• 전기학회논문지
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• 제57권12호
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• pp.2220-2227
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• 2008

The safety equipments of railway level crossing which are installed at intersections between roads and railway lines prevent level crossing accidents by informing all of the vehicles and pedestrians of approaching trains. The intelligent safety system for level crossing which employs information and communication technology has been developed in USA and Japan, etc. But, in Korea, the relevant research has not been performed. In this paper, we analyze the cause of railway level crossing accidents and the inherent problem of the existing safety equipments. Based on analyzed results, we design the intelligent safety system which prevent collision between a train and a vehicle. This system displays train approaching information in real-time at roadside warning devices, informs approaching train of the detected obstacle in crossing areas, and is interconnected with traffic signal to empty the crossing area before train comes. Especially, we present the video based obstacle detection algorithm and verify its performance with prototype H/W since the abrupt obstacles in crossing areas are the main cause of level crossing accidents. We identify that the presented scheme detects both pedestrian and vehicle with good performance.

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2006

Purpose: Injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality for children. As an injury prevention measure, the differences in external causes of severe pediatric injuries based on ICECI were analyzed according to age groups. Methods: A retrospective study was performed for pediatric patients under 15 years of age, who had been admitted to the emergency department with severe injuries from January 1998 to December 2004. The external causes of injury were investigated according to the ICECI: intent, mechanisms, places of occurrence, objects/substances producing injury, and related activities. The patients were divided into four groups based on age: infant (<0 year), toddler (1~4 years), preschool age (5~8 years), and school age (9~15 years). Results: The injury mechanisms, the places of occurrence and the related objects/substances vary with the age groups. The most common subtype of traffic accidents was pedestrian injury in pre-school age group. Falls most frequently occurred in the toddler group. But falls from a height of less than l meter height (6 patients) occurred only in the infant group. The most common place of occurrence in the infant group was the home, and that of other groups was the road. The related objects/substances for falls, for example, household furnitures and playground equipment depended on the age group. Conclusion: The age-group specific characteristics of severe pediatric injury were analyzed successfully through the ICECI. Therefore, when establishing a plan for the prevention of pediatric injury, consideration must be given to the differences in the external causes of injuries according to age group.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2012

정부는 교통사고 사상자를 절반으로 줄이기 위하여 생활권 보행자 안전 확보를 위한 안전대책을 선정하여 추진 중에 있다. 주요 추진내용을 살펴보면 중앙선 침범 및 무단횡단 예방을 위해 도심형 중앙분리대 설치기준 마련이 포함되어 있어 기준마련을 위한 연구가 매우 시급한 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 보행자 및 중앙선 침범 교통사고 분석, 도심형 중앙분리대에 대한 형식 및 성능기준, 최소 횡단구성 연구를 통한 설치 기준에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 그 결과 도시부 차량 불법유턴, 보행자 무단횡단 사고를 줄이고자 시선유도봉을 개조한 도심형 중앙분리대는 차량용 방호울타리의 강한 방호기능을 가질 수 없기 때문에 차량과의 충돌 후 파손되어 부재이탈이 발생하게 되면 2차 사고 등을 유발하게 되어 교통안전에 부(-)의 효과를 가져 올 수 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 이에 주행안전성 측면을 고려해 볼 때 도심형 중앙분리대를 설치할 경우 중앙분리대 폭 1.0m 이상을 확보해야만 시설물 파손이나 차로 이탈을 방지할 수 있는 것으로 분석되었다. 단, 부득이 도로 폭이 좁아 용지확보가 곤란한 경우 0.5m 이상 노면표시만 설치한 경우에 한해 도심형 중앙분리대의 설치를 할 수 있다. 또한 현재 중앙선 위에 시선유도봉이나 도심형 중앙분리대를 설치하는 것은 운전자 실수에 의한 중앙선 침범을 유발할 가능성이 높고 이로 인해 시설물 파손의 가능성이 높아 중앙선 위에는 표지병 이외의 시설물 설치를 금하는 것이 바람직하다.

• 한국ITS학회 논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.18-35
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• 2020

차대사람 사고는 인적 요인, 차량 요인, 도로 환경적 요인 등 다양한 요인이 복합적으로 작용하여 발생한다. 도로 환경적 요인은 차대사람 사고 발생에 상당한 영향을 미치는 것으로 알려져 있으며 인적 요인과 차량 요인에 비해 대책 수립이 용이하여 분석 결과의 활용성이 높다. 도로 환경적 요인 중 도로 네트워크 특성은 운전자와 보행자의 행태에 영향을 미치며 두 이동체 간 상충 특성에 관여하여 사고를 발생시킨다. 서울시와 같은 대도시는 지역별 도로 네트워크 형태가 상이하여 사고 모형 구축 시 지역별 특성을 고려할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 도로 네트워크 특성을 반영하기 위해 도로의 위계, 교차로 밀도, 교차로 특성을 변수로 반영하였다. 또한, 공간가중 포아송회귀모형을 사용하여 지역별 차대사람 사고에 대한 도로 네트워크의 영향을 분석하였다. 분석 결과, 도로 네트워크 특성에 따른 사고발생 영향이 유사한 행정동 집단을 선별할 수 있었다. 결과를 바탕으로 지역별 도로 네트워크 특성에 따른 운전자와 보행자의 상충 특성을 검토하고 지역별 개선점을 제시할 수 있었다.

