• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.457-465
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• 2015

A method of evaluating the optimal alignment range while considering ride comfort when performing line renewal of curved tracks for speed-up is proposed in this study. The proposed method was applied to analyze the optimal renewal range for horizontal alignments with the smallest curve radii in the Kyung-Bu high-speed line; a parametric study on the effects of various initial design conditions on the permissible renewal range and optimal alignment range was also performed. From the analysis results, it was found that the permissible range is enhanced in proportion to the increase in the curve radius and the cant. It was also verified that a slight adjustment of the horizontal alignment enables speed-up even in the case of R7000/R8000, placed in the ballasted track section of the Kyung-Bu high-speed line.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.417-426
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• 2015

The representative design elements of the road geometric structure are longitudinal slope, horizontal curve radius, super elevation, and transition curve. According to the function of a road, the design standards of these elements is applied by diverse combinations of them. This study divided expressway into homogeneous segments based on longitudinal slope and horizontal curve radius. And then, data required for analysis were matched to each segment, and the safety performance function was built by using the established data. crash modification factors which can explain traffic accident exposure rate were calculated. When the threshold value of horizontal curve radius R=1,000 m was set to 1.0, the crash modification factors at R=300 m was calculated as 1.33, which means that the accident exposure rate is increased by 33%. When the threshold value of the longitudinal slope 0% was set to 1.0, the crash modification factors demonstrated that the accident exposure rate decreases on the upward slope and the accident exposure rate increases on the downward slope. The results of this study can be used as basic information in the design of expressway geometries during the improvement or the construction of expressways.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.63-66
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 트림영역이 있는 NURBS 평면을 등기하 해석할 수 있는 방법을 제시한다. 기존 등기하 해석법으로 트림 NURBS 곡면을 해석하기 위해서는 해석 도메인이 여러 개의 사각형 패치로 분할되어있어야 한다. 그러나 본 연구에서 제안한 방법은 CAD에서 제공하는 트림곡선의 정보를 해석에 직접 사용할 수 있기 때문에 CAD 모델을 별도로 재구성해야하는 번거로움이 없다. NURBS 곡선 투영법을 이용하여 트림되는 요소를 찾고, 트림된 요소는 쿼드트리 분할법과 NEFEM에서 사용된 적분방법을 동시에 고려하면 어떤 경우의 트림 요소라도 적분이 가능하다. 다양한 수치 예제를 통하여 제안한 해석 방법을 검증하고, 기존의 등기하해석법으로 해석하기 어려운 다수의 트림영역이 존재하는 NURBS 평면을 해석하여 본 방법의 유용성을 검토한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.21-25
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• 2009

In this paper, we study the problem to fit a piecewise-quadratic polynomial curve to points in the plane. The curve consists of quadratic polynomial segments and two points are connected by a segment. But it passes through a subset of points, and for the points not to be passed, the error between the curve and the points is estimated in $L^{\infty}$ metric. We consider two optimization problems for the above problem. One is to reduce the number of segments of the curve, given the allowed error, and the other is to reduce the error between the curve and the points, while the curve has the number of segments less than or equal to the given integer. For the number n of given points, we propose $O(n^2)$ algorithm for the former problem and $O(n^3)$ algorithm for the latter.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.597-603
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• 2009

In this study, Based on the optimization developed in Um et al. (2009), optimum design method of the alignment when building new lines and renewing existing ones is presented. The object function used for optimization is passenger comfort ($P_{CT}$) which was proposed in BSI (2006). Other aspects of track/vehicle interaction will be treated in boundary conditions. And track/vehicle interaction analysis is peformed using KTX-II model. From the analysis results, it was found that the optimum alignments are affected by the angle (I) between adjacent straight lines and $R-L_t$ combinations. Also the dynamic analysis confirms well the results from the simplified analysis. However, In the most cases, the $P_{CT}$ values in the dynamic analysis are higher than the simplified $P_{CT}$ values. If both methods are used when optimizing the alignment, it will be possible to design the alignments more rapidly and reliably.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2004

도시 교통의 혼잡을 개선하기 위하여 대도시에서는 고가도로의 건설이 필수적이며, 고가도로 노선 내에서는 교통흐름의 원활화를 위하여 교량 자체의 평면 형상을 도로선형과 일치시켜야 하므로 특히 곡선교의 건설은 필수적이다. 아치교(arch bridge)나 곡선교(horizontally curved bridge)는 교량건설에 있어서 널리 적용되는 구조이며 적절히 설계가 이루어진다면 미관이 뛰어나고 매우 경제적인 교량구조가 될 수 있다. 또한 건설 지점의 입지조건 등에 의해 곡선교의 건설이 불가피한 경우가 많기 때문에 이에 대한 정확한 해석은 매우 중요하다.(중략)

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.77-84
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• 2016

In 2012, total GHG emissions in transport sector reached 88 Million ton CO2eq. The emissions generated in the road accounted for 94% of the transport sector. Currently, there are many efforts to operate an education and campaign for eco-driving. However study for eco-friendly vehicle control considering road alignment is limited. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to address fuel-efficient driving strategy in horizontal curve section. To fulfill the goal, designed ideal freeway horizontal curve road follows regulations about road structure. And safety speed is calculated for considering vehicle's safety on horizontal curve road. Authors composed the acceleration and deceleration scenario for each horizontal curve section and generated the speed profiles that are limited by the safety speed. Speed profiles are converted into force that horizontal curve affect to fuel consumption. Then, we calculated fuel consumption using Comprehensive Modal Emission Model. Then, we developed eco-driving strategy by selecting most fuel-efficient scenario. To validate this strategy, we selected study site and compared fuel consumption for eco and manual driving. As the result, fuel consumption when driver used eco-driving was lessened by 20.73% than that of manual driving.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.175-185
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• 2011

Geometric information is a key element for evaluating traffic safety and road maintenance. This study developed an algorithm to identify horizontal alignment using global positioning system(GPS) and inertial navigation system(INS) data. Roll and heading information extracted from GPS/INS were utilized to classify horizontal alignment into tangent, circular curve, and transition curve. The proposed algorithm consists of two components including smoothing for eliminating outlier and a heuristic classification algorithm. A genetic algorithm(GA) was adopted to calibrate parameters associated with the algorithm. Both freeway and rural highway data were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm. Promising results, which 90.48% and 88.24% of classification accuracy were obtainable for freeway and rural highway respectively, demonstrated the technical feasibility of the algorithm for the implementation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.562-568
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• 2011

Superimposition of horizontal and vertical curves occurs frequently owing to geographical conditions. It may hamper train ride comfort and running safety and inflate maintenance costs. In this study, when the horizontal and vertical curves are superimposed, in order to analyze the effects of the compensation cant, the analytical study for running safety, ride comfort and track forces was performed in high speed line. From the analysis results, it was found that it is better to apply the compensation cant at superimposition part.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.191-191
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• 2002