• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.214-219
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• 2008

Recently, railway has been pointed to the efficiency of transportation, rapid transit, and comfortable train ride. In the case of domestic situation, both rapid transit railway and existing railway have been operated in higher speed and the construction of railway near the city building has been increased as well. Because of the rapid transit system and heavy railway, the noise and vibration of railway has been increased so that the strong standards in terms of environmental matter should be required. Therefore, the solution to avoid environmental matters becomes one of the most important factor in constructing railway. In this study, floating slab system which is one of the solution to avoid noise and vibration in railway has been introduced, and the foreign technology and the trend of this business has been investigated. In addition, the method of conceptual design and construction of floating slab system according to the isolator has been introduced.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.447-451
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• 2009

Metropolitan rapid transit has been used by one of a main transport service for several decades, but there are no monitoring system for electrical equipment condition which can cause enormous economic loss and social problem if fault occurs. Recently, necessity of condition monitoring system for electrical equipment fault came to the fore, we became carrying out a research project for a design of electrical equipment lifetime estimation system for metropolitan rapid transit. In this paper, basic design result of condition monitoring system and specification of transformer partial discharge detection system are presented, which are part of entire lifetime estimation system. Definition of target apparatus and monitoring method determined by analysis of user requirement from each railway company and, each railway company's opinions and requests were collected sufficiently by surveys and discussion.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.8 no.6 s.31
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• pp.586-591
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• 2005

We deal with the headway which effects on the performance of the PRT(Personal Rapid Transit) system and the system safety. The headway, time between passage of one vehicle and the next, is one of the important factors to assess the line capacity, which has a cue to solve the problem of the congestion in public transportation. To decide the headway there are many important factors, especially such as the failure vehicle deceleration rate, the following simple analytical equation can be made to assess the relation between the line speed and the minimum headway. In this paper we employ a numerical analysis method using a simple analytical equations for the evaluation of the minimum headway and show simple simulation results.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.89-94
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• 2016

The objective of this study was to estimate the dynamic behavior of a personal rapid transit(PRT) track system using a rail of rectangular tube section and a rail joint of sliding type, and to compare the results with the normal rail and rail joint of a PRT track system by performing field measurements using actual vehicles running along the service lines. The measured vertical displacement of rail and sleeper, and vertical acceleration of rail for the normal rail and rail joint section were found to be similar, and the rail joint of sliding type satisfied the design specifications of the track impact factor for a conventional railway track. The experimental results showed that the overall dynamic response of the rail joint were found to be similar to or less than that of the normal rail, therefore the rail joint of sliding type for PRT track system was sufficient to ensure a stability and safety of PRT track system.

• International Journal of Railway
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.117-121
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• 2008

The personal rapid transit (PRT) system is a small scale transportation system that employs a novel concept to solve the traffic congestion problem in the city area. The PRT system is a driverless on-demand system that a passenger calls a vehicle rather than waits for the vehicle. Therefore, one of the most important issues in the PRT system is how to control the vehicle with the satisfaction of the basic concept of the PRT system. In this paper a computer simulator is introduced to evaluate the vehicle. operational control algorithm of the PRT system. The. computer simulator has the commercial embedded processor boards that operate in the real time operating system and pre-designed vehicle control algorithm is coded into the processor boards. The experimental results present the effectiveness of the proposed evaluation apparatus.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.232-238
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• 2003

This paper carry out research on status of the development for personal rapid transit in world's classified by each system. review of potential development a thesis of system conception according to system in comparison with developed specification and element a technology review, local area, capacity etc. will propose a new scheme for a confirmed technology of personal rapid transit

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.25-32
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• 1999

Development of the personal rapid transit system is reviewed from its invention stage to its current development stage in the world. Also, the special features of each PRT system and the reasons of delay of PRT application in cities are described briefly.

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2008.06b
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• pp.27-41
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• 2008

Construction of metro transportation infra is a large-scale project requiring tremendous financial resources. This study suggests operation method to use for rapid transit line existing infra such as Gyeongbu line and spare line capacity following second phase KTX construction. Reviewing various constraints of metro rapid transit operation, we found that the conditions for metro rapid transit operation are already satisfied in Daegu area, just like the case of Gyeongbu line in Seoul Metro area. Also, the evaluation of the economic feasibility of metro rapid transit operation in Daegu area shows that B/C is about 2.4, which implies that there is sufficient economic feasibility. According to the result of sensitivity analysis, the project is economically feasible unless the passenger demand decreases 15% and construction costs increases more than 70%. B/C is evaluated large because the utilization of already exiting infra lowers the initial cost. As one of mass transportation system of large capacity, metro rapid transit can generate significant spillover effect: It will strengthen competitiveness of metro area by connecting cities within the area and by extending one-day life zone of the area, to say nothing of the benefit of improving traffic condition. The construction of metro rapid transit network is necessary for the mass transportation system of Yeongnam area as well as Daegu area, and it may work as a starting point for uniting Daegu and Gyeongbuk and strengthening regional competitiveness.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.10 no.3 s.40
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• pp.337-342
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• 2007

소형궤도 차량 시스템(PRT: Personal Rapid Transit)은 짧은 거리에 비교적 많은 승객을 수송하기 위하여 매우 짧은 차간 간격을 요구하며 또한 차량 간의 충돌을 피하기 위해서 매우 정확한 차량 속도제어 알고리즘을 필요로 한다. 본 논문에서는 소형궤도차량 시스템의 차량의 충돌회피 알고리즘 개발을 위한 장치의 구성에 대해서 다룬다. 개발 장치는 모의 차량, 중앙제어 시스템, 모의지상설비, 모니터링 장치로 구성되며, 설계된 알고리즘의 모의시험을 위해서 Labview Simulation Interface Toolkit과 Matlab/Simulink가 결합된 모의시험 환경을 이용한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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• v.9 no.5 s.36
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• pp.539-543
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• 2006

We need to make the standards of maintenance information for urban transit to reduce the cost to maintain the information and to share the information with maintenance workers. It is enable to do systematic maintenance for urban transit by using the information system based on the standardized information. In this paper we propose the major items to standardize and the methods to lay out the standard schemes to enable structured maintenance. We present the 4 items, bill of material, material classification, accident/fault classification, electronic document, to standardize. And we propose how to implement the information system for urban transit based on the standardized information. We describe the implemented information system in two parts; a rolling-stock and an infrastructure part. And also we describe the result of survey to evaluate the system installed at Seoul Metro and Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit.