• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.193-198
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• 2016

Lane change is an important issue in microscopic traffic flow simulations and active safety. Overtaking and changing lanes are dangerous driving maneuvers. This approach presents a lane-changing system based on speed and a minimum gap between vehicles in a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET). This paper proposes a solution to ensure the safety of drivers while changing lanes on highways. Efficient routing protocols could play a crucial role in VANET applications, safeguarding both drivers and passengers, and thus, maintaining a safe on-road environment. This paper focuses on the development of an intelligent transportation system that provides timely, reliable information to drivers and the concerned authorities. A test bed is created for the techniques used in the proposed system, where analysis takes place in an on-board embedded system designed for vehicle navigation. The designed system was tested on a four-lane road in Neemrana, India. Successful simulations were conducted with real-time network parameters to maximize quality of service and performance using Simulation of Urban Mobility and Network Simulator 2 (NS-2). The system implementation, together with the findings, is presented in this paper. Illustrating the approach are results from simulation using NS-2.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2017

국내 육상교통망의 중추적인 역할을 하는 고속도로는 $7{\times}9$ 형태로 양적, 질적 성장을 거듭하고 있다. 점차 복잡해지는 고속도로 기하구조에 대응하고자 차로유도선을 설치하여 운전자들의 보다 원활한 차로 변경을 유도하고 있으나 해당 시설의 설치기준이 부재하고, 그 효과 검증 또한 제한적으로 시행되고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구는 도로주행 시뮬레이터를 활용하여 주행안전성 측면에서 차로유도선의 효과를 재조명하고, 적정 연장 설치기준을 수립하는데 주된 초점을 맞추고 있다. 이를 위해, 피험자의 선호도를 조사하고, 가상의 주행환경에서 운전자의 차로 변경 행태를 분석하였다. 또한, 피험자가 차로변경 시 느끼는 편안함 정도를 계량화하기 위해 뇌파분석을 실시하였고, 도출된 결과에 대한 통계적 검증을 수행하였다. 본 연구는 차로유도선 설치기준 수립 시 기반자료로 활용될 것으로 기대한다.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.427-448
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• 2016

The stochastic phenomena of traffic network condition, such as traffic speed and density, are affected not only by exogenous traffic control but also by endogenous changes in service time during congestion. In this paper, we propose a mixed M/G/1 queuing model by introducing a condition-varying parameter of traffic congestion to reflect structural changes in the traffic network. We also develop congestion indices to evaluate network efficiency in terms of traffic flow and economic cost in traffic operating system using structure-changing queuing model, and perform scenario analysis according to various traffic network improvement policies. Empirical analysis using Korean highway traffic operating system shows that our suggested model better captures structural changes in the traffic queue. The scenario analysis also shows that occasional reversible lane operation during peak times can be more efficient and feasible than regular lane extension in Korea.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1416-1418
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• 2004

This paper proposes an image processing algorithm for detecting obstacles on road-lane using DLI(disparity of lane-related information) that is generated by stereo images acquired from dual cameras mounted on a moving vehicle. The DLI is a disparity that is acquired using single lane information from road lane detection. For the purpose to reduce processing time, we use small blocks obtained by edge-histogram based blocking logic. This algorithm detects moving objects such as preceding vehicles and obstacles. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in a personal computer with the road image data of a typical highway. We successfully performed experiments under a wide variety of road conditions without changing parameter values or adding human intervention. Experimental results also showed that the proposed DLI is quite successful.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.98-105
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• 2007

본 논문은 주행 차량의 차선 변경 시, 위험 여부를 판단하는 방법을 제안하고 시스템을 구현한다. 차선 변경의 위험 여부를 판단하기 위해서 첫째, 변경하고자 하는 차선에 관심 영역(ROI)을 설정해야 하고 둘째, 변경할 차선으로 자차가 이동할 때 자차에 위험이 될 차량을 정확하게 추출해야 하며 셋째, 추출된 차량의 방향과 상대 속도, 상대 거리를 계산하여 운전자에게 위험 경보를 울릴지에 대한 여부를 판단해야 한다. ROI를 설정하기 위해서 영역의 한 축이 되는 차선을 잡고 이를 기준으로 영역을 확장시켰는데 좌표 변환 기법을 이용하여 정확성을 높였다. 변경 차선의 정확한 차량 추출을 위하여 적응 배경화면 갱신 모델 기법과 주행 도로의 특징을 이용한 영상의 영상 분할 방법을 이용하였다. 위험 차량으로 추출된 물체는 자차(自車)와의 상대거리, 상대 속도를 계산하고 픽셀 좌표 이동을 일정시간 평균을 내어 방향을 알아내어 위험으로 판단 시 경보를 울리도록 하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 영역을 최소화하고 도로와 차량의 특징을 이용함으로써 정확도를 높이고 계산량을 줄여 빠른 연산을 요구하는 주행 차량의 영상에서 안정적인 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.153-160
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• 2012

