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Re-development of Waterway system in Nihombashi River

  • Ito, Kazumasa
    • Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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    • 2009.05a
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    • pp.2190-2199
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    • 2009
  • Nihombashi is located in the central area of Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo has been the capital in Japan since the Edo period, which started approximately 400 years ago, and has accepted a variety of cultures, human resources, businesses for the last 400 years. This has resulted in building up the present prosperity. The Sumida River, one of the symbols of Tokyo and its tributaries including the Kanda River and the Nihombashi River, flows through the Nihombashi district. The river and tributaries used to benefit to the City of Edo. Due to the economic development and the industrial growth in Tokyo, however, they were polluted and lost their functions. In 1960s, approximately 40 years ago, the Sumida River became so dirty that local citizens kept away from it. The Nihombashi River was covered with an expressway, which was obscuring the river view. Since 1970s, local communities have proposed to rehabilitate rivers in Tokyo successively, and have proceeded with measures for river floods, improvement of sewage systems and construction of water purification facilities. Consequently, the quality of the river water was considerably improved in 1990. The stagnant rivers were turned into ones that local citizens were physically able to come close by. Today, restoring of the environment and the appearance of the city in the old days, Nihombashi district has been proposed as a model city of the future, which is alive with history and culture and harmonizing with rivers. The concept is "To Create, To Reserve, To Restore." This paper introduces a case study of the urban development, in which the local communities and public authorities collaborated with and proposed a brand-new style of the urban city harmonizing with the environment.

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Estimation of Passenger Car Equivalents at Urban Expressway by Microscopic Headway Method (도시고속도로에 있어서 차두시간의 분석에 의한 승용차환산계수 산정)

  • Yoon, Hang-Mook
    • Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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    • v.31 no.1 s.117
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    • pp.107-113
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    • 2007
  • This research addressed the problem of describing how the operating characteristics of passenger car and large vehicle differ qualitatively and quantitatively through the analysis of field survey data. A formulation that estimates passenger car equivalents used in this paper is derived by microscopic headway method. Regression analysis was used to focus on the effect of vehicle type on intervehicular spacings and the modeling technique for the statistical analysis was detailed.

A Comparative Analysis between Inflow rate Maximizing and Outflow rate Maximizing for the Urban Expressway Ramp Metering (도시고속도로 램프미터링을 위한 진입극대화방안과 진출극대화방안의 비교 연구)

  • 이인원;김대호
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.7-29
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    • 1996
  • The optimal solution obtained by a linear programming model is to maximize the ramp inflow rate. It is argued in this paper that the maximization of inflow rate is different from the maximization of outflow rate under congested conditions. Therefore, this paper proposes a systematic searching procedure from a linear programing formulation to a integer programming : first obtain the optimal solution by a linear programming and then adding weight to linear programming then. solve the optimal solution again by integer programming i.e. The proposed method is an interactive approach. Measure of effectiveness by simulation models regards the real time data(O/D, queue, delay, etc), can be utilized in the proposed interactive process.

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Evaluation of Characteristics of Ground Anchor Using Large Scale Laboratory Test (실규모 실험을 이용한 그라운드 앵커의 거동 특성 평가)

  • Sangrae Lee;Seunghwan Seol
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.24 no.11
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    • pp.19-24
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    • 2023
  • Ground anchor has been widely used specially for maintaining stability on reinforced cut slope in expressway. While the durability of the ground anchors should be ensured over the service life. However, the long-term loss of tensile force has occurred in most of field-installed anchors. Main causes are not clearly identified and very few studies have been made for analyzing long-term behavior of ground anchor in slopes. In this study, full-scale model tests and long-term measurements were made to obtain the load-displacement data and identified the causes of the long-term behaviors of ground anchor. As a result, the bond strength decreases exponentially with increasing water-binder ratio. Especially, groundwater is the most influencing factor to the bond strength. In the long-term behavior, the load decreases sharply until the initial settlement stabilized, and thereafter the tension force decreases constantly.

Research on the Residential Environment of New Town & Surrounding Area (대규모 신도시 및 주변지역 거주환경 비교분석 연구)

  • Cho, Young-Tae;Seong, Jang-Hwan
    • Land and Housing Review
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.1-8
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    • 2011
  • During the 1990's, five new towns were constructed around Seoul such as Bun-Dang and Il-San. These new towns are very popular since they were created based on systemic urban planning and they provide various residential amenities. Many people consider them livable cities. Taking such advantages, other small-scale new public and private developments continued around those new towns and consequently created 'agglomerated region with new development'. The most representative area is Bun-Dang and north-western Yong-In area which are formed along the Seoul-Busan expressway. This area is a mega-community having more than one million residents in 2005.Judging from recent development trends in the Seoul metropolitan area, it is expected that the formation of other 'agglomerated region with new development' would be continued for the time being. This study is aimed to analyze the residential environment of Bun-Dang and north-western Yong-In and find implications to the management of 'agglomerated region with new development'. The relevant existing studies have their limits, only focusing on analyzing current conditions and pointing out current problems. This study could be differentiated from the existing analyses in that it conducted comprehensive analyses on various factors that constitute urban residential environment. The conclusion of this study was derived from diverse analyses of current development condition, residential sites, regional transportation, awareness of residents, and oversee cases.

