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Evaluation of Techniques Linked GIS for Route Selecting of the Road (도로의 노선선정을 위한 GIS 연계 기법의 평가)

  • 이형석;배상호;한우철
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2003
  • Route selecting of the road is a basic and important process. But the route selecting process must consider the technical, traffic and environment factor simultaneously. The optimum route that are able to reduce the construction cost, maximize utility value and investigate several alternative route must be selected. This study presents a reasonable plan for route selecting through subjective evaluation and classify the methods linked GIS from basic design of road construction.

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Auditory and Visual Information Effect on the Loudness of Noise (시각 및 청각 정보가 소음의 인지도에 미치는 영향)

  • Shin, Hoon;Park, Sa-Gun;Song, Min-Jeong;Jang, Gil-Soo
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.69-76
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    • 2006
  • The effects of the additional visual and auditory stimuli on the loudness evaluation of road traffic noise was investigated by the method of magnitude estimation. As a result, it was shown that additional visual stimulus of noise barrier can influence on the loudness perception of road traffic noise. Also, additional auditory stimuli such as green music or sound of flowing water can influence on the loudness perception of road traffic noise, approximately 5~10% lower than the absence of stimuli. But this effect was disappeared in the range of over 65dB(A).

A Study on Automatic Threshold Selection in Line Simplification for Pedestrian Road Network Using Road Attribute Data (보행자용 도로망 선형단순화를 위한 도로속성정보 기반 임계값 자동 선정 연구)

  • Park, Bumsub;Yang, Sungchul;Yu, Kiyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.269-275
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    • 2013
  • Recently, importance of pedestrian road network is getting emphasized as it is possible to provide mobile device users with both route guidance services and surrounding spatial information. However, it costs a tremendous amount of budget for generating and renovating pedestrian road network nationally, which hinder further advances of these services. Hence, algorithms extracting pedestrian road network automatically based on raster data are needed. On the other hand, road dataset generated from raster data usually has unnecessary vertices which lead to maintenance disutility such as excessive turns and increase in data memory. Therefore, this study proposed a method of selecting a proper threshold automatically for separate road entity using not only Douglas-Peucker algorithm but also road attribute data of digital map in order to remove redundant vertices, which maximizes line simplification efficiency and minimizes distortion of shape of roads simultaneously. As a result of the test, proposed method was suitable for automatic line simplification in terms of reduction ratio of vertices and accuracy of position.

Development of Vehicle Environment for Real-time Driving Behavior Monitoring System (실시간 운전 특성 모니터링 시스템을 위한 차량 환경 개발)

  • Kim, Man-Ho;Son, Joon-Woo;Lee, Yong-Tae;Shin, Sung-Heon
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.17-24
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    • 2010
  • There has been recent interest in intelligent vehicle technologies, such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADASs) or in-vehicle information systems (IVISs) that offer a significant enhancement of safety and convenience to drivers and passengers. However, unsuitable design of HMI (Human Machine Interface) must increase driver distraction and workload, which in turn increase the chance of traffic accidents. Distraction in particular often occurs under a heavy driving workload due to multitasking with various electronic devices like a cell phone or a navigation system while driving. According to the 2005 road traffic accidents in Korea report published by the ROad Traffic Authority (ROTA), more than 60% of the traffic accidents are related to driver error caused by distraction. This paper suggests the structure of vehicle environment for real-time driving behavior monitoring system while driving which is can be used the driver workload management systems (DWMS). On-road experiment results showed the feasibility of the suggested vehicle environment for driving behavior monitoring system.

Autonomous Agents Navigating in Virtual Road Network

  • Cho, Eun-Sang;Choi, Kwang-Jin;Ko, Hyeongseok
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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    • 1997.04a
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    • pp.81-85
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    • 1997
  • In a virtual environment, agents must demonstrate some degree of realism and interactivity. This paper discusses the algorithm that enables agents to navigate a virtual road network realistically and interactively. The road description files written in this language provide the information of road environments to the navigating agents and the scene visualizer. We call this navigating agent in the road an ambient car. The ambient cars must follow the traffic rules as human does. To do this, the ambient car should continuously check its circumstances, such as, the traffic lights, lanes, road signs, and other ambient cars. Because of the huge scale of road network and the large number of ambient cars, the algorithm considers only the area where the participant is currently located. By this locality, the performance of the whole system does not fluctuate much in different situations. The behavior of ambient cars according to the predefined rules may appear monotonous. We added probability distribution functions to introduce some randomness. We implemented the above idea on silicon Graphics Indigo 2 workstation. The ambient car exhibited its awareness of lanes, traffic lights, and other cars. The participants could hardly distinguish between a human-controlled car and computer-controlled ambient car generated by the algorithm.

