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Study on Fatality Risk of Senior Driver with Aging Classification (초기·중기·후기 고령운전자의 사망자 발생위험도 분석과 시사점)

  • Choi, Jaesung
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.148-161
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    • 2018
  • A traffic fatality by young people marked average annual decrease of 4.5% since 2011. Meanwhile, a traffic fatality by senior over 65 years old marked average annual increase of 7.9% for the last five years which means that the annual increase of traffic fatality by senior will be a serious problem. This study started questioning that senior drivers over 65 years old did not retain the same causal factor of fatal traffic accidents and thus extensively analyzed a risk of it by age group quantitatively, dividing the senior driver group into the early, middle and latter stages. Depending on the aging level, the risk of traffic fatality showed a wide difference in seven different types of traffic accidents generally, and happened to increase with latter and middle parts of the senior driver more than the early part. Therefore, this study proposes four policy suggestions: 1) The senior driver need to be offered customized driving educations and the improvement of road environment is also recommended. 2) Political assistance is needed to support and guide a safety related technology installation for the new or existing car. 3) Renewal of driving license and an aptitude test(physical examination, cognitive test) for drivers over 75 years old should take in a less than 3 years and an additional road test is needed as occasion demands. 4) Like the United States and Europe, development and extension of customized treatment guidebook for medical teams who examine senior drivers is needed and establishment of education and administration system that a supervisor of driving license renewal can impose safety restriction and American anonymity reporting system is considered to institutionalize in the medium to longer term.

A Study on Functionality Evaluation Method of Real-time Traffic Signal Control System (실시간 신호제어시스템 기능성 평가방법론에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Choul-Ki;Oh, Young-Tae;Lee, Hwan-Pil;Yang, Ryun-Ho
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.42-58
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    • 2008
  • Nowadays the installation of Real-time Traffic Signal Control system is gradually spread, in order to solve the traffic problem which become serious. The most important thing are reliability of data collection and functionality of system in Real-time Traffic Signal Control System. But, the evaluation for those introduction system are defective after system constructing. So, many systems are not working properly to those systems's primarily purpose. This study is executed expansion through field test and analysis which check performance and advise of system operation. It has purpose to establish of the maintenance system of Real-time Traffic Signal Control system. As the result of analysis, we could find the several problems in this study. So, we also could guess that the effective maintenance systems of the Real-time Traffic Signal Control system is necessary within few years.

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Real-Time Traffic Information Collection Using Multiple Virtual Detection Lines (다중 가상 검지선을 이용한 실시간 교통정보 수집)

  • Kim, Eui-Chul;Kim, Soo-Hyung;Lee, Guee-Sang;Yang, Hyung-Jeong
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.15B no.6
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    • pp.543-552
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    • 2008
  • ATIS(Advanced Traveler Information System) is the system to offer a real-time traffic information or traffic situation for the benefit of the client. One of traffic information collection methods for ATIS research is the method of image analysis. The method is divided into two : one is the method to set two loop detectors at the area and the other is the method detecting the vehicle through an image analysis. In this paper, we propose a real-time traffic information collection system to mix two methods. The system installs multiple virtual detection lines and traces the location of the vehicle. Use of multiple virtual detection lines supplements the defect of the method of loop detectors. And we drew a representative pixels in the detecting area and used it for image analysis. This is to solve the problem of time delay which increases as the image size increases. We gathered traffic images and experimented using the system and got 92.32% of detection accuracy.

The Integrated Control Model for the Freeway Corridors based on Multi-Agent Approach (멀티 에이전트를 이용한 도로정체에 따른 교통흐름 예측 및 통합제어)

  • Cho, Ki-Yong;Bae, Chul-Ho;Lee, Jung-Hwan;Chu, Yul;Suh, Myung-Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.84-92
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    • 2006
  • Freeway Corridors consist of urban freeways and parallel arterials that drivers can use alternatively. Ramp metering in freeways and signal control in arterials are contemporary traffic control methods that have been developed and applied in order to improve traffic conditions of freeway corridors. However, most of the existing studies have focused on either optimal ramp metering in freeways, or progression signal strategies between arterial intersections. There have been no traffic control systems in Korea that integrates the freeway ramp metering and arterial signal control. The effective control strategies for freeway operations may cause negative effects on arterial traffic. On the other hand, traffic congestion and bottleneck phenomenon of arterials due to the increasing peak-hour travel demand and ineffective signal operation may generate an accessibility problem to freeway ramps. Thus, the main function of the freeway which is the through-traffic process has not been successful. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated control model that connects freeway ramp metering systems and signal control systems in arterial intersections. And Optimization of integrated control model which consists of ramp metering and signal control is another purpose. Optimization results are verified by comparison with the results from MATDYMO.

The Integrated Control Model for the Freeway Corridors based on Multi-Agent Approach I : Simulation System & Modeling for Optimization (멀티 에이전트를 이용한 도로정체에 따른 교통흐름 예측 및 통합제어 I : 시뮬레이션 시스템 개발 및 최적화를 위한 모델링)

  • Cho, Ki-Yong;Bae, Chul-Ho;Kim, Hyun-Jun;Chu, Yul;Suh, Myung-Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.8-15
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    • 2007
  • Freeway corridors consist of urban freeways and parallel arterials that drivers can use alternatively. Ramp metering in freeways and signal control in arterials are contemporary traffic control methods that have been developed and applied in order to improve traffic conditions of freeway corridors. However, most of the existing studies have focused on either optimal ramp metering in freeways, or progression signal strategies between arterial intersections. There have been no traffic control systems in Korea that integrates the freeway ramp metering and arterial signal control. The effective control strategies for freeway operations may cause negative effects on arterial traffic. On the other hand, traffic congestion and bottleneck phenomenon of arterials due to the increasing peak-hour travel demand and ineffective signal operation may generate an accessibility problem to freeway ramps. Thus, the main function of the freeway which is the through-traffic process has not been successful. The purpose of this study is to develop an integrated control model that connects freeway ramp metering systems and signal control systems in arterial intersections. And Optimization of integrated control model which consists of ramp metering and signal control is another purpose. The design of experiment, neural network, and simulated annealing are used for optimization.

