• 대한토목학회논문집
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• 제28권2D호
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• pp.235-242
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• 2008

고령인구의 운전참여 비율이 급증하는 시점에서 시력 및 운전판단 능력이 떨어지는 고령운전자가 안전하게 운행할 수 있도록 하기 위해서는 고령운전자를 위한 도로교통환경의 정비가 무엇보다 중요하다. 도로교통 안전시설물 중에서 가장 먼저 생각할 수 있는 것은 도로표지로, 고령운전자가 도로표지를 잘 알아볼 수 있도록 설치할 필요가 있다. 본 연구는 고령운전자가 도로표지판의 지명개수에 대해서 어떻게 반응하는지, 또한 연령대별로 어느 정도 차이가 나는지를 실험하기 위해서 다양한 연령층(20대~70대)을 확보하여 실험을 수행하였다. 이때 사용된 장비는 표지판의 내용을 완벽하게 주시했는지를 알 수 있는 안구운동분석기와 도로현실을 최대한 반영한 가상 도로주행시뮬레이터를 사용하였다. 연구내용은 고령운전자에 대한 속도변화, 판독소요시간 분석, 오독률 분석을 실시하였다. 그 결과 각 구간에서 연령대별 판독과정에 따른 속도변화를 살펴보면, 전체적으로 연령이 높을수록 속도는 낮은 경향을 나타냈다. 연령대별 평균 판독소요시간 분석에서 회귀분석을 실시한 결과, 비표준화계수를 살펴보면 연령이 증가할수록 판독소요시간이 0.106초씩 증가하였다. 그리고 Logistic Model을 이용하여 연령별 지명개수에 따른 오독률을 분석한 결과, 5% 미만의 오독률을 고려하였을 때 고령자의 경우에는 지명개수가 4개 이하가 가장 바람직한 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 도로교통환경에서 보호받아야할 고령자에게 도로표지판의 적정 지명개수를 제시함으로써 도로교통안전에 도움이 될 것으로 본다. 또한 향후 각종 도로교통표지 설계시 안전성을 제고하는 기법 개발에 활용 및 기여할 것이다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.159-166
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• 2017

The position of autonomous driving vehicle is basically acquired through the global positioning system (GPS). However, GPS signals cannot be received in tunnels. Due to this limitation, localization of autonomous driving vehicles can be made through sensors mounted on them. In particular, a 3D Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system is used for longitudinal position error correction. Few feature points and structures that can be used for localization of vehicles are available in tunnels. Since lanes in the road are normally marked by solid line, it cannot be used to recognize a longitudinal position. In addition, only a small number of structures that are separated from the tunnel walls such as sign boards or jet fans are available. Thus, it is necessary to extract usable information from tunnels to recognize a longitudinal position. In this paper, fire hydrants and evacuation guide lights attached at both sides of tunnel walls were used to recognize a longitudinal position. These structures have highly distinctive reflectivity from the surrounding walls, which can be distinguished using LIDAR reflectivity data. Furthermore, reflectivity information of tunnel walls was fused with the road surface reflectivity map to generate a synthetic reflectivity map. When the synthetic reflectivity map was used, localization of vehicles was able through correlation matching with the local maps generated from the current LIDAR data. The experiments were conducted at an expressway including Maseong Tunnel (approximately 1.5 km long). The experiment results showed that the root mean square (RMS) position errors in lateral and longitudinal directions were 0.19 m and 0.35 m, respectively, exhibiting precise localization accuracy.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.185-191
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• 2012

Rear collisions to expressway work trucks result many casualties these days. But, currently, no special measure are being taken except deploying sign trucks behind the working trucks. In the U.S and Europe, trucks with TMA(Truck Mounted Attenuator) are being deployed behind the working truck, which is regarded as the standard method for work area safety, thereby reducing the fatality rates and property damage tremendously. Also, standard for the performance of TMA are established and TMA can be used in the field only when it satisfies the standard. In Korea, neither the standard for nor any guide to the TMA exists. In the situation some manufacturer developed TMA without proper performance evaluation and marketed limited number of TMAs in the field. In the study, NCHRP350, which is the performance standard of expressway safety features of U.S. and materials related to the TMA standard in Europe have been reviewed to establish the Korean performance criteria. Based on the review, and incorporating existing Korean standard for crash cushions, domestic standard for TMA has been proposed and applied in developing Korean TMA and crash tested it to verify the performance. The original design developed was crash tested and modified. The newly proposed design was studied using impact simulation program several times. Modifications were made after each simulation and prototype was built and crash tested as per the newly established TMA performance criteria.