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A Methodology for Evaluating Cycling Safety and Mobility using Probe Bicycle Sensor Data (프로브 자전거 센서자료를 이용한 자전거 주행안전성 및 이동성 통합평가기법 개발)

  • Joo, Shin-Hye;Oh, Cheol
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.43-55
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    • 2012
  • Bicycle is an environment-friendly transport mode contributing to a more sustainable transportation systems. To innovatively increase the use of bicycle as a significant transport mode, bicycle-friendly roadway environment should be provided. This study proposes a method to evaluate cycling environment based on the analysis of data collected from an specially equipped probe bicycle. The inertial measurement unit(IMU) consisting of a gyro sensor, accelerometer, and a global positioning systems(GPS) receiver was installed on the probe bicycle. Cycling stability index(CSI) and bicycle speed data were used as inputs of the proposed evaluation framework adopting the Fault Tree Analysis, which is a well-known technique for the risk analysis. The outcomes of this study will serve as an intelligent assesment tool for cycling environment.

Service Model Research of Bicycle-sharing based on Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) (MaaS(Mobility-as-a-Service)기반 공유자전거 서비스 모델연구)

  • Yang, Wang;Lee, Sung-pil
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.9 no.4
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    • pp.19-40
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    • 2019
  • Mobility as a Service is a service conception to achieve the intelligent transportation system. Its aims to improve the travel experience. In one platform, it connects various transportation modes to offer service and users only need to pay in one time for the whole travel. But the single MaaS platform easily faces the problems such as low user traffic, low retention rate and the access to markets of the this service is still unfound. From the perspective of bicycle-sharing, this research makes the MaaS concept into bicycle-sharing to build a better service model. The bicycle-sharing combine with the MaaS concept is innovative in business model, travel model and service architecture. In addition, this research also tests users' expectations for service model. The research shows that MaaS-based bicycle-sharing could offer flexible and convenient travel experience in the aspects of combined transportation, travel, transfer and payment, and it also makes it possible to make travel services according to need, and sustainable transport.

Development of the Bicycle Level of Service Model from the User's Perspective (이용자 중심의 자전거도로 서비스수준 모형 개발)

  • Gang, Gyeong-U;Lee, Gyeo-Ra
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.75-84
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    • 2010
  • South Korea is seeking for a solution to the problems of traffic congestion and environment: the increase of bicycle use. However many people feel that using a bicycle is inconvenient. Therefore, we developed bicycle level of service model from the user's perspective so that the existing bicycle roads can be evaluated and improved. The purpose of this paper is to develop a bicycle level of service (LOS) model by considering user's satisfaction and multiple factors that affect bicycle LOS. Bicycle LOS criteria is estimated by applying an ordered probit model, which is suitable for research relating to choice. In addition, we determine the bicycle LOS using three-level(A-C) LOS structure from the user position considering the satisfaction level that people can distinguish clearly. The results show that the bicycle LOS is largely determined by the bicycle road width. Other factors are involved as well, including bicycle road type, the number of access and egress point on the bicycle road corridor, pedestrian volume, and frequency of meetings.

Analysis of the Bicycle-Sharing Economy : Strategic Issues for Sustainable Development of Society

  • Kim, Hwajin;Cho, Yooncheong
    • Journal of Distribution Science
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    • v.16 no.7
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    • pp.5-16
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    • 2018
  • Purpose - This study posits that sustainable mobility of the sharing economy plays a key role to consider environment benefits. The purpose of this study is to investigate the bicycle-sharing economy as an emerging and alternative mode of transportation service and provide managerial and policy implications. The bicycle-sharing economy is still at an early stage of introduction as a transportation mode, while the governmental sector is promoting public bicycle-sharing to encourage bicycle as a substitute for private cars. Research design, data, and methodology - This study analyzed the current status of bicycle sharing programs through a survey that was distributed randomly to users and non-users across the country. Using factor analysis, satisfaction and loyalty for the existing users and intention to use and expected satisfaction for the potential users were examined in relation to utility factors. Results - The results show that economic utility affects satisfaction for user, while storage, mobility, and economic utility affects intention to use for potential users. The findings of this study indicate that in order to promote a bicycle-sharing scheme, it would be better to focus on the scheme's economic advantage to be truly effective. Conclusions - The findings of the study could be applicable to future directions of the sharing economy as a means to achieve the sustainable development of society.

Kinematics and Inverse Kinematics in Unmanned Bicycle System (무인자전거 시스템의 정역학 및 역정역학)

  • Ham, Woon-Chul
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.73-80
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    • 2006
  • Bicycle is one of convenient transportation system. In this paper, we derive a more precise kinematics of bicycle system compared with other ones which were suggested by other researchers. In the derivation of kinematics we adopted a physical concept called virtual wheel. We also propose an algorithm for deriving inverse kinematics of a bicycle system. In this paper, the meaning of inverse kinematics is to find the time functions of steering angle and driving wheel speed for a given desired path trajectory. From the computer simulation, we show the validity of our proposed algorithm for inverse kinematics of bicycle system.