Estimation Problem of Design Hour Factor (K) on Urban Expressways and its Improved Direction (도시부 고속도로 설계시간계수(K) 추정방법의 문제점 및 개선방향 제시)

  • Kim, Sang-Gu;Gang, Seon-Uk;Kim, Yeong-Chun;Go, Seung-Yeong
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.111-121
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    • 2010
  • DHV (Design-Hour Volume) for the estimation of number of lanes is determined by design-hour factor (K). The design-hour factor is defined as the proportion between the 30th highest hourly volume and AADT and determines the level of road planning. However, the K-factor estimated by an existing method has a problem because the hourly volumes on holiday and weekend appear in the relatively low rank in real world in spite of expected high volumes. To improve this problem, this study make use of the concept of traffic demand in estimating the design-hour factor. After the congested hourly volumes transfer to traffic hourly demand, the K-factors are estimated on urban expressways and are compared to the existing K-factors. It is perceived that the new K-factors have more realistic values due to utilizing the traffic demand. reflecting the congested flow.

A Study on Planning of Roadside Green for Enhancing Urban Green Network (도시녹지 네트워크 강화를 위한 가로녹지 조성계획 연구)

  • Han, Bong-Ho;Kwak, Jeong-In;Park, Seok-Cheol;Hur, Ji-Yeon
    • Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.128-141
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    • 2014
  • This study established a plan to establish the roadside green for enhancing the urban green network and enhancing of urban greenery in Songpa-gu. As for the present conditions of the streets, that of the parks, the green axes, sidewalk in Songpa-gu were analyzed. This study derived 19 parks by the roadside and 13 lines to connect green axes. The result of roadside greenery status were selected 56,546m lines by natural green space and constructed green space. The result of sidewalks width were selected 8,600m lines that sidewalks width more than 5m for enhancing urban green network in Songpa-gu. For enhancing the urban green network lines were selected: Olympic Expressway, Songpa-daero, Nambusunhwan-no and Wiryeseong-gil. To improve the street planting strips, two plans were suggested: to improve the green structures of the street planting strips mainly with shrubs and to effectively create street planting strips through the green spaces along the streets. A plan to promote the amount of planting street trees in Songpa-gu analyzed the streets. Complements the understory layer sections were the highest the entire length of 34,206 m of 63.6% in strengthening for network streets. Greenspace network streets were calculated for planting of volume by promotion plan. Planting volume increased 4,708 trees before expand planting plan, so the total tree was considered 9,518 trees.

Preliminary Study Related with Application of Transportation Survey and Analysis by Unmanned Aerial Vehicle(Drone) (드론기반 고속도로 교통조사분석 활용을 위한 기초연구)

  • Kim, Soo-Hee;Lee, Jae-Kwang;Han, Dong-Hee;Yoon, Jae-Yong;Jeong, So-Young
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.182-194
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    • 2017
  • Most of the drone (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) research in terms of traffic management involves detecting and tracking roads or vehicles. The purpose of analyzing image footage in the transportation sector is to overcome the limitations of the existing traffic data collection system (vehicle detectors, DSRC, etc.). With regards to this, drones are the good alternatives. However, due to limitation in their maximum flight time, they are appropriate to use as a complementary rather than replacing the existing collection system. Therefore, further research is needed for utilizing drones for transportation analysis purpose. Traffic problems often arise from one particular section or a point that expands to the whole road network and drones can be fully utilized to analyze these particular sections. Based on the study on the uses of traffic survey analysis, this study is conducted by extracting traffic flow parameters from video images(range 800~1000m) of highway unit segments that were taken by drones. In addition, video images were taken at a high altitude with the development of imaging technologies.

GHGs Emissions Calculation Method and Influence Factors (온실가스 배출량 산정 방법 및 영향 요인 연구)

  • Choi, Seonghun;Chang, Hyunho;Yoon, Byungjo
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.550-557
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: Greenhouse gases are one of the major causes of global warming, a global disaster. In this study, the priority that affects when calculating the GHG emissions in the road sector is accurately calculated based on the speed of individual vehicles from the existing section average speed. I have the purpose of finding a possible factor. Method: A comparative analysis is conducted between the conventional method of the general passage section, the rest area section, the entrance section, and the confluence section of the highway and the speed-based emission calculation method of individual vehicles. Result: As a result of analyzing a total of 6 sections of the Gyeongbu Expressway, it was found that the standard deviation of the speed and the congestion of the sections had a great influence. Conclusion: When comparing the existing GHG emission calculation method with the speed-based emission calculation method of individual vehicles, it is clear that the speed-based method of individual vehicles is more precise. However, since it is difficult to apply it all over the country, this study compares the existing method with the speed-based method of individual vehicles and presents factors that have a significant difference.

Changes in Emissions of Highway Sections according to the GHG Reduction Target (온실가스 감축목표에 따른 고속도로 구간 배출량 변화 연구)

  • Choi, Seonghun;Chang, Hyunho;Yoon, Byungjo
    • Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.849-856
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    • 2020
  • Purpose: Greenhouse gases are one of the major causes of global warming, a global disaster. It aims to improve how effective the GHG reduction policy, which is the main cause of global warming in the transportation sector, has been effective on the highway and how to calculate GHG emissions. Method: Using the DSRC raw data, we estimate the emissions of Namhae Expressway (Yeongam-Suncheon) from 2017 to 2019 in two ways, a macro method (conventional) and a micro method (individual vehicle). Result: As a result of calculating the emission of the highway, the result was far exceeding the estimated emission, and it was found that when the calculation was performed for each vehicle, it was underestimated by more than 20%. Conclusion: If more emissions are continuously emitted than expected in the current transportation sector, additional emission reduction policies are needed to achieve the current greenhouse gas reduction targets. In addition, in the calculation of emissions, which is the basis of this policy, analysis was conducted for each individual vehicle using the current DSRC raw data, but using GPS afterwards will enable precise emission calculation through a more microscopic analysis.