Various social problems such as traffic congestion, car accidents and environmental problems(air pollution, noises etc.) have been happening in the Seoul metropolitan area that has the car oriented traffic system providing cars continuously. Along with this, the financial burden caused by current oil price anxiety made paradigm shift from caroriented to public transportation-oriented. Its typical example is an arterial branch bus system changing(bus lane through the center of main road) started in Seoul in July, 2004. But study on safety analysis of bus lane and characteristic of accidents are not sufficient enough to now. The bus lanes are expanded to provide roads for better traffic operation and accidents between buses and pedestrians or ordinary vehicles are considered main problems. This study divided each bus route of median bus lane(bus-only lane through the center of main roads) and bus lane at roadside by intersection and collected and analysed data about influence variables of bus accidents chosen in each section. We constructed a logistic model using collected data. As a result, bus lane at roadside are used by both buses and other kinds of vehicles differently from median bus lane and showed such characteristic in accident influence. Therefore access management to factors causing conflict and improvement of operation management are required. In case of median bus lane, the more buses moving general vehicle lane and traffic volume of section were, the more accidents happened. In case that stop line of center lane is not backward, view blocking of vehicles turning left caused accidents.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.131-138
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• 2012

PURPOSES : Two-lane highways have one lane in each direction, and lane changing and passing maneuvers take place in the opposing lane depending on the availability of passing sight distance. 2001 Korea Highway Capacity Manual (KHCM) is classified into two classes of two-lane highways (Type I, II), and average travel speed and time-delayed rate are used as measures of effectiveness (MOEs). However, since existing two-lane highways have both uninterrupted and interrupted traffic flow-system elements, a variety of free-flow speeds exhibits in two-lane highways. In addition, it is necessary to check if the linear-relationship between volumes and time-delayed rate is appropriate. Then, this study is to reestablish the relationship between average travel speed, time-delayed rate, and flow. METHODS : TWOPAS model was selected to conduct this study, and the free-flow speeds of passenger cars and the percentage of following vehicles observed in two-lane highways were applied to the model as the input. The revised relationships were developed from the computer simulation. RESULTS : In the revised average travel speed vs. flow relationship, the free-flow speed of 90km/h and 70km/h were added. It shows that the relationship between time delayed-rate and flow appeared to be appropriate with the log-function form and that there was no difference in time-delayed rate between the free flow speeds. In addition to revise the relationships, the speed prediction model and the time-delayed rate prediction model were also developed. CONCLUSIONS : The revised relationships between average travel speed, time-delayed rate, and flow would be useful in estimating the Level of Service(LOS) of a two-lane highway.

• 대한교통학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한교통학회 2007년도 제57회 학술발표회논문집
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• pp.557-564
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• 2007

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.509-516
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• 2004

This paper proposes an image processing algorithm for detecting obstacles on road using DLI(disparity of lane-related information) that is generated by stereo images acquired from dual cameras mounted on a moving vehicle. The DLI is a disparity that is acquired using a single lane information from road lane detection. For the purpose to reduce processing time, we use small block of edge-histogram based blocking logic. This algorithm detects moving objects such as preceding vehicles and obstacles. The proposed algorithm has been implemented in a personal computer with the road image data of a typical highway. We successfully performed experiments under a wide variety of road conditions without changing parameter values or adding human intervention. Experimental results also showed that the proposed DLI is quite successful.

• 대한교통학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.17-31
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• 1988

In this research, the behavior of weaving traffic is studied in terms of lane-changing behavior and gap acceptance characteristics. General trends in lane-changing behavior and gap acceptance characteristics are investigated by analyzing descriptive statistics and the factors affecting weaving behavior are determined by means of the multiple linear regression analysis. The results of analysis show that the behavior of weaving traffic is generally similar to that in a basic freeway section and an on- or of- ramp section. Traffic density and speed appear to be better parameters than traffic volume for explaining the behavior of weaving traffic. For the same purpose, using the traffic conditions of the origin and the destination lanes are found to be more effective than using the average traffic conditions of the freeway. A detailed analysis of the gap acceptance characteristics of late merging vehicles shows that there is no significant difference between the size of gaps accepted by late merging vehicles and that accepted by early merging vehicles.