• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.71-82
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• 2020

The existing transportation system, which is based on internal combustion engines, is rapidly being converted to electrification. Thus, eco-friendly public transportation with high transportation efficiency will continue to spread throughout the market in the near future. The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the cognitive characteristics of passengers redgarding the technical and social factors of various public transportation means to help a successful introduction of eco-friendly public transit. Through a survey questionnaire (N=485), seven factors of seven transportation modes were evaluated and analyzed using principal component analysis. As a result, it is confirmed that potential passengers have high expectations for the eco-friendliness and city image of the eco-friendly buses. Also, it is confirmed that eco-friendly buses are superior in cleanliness and ride comfort than diesel buses. Given the study's results, this study identifies the cognitive characteristics of passengers regarding eco-friendly public transportation. We hope that these results will be used as basic information for image positioning and improved service with the use of eco-friendly transportation.

• Korea Petroleum Association Journal
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• s.292
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• pp.24-27
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• 2014

환경부에서는 1990년대 말경 대기오염 문제를 해결하기 위한 방안으로서 디젤 버스를 CNG 버스로 대체하고자 CNG 탱크 추가 등으로 가격이 비싼 CNG 버스에 대하여 보조금을 지급하고 CNG 충전 인프라를 구축하는 등의 지원정책을 실시하여, 현재 국내에서 운행하는 버스는 일부 소도시를 제외하면 대부분 CNG 버스로 대체되었다. 이러한 CNG 버스 정책으로 인하여 당시만 해도 매연 배출이 심하던 디젤 버스로 인한 공해물질이 줄어들고 대기질이 어느 정도 개선된 효과를 거두었다. 최근들어 환경에 대한 중요 이슈의 개념이 변화하고 있으며 자동차 기술도 새로운 변모를 보여주고 있는 것이 현실이기 때문에 CNG 버스만으로 운영되는 정책이 향후에도 계속 유지가 되어야 할지 다시 한번 생각해보아야 할 필요가 있다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.114-123
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• 2018

As recognizing the necessity of eco-friendly vehicles in order to reduce air pollution from road sector, Korean government has established and implemented a promotion policy which is encouraging the public transportation companies to purchase CNG buses in replacing diesel buses since 2000s. With CNG bus promotion policy, the number of CNG buses had been increased on the road of metropolitan area and big cities. However, increasing rate of CNG buses had been fluctuated between the decrease and the increase since year 2014. In this study, the impact of fuel cost competitiveness between diesel and CNG on CNG bus increasing volume was testified by simple regression, which was only assumed by precedent research on the CNG promotion policy. And this study suggested the necessity of harmonization among the related policies conducted by related Ministries. Eventually this study should contribute to enhance the validity of CNG bus promotion policy. And it is expected that Korean government should apply the new policy suggestion of this study in the establishment of government's promotion policy on LNG cargo trucks and Zero Emission Vehicles in the future.

• Journal of Drive and Control
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.81-85
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• 2022

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.63-72
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• 2014

The exchangeable battery electric bus is an eco-friendly public transportation vehicle. Due to the technological limitation, however, it should repeatedly change batteries with charged ones. The unmanned battery exchangeable electric bus being studied in Korea can exchange batteries automatically by using a battery swapping system. In this paper, we propose an unmanned battery exchangeable electric bus management system. The proposed system provides two services: the bus information service and the battery change scheduling service. The bus information service is the existing traditional metropolitan area bus information systems, which inform bus passengers how long they should wait for the buses. Our second service assigns a low-battery bus, which needs to change the batteries, to the battery swapping system, which stores fully-charged batteries. To validate the proposed system, we model the system by using the DEVS formalism. The simulation result shows that the proposed system provides the services properly.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.241-242
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• 2011

교통 약자 승객의 편의성 증대, 도심의 매연 감소 및 온실가스 저감 등 대중 교통 선진화를 위해 친환경 초저상 전기버스의 개발이 필요하다. 초저상 전기버스는 초저상 액슬 일체형 휠모터 구동시스템을 탑재한 형태로 구현이 가능하며, 초저상 액슬 일체형 휠모터 구동시스템은 구동 모터를 액슬 허브에 일체화 시킴으로써 기존 구동시스템 대비 무게 및 사이즈가 대폭 줄어들고, 동력 전달 매커니즘을 획기적으로 개선하여 효율 향상 및 차량 연비 개선이 가능하다. 특히 바퀴 중심과 액슬 출력 중심에 단차를 둠으로써 차량의 전방 바닥 뿐만 아니라 후방바닥을 평평하게 유지할 수 있어 실내 공간이 획기적으로 개선되어 교통 약자를 포함한 승객의 편의성을 향상시킬 수 있다. 또한, 액슬 일체형 휠모터 구동시스템은 각 휠의 분산 구동이 가능하므로 동특성 및 구동제어성이 뛰어나고, ESP(Electronic Stability Program), VDC(Vehicle Dynamic Control) 등과 연계하여 통합적인 지능형 시스템을 구현할 수 있다. 액슬 일체형 휠모터 구동시스템은 휠모터와 감속기 및 휠모터제어기 등으로 구성되며, 본 논문에서는 초저상 액슬 일체형 구동시스템용 120kW급 휠모터 및 휠모터제어기의 개발 및 다이나모 환경에서 T-N 특성 및 최대 출력 시험, 효율 시험을 통해 전기버스 등 대형 차량(Heavy Duty Vehicle)에 적용 가능한 전기동력시스템의 성능을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.1-11
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• 2019

