• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.1300-1305
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• 2011

Environmental Impact is getting more attention in many feasibility studies for railroad-related projects and research items. For sustainable growth and green transportation, the benefits typically used for feasibility studies in railway-related projects, are composed mostly of economic criterions which is not considering growing attention on changing paradigm. Based on the analysis of current methodologies, improvements in estimating environmental impact especially on noise and pollution are suggested.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.135-141
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• 2016

This study aims to analyze the feasibility of installing a storage facility and make recommendations based on a cost-benefit analysis regarding the installation of a storage facility capable of preventing both floods and droughts. The capacity and installation costs are specified for the storage facility necessary to prevent floods, and a cost-benefit analysis is conducted by calculating the costs and benefits for each cost or benefit factor such as loss amounts, recovery costs, and drought prevention. The information can be used as the basic data for suggesting the feasibility of installing a multipurpose storage facility capable of preventing floods and droughts simultaneously. Also, this study expects to utilize its detailed results in a number of different ways including the prediction of loss amounts from natural disasters.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.169-181
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• 2017

As vehicle supply rate increases, traffic jam-related problems emerge and sharing transportation including carpool, centered on the advanced countries, becomes a major interest. This study aims to analyze benefit generated by carpool during the rush hours of medium and long distance travel, focused on the workers of public Agencies relocated to innovation cities. In order to compute benefit, carpool demand of relocated public Agencies was estimated and travel speed was estimated according to reduced traffic volume through carpool adoption using a traffic flow model. The benefit were computed dividing them into direct benefit and indirect benefit. As a result, 23billion KRW and 56.5billion KRW were annually revealed to be generated in terms of direct benefit and indirect benefit. The study result is expected to be used as part of basic research to adopt carpool for future traffic demand management.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.570-574
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• 2008

용수 공급의 편익에 대한 개념적인 접근을 시도하였다. 실제 용수공급과 관련된 많은 국가 사업이 진행되고 있고 이에 대한 타당성검토가 KDI등을 통해 수행되고 있다. 물론 일반적이고 공통적인 잣대를 가지고 국가사업을 평가해야 겠지만 수자원에 대한 특수성을 반영하지 못한 다면 자칫 사회적인 혼란이 야기될 것이다. 수자원의 공급을 통해 발생하는 편익은 유형의 효과만이 아니라 무형의 효과가 더 크고 이를 반드시 반영해야 할 것이다. 편익이란 기본적으로 소비자가 느끼는 효용(utility)의 합이며 생산활동 과정에서 파급되는 부가가치를 의미한다. 따라서 이것들이 타당성분석과정에 반영되어야 할 것이다.

• Journal of Korea Port Economic Association
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.17-34
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• 2017

This study aims to analyze the freight transport demand and benefit for the introduction of an automated freight transport system focusing on the Global Industry and Logistics City (GILC) in Busan. In pursuit of this aim, four alternatives were calculated - using the freight volume estimating methods and included, the number of businesses, the number of employees set up, future estimated cargo volume, and switched volume from other transport modes into the GILC. Economic benefits were analyzed against social benefits and costs accordingly. The result of the freight transport demand forecast found, the cargo volume of "Alternative 2-1" to be the most advantageous, applying the number of employee unit method and proportion of employees in Gangseo-gu, Busan. In addition to the conventional analysis of direct benefit items (reduction of transport time, traffic accidents and environmental costs), this study also considered additional benefit items (congestion costs savings, and road maintenance costs in terms of opportunity cost). It also considered advanced value for money research in guidance on rail appraisal of U.K, Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2003 of Germany, and RailDec of the United States. The study aims to further contribute to estimating minimum cargo transport demands and assess the economic feasibility of the introduction of new intermodal automated freight transport systems in the future.

