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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.

Identification of Factors Affecting the Crash Severity and Safety Countermeasures Toward Safer Work Zone Traffic Management (공사구간 교통관리특성을 고려한 고속도로 교통사고 심각도 영향요인 분석 및 안전성 증진 방안)

  • YOON, Seok Min;OH, Cheol;PARK, Hyun Jin;CHUNG, Bong Jo
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.34 no.4
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    • pp.354-372
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    • 2016
  • This study identified factors affecting the crash severity at freeway work zones. A nice feature of this study was to take into account the characteristics of work zone traffic management in analyzing traffic safety concerns. In addition to crash records, vehicle detection systems (VDS) data and work zone historical data were used for establishing a dataset to be used for statistical analyses based on an ordered probit model. A total of six safety improvement strategies for freeway work zones, including traffic merging method, guidance information provision, speed management, warning information systems, traffic safety facility, and monitoring of effectiveness for countermeasures, were also proposed.

System Development and Field Application for Measuring installation Interval and Height of Road safety Facilities Using a tine Scanning Camera (라인스캔 카메라를 이용한 도로 안전시설 설치간격 및 높이측정 시스템 개발 및 현장적용)

  • Moon, Hyung-Chul;Suh, Young-Chan
    • International Journal of Highway Engineering
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.231-237
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    • 2008
  • One of the basic requirements for the most advanced countries would be the well-planned traffic infrastructures. For such traffic safety systems, foreign countries follow the current tendency to which they manage the traffic facilities and equipments based on the objective assessment for the state of every traffic safety facility in terms of Asset Management(AM). As the road safety facilities related among them are very diverse, and their functions are very important as well, the regulations and directions for installing them are enacted. However, despite the standards and directions for the installations, sometimes, the facilities are not installed in accordance with the standards, not only causing inconvenience to the users but also negatively affecting the safety for them. In the study, for the facilities in which the installation interval and height are standardized according to the designed speed and geometrical structure of the road among the various road safety facilities, the image analysis model capable of measuring them with a line scanning camera was developed. In addition, the program systematically analyzing this was also developed and applied to the field and, as the result of that, the size and installation interval of the facilities could be measured fast and accurately.

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A Study on the Improvement of Aviation Safety in Jeju Southern Air Corridor(AKARA-FUKUE Corridor) (제주남단 항공회랑(AKARA-FUKUE Corridor)의 항공안전 개선에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Hee-Bok;Hwang, Ho-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.55-66
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    • 2021
  • ICAO recommended that airspace monitoring and periodic safety assessments in each Contracting State ensure the stability of the airspace, since reducing the aircraft lateral and vertical separation intervals would rather increase the risk of collision. The target level of safety of the AKARA-FUKUE Corridor at the southern end of Jeju was 247×10-9. In simple comparison, this means that the risk of an aircraft collision in this area (international safety standards, 5.0×10-9) is about 50 times higher. The scope of this study is to organize the concept of terms, analyze the air traffic volume, the current status of navigational safety facility usage fees, and investigations of an aircraft collision risk in Jeju southern air corridor. Analyzing government policies and overseas evaluations, revising some of the existing contents, presenting some of the additional contents of new routes, and changing the instrument procedure for Korean-Chinese routes, change of arrive/departure route between Incheon Airport and Shanghai Airport, reduce the risk of aircraft collisions. We hope to restore airspace sovereignty, contribute to policies for the government to take the lead in solving this problem, and expect stability and operational efficiency in air traffic.

Developing the Pedestrian Accident Models of Intersections using Tobit Model (토빗모형을 이용한 교차로 보행자 사고모형 개발)

  • Lee, Seung Ju;Lim, Jin Kang;Park, Byung Ho
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.29 no.5
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    • pp.154-159
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    • 2014
  • This study deals with the pedestrian accidents of intersections in case of Cheongju. The objective is to develop the pedestrian accident models using Tobit regression model. In pursuing the above, the pedestrian accident data from 2007 to 2011 were collected from TAAS data set of Road Traffic Authority. To analyze the accident, Poisson, negative binomial and Tobit regression models were utilized in this study. The dependent variable were the number of accident by intersection. Independent variables are traffic volume, intersection geometric structure and the transportation facility. The main results were as follows. First, Tobit model was judged to be more appropriate model than other models. Also, these models were analyzed to be statistically significant. Second, such the main variables related to accidents as traffic volume, pedestrian volume, number of traffic island, crossing length and the pedestrian countdown signal systems were adopted in the above model.

Modeling and Actual Investigation of Roadway Lighting in Jejusi (제주시 도로조명 실태조사 및 모델링)

  • Lee, Sang-Geun;Oh, Seong-Bo;Kim, Duck-Gu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of IIIuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.147-150
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    • 2005
  • Fixed lighting of public ways for both vehicles and pedestrians can create a nighttime environment in which people see comfortably and can quickly and accurately identify objects on the roadway being travelled roadway lighting can improve traffic safety, achieve efficient traffic movement and promote the general use of the facility during darkness. The design of a roadway lighting system involves consideration of visibility, economics, esthetics, safety and environmental conditions. This paper describe estimation of horizontal illuminance by actual measurement at main streets in Jejusi. We try to evaluate Jejusi Roadway Lighting Conditions for modeling by computer simulation.

