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Matlab Toolbox for Guidance & Traction Control Designs of an Articulated Transportation Vehicle (굴절차량의 안내/추진 제어 설계용 Toolbox)

  • Min, Kyung-Deuk;Yun, Kyoung-Han;Kim, Young-Chol;Byun, Yun-Seob;Mok, Jai-Kyun
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2008.07a
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    • pp.1549-1550
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    • 2008
  • KRRI 바이모달 트램은 굴절버스 형태로 모든 차륜이 조향 가능하며 트레일러의 차륜과 트랙터의 후륜이 독립적으로 구동 가능한 시스템이다. 본 논문은 굴절차량용 자동 안내/추진 제어기를 설계하기 위한 차량의 동역학 분석 및 제어기의 성능분석용 Toolbox를 소개한다.

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The Study on Installation Application of Personal Rapid Transit (승객여정선택형 대중교통수단 설치적용방안 검토)

  • Jeong, Rag-Gyo;Kim, Back-Hyeon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2009.04b
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    • pp.195-197
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    • 2009
  • The role of environment-friendly and energy-efficient rail transportation is on the rise as a "sustainable transportation means" to cope with environmental changes that are major concerns around the world. Along with the environmental problems, the CO2 inhibition issue became critical for mankind to prepare global warming and high oil prices. It has come to a point where an alternate means are needed to revitalize plans including renewable energy, bicycle utilization, and prepare new solutions for decreasing number of cars within the city The personal rapid Transit(PRT) is the revolutionary future transportation means that can replace cars to deal with ever-increasing traffic congestions, vehicles, and environmental/energy problems. Expected as an efficient means, technology development has already taken place in developed countries such as U.S., England, and Germany. To meet the future demands, PRT installation around the nation's new and existing towns is being examined to produce important factors. The factors are produced for examining the availability of system requirements during design and construction practice.

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A Study on the Improvement of the Silver-Zone Selecting Method (노인보호구역 지정방법 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jang-Wook;Hong, Joo-Hee;Kim, Jeong-Hyun;Lee, Soo-Beom
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.78-88
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    • 2009
  • As the silver population rapidly increased, it became more urgent to establish a scheme of the traffic safety for the old. As part of the scheme, a polity to apply 'designation of the silver zone' was legislated into law. However, the standard quoting 'the silver zone should be within 300m - radius of the relevant facility' was considered homogeneous and even limited to apply its original objective. This study was to introduce a new standard to select the silver zone reflecting the actual scale. Consequently, I hope that this study would be useful reference for further development and the approach in the research could be legislated into law for more efficient designation and operation of the silver zone.

The Importance-Performance Analysis(IPA) of the Tourism Products as a Means of Railway Transportation (교통운송특성을 중심으로 철도운송 관광상품 IPA 분석)

  • Ju, Yong-Jun;Lee, Yong-Chul
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.900-907
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    • 2009
  • In this research, railway transportation by means of the characteristics of tourism in the selection of railroad tourism and to clarify the difference in IPA is a primary purpose of this research. In addition, the train travel experience would like to clarify the difference in the importance and performance. This research fellows the indication points. First, by means of transportation to select train tourism product is the difference in the importance and performance in the 25 items. Second, the urgent needs to improve part 'Concentrate Here' side of the train, the temperature of the reasonable air-conditioning, and the appropriate means of transport links to the information service has been identified.'Low Priority' side of the entry tourist train operation of the frequency and interval, a total of 26 items, including the efforts of more than the current level of commitment was expected to be unnecessary. Third, according to the experience of sightseeing train railway transportation as a means to help train tourism product selection was the difference in the importance and performance.

