• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.97-105
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• 2011

This paper presents how one can investigate the effects on crash occurrence of freeway geometric design elements including the horizontal, vertical alignment and road environment. At present, the available research results for the most part involve geometric data analysis that are obtained along a relatively long section of freeway, and, because of the long section's diverse geometric conditions, the results tend to miss the specific local geometric impacts on vehicle crashes. In this regard, this research attempts to establish vehicle crash models based on a set of freeway geometric patterns whose crash generating characteristics are identical because they are homogeneous in terms of producing the same vehicle operating speeds, and subsequently their actual relationships are described by providing statistical analysis made in this research. Also each standard is comprised of part of straight, curve and continuous curve. This research has revealed that each type of model has different relation between accident and geometry structure. This research results should be useful for doing more reasonable highway designs and safety audit analysis.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.383-389
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• 2011

Until now, in planning and constructing KTX and the Express Way, the connectivity and transfer between these facilities have not been considered. In this study the effect of mode choice behavior by connecting KTX and the Express Way is analyzed through estimating Multinomial Logit Model and Binary Logit Model. The SP and RP surveys to develop these models were carried out and the data were selected from the passengers using the KTX station, Express Bus Terminals and Rest Areas in the Express Way. To test the effect of connectivity and transfer in the field, the case study for Dongtan KTX station was carried out. According to the results, connecting the KTX station and the Express Way has the effect of increasing the demand by 30%. And this is caused by saving about 120 minutes of traveling time from Seoul to Pusan. This study shows that the connectivity and transfer can increase the efficiency of transportation system and the improvement in the mobility and accessibility will maximize the usages of these two facilities.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.36-47
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• 2020

The objective of this study is to analyze the effect of the shoulder-use lane, which is a representative traffic management technique that increases the road capacity. The operation of the shoulder-use lane has been actively used as a countermeasure to improve traffic congestion, because it has the effect of improving traffic flow during rush hour. In Korea, the shoulder-use lanes are available at Gyeongbu, Yeongdong, and on the Seoul Outer Ring expressway, and their use is gradually increasing. Therefore, a comprehensive analysis was conducted to analyze the effects of the shoulder-use lane; including 1) analysis of individual shoulder lanes based on a time space diagram, and 2) analysis of shoulder lanes by road axis. These findings can contribute to the efficient installation and operation of shoulder-use lanes on expressways.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.570-576
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• 2017

Trucks take up more portions than cars on highways. Due to this, road use relatively diminish and it serves locally as a threatening factor to nearby drivers. Baggage car accident has distinct characteristics so that it needs the application of different analysis opposed to ordinary accidents. Accident prediction model, one of accident analyses, is used to predict the numbers of accident in certain parts, establish traffic plans as well as accident prevention methods, and diagnose the danger of roads. Thus, this study aims to apply the accident rate of baggage car on highways and calculate the correction factor to be put in the accident prediction models. Accident data based on highway was collected and traffic amounts and accident documents between 2014 and 2016 were utilized. The author developed an accident prediction model based on numbers of annual accidents and set mean annual and daily traffic amounts. This study intends to identify the practical accident prediction model on highway and present an appropriate solution by comparing the prediction model in accords with the accident rate between baggage cars.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.9-18
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• 2018

This paper proposes new algorithms of accessibility indices to analyze the connectivity of the Korean highway network. First of all, we find a transportation network that presents Korea's highway network in graphs in 2011 and 2017. And we analyze and compare the nation's highway network in 2011 and 2017 using concepts such as associated number, the relative distance, the accessibility, the degree of connectivity, the index of dispersion, the diameter of graph theory. To do this, an algorithm is presented which can easily obtain various accessibility indices from a given transportation network. Using the simulation results of this study, we can find city that is the center of traffic in the highway transportation network. In addition, cities that are included in the network but are relatively underdeveloped can be found and used as basic data for enhancing the connectivity of the nationwide traffic in the future. Moreover, the proposed algorithms of accessibility indices, which are modeled on highway transport networks, can help identify the accessibility space structure of each city and provide criteria for efficient and reasonable selection of alternatives in various regional planning processes, including transportation.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.13 no.4 s.56
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• pp.107-115
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• 2009

