• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.97-106
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• 2010

Environmental issues resulting from climate change and energy crises have become global issues, and cycling has gained greater popularity for sustainable transportation. Though many cities are trying to build bicycle roads, it is not easy to implement bicycle roads because there is little available space for bicycle facilities. Therefore, road diets have become more popular in Korea. However, there has been no intensive research to date of their impacts. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effects of road diets and construction of bike lanes. Every benefit, including energy benefit, environmental benefit, and health benefit is considered, while only time savings benefit has been considered in previous studies. The benefit analysis for the Seoul metropolitan area as a case study shows that road diets have a (1) time saving benefit for only five percent of the mode share and (2) enough total benefit even if bicycle mode share is less than two percent.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.201-205
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• 2024

Currently, the most important issue on the earth is global warming, which causes climate change and leads to disasters. For this reason, each country is focusing on renewable energy, carbon neutrality, environmentally friendly energy and transportation. Bicycles used as short-distance vehicles do not emit gases harmful to the human body that pollute the Earth's atmosphere. Also, the use of bicycles has the effect of improving the health of people, and each country is designing a short distance transportation network using bicycles. In this study, we propose a model of a bicycle power-train that can use a belt as a power transmission medium. The basic principles and methods for applying the proposed new type of power-train to bicycles are presented.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.405-411
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• 2016

Seoul city is publishing new plans to increase modal share rate of bicycle every year, such as, maintaining bicycle related facilities. But bicycle's modal share rate in Seoul stayed same for the last decade and people are still facing difficulties using bicycle related facilities. These problems are causing bicycle usage as connecting transportation of public transit to decrease. This study looked at the high bicycle modal countries, such as, Netherlands, Germany and Japan to find applicable solutions by analyzing cases and comparing them with cases of highly populated subway station of Sindorim in Seoul. For example, in Germany and Netherlands there is bicycle-parking system to help bikers to access subway easier, in Japan there is underground bicycle parking tower to safely keep high volume of bicycles with in small space. For Seoul city to increase its modal share rate, they should look at problems from users' prospective and solve it by fixing it and improving the services, not by making more facilities.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.15 no.8
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• pp.173-180
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• 2010

This research aims to enhance the security and safety of bicycle facilities by utilizing convergence technology of ubiquitous sensor network in the transportation system. To achieve the aim, U-bike system has developed by utilizing sensor network technology, and the serviceability and safety function of public facilities in the system have enhanced. This research also presents a plan for the construction of U-bike using ubiquitous sensor network and safety infrastructure of facilities by analyzing bicycle traffic reports and characteristics of service through studying the literature on the security of bicycles and the safety of facilities on bicycle lanes. The result of this research will contribute to the enhancement of safety function of bicycle lanes and facilities around National 4 major rivers bicycle lanes in the future.

• Transportation Technology and Policy
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.97-104
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• 2010

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.10-24
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• 2014

Bicycle is a useful transportation mode that is healthy, emission-free, and environmentally compatible. Although large efforts have been made to promote the use of bicycling to date, there still exist various hurdles and limitations. One of the key issues to increase bicycling is how to gather bicycle-related data from the field and to generate valuable information for both users and operations agencies. This study proposes a method to process bicycle trajectory data which is obtained from tracing global positioning systems(GPS) equipped bicycle, which is defined as the probe bicycle. The proposed method is based on the concept of statistical quality control of data. In addition, a data collection and processing scenario in support of public bicycle system is presented. The outcomes of this study would be valuable fundamentals for developing bicycle traffic information systems that is a part of future intelligent transportation systems(ITS).

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.13-23
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• 2009

This study investigated the effects of thae persuader and the persuasion message in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and activate the exploration journey using bicycles, a form of green transportation, in this green society age. Furthermore, the effects that predictive variables related to the implementation of an infrastructure for bicycles have on the intentions toward an exploration journey using bicycles were examined. The questionnaire survey was administered to 257 respondents for 9 days from March 14 to March 22, 2009. Since Gyeongju has a number of cultural relics that people can look at in one day, Gyeongju is ideal for examining a variety of tourist opinions about exploring cultural relics using bicycles. In conclusion, it was found that the 'persuader' and 'persuasion message' enhanced the desire for bicycle exploration journeys from 'will use a bicycle if possible' to 'want to use a bicycle'. In accordance with two-way ANOVA results on the desire for bicycle exploration journeys by persuader and persuasion message, the persuasion approach emphasizing health effects and geared toward bicycle enthusiasts was significantly effective. Furthermore, the most effective approach was the persuasion strategy emphasizing the 'citizens' and 'health', and 'citizens' and 'eco-friendly' among the effects created by connection of persuader and persuasion message.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.62-74
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• 2020

Although the government and local governments devote efforts to activate bicycles, they only access to the supply infrastructure such as bike lanes and the public bicycle rental service centers without considering the measures to overcome the geographical constraints of slope. Therefore, this study constructs bicyclist's energy consumption estimation model through experimental methods of slope gradient and heart rate measurement and suggest the bicycle route choice model which could minimize the energy by the slope gradient. After calculating the RMSE of the estimated energy consumption by applying this model to the simulation section, it is confirmed to be 41% better than the model which does not reflect slope gradient. The results of this study are expected to be applied to the bicycle infrastructure planning that considers both longitude and transverse of bike lanes and the algorithm of bicycle route guidance system in the future.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.87-96
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• 2010

The impact speed estimation practice used in the car-bicycle accident analysis practice in Korea was mainly dependent on foreign study results which were tested with limited speed ranges and vehicle types, but the characteristics of roadway, human body, and vehicle performance were quite different. This study developed an impact speed estimation model using the car-bicycle accident field data. For this, a regression analysis was performed using the impact speed and bicycle throw distance collected from 23 real accident data, and statistical test was also conducted. For the verification of the induced model, the impact speeds derived from the model were compared with the true impact speeds estimated from skid marks of two accident cases. The result showed that the two speeds were very close to each other. It is believed that the model could be included in the car-bicycle accident analysis practice.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.41-50
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• 2012

Most of the developed countries and Korea have continued to invest much money in developing low-carbon vehicles such as electric car, methanol car and hydrogen car to replace the conventional fossil fuel vehicles. Government and local governments of each country, however, grope to construct roads for bicycle and public bicycle rental systems because bicycle is the only ultimate and feasible non-pollution transportation. Most of the current bicycle monitoring systems have achieved automation of rental process in bicycle stations, but they can not monitor bicycles in use. This paper develops GPS-CDMA modem combined terminals and implements a LBS-based bicycle monitoring system using them for public bicycle rental system. The monitoring system collects location information from GPS-CDMA modem combined terminals attached on bicycles and presents the moving tracks of bicycles on a GIS map for easy return and redistribution of bicycles. Also, the system helps to prevent from theft and vandalism of bicycles and to recommend the nearest bicycle station.