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A Study on Estimation of Road Vulnerability Criteria for Vehicle Overturning Hazard Impact Assessment (차량 전도 위험 영향 평가를 위한 도로 취약성 기준 산정에 관한 연구)

  • Kyung-Su Choo;Dong-Ho Kang;Byung-Sik Kim;In-Jae Song
    • Journal of Korean Society of Disaster and Security
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.49-56
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    • 2023
  • Impact based forecast refers to providing information on potential socioeconomic risks according to weather conditions, away from the existing weather factor-oriented forecast. Developed weather countries are investing manpower and finances in technology development to provide and spread impact information, but awareness of impact based forecasts has not spread in Korea. In addition, the focus is on disasters such as floods and typhoons, which cause a lot of damage to impact based forecasts, and research on evaluating the impact of vehicle risks due to strong winds in the transportation sector with relatively low damage is insufficient. In Korea, there are not many cases of damage to vehicle conduction caused by strong winds, but there are cases of damage and the need for research is increasing. Road vulnerability is required to evaluate the risk of vehicles caused by strong winds, and the purpose of this study was to calculate the criteria for road vulnerability. The road vulnerability evaluation was evaluated by the altitude of the road, the number of lanes, the type of road. As a result of the analysis, it was found that the vulnerable area was well reproduced. It is judged that the results of this study can be used as a criterion for preparing an objective evaluation of potential risks for vehicle drivers.

Development of Message Broker-Based Real-Time Control Method for Road Traffic Safety Facilities Equipment and Devices Integrated Management System

  • JeongHo Kho;Eum Han
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.195-209
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    • 2024
  • The current road traffic signal controller developed in the 1990s has limitations in flexibility and scalability due to power supply problems, various communication methods, and hierarchical black box structures for various equipment and devices installed to improve traffic safety for road users and autonomous cooperative driving. In this paper, we designed a road traffic safety facilities equipment and devices integrated management system that can cope with the rapidly changing future traffic environment by solving the using direct current(DC) and power supply problem through the power over ethernet(PoE) technology and centralized data-driven control through message broker technology. In addition, a data-driven real-time control method for road traffic safety facilities equipment and devices operating based on time series data was implemented and verified.

Information Fusion of Cameras and Laser Radars for Perception Systems of Autonomous Vehicles (영상 및 레이저레이더 정보융합을 통한 자율주행자동차의 주행환경인식 및 추적방법)

  • Lee, Minchae;Han, Jaehyun;Jang, Chulhoon;Sunwoo, Myoungho
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.35-45
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    • 2013
  • A autonomous vehicle requires improved and robust perception systems than conventional perception systems of intelligent vehicles. In particular, single sensor based perception systems have been widely studied by using cameras and laser radar sensors which are the most representative sensors for perception by providing object information such as distance information and object features. The distance information of the laser radar sensor is used for road environment perception of road structures, vehicles, and pedestrians. The image information of the camera is used for visual recognition such as lanes, crosswalks, and traffic signs. However, single sensor based perception systems suffer from false positives and true negatives which are caused by sensor limitations and road environments. Accordingly, information fusion systems are essentially required to ensure the robustness and stability of perception systems in harsh environments. This paper describes a perception system for autonomous vehicles, which performs information fusion to recognize road environments. Particularly, vision and laser radar sensors are fused together to detect lanes, crosswalks, and obstacles. The proposed perception system was validated on various roads and environmental conditions with an autonomous vehicle.

Filtering-Based Method and Hardware Architecture for Drivable Area Detection in Road Environment Including Vegetation (초목을 포함한 도로 환경에서 주행 가능 영역 검출을 위한 필터링 기반 방법 및 하드웨어 구조)

  • Kim, Younghyeon;Ha, Jiseok;Choi, Cheol-Ho;Moon, Byungin
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.51-58
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    • 2022
  • Drivable area detection, one of the main functions of advanced driver assistance systems, means detecting an area where a vehicle can safely drive. The drivable area detection is closely related to the safety of the driver and it requires high accuracy with real-time operation. To satisfy these conditions, V-disparity-based method is widely used to detect a drivable area by calculating the road disparity value in each row of an image. However, the V-disparity-based method can falsely detect a non-road area as a road when the disparity value is not accurate or the disparity value of the object is equal to the disparity value of the road. In a road environment including vegetation, such as a highway and a country road, the vegetation area may be falsely detected as the drivable area because the disparity characteristics of the vegetation are similar to those of the road. Therefore, this paper proposes a drivable area detection method and hardware architecture with a high accuracy in road environments including vegetation areas by reducing the number of false detections caused by V-disparity characteristic. When 289 images provided by KITTI road dataset are used to evaluate the road detection performance of the proposed method, it shows an accuracy of 90.12% and a recall of 97.96%. In addition, when the proposed hardware architecture is implemented on the FPGA platform, it uses 8925 slice registers and 7066 slice LUTs.

A Study on Risk Evaluation Method of Ground Subsidence around Sewer (하수관로 주변 도로함몰 위험도 평가 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jinyoung;Choi, Changho
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.19 no.7
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    • pp.13-18
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    • 2018
  • Recently, road subsidence has been increasing in urban areas, threatening the safety of citizens. In the lower part of the road, various road facilities such as water supply and drainage pipelines and telecommunication facilities are buried, and the deterioration of the facilities causes the road subsidence. In particular, in the case of old sewer pipes which are attracting attention as a main cause of road subsidence, the management of sewer pipe replacement, repair and reinforcement is being performed depending on the burial year. Therefore, in this study, we tried to suggest a reliable road subsidence risk assessment method considering various sewer specifications and surrounding environment information and CCTV exploration result and GPR exploration result.