Crowdsourcing based Local Traffic Event Detection Scheme (크라우드 소싱 기반의 지역 교통 이벤트 검출 기법)

  • Kim, Yuna;Choi, Dojin;Lim, Jongtae;Kim, Sanghyeuk;Kim, Jonghun;Bok, Kyoungsoo;Yoo, Jaesoo
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.22 no.4
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    • pp.83-93
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    • 2022
  • Research is underway to solve the traffic problem by using crowdsourcing, where drivers use their mobile devices to provide traffic information. If it is used for traffic event detection through crowdsourcing, the task of collecting related data is reduced, which lowers time cost and increases accuracy. In this paper, we propose a scheme to collect traffic-related data using crowdsourcing and to detect events affecting traffic through this. The proposed scheme uses machine learning algorithms for processing large amounts of data to determine the event type of the collected data. In addition, to find out the location where the event occurs, a keyword indicating the location is extracted from the collected data, and the administrative area of the keyword is returned. In this way, it is possible to resolve a location that is broadly defined in the existing location information or incorrect location information. Various performance evaluations are performed to prove the superiority and feasibility of the proposed scheme.

Plan Analysis to prevent Traffic Accident of the Elderly (노인의 교통사고 예방을 위한 방안 분석)

  • Seung-Yeon Hwang;Dong-Jin Shin;Jeong-Joon Kim
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.23 no.4
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    • pp.177-182
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    • 2023
  • Korea is currently an aging society with a population of about 15 percent over the age of 65. Accordingly, the government is currently working on a number of measures. However, the problem that is rapidly increasing rather than decreasing is the traffic accident of the elderly. It has increased so much that we can check it out in multiple media right away. An average of 110 elderly people die or are injured in traffic accidents a day, or about 40,000 a year. The National Police Agency reported a 25 percent increase in elderly traffic accidents from five years ago. This paper analyzes traffic accidents of senior citizens through the Big Data analysis and R programming language to present the main causes of traffic accidents of senior citizens and areas where measures are needed to prevent them.

On the Availability of Han river as Water Transport Route (수상운송로로서 한강의 이용가능성에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, K.I.;Roh, H.S.;Lee, C.Y.
    • Journal of Korean Port Research
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.37-60
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    • 1993
  • Because of the rapid growing traffic volumes of cargo, especially between Seoul and Inchon, and lack of investment into transport infrastructure in the past, in Kyong-in area have suffered from the serious traffic congestion in the public-road and the express-way network, But the further expansion of the traffic volume in near future is difficult due to burden of the higher expansion of the traffic volume in near future is difficult due to burden of the higher construction cost. Although the traffic congestion on the Kyung-in railway, is not very serious comparing with the road sector, the shortage of capacity on some main lines becomes emerged as a problem as railway traffic has increased. Unlike these two modes, the water transport, which has been paid relatively less attention for commodity transport in Kyong-in area, has not any constaint in this respect. Han river has been used as a water transport route in Chosun Dynasty which is called Cho-wun. This paper therefore aims to propose the availability of Han river as the alternative water transportation mode, in order to decrease the congestion between Seoul-Inchon by considering the construction of Kyong-in artificial water channel in near future. In this paper, we investigate the availability of Nanji-do as the physical distribution depot connecting with the circulation express way in the national capital distribution depot connecting with the circulation express way in the national capital. We also estimate the traffic volume by using the push-barge carrier (300DWT) in the same channel through the simulation under some assumptions such as ship's turnaround time, speed, etc.

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Two Uncertain Programming Models for Inverse Minimum Spanning Tree Problem

  • Zhang, Xiang;Wang, Qina;Zhou, Jian
    • Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.9-15
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    • 2013
  • An inverse minimum spanning tree problem makes the least modification on the edge weights such that a predetermined spanning tree is a minimum spanning tree with respect to the new edge weights. In this paper, the concept of uncertain ${\alpha}$-minimum spanning tree is initiated for minimum spanning tree problem with uncertain edge weights. Using different decision criteria, two uncertain programming models are presented to formulate a specific inverse minimum spanning tree problem with uncertain edge weights involving a sum-type model and a minimax-type model. By means of the operational law of independent uncertain variables, the two uncertain programming models are transformed to their equivalent deterministic models which can be solved by classic optimization methods. Finally, some numerical examples on a traffic network reconstruction problem are put forward to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed models.

The Scheduling Problem in Wireless Networks

  • Pantelidou, Anna;Ephremides, Anthony
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.489-499
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    • 2009
  • We describe the fundamental issue of scheduling the allocation of wireless network resources and provide several formulations of the associated problems. The emphasis is on scheduling transmission attempts. We place this problem in the context of existing approaches, like information theoretic and traditional network theoretic ones, as well as novel avenues that open up the possibility of addressing this issue for non-stationary and non-ergodic environments. We summarize concrete recent results for specific special cases that include unicast and multicast traffic, different objective functions, and reduced complexity versions of the problem. We conclude with some thoughts for future work. We identify and single out the cross-layer nature of the problem and include a simple physical-layer criterion in what is mostly a medium access control (MAC) problem.