• 한국안전학회지
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.111-118
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• 2018

Korea is facing a surge in the aging population, showing that population aged 65 and above will be accounted for 42.5% of the total population in 2065 with the emphasis on the over-80 population consisting of 19.2%. In response to this abrupt change in population structure, the number of traffic fatality accident referring to older driver as aged 65+ years had been increasing from 605 fatalities in 2011 to 815 fatalities in 2015 resulting in increases in 34.7% in oppose to happening to decreases in 17.2% about non-older driver. With Logit analysis based on Newton-Raphson algorithm utilizing older driver's traffic fatality data for the 2011-2015 years, it was found that the likelihood of an accident resulting in a fatality for super older driver aged 80 years and above considerably increased compared to other older driver with aging classification: 2.24 times for violation of traffic lane, 2.04 times for violation of U-turn, 1.48 times for violation of safety distance, 1.35 times for violation of obstacle of passing; also average annual increase of traffic accident cost related to super older driver was fairly increased rather than other older driver groups. Hence, this study proposes that improving and amending transport safety system and Road Traffic Act for super older driver needs to be urgently in action about license management, safe driving education, etc. when considering the increase of over-80 population in the near future. Also, implementing a social agreement with all ages and social groups to apply with advanced driver assistance system for older driver groups will be able to become a critical factor to enhance safe driving over the face of the country.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.70-75
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• 2019

The aging of society is not only Korea's challenge but also a global issue. This leads to an increase in the number of elderly drivers who are much more prone to major traffic accidents. Therefore, we need a system to test aged drivers' driving abilities. As part of efforts to establish such a system, researchers of KoROAD. have conducted a study on the correlation between aging and driving abilities by analyzing old drivers' reaction time. The study shows that there was a sharp increase in reaction time for drivers aged 65 and over. The current reaction time of 2.5 secs for the 85 percent of eligible drivers needs to be revised upward in aging societies. From now on, we need to come up with the traffic safety measures that can deal with the issue of drivers of old age.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.69-77
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• 2009

This paper reports the aging driver traffic accident severity modeling results. For the modeling, Poisson regression approach is applied using the data set obtained from the Korea Transportation Safety Authority's simulator-based driver aptitude test results. The test items include the estimations of moving objects' speed and stopping distance, drivers' multi-task capability, and kinetic depth perception and so on. The resulting model with the response variable of equivalent property damage only(EPDO) indicated that EPDO is significantly influenced by moving objects' speed estimation and drivers' multi-task capabilities. More interestingly, a comparison with the younger driver model revealed that the degradation of such capabilities may result in severer crashes for older drivers as suggested by the higher estimated parameters for the older driver model.

• 한국도로학회논문집
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2009

고령화가 진행될수록 고령운전자의 수 역시 증가될 것으로 예상되어 향후 고령운전자에 의한 교통사고는 급증할 것으로 판단된다. 본 연구는 고속도로 교통사고 발생시 고령층과 비고령층의 구분에 따른 교통사고 특성을 분석하였다. 분석결과 비고령층에 비해 고령층에 작용하는 영향요인이 다르게 나타남을 알 수 있었다. 로짓모형을 통해 비고령층과 고령층의 Odds Ratio를 분석하여 사고영향요인에 따른 차이점을 알아보았으며 고령운전자의 사고 분석 모형을 개발하였다. 비고령층에 비해 곡선구간 및 절토구간, 노면의 습기상태일 때 고령운전자의 사고위험이 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제33권1호
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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.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제12권5호_spc
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• pp.149-167
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• 2006

고령화가 다른 국가에 비해 상대적으로 빠르게 진행되고 있는 상황에 대비한 고령운전자의 연구가 부족한 실정이다. 본 연구는 고령운전자의 교통사고 원인을 신체적 능력저하보다도 심리적 요인의 변화에 입각하여 고찰해 보려고 한다. - 고령운전자의 교통사고 고령운전자의 교통사고에서 가장 두드러지게 나타나는 행동적 특징은 좌회전시 발생하는 교통사고가 많다는 것이다. 그리고 사고장소에 따른 분석결과에 의하면, 교차로에서 발생하는 사고가 많다는 것이 확인되었다. - 고령운전자의 조심성과 보상행동 고령운전자의 조심성이 운전행동에 미치는 알아보기 위하여 운전자의 운전확신수준을 비교해 보았다 운전확신수준은 4개 요인으로 구분되었고, 고령운전자와 젊은 운전자의 운전확신수준 차이를 검증한 결과를 보면, 고령운전자의 운전확신수준이 젊은 운전자에 비해 현저하게 떨어지는 것을 알 수 있었다 그리고 좌회전을 선택시 소요되는 시간을 분석하여 고령운전자의 조심성을 이해하려고 하였다 고령운전자는 젊은 운전자에 비해 선택소요시간이 현저하게 길어진다는 사실을 발견하였다. - 고령운전자의 운전일탈행동 연령에 따른 운전일탈행동의 변화를 보면, 연령이 증가함에 따라 운전일탈행동의 위반, 오류, 착오의 평균 점수는 감소하는데, 각 요인이 감소하는 정도는 차이가 있었다. 위반점수는 연령의 증가에 따라 급격하게 감소하는 모습을 보이는데 비해 오류와 착오점수는 연령의 증가에 따라 완만하게 감소하는 경향을 보였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.202-209
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• 2001

