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Development of safety-Based Guidelines for Cost-Effective Utility Pole Treatment along Highway Rights-of-Way

  • 김정현
    • 대한교통학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한교통학회 1997년도 제32회 학술발표회
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    • pp.33-69
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    • 1997
  • This study was conducted to develop a methodology to predict utility pole accident rates and to evaluate cost-effectiveness for safety improvement for utility pole accidents. The utility pole accident rate prediction model was based on the encroachment rate approach introduced in the Transportation Research Board Special Report 214. The utility pole accident rate on a section of highway depends on the roadside encroachment rate and the lateral extent of encroachment. The encroachment rate is influenced by the horizontal and vertical alignment of the highway as well as traffic volume and mean speed. The lateral extent of encroachment is affected by the horizontal and vertical alignment, the mean speed and the roadside slope. An analytical method to generate the probability distribution function for the lateral extent of encroachment was developed for six kinds of encroachment types by the horizontal alignment and encroachment direction. The encroachment rate was calibrated with the information on highway and roadside conditions and the utility pole accident records collected on the sections of 55mph speed limit of the State Trunk Highway 12 in Wisconsin. The encroachment rate on a tangent segment was calibrated as a function of traffic volume with the actual average utility pole accident rates by traffic volume strategies. The adjustment factors for horizontal and vertical alignment were then derived by comparing the actual average utility pole accident rates to the estimations from the model calibrated for tangent and level sections. A computerized benefit-cost analysis procedure was then developed as a means of evaluating alternative countermeasures. The program calculates the benefit-cost ratio and the percent of reduction of utility pole accidents resulting from the implementation of a safety improvement. This program can be used to develop safety improvement: alternatives for utility pole accidents when a predetermined performance level is specified.

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Development of safety-Based Guidelines for Cost-Effective Utility Pole Treatment along Highway Rights-of-way

  • 김정현
    • 대한교통학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한교통학회 1997년도 제32회 학술발표회
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    • pp.35-72
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    • 1997
  • This study was conducted to develop a methodology to predict utility pole accident rates and to evaluate cost-effectiveness for safety improvement for utility pole accidents. The utility pole accident rate prediction model was based on the encroachment rate approach introduced in the Transportation Research Board special Report 214. The utility pole accident rate on a section of highway depends on the roadside encroachment rate and the lateral extent of encroachment. The encroachment rate is influenced by the horizontal and vertical alignment of the highway as well as traffic volume and mean speed. The lateral extent of encroachment is affected by the horizontal and vertical alignment, the mean speed and the roadside slope. An analytical method to generate the probability distribution function for the lateral extent of encroachment was developed for six kinds of encroachment types by the horizontal alignment and encroachment direction. The encroachment rate was calibrated with the information on highway and roadside conditions and the utility pole accident records collected on the sections of 55mph speed limit of the State Trunk Highway 12 in Wisconsin. The encroachment rate on tangent segment was calibrated as a function of traffic volume with the actual average utility pole accident rates by traffic volume strategies. The adjustment factors for horizontal and vertical alignment were when derived by comparing the actual average utility pole accident rates to the estimations from the model calibrated for tangent and level sections. A computerized benefit-cost analysis procedure was then developed as a means of evaluating alternative countermeasures. The program calculates the benefit-cost ratio and the percent of reduction of utility pole accidents resulting from the implementation of a safety improvement. This program can be used to develop safety improvement alternatives for utility pole accidents when a predetermined performance level is specified.

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교통안전사업 유형별 평가항목의 가중치 특성분석 (Characteristic Analysis for Weight Values of Evaluation Items by Traffic Safety Project Type)

  • 이희원;이지선
    • 한국도로학회논문집
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    • 제20권1호
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    • pp.147-156
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    • 2018
  • PURPOSES : The purpose of this study is to analyze the characteristics of the weight values of evaluation items by traffic safety project type. METHODS : In general, a large-scale investment in projects such as the traffic safety project requires economic analyses to be performed in advance. However, there is an argument for considering special characteristics of the traffic safety project. Therefore, this study conducted characteristic analysis of the weight values of evaluation items. The analysis consisted of two steps. The first step was hypothesis verification using analysis of variance (ANOVA). In this process, the authors examined whether the weight of evaluation items is the same regardless of the traffic safety project type. Based on the first step's results, the authors proceeded to the second step. The objective of this step was to analyze how different the weight values are by traffic safety project type using an analytic hierarchy process. RESULTS : According to the ANOVA test results, the benefit to cost ratios have different weight values based on traffic safety project type at the 0.01 significance level. The policy evaluation items, such as the plans connection, resident opinion, and regional equity, also showed the same results except that the result for the related plans connection was statistically significant at the 0.05 level. Based on the first step's result, the AHP analysis in the second step showed that the traffic safety projects for vulnerable users and pedestrians have very low weight values in economic evaluation factors compared with other safety project types. The weight values for vulnerable users and pedestrians were 0.29 and 0.26, respectively, in economic evaluation items. On the other hand, the weight values for other safety project types were around 0.6. Among the policy evaluation items, resident opinion showed a higher weight value than other factors, such as connection and regional equity items. CONCLUSIONS : The social and economic impact of a traffic safety project varies by project type and project characteristics. Although the economic approach is overarching and a reasonable methodology is applied for large-scale projects, it should be noted that the safety issue, especially for transportation of vulnerable uses, requires a non-economical approach. Based on the analysis results, this study suggests that the priority of the projects should be determined by separating them into independent assessment groups depending on their characteristics.