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Bicycle Custody Place Provision in the Station (역사내 자전거보관소 설치 방안)

  • Lee, Pil-Sin;Oh, Suk-Soon
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2011.10a
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    • pp.1468-1477
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    • 2011
  • Central government and local self-governing bodies are actively promoting bicycle-riding as a solution for transportation, environment, energy and health. They put lot of efforts in the practice of bicycle-related policies such as building bicycle-related infrastructure and creating task force team to improve the bicycle-related systems. However, there is no substantive improvement in the city rail operation agencies regarding the bicycle-related facilities and operation. The expansion of bicycle-related infrastructure in city rail stations is urgently required considering the increase in demands from the bicycle-riders for the facility and bicycle-related service improvement. Accordingly, this study suggests a bicycle-riding vitalization plan linking the city rail and bicycle by providing with a bicycle custody place in the city rail stations which will have comprehensive convenience facilities including the safe-keeping facility for bicycles.

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Planning Routes of Bicycle Lanes in Suwon City Using Big Data Analysis (빅데이터 분석을 통한 수원시 자전거 전용차로 도입 방안)

  • Kim, Suk Hee;Kim, Hyung Jun;Lee, Nam Il
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.42 no.1
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    • pp.45-56
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    • 2022
  • Recently, bicycle sharing system is introduced and the usage of shared bicycles is increasing in Suwon city. Despite the need to expand the bicycle road infrastructure, this is not the case. Therefore, this research attempts to propose a method for bicycle lane installation in Suwon city. For this, this research conducted location analysis based on the shared bicycle usage data and trip inducing facility data. Using location analysis results, appropriate routes for bicycle lanes are selected. As a result, two routes are selected. These routes have advantages that it is easy to connect with the existing bicycle roads or traffic inducing facilities and to install using the existing bicycle roads. However, these routes also have disadvantage that traffic congestion may occur due to the occupancy of the existing road space. It is expected that this research may contribute to expansion and maintenance of bicycle lane infrastructure, the bicycle and PM sharing service usage, implementation of sustainable urban transportation systems in Suwon city.

Epidemiological Characteristics of Bicycle-Injured Patients (자전거손상 환자의 역학적 특성)

  • Nam, Young-Hee;Lee, Myung-Sun
    • The Journal of Korean Society for School & Community Health Education
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.47-57
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    • 2013
  • Backgrounds: According to a high interest in health these days, a bicycle is being highlighted as a means of leisure activity and auxiliary transportation means. Along with an increase in this interest, there is tendency that even the width of bicycle utilization gets diverse and that bicycle accident is also rapidly growing. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to suggest a prevention measure available for reducing occurrence of bicycle accidents by analyzing the Epidemiological characteristics according to age and injury severity in bicycle-injured patients. Methods: This study analyzed 115 materials suitable for this study by examining a medical record of patients, who received the hospitalized treatment owing to bicycle accident from January 1, 2011 to December 31 at one general hospital in S city. Results: The male-and-female ratio of bicycle-injured patients stood at about 7:3. The average age was 38.14(${\pm}21.59$) years old. The largest injury happened in 40-59 years old(31.3%). The averagely hospitalized period was 17.33(${\pm}18.12$) days. Injury severity was the ratio of 2:8 in a mild case versus a serious case. As for drinking and smoking characteristics according to age, the injury occurred the most in between 40 and 59 years old for people with drinking and smoking and in under 19 years for people without drinking and smoking. According to injury severity, the ratio of serious case got higher in the higher age. This was indicated(${\chi}^2$=15.675, p=0.001) to be statistically significant. Conclusion: In this study, a bicycle accident was indicated to have high injury risk in young children, adolescents, and old-age group. Prevention measure and publicity are demanded for reducing injury occurrence such as the prevention education for bicycle accident and wearing protective gear focusing on the ages of corresponding to groups with risk of injury occurrence. In addition, the security of safe movement route is necessarily demanded in order to increase application level as an auxiliary transportation means.

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Public bicycle system using smart phone (스마트폰을 이용한 공용 자전거 시스템)

  • Kim, Jeong-Muk;Kim, Ji-In;Kim, Jeong-Sig;Kwon, Goo-Rak
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.727-731
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    • 2014
  • Nowadays, most people have been using a bicycle as a transportation or exercise. The bicycle is so indispensable to the public means of transportation. The demand of the bicycle is increasing since one is becoming advancement more and more. We propose a smart bicycle that can controls the individual parts of the bicycle by smart phone. This paper verifies and validates the problem and the advanced direction after confirming the smart phone's public bicycle to learn about market trends and the analysis of future prospects. Based on the analyzed contents of the problem and improving the direction, we implement public bicycle system with smart bicycle. The implementation of the proposed method shows the available and the effective system with the promote public health by cycling and contributing to the domestic bicycle industry.