• 보건교육건강증진학회지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.87-107
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• 2002

Recently, the industrialized world is suffering from accidents referring from the lack of safety consciousness. According to Korean Safety Regulation Department(1996), students at junior high schools are mostly involved in safety accidents, and this is due to lack of safety consciousness. To prevent these accidents, we need to have safety consciousness and attitude. To make junior high school students who are mostly affected in these accidents act safely, they need to know their level of safety consciousness. The purpose of this study is to develop a guideline of measuring the scale of safety consciousness and analyze the relationship between safety education, accident experiences and safety consciousness. This study is based on a survey of 708 junior high students in Seoul, which was carried out from 12 November, 2001 to 21 November, 2001. 1. The main fields of safety consciousness are home safety, school safety, fire safety, emergency management based on documents. Home safety is again divided into facility safety and livelihood safety, school safety is divided into facility safety, livelihood safety and laboratory safety, traffic safety is divided into pedestrian safety, bicycling safety and public transportation safety, fire safety divided into prevention and escaping during fire breakouts, emergency management safety is divided into general principles and escaping during emergency situations. 2. The primary safety consciousness scale was made according to every field of safety consciousness. A preliminary examination based on the scale and a study of reliance and the factors was held. Based on these results, 27 questions which were concerned to be impairing reliability or lacking in factor were deleted on the secondary safety consciousness scale development The secondary safety consciousness scale which constituted of 73 questions was put into another preliminary study and after analyzing reliability and the factors, 12 questions of low reliabilities were deleted and with these results, the third scale were made consisting of 61 questions. 3. A study based on the third safety scale which is made of 61 questions, were held and with a analysis of the reliability and factors made, the relationship between safety education, accident experience and safety mind were examined. (1) The study of reliability and factors show that Cronbach's coefficient in home safety fields is .7598, in school safety .7924, in traffic safety .8306, in emergency treatment .7775, in fire safety .7247. The questions indicating low reliability were deleted. The factor analysis revealed that home safety is converged on facility safety and livelihood safety. But one question was deleted because it showed incongruence of validity. School safety was converged on facility safety, livelihood safety and laboratory safety. But 2 questions showed incongruence of validity and these were deleted. Traffic safety fields were converged on pedestrian safety, bicycle safety and public transportation safety. One question showing incongruence of validity was deleted. Emergency treatment fields converged on general principles and acting in emergency situations and three questions showing incongruence of validity were deleted. Fire safety was converged on prevention and acting in fire breakouts. Totally, eight questions were removed and the final scale were consisted of 53 questions (2) The 3/sup rd/ grade students scored higher average safety mind scales than 1st graders(p〈.05). And students who had high scores at school tend to have a higher scale than those who do not(p〈.001). (3) Average scale of students who had experience in safety education were higher(p〈.001). Students who had previously been involved in home safety accidents had a low score(p〈.001). This was same to students with experience in school safety accidents(p〈.001). Students with traffic safety accidents and fire safety accidents tend to have a lower scale too(p〈.05, p〈.001).

• Journal of Trauma and Injury
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.103-106
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• 2018

Fat embolism refers to the presence of fat droplets within the peripheral and lung microcirculation with or without clinical sequelae. However, early diagnosis of fat embolism is very difficult because the embolism usually does not show at the computed tomography as a large fat complex within vessels. Forty-eight-year-old male with pedestrian traffic accident ransferred from a local hospital by helicopter to the regional trauma center by two flight surgeons on board. At the rendezvous point, he had suffered with dyspnea without any airway obstruction sign with 90% of oxygen saturation from pulse oximetry with giving 15 L of oxygen by a reserve bag mask. The patient was intubated at the rendezvous point. The secondary survey of the patient revealed multiple pelvic bone fracture with sacrum fracture, right femur shaft fracture and right tibia head fracture. Abdominal computed tomography was performed in 191 minutes after the injury and fat embolism with Hounsfield unit of -86 in his right common iliac vein was identified. Here is a very rare case that mass of fat embolism was shown within common iliac vein detected in computed tomography. Early detection of the fat embolus and early stabilization of the fractures are essential to the prevention of sequelae such as cerebral fat embolism.