선박교통관리제도의 비용편익분석모델에 관한 연구(I) (A Study on the Cost Benefit Analysis Model of Vessel Traffic Services(I))

  • 정재용;이형기;박진수
    • 한국항해학회지
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    • 제25권1호
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    • pp.11-22
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    • 2001
  • 이 연구는 연안 VTS의 타당성을 검토하기 위한 비용편익분석모델을 제안한다. 특히 모델의 가장 중요한 요소인 비용과 편익의 항목 및 정량화 방법을 세분한다. 제안한 모델은 연안 VTS를 포함한 대형 해상교통안전시설의 타당성을 분석하고, 그 우선순위를 결정에 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

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Delphi기법을 통한 교통수요예측 Risk Management 적용 방안 (Application of Risk Management to Forecasting Transportation Demand by Delphi Technique)

  • 정성봉
    • 대한안전경영과학회지
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    • 제13권2호
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    • pp.267-273
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    • 2011
  • Since 'The Act on Private Investment of The Infrastructure' was established in 1994, private investment as well as government's investment in transport infrastructure has been active. However investment in transport infrastructure has more risks than others' due to uncertainty both in traffic volume and in construction cost. In the current appraisal procedure of deciding transportation infrastructure investment, instead of risk management, the sensitivity analysis considering only the changes of benefit, cost and social discount rate which are main factor affecting economic feasibility is carried out. Therefore the uncertainty of various factors affecting demand, cost and benefit are not considered in feasibility study. In this study the problems in current investment appraisal system were reviewed. Using Delphi technique the major factors which have high uncertainty in feasibility study were surveyed and then improvement plan was suggested in the respective of classic 4 step demand forecasting method. The range estimation technique was also mentioned to deal with the uncertainty of the future.

해양레저관광단지의 개발가치 추정 (Estimation of Development Valuation at Marine Tourism complex)

  • 장운재;금종수
    • 해양환경안전학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 해양환경안전학회 2008년도 춘계학술발표회
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    • pp.69-74
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    • 2008
  • 본 연구는 화원레저관광판지 개발에 따른 편익비용을 산출하였다. 편익비용 산출을 위해 본 연구에서는 개선된 여행자비용법과, 교통수단을 다양화하고, 설문응답자의 확신도 고려한 진전된 여행자비용법을 제안하였다. 그 결과 확신도 52%와 할인율 10%시 편익비용은 2928억 5백만원이고, GDP성장률 4%고려시 3045억 17백만원인 것으로 나타났다.

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Comparison of the Frequency of Unsafe Ship-Handling Situations and the Frequency of Marine Accidents at the Kurushima Strait

  • Yasuda, Masaru;Inoue, Kinzo;Usui, Hideo
    • 한국항해항만학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국항해항만학회 2006년도 Asia Navigation Conference
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    • pp.184-190
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    • 2006
  • It is requested to be evaluated whether environmental change in marine traffic passage by maintenance work affect ship handling, safety, when re-design of traffic passage is planned. In the maintenance work, it is also important to evaluate the change of risk and also benefits. However, in a current evaluation index, it is difficult to evaluate the benefit. The recently developed safety index that is led by employing the Unsafe Ship-handling situations model (US-model) is able to estimate risk level of marine accident in a process of a ship handling. We have already reported the relation of the ratio of 10-3 in harbors (Yokohama, Kobe, and Osaka in Japan) [1]. In this study, we acquired the relation of the ratio between the US value and the marine accident at a narrow waterway; Kurushima Strait in Japan, using a ship handling simulator. And we experimented to estimate a marine accident reduction achieved by the maintenance work of the altered shape of passage.

