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Evaluation of Highway Design Alternatives Based on Reliability Criterion for Traffic Safety (신뢰도 기준에 근거한 도로설계 대안에 대한 교통안전성 평가)

  • Oh, Heung-Un
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.186-196
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    • 2010
  • It has been well known that traffic accidents occur under combined functional contributions of drivers, vehicles and road facilities, and that evaluation of safety levels for a specific road section or point is generally much complicated. Additionally, most of traffic accidents occur randomly implicating it is necessary to be evaluated in terms of probability theory. Thus, the evaluation model which reflects various characteristics and probabilistic distributions of traffic accidents has been necessary. The present paper provides a reliability based model with variables of probabilistic operating speeds and design speeds together which have been individually explaining associated characteristics in traffic accidents. Consequently, the model made it possible for speed management and road improvement projects to be evaluated in a common index. Application studies were performed in three cases. Through the studies, couples of facts were identified that the model successfully considered the probabilistic operating speeds and design speeds together and that then, the model evaluated road safety alternatives relatively which are complicatedly characterized and differently located.

Searching for Traffic Accident using PDA (PDA를 이용한 교통사고 검색)

  • Nam, Sang-Yep;Hong, You-Sik;Kim, Chun-Sik;Hong, Ma-Ri-A
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.1231-1234
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    • 2005
  • For the purpose of objective and scientific inspection, traffic accidents should be appraised and inspected by righteous material evidences, computer simulation, and studies such as automobile engineering, traveling and collision accident dynamics, road and traffic engineering. In this paper, it displays the results of studying cases with the reasons of traffic accidents by analyzing and studying automobile kinetics, real traffic accidents and the results of in scientific and objective ways. In this paper, it is proved that with compared by dry and wet road surface condition, the transient brake time of wet condition is longer than dry road condition. Moreover, compared with unpacked road condition and packed road condition. unpacked road condition is shorter than packed road condition using computer simulation.

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Investigation of Traffic Accident using Skid Mark (스키드마크를 이용한 교통사고 조사)

  • Hong, You-Sik
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 2010
  • In case the traffic accident occurs, skid mark is very important factor to calculate the car speed. Especially, for the purpose of objective and scientific inspection, traffic accidents should be appraised and inspected by righteous material evidences, computer simulation, and studies such as automobile engineering, traveling and collision accident dynamics, road and traffic engineering. In this paper, it displays the results of studying cases with the reasons of traffic accidents by analyzing and studying automobile kinetics, real traffic accidents and the results of in scientific and objective ways. After computer simulation result that it is proved that compared with unpacked road condition and packed road condition. unpacked road condition is shorter than packed road condition.

Effects of Traffic Islands on Traffic Accidents Reduction (교통섬 설치로 인한 교통사고 감소 효과)

  • Gang, Dong-Su;Lee, Su-Beom;Kim, Yong-Seok;Hong, Ji-Yeon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.21-32
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    • 2010
  • A traffic island, typical channelization facilities, is widely applied to newly road designs and black spots improvement projects as traffic safety measures. However positive effects of a traffic island for traffic safety have not been reported specifically. Accordingly this study analyzed the accidents reduction effectiveness and economics of installing traffic islands under various roadways and traffic conditions. For this purpose normality test, paired t-test and Wilcoxon signed rank test were applied to this study based on traffic accidents, roadways and traffic environments data for 3 years before and after improvement at 54 intersections. The results showed that most of traffic accidents were reduced significantly after installing traffic islands except when traffic islands were installed in outside of cities and farming regions where use efficiency is low, curve sections with poor visibility, poor alignment sections with acceleration/deceleration lanes, road sections where occurs conflicts frequently due to did not install of acceleration/deceleration lanes, and road sections where cross with single lane road.

A Study about The Typical Patterns of Driver's Characteristics by The Q Analysis Method (with Traffic Law Violator and Traffic Accident Causer) (Q 분석 방법을 이용한 운전자 운전성향별 유형화에 관한 연구 (교통법규 위반자 및 교통사고 야기자를 중심으로))

  • Jang, Seok-Yong;Jung, Hun-Young;Lee, Won-Gyu;Ko, Sang-Seon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.165-180
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    • 2008
  • The purpose of this research is to propose an effective traffic safety countermeasure to reduce both violations of road traffic acts and accident rates related to the driver's characteristics by measuring them using Q analysis method, a microscopic statistics analysis method. As a result, violators of the road traffic act could be divided into five driving characteristics and causers of traffic accident could be classified into six driving characteristics. By understanding these characteristics, We could establish a proper traffic safety countermeasure for each driving characteristic. The accomplishments of this research are as follows: The first, We could classify the decisive driving characteristics, which cause road traffic acts and traffic accidents, into internal and external causes. The relationship between each driver's characteristic and the occurrence of the road traffic act and traffic accident could be recognized more clearly. We could find the dangerous driver samples who have Accidents proneness. The second, As a result of analyzing the characteristics of these factors, We could sort out and suggest countermeasure for reducing violation of road traffic acts and traffic accidents as a priority countermeasure and complementary countermeasure. Finally, transportation companies most closely related to automobile accidents can judge new personnels on the basis of their driving characteristics before hiring, and also apply this principle to the traffic safety education vigorously.