The accident of mass transit such as a bus could draw the large casualties and this induces social and economic losses. Recently, severe bus accidents caused by tiredness and inattention of bus drivers occurred and those lead to growing interest in bus accidents and the drivers' work environment. Therefore, this study analyzes the accident based on the work environment of bus drivers and route-bus categories. For the research, this study collected digital tachograph data and the bus company information for 271 domestic bus companies in 2017 and used ANOVA test and chi-square test as statistical methodologies. As a result, we figured out there are statistically significant differences in the accident according to the working environments. Especially, the present study confirmed the intracity bus with working every other day has the most frequent accidents. We expect that the results of this study be used as foundations for the improvement of working conditions to reduce route-bus accidents in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.70-80
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• 2017

According with annual report by the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development), South Korea is at the top of the list of countries with bad air pollution (fine dust particles) and the South Korean government announced the cause to be due to the particle emissions of large and old diesel vehicles. To solve this issue, the government (jointly with related ministries), promoted the "Special Measures for Comprehensive Fine Dust Management Program" as a way to improve environmental pollution by reducing the overall output of fine dust particles emitted by public vehicles. The measure implemented a gas subsidy system to convert eco-friendly vehicles of city and chartered buses throughout the country. In this study, we take a look at the economical evaluation, comparison and analysis of the conversion of diesel vehicles to natural gas (CNG) vehicles. This report represent the basis for the need to expand the funds of the subsidy program and reviews the feasibility of the policy by taking into consideration the social and economical benefits and the effect in the environment when converting diesel fuel to natural gas vehicles through the type-specific fuel conversion scenarios.

• Clean Technology
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.263-272
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• 2019

Air pollutants have a high impact on everyday life as well as on human health; therefore, new technologies such as low-emission vehicles and add-on systems for air pollutant reduction are needed for our society. However, the environmental benefits and costs of those technologies are not taken into account in existing economic feasibility assessments, which is a barrier that needs to be overcome for green technology to achieve wide dissemination and fast penetration in the market. Thus, this study develops a methodology to assess the economic feasibility of an air pollutant reduction technology by taking into account the social costs from air pollutants and carries out a case study to validate the methodology. Because the social unit costs for air pollutants have not been evaluated yet in South Korea, the methodology uses the social unit costs evaluated for the European Union that are then converted to those for South Korea based on the measuring criteria for vehicle emission gases, parity purchasing price, foreign currency exchange rate, and customer price index. The social unit costs for South Korea are used to assess economic feasibility. A case study was performed to assess the economic feasibility of a dual fuel system using diesel and compressed natural gas by taking into account social costs from air pollutants as well as economic costs. This study could contribute to assessing the true economic feasibility of green technology, projects, and policy related with air pollutant reduction.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.509-512
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• 2009

최근 차량용 IT 기술이 발달함에 따라 네비게이션, 위치추적, 인터넷 접수, 원격 차량 진단, 사고감지, 긴급구난, 교통정보 등을 제공하는 서비스들이 등장하고 있다. 또한 차량의 편의성과 안정성을 추구함과 동시에 친환경 등에 대한 요구도 증가하고 있다. 그리고 최근 차량 상호간 정보의 교환이 더욱 필요해짐에 따라 차량간의 무선 통신 기능이 중요해지고 있으며 차량 내의 네트워크 기술에 대한 연구도 필요하다. 현재 차량 내 네트워크로는 CAN, LIN, MOST등의 유선으로 된 버스 시스템을 중심으로 한 차량 제어 시스템과 멀티미디어 시스템으로 크게 구분할 수 있다. 그러나 자동차 내에 장치 배선이 복잡해짐에 따라 차량의 무게 증가, 고장율의 증가, 연비 저하 등으로 이어지고 있다. 이러한 문제를 보완하기 위해 차량 내에 무선 센서 네트워크 시스템과의 통합 개발이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 빠르게 발전하고 있는 차량 내 네트워크에 대한 기술개발 동향을 분석하고, 유무선 통합형 차량 내 네트워크 응용 서비스들을 제시하고자 한다.