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주행경제를 위한 드라이빙 시뮬레이터 모듈 연구 (Development of driving simulator modules for driving safely)

  • 정성학
    • 대한안전경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 대한안전경영과학회 2008년도 추계학술대회
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    • pp.569-578
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    • 2008
  • The aim of this study is to propose economical safety driving speed index which those are geometric road status; examine the levels of which those cost-benefit of driving fuel expenditure; are search road safety design and operational technology for driving simulators. For the objective, we analyzed the current status of driving fuel expenditure and driving scenarios by the road alignments, and reviewed driving and technical specifications by the geometric types of road according to the implementation, and extended completion. Throughout the result of this study, diverse related driving information provision service, efficiently driving system is expected to be implemented in the national highway design system.

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터널 경계부 휘도수준에 따른 운전자 연령대별 안전수준 비교 (Comparison of Safety Level between Driver's Ages by Threshold Zone Luminance Level of Vehicular Traffic Tunnel)

  • 조원범;정준화;김도경;박원일
    • 한국도로학회논문집
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    • 제17권1호
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    • pp.129-142
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    • 2015
  • PURPOSES : The purpose of this study is to suggest a basis for setting appropriate safety goals specifically related to the threshold zone luminance in a vehicular traffic tunnel. METHODS : In the test, drivers were divided into two groups. One group consisted of all drivers (average drivers) group with an age ratio of drivers holding domestic driver's license and driver group by age to produce threshold zone luminance in the tunnel. The threshold zone luminance produced as a result was used to analyze how it affects the safety level of each driver group and provide a basis for setting an appropriate safety criterion that can be used to determine threshold zone luminance. We used test equipment, test conditions, and ananalysis of threshold zone luminance identical to that reported by ChoandJung(2014) but the values of adaptation luminance in our analys is were expanded to range from100 to $10,000cd/m^2$. RESULTS : Adaptation luminance and threshold zone luminance are found to be related by a quadratic function. The threshold zone luminance needed by older drivers to ensure a certain safety level is significantly higher than that for drivers of other age brackets when adaptation luminance increases. 56% of older drivers are at an increased risk of an accident at the same luminance for which the safety level of average drivers is 75%. The safety level that can be achieved for older drivers increases to above 60% when threshold zone luminance level is set with the goal of attaining a safety level of more than 85% for average drivers. The safety level that can be attained for average drivers is above 90% when the threshold zone luminance is high enough to ensure over 75% in the safety level of older drivers. Results of this study are applicable to highways and others whose designed speed is 100 km/h. CONCLUSIONS : Threshold zone luminance determined on the basis of drivers having average visual ability is of limited value as a performance standard for ensuring the safety of older drivers. Hence, safety level for older drivers should be considered separately from safety levels for drivers with an average ability to avoid risk. Upward adjustment of older drivers' safety level in the process of determining appropriate threshold zone luminance in a vehicular traffic tunnel may bring both tangible and intangible benefit as a result of reducing accidents. However, there is an associated dollar cost arising from installing and operating lights. As a result, the economic impact of these trade-offs should also be considered.

교차로 교통사고 감소방안에 관한 연구 - 좌회전 현시 순서를 중심으로 - (A Study for Reducing Traffic Accident at Signalized Intersection - Focus on Left-turn Phase Sequence -)

  • 박종욱;이인원;이철기;양륜호;이군상
    • 한국ITS학회 논문지
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    • 제5권2호
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    • pp.61-71
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    • 2006
  • 본 연구는 신호교차로에서의 교통사고 감소방안에 대한 연구로써 이를 위하여 좌회전 현시 순서를 중심으로 연구를 진행하였다. 현재 우리나라는 1985년부터 기존에 사용하던 후행 이중 좌회전 방식을 직진 이동류의 통과효율 및 교차로의 용량을 높이고 소통을 증진시키기 위한 목적으로 선행 이중좌회전 방식으로 바꾸어 사용하고 있다. 이는 그 당시에 도로교차로가 비교적 협소하여 전용좌회전 차로가 거의 없었기 때문으로 선행 이중좌회전 방식을 적용해온 현시점에서 어느 방식이 교통안전과 소통에 더 적합한지를 분석할 필요가 있다고 생각된다. 본 연구에서는 먼저, 선행 좌회전과 후행 좌회전의 안전성을 분석하기 위하여 교차로를 '교차로 내', '횡단보도', '접근부와 유출부'로 나누었다. 이렇게 구분되어진 교차로를 '유효페이스 간격(EIP)'과 '상충기법'을 적용하여 안전성을 분석하였다. 연구 결과 후행 좌회전이 선행 좌회전 보다 전체적인 안전성이 좋은 것으로 나타났으며, 연간 418억원의 사고비용을 절감할 수 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

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