A Study on the Development of a Traffic Accident Ratio Model in Foggy Areas (안개지역의 교통사고심각도 모형개발에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Soo-Il;Won, Jai-Mu;Ha, Oh-Keun
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.23 no.6
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    • pp.171-177
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    • 2008
  • As the risk of traffic accidents caused by mists emerged as a social problem, recently safety facilities to be prepared for mists are being actively installed when designing roads. But in some part, the facilities are being installed imprudently without analyzing the extent of occurrences of mists that would increase the risk of traffic accidents and appropriate countermeasures against the occurrences of mists are not being suggested. For that reason, in this study, first questionnaire surveys were executed on road users in order to draw the factors affecting the traffic accidents caused by mists, a mist traffic accident predicting model was developed and an accident seriousness determining model that can determine accident seriousness was developed. In this way, by extracting major factors affecting mist traffic accidents to grasp risk factors in roads to be caused by mists, safety of roads can be enhanced and traffic accidents in road operations can be decreased. As the affecting factors influencing mist traffic accidents, were extracted sightable distances, durations of mists and whether daytime or nighttime as major factors and the plan to install the facilities for the prevention of mist traffic accidents was suggested to prevent the traffic accidents to be caused by those factors and also the plan to operate roads considering sightable distances was suggested to solve the problem of insufficient sightable distances to be caused by mists was suggested. It is judged that the road safety in the areas where mists occur can be improved through foregoing methods.

A Study on Establishment of Discrimination Model of Big Traffic Accident (대형교통사고 판별모델 구축에 관한 연구)

  • 고상선;이원규;배기목;노유진
    • Journal of Korean Port Research
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.101-112
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    • 1999
  • Traffic accidents increase with the increase of the vehicles in operation on the street. Especially big traffic accidents composed of over 3 killed or 20 injured accidents with the property damage become one of the serious problems to be solved in most of the cities. The purpose of this study is to build the discrimination model on big traffic accidents using the Quantification II theory for establishing the countermeasures to reduce the big traffic accidents. The results are summarized as follows. 1)The existing traffic accident related model could not explain the phenomena of the current traffic accident appropriately. 2) Based on the big traffic accident types vehicle-vehicle, vehicle-alone, vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-train accident rates 73%, 20.5% 5.6% and two cases respectively. Based on the law violation types safety driving non-fulfillment center line invasion excess speed and signal disobedience were 48.8%, 38.1% 2.8% and 2.8% respectively. 3) Based on the law violation types major factors in big traffic accidents were road and environment, human, and vehicle in order. Those factors were vehicle, road and environment, and human in order based on types of injured driver’s death. 4) Based on the law violation types total hitting and correlation rates of the model were 53.57% and 0.97853. Based on the types of injured driver’s death total hitting and correlation rates of the model were also 71.4% and 0.59583.

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Proposal of a Black Ice Detection Method Using Vehicle Sensors to Reduce Traffic Accidents (교통사고 경감을 위한 차량 센서를 사용한 블랙아이스 탐지 방법 제안)

  • Kim, Hyung-gyun;Kim, Du-hyun;Baek, Seung-hyun;Jang, Min-seok;Lee, Yonsik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.524-526
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    • 2021
  • As the invention of automobiles and construction of roads for vehicles began, the occurrence of traffic accidents began to increase. Accordingly, efforts were made to prevent traffic accidents by changing the road construction method and using signal systems such as traffic lights, but until now, numerous human and property damages have occurred every year due to traffic accidents caused by freezing of the road due to bad weather. In this paper, we propose a method of transmitting ice detection data detected using vehicle sensor data to vehicle navigation to reduce traffic accidents caused by road freezing.

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Proposal of a Black Ice Detection Method Using Infrared Camera for Reducing of Traffic Accidents (교통사고 경감을 위한 적외선 카메라를 사용한 블랙아이스 탐지 방법 제안)

  • Kim, Hyung-gyun;Jeong, Eun-ji;Baek, Seung-hyun;Jang, Min-seok;Lee, Yonsik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.521-523
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    • 2021
  • As the invention of automobiles and construction of roads for vehicles began, the occurrence of traffic accidents began to increase. Accordingly, efforts were made to prevent traffic accidents by changing the road construction method and using signal systems such as traffic lights, but even today, numerous human and property damages have occurred due to traffic accidents caused by freezing of the road due to bad weather. In this paper, in order to reduce traffic accidents due to road freezing, we propose a method of transferring the ice detection information obtained by deep learning of infrared wavelength data obtained using an infrared camera to the vehicle's navigation.

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A case study on productivity improvement through the analysis of Traffic Safety System (교통안전제도분석을 통한 생산성향상에 관한 사례연구)

  • Kim, Ha-Gon;Sin, Jae-Cheon;Kim, Bu-Yeol;Choe, Jong-Su;Choe, Chun-Ho;Gang, Gyeong-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2010.11a
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    • pp.41-61
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    • 2010
  • With increasing the quality of life in proportion to the national income, we have had cars as more convenient and safe means of transportation for a long time. The more we have the benefits from cars, the more seriously we should consider problems such as the destruction of the environment by air pollution, traffic accidents, parking problems, traffic congestion, etc. as social cost caused by the increase of cars. Among them, the traffic accidents are very serious, especially the accidents of the business cars occurs five times more than those of the private cars. Therefore if we analyze the cases of the various kinds of syst.em, test the results and apply them to business cars, we will reduce the traffic accidents of business cars.

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