state period, energy efficiency, and prevention of environmental pollution has been reconsidered. Elements of horizontal alignment are needed in the case where the existing railroad lines should be improved or moved. If its design drawing was lost or damaged, it is impossible to recover. It is not easy to repair for it as disasters. We must understand an existing railroad line to bring a function included a basic geography situation. In this study, we acquire, analyze, and process the digital images of the railroad and then reappear shape of three dimension. And we expect to be utilized to construct the facility information by extracting the alignment elements of existing railroad lines reversely.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.837-842
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• 2022

The "Intelligent Railroad Alignment Design Program (ei-Rail) developed in 2013 has been adopted in the planning and the evaluation/validation of design results of oversea railroad construction projects. Target countries of Korean railroad industries requires the operating speed increase with alignment improvement and the double tracking of prevailing single track railroads as well as new railroad construction. This study is to develop an additional module for double tracking project of prevailing single track railroads in the ei-Rail. The developed method is based on the geometrics of prevailing railroad, and the definition of planned project determines the project cost based on the unit cost by work type, and provides the draft design of double track. The module was validated with a oversea case. It is then expected for oversea railroad double tracking project more efficiently in planning and the evaluation of design results.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.574-581
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• 1999

비선형 임계속도를 주행시험대를 이용하여 측정하였으며 비선형 임계속도가 관성에 의한 과도 현상이 아님을 확인하기 위하여 주행속도를 연속 그리고 불연속적으로 감가속 하면서 선형 및 비선형 임계속도를 측정하였다. 또한 차량의 안정성을 간편하게 예측할 때 대차모델만을 사용하던 종래의 방법이 타당한지 확인하였으며 차량의 임계속도와 응답주파수를 예측하기 위하여 산업체에서 사용되던 간편 식들의 정확성을 검토한 결과 다음의 결과를 도출할 수 있었다. (중략)

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.63-71
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• 2004

This research is to reconstruction of railway alignment using GPS data, an investigation is made on the method of optimum simplification for reduction of unnecessary linear data, improve the accuracy by using four simplification algorithms among the methods. By applying two measured of displacement between observed data and it's simplification methods have been evaluated. The results showed that the complexities of lines is not practical to investigate simplification algorithms, the Douglas-Peucker method produced a little displacement between observed data and it's simplification. Its by using the Douglas-Peucker method to observed linear GPS data in railway track, design elements of horizontal alignment have been calculated. Then we could know that obtain the good results fur reconstruction of alignment elements through the methods and algorithns of this study.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.407-415
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• 2015

The railway route and alignment planning have been executed with a limited number of alternatives based on the site pre-survey and the topographic map. This study developed an intelligent railway alignment planning program (ei-Rail) which can derive all the considerable design alternatives and provide the data for the alternative evaluation such as constructions cost, operation cost, and etc. According to the comparisons with prevailing planned railway projects, the time and cost for planning can be reduced as well as the construction costs. This program may contribute to the development of railway industry by reducing the time and cost for planning as well as the total project cost.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2009.07a
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• pp.1193_1194
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• 2009

일반적으로 자기부상열차는 고속, 내구성, 안전성 등을 만족하는 가장 적합한 시스템 중 하나로 부각되고 있다. 300[km/h] 이하의 중저속 자기부상철도의 경우, 추진용으로 선형유도전동기가 사용되고 있으며, 초고속 자기부상철도의 경우, 선형유도전동기보다 고효율, 고출력의 특성을 가지는 선형동기전동기가 사용되고 있다. 한국철도기술연구원에서는 2008년도부터 700[km/h]급 초고속튜브열차용 선형동기전동기연구를 시작하였으며, 추진/부상 일체형 권선형 선형동기전동기연구를 수행하고 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 초고속튜브열차용 선형동기전동기 연구의 일환으로, 축소형 영구자석형 선형동기전동기(PM-LSM)의 수학적 방법에 의한 기본설계를 수행하였으며, 이를 이동자만을 고려한 자기등가회로법을 이용하여 권선형 선형동기전동기(EM-LSM)로 변환 설계를 수행하였다. 또한 설계된 PM-LSM과 EM-LSM 모델의 FEM 해석을 이용한 특성 분석을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 변환 설계기법의 정확도 검증 연구를 수행하였다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.165-172
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• 2015

The appropriateness of railway route design is generally evaluated by the future value corresponding to the travel demand or benefit-cost analysis. These methods may have the limitation for the reasons that all the design alternatives cannot be considered, and the differentiation between the alternatives may not be significant because the alternatives are based on the strict basic scheme such as the design criteria. In addition, the cost varies by the design elements. In this study, all the design alternatives are considered with the automatized tool and the design criteria, and evaluated with the multi-criterion decision making method. The weight for each design element with the analytic hierarchical process may be helpful to derive more efficient railway alignment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.397-401
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• 2014

In order to rationally design a new conceptual submerged floating railway, prediction of wave forces applied to the structure is very important. In this paper, equations to calculate such forces based on hydrodynamic theories were proposed and model tests were carried out. Inertia forces and drag forces, calculated using Morison's equation and the linear small amplitude wave theory, were in good agreement with the results from model tests conducted in a wave making tank. Drag forces were negligible compared with inertia forces. Also, wave forces showed linear variation with the changing wave heights. It was revealed that the linear wave theory and Morison's equation can give a simple and useful solution for the prediction of wave forces in the initial design stage of a submerged floating railway.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.106-113
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• 2014

In this study, a practical evaluation technique to detect the deterioration of railroad lines by means of train performance and track geometry measures is suggested. A train that has a specific performance and is running the straight line can make minimum travel time (ideal time). But the actual travel time will be increased by the track geometry and various speed limitations. By comparing these travel times, we can easily define the degree of line deterioration. This method does not require complex vehicle performance measures and/or specifications that exceed those of typical Train Performance Simulations (TPS). For this reason, ease of use is ensured and the results are similar to those obtained by running a TPS for practical evaluations.