• Environmental and Resource Economics Review
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.101-134
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• 2005

Economic feasibility analysis for the public projects such as sewer improvement project differs from the one for the project by profit organization in that the former has to take into consideration the public benefit that cannot be priced in the market. This study presents a model case study for the economic feasibility analysis for the sewer improvement project by the City of Gumi, Korea. The project is planned for the period of 2003~2021. It utilized Contingent Valuation Method(CVM) to assess the public benefits such as improvement of environmental quality and quality of life that can not be priced in the market. WTP(Willing-to-pay) of a household of the Gumi was estimated at 2,865 Korean Won on average. The result of an economic feasibility test including the estimated WTP indicates that B/C ratio of the project turned out to be 0.97, slightly less than 1. This study is the first application of WTP estimated by CVM to the economic feasibility analysis of public project in Korea. It is expected to contribute to the decision makings in the public policy domain as well as academic development.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.202-214
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• 2007

The concept of HSA (Home Service Aggregator) is derived from performing the energy IT business efficiently as well as successfully launcing a new service based on BPL (Broadband over Power Line). The HSA business using a BPL can extend the field of energy industry and an give a chance to create a new demand by consumer-oriented services. This study focuses on the exact evaluation of HSA business using BPL, and reasonable trusty evaluation should be the first step to launch the HSA business. In this study, the categories of cost are comprised of equipment (mainly RSM and MGW) cost, instalation cost, and maintenance cost. AMR (Automatic Meter Reading), internet integration billing service, integration charging service, internet service, sorority service, and electricity safety are listed for benefit. In this study, the ROI of HSA business is 0.9594, which is less than 1. However, that value does not consider the electricity safety benefit which is classified as a social benefit. Therefore, the value can be above 1 if it includes social and private benefits.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.203-211
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• 2000

In the GIS literature, evaluation efforts have also been rare and unsystematic because of the difficulties in measuring impacts, and the lack of developed methodologies and evaluation criteria. Using a survey of the an ten local authorities in Korea, this research examines the benefits of using GIS and analyze the factors which affect the benefits of GIS in local authorities. Following are the major findings of this empirical research. First, most of the local authorities employees surveyed report improvements in operational and decision-making benefits. Second, factors influencing the benefits of GIS include political support and performance of the GIS system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.1642-1646
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 이들 문제점을 극복하기 위해 수도권을 대상으로 하여 용수를 사용하는 소비자의 BOD 개선정도별 지불의사(WTP)를 설문을 조사하고, 설문결과를 통계분석하여 수질개선(BOD)-지불의사(WTP) 관계식을 도출하였다. 이때 설문응답자가 최대한 설문대상재화를 객관적이고, 쉽게 이해할 수 있도록 설문지를 작성하였다. 사례연구로서 낙동강수계의 내성천 지방2급하천 구간에 계획한 송리원다목적댐을 대상으로 상수도 원수수질개선에 대한 편익을 산정하였다. 사례연구로서 낙동강수계의 내성천 지방2급하천 구간에 계획한 송리원다목적댐을 대상으로 적용하였다. 방류시나리오별 연평균편익산정 결과, 연평균계획방류량$(4.79\;m^3/s)$ 방류시 5,980 백만원, 풍수기(7$\sim$10월)를 제외한 기간의 계획방류량$(7.22\;m^3/s)$ 방류시 8,663 백만원, 수질악화기 계획방류량$(10.72\;m^3/s)$ 방류시 11,905 백만원, 최대계획방류량$(13.54\;m^3/s)$ 방류시 14,502 백만원으로 산정되었다. 본 연구에서 개발된 가구소득별 수질개선(BOD)-지불의사(WTP) 관계식을 이용함으로써 수질개선사업에 대한 원수수질편익을 산정할 때 사업전 후의 수질분석만 이루어진다면 실무에서 활용 가능한 편익산정방법이 될 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.819-824
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• 2007

This paper studied safety benefit of operation-effectiveness analysis on marine traffic safety facilities. In the operation-effectiveness of marine traffic safety facilities the benefits can be divided as safety benefit, transport benefit, and other benefit. Safety benefit was produced as the loss aversion cost of marine traffic caused by the reduction of marine accidents after establishing and operating marine traffic safety facilities. First of all the reduction rate marine accidents was estimated to do it, and the detail model of loss aversion cost was constructed Then each variable in the model was defined and the method of computation presented.