As a part of stringent emission regulations, OBD on a converter is requested by EU and CARB. It demands that MIL is light-on to inform the failure to the driver when the converter is failed in its function. Usually dual oxygen sensor method is used for converter OBD. For this, detail methods, like amplitude ratio, time delay and frequency ratio methods are adapted for vehicle application. Actually, the cars produced later than MY94 for US market are using one of these methods. In this study, OSCs of converters are investigated with an absolute measuring method. The converters are aged with a furnace aging, an engine bench aging and vehicle aging method to represent various aging condition in field applications. An OBD index that is used for TLEVs regulation is also investigated to find a relation between two parameters. The relations of these parameters with THC emission on vehicle are evaluated.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제21권48호
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• pp.145-152
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• 1998

Driving performance is characterized by many things such as driver's experience period, age, ability of information processing and reaction time of control devices and so forth. However, each factor of driving performance is needed to help and screen a poor driver for safe driving. In this paper, driving performance was estimated by reaction of manipulating brake, accelerator, steering wheel and speed. Subjects were grouped by experience of accident and age. Combinations of every group were analysed. For all the dependent variables, only steering wheel and speed were shown to have significant difference, which could be regarded as visual information of speed and direction were the important factors to drive safely. Especially for tile elderly, it is needed to enhance their ability of visual information processing that is to be decreased with aging. Therefore driving simulator to train and screen the poor driver should be studied.

• 아태비즈니스연구
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.229-242
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• 2020

Purpose - To study the factors that are related with compliance for the voluntary surrender program of drive's license for senior drives and to estimate the rate of voluntary surrender. Design/methodology/approach - We online surveyed 147 individuals in order to analyze the intention to comply the program. The surveyees were driver's license holders aged 54 to 65 and drawn to answer their willingness to comply in a 5-point Likert scale. We developed an ordered probit model to analyze the data. Findings - According to the main results of the empirical analysis, the higher the average number of driving per week, regardless of gender and age, the more negative was the driver toward voluntarily surrender of driver's license. Various policy measures need to be prepared to activate the voluntary surrender system using the willingness to voluntarily surrender the driver's license and the characteristics of the voluntary returners, and the implementation of customized safe driving training for elderly drivers may be one such method. Research implications or originality - Population aging is known to cause various social problems, and in the transportation field, the number of elderly drivers and traffic accidents by elderly drivers are also increasing. The government is implementing a program for elderly drivers to voluntarily surrender of their driver's licenses in order to reduce traffic accidents caused by elderly drivers. If only elderly drivers who rarely drive surrender their driver's licenses then traffic accidents may not reduce as much as the program targets, however, and further policy instruments may be needed.

• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.219-227
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• 2022

우리나라는 고령화 현상이 가속됨에 따라 고령자 관련 교통사고 문제가 지속적으로 대두되고 있으며, 이를 개선하기 위한 노력은 시행 중이나 효과가 뚜렷하지 않다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 통행특성 및 인센티브 정책이 고령운전자의 운전면허증 반납에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. 분석결과, 고령운전자의 주 구성원인 남성, 고 연령층, 낮은 대중교통 의존도, 긴 운전시간, 통행횟수가 많은 집단의 경우, 운전면허증 반납의사가 낮은 것으로 확인된다. 반면, 금전적 인센티브는 운전면허증 반납의사에 긍정적 역할을 하며, 이를 제공하는 방식에 따라 반납의사 정도에 차이가 존재하는 것으로 분석되었다. 다만, 운전면허 반납의사가 낮은 집단에서는 그 효과가 미미할 것으로 예측된다. 분석결과를 종합해보면, 현재의 정책 하에서는 고령운전자로 인한 사회적 문제를 개선하기에는 한계가 존재하는 것으로 예측되는 바 고령운전자의 운전면허증 반납 유도를 위한 접근방법에 대한 재검토가 필요하다.