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Vehicle Behavior Characteristics According to the Change of Vehicle Speed and Road Vertical Grades (차량속도와 도로의 종단경사 변화에 따른 차량거동 특성)

  • Park, Hyeong-Seon;Yoon, Jun-Kyu;Lim, Jong-Han
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.165-172
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    • 2014
  • When a vehicle is running on the road, the surface conditions and environment of road by reason of insufficient road design standards is so greatly that have an effect on drivers. In particular, the road design of the past is conducted empirical and ideal judgment, but recently, the new technical development is attempted that three and four dimensional parameters is reconsidering and adjusting at the same time. In this study, we analyzed the vehicle behavior characteristics according to the change of driving speed and vertical grades on braking at the peak point of the frozen road by using a PC-crash program for traffic accident reconstruction. As a result, we were conformed the fact that the friction coefficient of road surface and the vehicle speed is affected by vehicle behavior characteristics for intersection vertical grades and were showed the feasibility of verification through a simulation in order to solve the problem of road design in advance.

Terrain Classification for Road Design (도로 설계 지형 구분)

  • Kim, Yong-Seok;Cho, Won-Bum;Kim, Jin-Kug
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.221-229
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    • 2011
  • Road design needs to ensure the economic justification and the preservation of nature by adapting road alignment to the natural terrain. Though current road design guideline only defines a flat and a mountainous terrain, classification including rolling terrain should be needed while considering the fact that about 25.8% of our land can be classified as rolling and the road design guideline of developed countries such as United States and Australia has a terrain classification including rolling in order to take a deep consideration on the natural environment. The study attempts to draw a criterion to classify the assumed three individual terrains in a quantitative way by using a index like the undulation of the original ground profile. The study carried out a case study based on a conceptual frame developed in the study as an approach to differentiate each terrain. As a result, the study suggests a criterion in that a flat terrain has less than 40 meters in the difference between the highest and the lowest point of original ground from 40 to 60 meters for rolling terrain, and greater than 60 meters for mountainous respectively.

Evaluation of Horizontal Position Accuracy in Forest Road Completion Drawing (임도 준공도면의 수평위치 정확도 평가에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Myeong-Jun;Kweon, Hyeong-Keun;Choi, Yeon-Ho;Yeom, In-Hwan;Lee, Joon-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.471-479
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    • 2010
  • Forest roads of 16,424km have been constructed as infrastructure for efficient management of forest. The demand of forest road have been also increased steadily with SOC conception for forest management and wood production. But, accuracy verification by completion drawing of forest road needed aspects extration of geographic information to sound like forest road construction and completion drawing. However, verification for completion drawing has not ascertained. This study carried out the evaluation for position accuracy about constructed forest road in Chungcheongnam-do for evaluating horizontal position accuracy of completion drawing of forest road. In result, first of distance of completion drawing and real route designed completion drawing longer than the real route as Gongju 83m, Seosan 66m, Nonsan 27m and Dangjin 19m, respectively. Second, RMSE by point-correspondence was 11m~14.7m, buffering analysis appeared difference of 18~24m. Finally, index of shape was the similar completion and real route through 6.5~7.4 and data information of forest road corresponds to be perfect. For such reasons, the existing completion drawings have a problem that it cannot use graphic information for drawing digital map according to the regulation, and there is an urgent need for improvement to solve this problem in the process of design and construction.

Computations of Forest Road Density considering for Forest Terrain and Characteristics (산지 지형 및 특성을 고려한 임도밀도 산정)

  • Jung, Do Hyun;Cha, Du Song;Park, Chong Min;Lee, Joon Woo;Ji, Byoung Yun;Chun, Kwon Suk;Kim, Jong Yoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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    • v.94 no.3 s.160
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    • pp.168-177
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    • 2005
  • To provide the basic policy informations for environment-friendly and economical construction of green forest road, forest road density considering for the forest terrain and characteristics was computed. As results, designing the effective forest management and protection, standard forest road density as a social overhead capital (SOC) concept was computed to 8.57 m/ha. Considering as based facilities for forest management, we also optimal forest road density for preparing the sustainable forest management system was computed to 14.01 m/ha.

A Review of Instrumentation System and Construction of Korea Highway Test Road (시험도로 건설과 계측시스템 구축)

  • 최준성;김도형;김성환
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2000.11a
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    • pp.603-606
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    • 2000
  • The cost needed for the construction and management of highways in the whole nation is rapidly growing so the research that can decrease the cost is required. However, most of the highway specs have simply converted from those of other countries, including USA. Therefore, some of our design and construction specs were not the optimum ones based on our own situation, requiring a research under the actual traffic and environment of our nation. The use of test road develops many aspects of highway engineering. Those are evaluation of construction materials, a general overview of korea pavement design and serviceability under the actual traffic and environmental condition of the nation. It is also economical and efficient compared to the trial construction of each item in spreaded form. A test road, 7.7km long with two lanes, is being constructed on the Inner Central Expressway. In this test road, 2.7km is planned for asphalt pavement and 3.4km is planned for concrete pavement. Three test bridges and five earth retaining structures will be included in the test road. Based on the master plan, the major performance was progressing such as detailed research modules of each area, preliminary research for the future research, sensor surveys for the behavior analyses of pavements and structures with installation methods and data acquisition systems, the foundation research of Integrated Instrumentation System and the Management Plan for automated measurement. Some area(structure research division, geotechnical research division) was designed the instrumentation plan because some instrument sensors must be installed during the construction of the test road. And then the instrumentation plan of each area was enforcing because a large majority of the instrument sensors must be installed after the construction of the test road. The field surveys with material property tests and pilot instrumentation test with sensor tests was also performing in accordance with the construction in the field.

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