The number of railway tunnel design is increasing recently compare to a great number of highway tunnel design which had increased with a lot of highway construction in the 70's and 80's. Therefore, there is more or less difference of time between highway tunnel and railway tunnel. In this paper, numerical analysis on two kinds of tunnels, such as two-forked road highway ventilation tunnel and double track railway tunnel with 4.3m of center line, in cases of with support materials condition and without support materials condition were conducted. Finally, stability of two kinds of tunnels were compared and analyzed through comparing of principal stresses and deviator stresses in the near base rock of tunnels using results of numerical analysis.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.273-280
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• 2014

This study examined whether Dybowski's brown frogs(Rana dybowskii) in noisy highway roadsides had different mating calls from those in natural sites. We selected four study sites: two rice paddy sites in Youngdong Highway roadside and two nearby natural counterparts. Frog calls were recorded between 18:30 and 20:00 on February 24, February 27, and March 14, 2014. Frog calls in the natural sites had fundamental frequency approximately at 700 Hz with two to four apparent harmonics, while frog calls in the highway sites had higher fundamental frequency with up to seven apparent harmonics. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) shows that a roadside site that are directly exposed to highway noise had statistically higher frog calling frequency than other study sites. However, the higher calling frequency was not found in another roadside site that differed in elevation from the highway and was buffered by forests. These results indicate that male frogs in a noisy highway roadside called females with a higher pitch and more apparent harmonics to avoid being masked by highway noise. These results also suggest that there is a threshold noise level that interrupts frog's mating behavior and it is needed to maintain highway roadside noise to this threshold level.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.177-184
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• 2011

There are several differences between freeways and general national roads in terms of structures, conditions and limited speeds. Likewise, the characteristics of $CO_2$ emission in these roads differ depending on the road types. For these reasons, it is necessary to compare the two types of roads in terms of $CO_2$ emissions. The study was performed targeting Gyeongbu Expressway and National Highway 1. Firstly, the amount of $CO_2$ emission each car was compared in the whole sections of the both. Secondly, top 10 sections were picked out, and then $CO_2$ emission each section were compared. Lastly, two sections which were with the highest and lowest amount of $CO_2$ emission per car, were compared. As results, it were found that there were less amount of $CO_2$ emission on freeways. because cars are running on uniform velocity at relatively high speed, and that there were more amount of $CO_2$ emission on the national highway. because of frequent intersections and associated congestion. It may be concluded that the amount of $CO_2$ emission at the national highway could be reduced if signal coordination and intersection intervals are improved there.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.8 no.1 s.27
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• pp.99-106
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• 2006

During the dry periods, many types of pollutant are accumulating on the paved surface by vehicle activities. Particularly, the highways are stormwater intensive landuses because of high imperviousness and high pollutant mass emissions from vehicles. The accumulated pollutants in highways are washed-off during a rainfall event and are highly contributing on water quality of receiving water bodies. The stormwater runoff from the highways are containing various pollutants such as metals, oil & grease and toxic chemicals originated from vehicles. Therefore, this research is performed to find pollutant characteristics in the magnitude of statistical pollutant concentrations during storm periods. During the monitoring periods, the first-flush phenomenon is visibly occurred on most storm events, which is confirmed from hydro- and pollute-graphs. The 95% confidence intervals of washed-off pollutant concentration are ranged to 154.7-257.1 mg/L for 755,138.9-197.6 mg/L for COD, 3.5-6.4 mg/L for oil & grease, 6.3-9.2 mg/L for TN and 2.3-3.31 mg/L for TP. The first flush effect is mostly occurred within initial 30 min of storm duration.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.103 no.2
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• pp.226-232
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• 2014

This study was carried out to provide a basic information to improve the landscape view preference with internet questionnaire on slopes of an expressway. According to a questionnaire, the 37% of respondents used express way 5 times per one year. The 89% of respondents catched a glimpse of cutting slopes during driving and felt a good impression with flowers or vegetation in cutting slopes of expressways. The 61% of respondents felt a bad impression, but the 40% in a good impression from logos in cutting slopes of expressways. To improve a landscape view in cutting slopes of express ways, 57% of the respondents preferred natural-friendly techniques, followed by common green techniques (19%), greening of concrete construction (12%) and improvement of landscape views (11%). Landscape view preference before and after construction of green logo in cutting slopes of Seosejong IC was good (43%) and very good (16%), while bad (9%). The 65% of respondents support the installation of drawing or logos in terraced retaining wall of cutting slopes of expressways.