Air Quality and PM10 Source Analysis on the Railway Vehicles (철도차량에서의 공기질 현황 및 PM10 오염원 분석)

  • Park, Duck-Shin;Kim, Dong-Sool;Cho, Young-Min;Kwon, Soon-Bark;Park, Eun-Young
    • Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.311-321
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    • 2007
  • Nowadays, concerns have much more growing regarding indoor air quality (IAQ) on the public transportation including railway vehicles. Last year Korea Ministry of Environment (ME) set new guideline for public transportation. In this study several factors were analyzed which may affect comfortableness of railway passenger cabin, and we monitored IAQ parameters (PM10, CO, $CO_2$, VOCs, temperature and humidity) to investigate the present pollution in passenger cabin. In general, the railway air quality was satisfactory. The PM10 and $CO_2$ level on all passenger cabin were below the new guideline level 1 for PM10 $(200{\mu}g/m^3)\;and\;CO_2(2,000ppm)$. Clustering method was carried out to classify the air polluting pattern of the cabin. As a result, the pollutants could be classified to 4 clusters and the origin of pollution is soil, diesel exhaust gas, abrasion of rail and plume.

A Study on the Applying of Balancing Control and Safety Monitoring Technology of Cargo on the Freight Train (화물열차 적재화물의 균형제어 및 안전모니터링기술 적용 연구)

  • Han, Seong-Ho;Han, Young-Jae;Lee, Suk;Kim, Young-Hoon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers P
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    • v.66 no.4
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    • pp.224-228
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    • 2017
  • Recently, in order to improve the efficiency of freight transportation on existing lines, a new freight train model is needed to develop urgently. The weight balance of the cargo for the freight vehicle is very important for the stability of the running train and the safe transportation of the cargo. For achieving the cargo weight balance, we proposed a Cargo Balancing Control(CBC) system on the Freight vehicle equipped in between under frame of car body and bogie system. The Cargo Safety Monitoring(CSM) system was designed to supervise status of the Cargo on freight train. The monitoring system can display real time status data from sensors and various signals effectively. We suggested that this paper is a very useful approach for keeping the safety of running freight trains on existing lines.

A STUDY ON THE AERODYNAMIC DRAG REDUCTION OF HIGH-SPEED TRAIN USING BOGIE SIDE FAIRING (고속열차 대차 측면 페어링 적용을 통한 공기저항 저감 연구)

  • Moon, J.S.;Kim, S.W.;Kwon, H.B.
    • Journal of computational fluids engineering
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.41-46
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    • 2014
  • The aerodynamic drag of high-speed train has been calculated and the effect of bogie side fairing on the aerodynamic drag has been investigated. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulation based on steady-state 3 dimensional Navier-Stokes equation has been conducted employing FLUENT 12 and the aerodynamic model of HEMU-430x, the Korean next generation high-speed train under development has been built using GAMBIT 2.4.6. Three types of bogie side fairing configuration, the proto-type without fairing, half-covered fairing to avoid the interference with the bogie frame and full-covered fairing have been adopted to the train model to compare the drag reduction effects of the bogie side fairing configurations and the numerical results yields that the bogie side fairing can reduce the aerodynamic drag of the 6-car trainset up to 7.8%. The aerodynamic drag coefficient of each vehicle as well as the flow structures around the bogie system have also been examined to analyze the reason and mechanism of the drag reduction by bogie side fairing.

Estimation Study on the Wheel/Rail Adhesion Coefficient of Railway Vehicles Using the Scaled Adhesion Tester (축소 점착시험기를 이용한 휠/레일의 점착계수 추정에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Min Soo;Hee Kim, Kyung;Kwon, Seok Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.32 no.7
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    • pp.603-609
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    • 2015
  • Railway vehicles driven by wheels obtain force required for propulsion and braking by adhesive force between wheels and rails, this adhesive force is determined by multiplying adhesion coefficient of the friction surface by the applied axle load. Because the adhesion coefficient has a peak at certain slip velocity, it is important to determine the maximum values of the friction coefficient on the contact area. But this adhesive phenomenon is not clearly examined or analyzed. Thus we have developed new test procedure using the scaled adhesion test-bench for analyzing of the adhesion coefficient between wheel and rail. This adhesion test equipment is an experimental device that contacts mutually with twin disc which are equivalent to wheels and rails of railway vehicles.