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Evaluation of Best Value for Safety Facilities on Highway Using Risk-based VE Approach - A Case Study of Median Barrier - (위험도기반 가치공학적 기법을 적용한 고속도로 교통안전시설 최고가치평가 : 중앙분리대 적용사레를 중심으로)

  • Ji, Dong-Han;O, Young-Tae;Choi, Hyun-Ho;Kim, Sung-Hun
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.143-154
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    • 2008
  • Since the concerns for safety of highway traffic safety facilities inherent in various environmental risk is increased, systematic performance, cost, and effect analysis process is needed for this. In case of median barrier among various traffic safety facilities, quantitative risk assessment is inevitable because it has lots of direct/indirect risk factors. Thus, this study suggests an advanced VE(Value Engineering) approach incorporating quantitative risk analysis. For the applicability, suggested VE approach considering alternative 1(140cm) and 2(127cm) is applied to median barrier in fields. Also, major improvement objects are extracted from governing factors of cost and performance based on functional analysis. It is concluded that the proposed risk assessment methodology will provide rational and practical solutions for best value and the approach could effectively applied for various traffic safety facilities by slight modification of suggest process.

A Study on the Demand Research for Facilities of Logistics from Factor Comparison (요인비교법을 통한 물류시설 수요조사에 관한 연구)

  • Yoon, Tomes;Kim, Tae-Seok;Lee, Geon-Su;Kang, Kyung-Sik
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.9 no.5
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    • pp.103-110
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    • 2007
  • To build a most efficient and competitive warehouse, need to reflect tenants various opinions in advance such as location, rentable size, leasing terms, rental, configuration of the building, building structure, traffic flow and amenities. Thus a survey for major tenants which are logistics, retailers and manufactures should be done to figure out potential demand and marketing strategy to lead to be a competitive warehouse. However above survey is time consuming work and requires high cost involvement thus to avoid such an inefficient process and to facilitate investors prompt and right decision making, there should be a tool which helps to make a decision process easier with simple key factors. In other word, we have used above mentioned 'Demand Approach' so far but here I am introducing 'Factors Comparison' which reflects location factors and facility factors. I derived Kwang-myung logistics park's proper rental rate through 'Demand Approach' which analyzed Seoul Metropolitan area's rental warehouse status and rents, and also defined a size of potential demand area and rental. And this report compared the result with an outcome of 'Factors Comparison' then compared each methods and drew a conclusion of 'Factors Comparion's better convenience and efficiency.

Evaluation of Mobility and Safety of Operating an Overlap Phase on a Shared-Left-Turn Lane Using a Microscopic Traffic Simulation Model (미시교통시뮬레이션모형을 이용한 공용 좌회전 차로의 중첩현시운영의 이동성과 안전성 평가 연구)

  • Yun, Il-Soo;Han, Eum;Woo, Seok-Cheol;Yoon, Jung-Eun;Park, Sung-Ho
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.15-26
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    • 2012
  • Government agencies including the national police agency have executed diverse efforts including continuous improvements of traffic facilities and operation methods, education, enforcements in order to improve traffic operation systems; nevertheless there have been continuous criticisms on irrationality in traffic signal and road facility operation. One of the reasons may be the lack of systematic preliminary evaluations on various alternatives. However, there was no appropriate tool to evaluate the mobility and safety of thus alternatives in a systematic way. Therefore, this study proposes the systematic use of microscopic traffic simulation models as a comprehensive evaluation tool. In addition, this study verified the potential of using a microscopic traffic simulation model using the case of operating an overlap phase on a shared-left-turn lane through a systematic way where the evaluation was conducted through data collection, building networks, calibrating microscopic simulation models, producing performance measures, evaluating mobility and safety, and so on. As a result, the operation of overlap phase on a shared-left-turn lane showed no big difference from other operation scenarios such as leading left-turn on exclusive left turn lane in terms of mobility. However the operation of overlap phase on a shared-left-turn lane decreased safety by increasing potential conflicts.

A comparative study on the Air Traffic Controller's performance and cognitive imbalance (관제사 수행의 인지적 균형과 불균형의 관계고찰)

  • Shin, H.-Sam
    • The Korean Journal of Air & Space Law and Policy
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    • v.18
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    • pp.105-134
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    • 2003
  • This paper describes generic cognitive aspects of the air traffic controller's performance and perceptive activities unveiled through the past literature study. which underlines mental modelling and mental picture presented in the middle of complicated situational awareness and decision making process when air traffic controller comes to determine the distance between aircraft under control to maintain air traffic in a safe, orderly and expeditious way. It also describes human limit in terms of human memory in conjunction with relative workloads and environmental factor. In conclusion, It suggest that ATC authority will take into account the qualitatiive adjustment of training requirement necessary for ATC facility rating and refresher training to allow them more preparedness for better situational awareness and optimal decision making. In this paper controller's behavioral activators affecting their job performance are addressed in perspective of aviation safety.

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