Development of an Apparatus for Vertical Transfer of a PRT Vehicle Operating on a Road Network (운행 중인 PRT 차량의 수직이송을 위한 장치 개발)

  • Kang, Seok-Won;Um, Ju-Hwan;Jeong, Rag-Gyo;Kim, Jong-Suk
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.2604-2611
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    • 2013
  • The Personal Rapid Transit(PRT) system has been highly interested in future transportation developments due to its on-demand and optimized door-to-door transport capability. However, the major impediments to the commercialization of PRT are the high cost for construction of infrastructures as opposed to the small transport capacity and difficulty in defining the role of PRT in building a balanced transportation system. In this study, the vertical transfer device for the PRT vehicle is developed to provide more flexible and better compatible urban mobility services between means of transportation, which is expected to meet particular demands in a particular environment. This apparatus was initially designed based on the basis of vertical circulating conveyors with steel chains, which is frequently used in logistics. Its advantages are capable of the non-stop loading and reduced head-way time. Most importantly, it was intensified by the additional idea to ensure the stable and reliable transfer of the PRT vehicle fully loaded with passengers. The 1/10-scale prototype was successfully tested to demonstrate a fundamental mechanism of vertical transfer and identify unexpected user requirements prior to a real manufacturing process.

Comparative Study of the Effects of the Intermodal Freight Transport Policies (인터모달 추진 정책과 효과에 관한 비교연구)

  • Woo, Jung-Wouk
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.13 no.10
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    • pp.123-133
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    • 2015
  • Purpose - The Korean government has devised intermodal transportation policies and granted subsidies to shippers and logistics companies that made a conversion of transportation means through the policies. This provides support by expanding the complex uniform railroad transportation and overhauling the deteriorated railroad facilities. As for 2013, however, the freight transportation percentage of railroad was 4.5% in tons and 8.5% in ton kilometers. Meanwhile, since the 1990s, developed countries such as the U.S. and Europe have been trying to expand intermodal freight transport with a legal and institutional support to build a logistics system corresponding with social and economic environmental changes. In this study, I set out to examine the effects of the intermodal freight transport policies in the EU and the U.S., and to explore the direction of setting up a rail intermodal transport system in South Korea. Research design, data, and methodology - The paper used a qualitative research methodology through the literature review. First, was an overview of Intermodal transportation in the EU, U.S. and UN. Second, it describes the development of transport in Europe and the U.S. with particular emphasis on intermodal freight transport. Third, it explores the direction of setting up a intermodal freight transport in South Korea. The last section contains concluding remarks. Results - As for the EU, it has been promoting integration between transport and intermodal logistics network designs while utilizing ITS or ICT and supports for rail freight intermodal by giving reduction to a facilities fee or subsidizing for rail freight in order to minimize the cost of external due to freight transport. On the other hand, as for the U.S., it has been made up of an industrial-led operating project and has been promoting it to improve accessibility between intermodal hubs and cargo terminals through intermodal corridor program, and an intermodal cargo hub access corridor projects, etc. Moreover, it has tried to construct intermodal transport system using ITS or ICT and to remove Barrier. As a result, in these countries, the proportion of intermodal freight transport is going to be the second significant transport compared with rail and maritime transport. An Effective rail intermodal transport system is needed in South Korea, as seen in the case of these countries. In order to achieve this object, the following points are required to establish radical infrastructure policy; diversify investment financing measures taken under public-private partnerships, legal responsibilities, improvement of utilization of existing facilities to connect the railway terminal and truck terminal, and enhancement service competitiveness through providing cargo tracking and security information that combines the ITS and ICT. Conclusions - This study will be used as a basis for policy and support for intermodal freight transport in South Korea. In the future, it is also necessary to examine from the perspective of the shipper companies using the rail intermodal transport, ie, recognition of shipper, needed institutional supports, and transportation demand forecasting and cost-effective analysis of the railway infrastructure systems improvement.