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On the Optimal Routing for City-Wide Synchronous PRT (도심지 서비스를 위한 Synchronous PRT의 최적경로설정)

  • Kim, Dong-Hee
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.315-320
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    • 2010
  • Recently, there are environmental issues for sustainable transportation system to pursue the energy-efficient and environment-friendly public urban transit. These transportation system needs to offer demand-oriented high-quality service being on the same level with cab service for urban space. PRT(Personal Rapid Transit), small track-guided vehicle, is repeatedly mentioned as a possible alternative for the new urban public transportion system, but but there are not many researches on the operational optimal routing for PRT network. In this paper, the concept of PRT and general optimal routing methods are reviewed. And we suggest the optimal routing method for city-wide PRT network with multi-vehicles and stations, junctions and directional arcs. Futher research directions for PRT routing are presented.

Design Optimization of an Impact Limiter Considering Material Uncertainties

  • Lim, Jongmin;Choi, Woo-Seok
    • Journal of Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Waste Technology(JNFCWT)
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.133-149
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    • 2022
  • The design of a wooden impact limiter equipped to a transportation cask for radioactive materials was optimized. According to International Atomic Energy Agency Safety Standards, 9 m drop tests should be performed on the transportation cask to evaluate its structural integrity in a hypothetical accident condition. For impact resistance, the size of the impact limiter should be properly determined for the impact limiter to absorb the impact energy and reduce the impact force. Therefore, the design parameters of the impact limiter were optimized to obtain a feasible optimal design. The design feasibility criteria were investigated, and several objectives were defined to obtain various design solutions. Furthermore, a probabilistic approach was introduced considering the uncertainties included in an engineering system. The uncertainty of material properties was assumed to be a random variable, and the probabilistic feasibility, based on the stochastic approach, was evaluated using reliability. Monte Carlo simulation was used to calculate the reliability to ensure a proper safety margin under the influence of uncertainties. The proposed methodology can provide a useful approach for the preliminary design of the impact limiter prior to the detailed design stage.

A Study on the Analysis Method of Safety Cost of Tunnel Accident (터널사고 재난 안전비용 분석 방법에 관한 연구)

  • Baek, Chung-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.23-30
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    • 2021
  • This paper analyzed a survey of 388 general target samples to analyze the correlation between disaster safety costs and human risk factor analysis and evacuation behavior due to tunnel accidents. Considering the impact of the tunnel accident on disaster safety costs and the correlation between human evacuation and risk factors in the tunnel environment, the system should be reorganized to reflect the tunnel's basic plan, tunnel cross-section, tunnel installation.

Analysis of Transportation Safety Policies among 81 Cities in Korea (도시별 교통안전정책의 시행효과 분석)

  • Kim, Chang-Kyun;Kim, Dong-Gun;Park, Yong-Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.22 no.3 s.74
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    • pp.27-39
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    • 2004
  • The previous studies on analyzing the effects of traffic safety policies are very limited. Implementing traffic safety policies in view of their own urban traffic characteristics would be fairly desirable to handle properly the traffic safety problems. The relationships between traffic accidents and traffic safety policies have been researched by classifying the eighty one cities in Korea into four groups in terms of the size of the city population. Statistical analysis have been conducted for traffic accidents data and traffic safety policies, respectively. In order to mearsure the effectiveness of the traffic policies in the real world, regression models have been developed by handling the accident data and policy data. As a result of analysing the data, the traffic policies have showed different effects according to the size of the cities. While budget investment policies had provided enormous influences to reduce traffic accidents in the big cities more than a half million polulation, traffic enforcement and traffic education have been so efficient to control traffic accident problems in the smaller cities less than a half million poluation.

An Analysis of the Jet Fuel Consumption and the GHG Emission by the Flight Phase (항공기 비행단계별 연료소비 분석 및 Tier 3 배출량 산정)

  • Lee, Ju Hyoung;Kim, Yong Seok;Shin, Hong Chul
    • Journal of Climate Change Research
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.61-70
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    • 2014
  • The amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has been increasing steadily over the last 3 years (2009~2011), averaging 5.7 percent a year, due to the growth of low cost carriers and the increased demand for air transportations. The present study attempts to investigate the aviation fuel consumption and GHG emissions of Tier 3a type by the flight phase from three aircraft type such as B737-600(routes between Gimpo-Jeju airport), B737-700(routes between Gimpo-Jeju airport and Inchon-Narita), B737-800(routes between Inchon-Narita) using the Flight Operation Quality Assurance(FOQA) data of the year 2011.

Economic Feasibility and Basic Technical Requirements for Tube Transportation System (튜브운송시스템 경제성과 성능요구조건)

  • Lee, Jin-Sun;Lim, Kwan-Su;Nam, Doo-Hee;Kwon, Hyuk-Bin;Kim, Jung-Yeol
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.513-518
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    • 2008
  • Currently, urban areas face congestion problems that diminish personal mobility and freight-transport productivity. An increasing number of experts suggest that separating freight traffic from passenger traffic makes sense in terms of economics, the environment, and safety. Some experts suggest that tube transportation is the solution. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the potential benefits and limitations of tube transportation system as a viable mode of transport that can alleviate congestion on roadways. Specifically, this research employs theoretical and practical method identifying, evaluating, and selecting appropriate freight pipeline systems; evaluating the technical and economic feasibility of tube transportation; and estimating environmental, energy, and safety benefits.

Identification of Mud-Pumping Mechanism by SASW Measurements (SASW 실험에 의한 철도 분니현상의 규명)

  • 강태호;조성호;황선근;이성혁
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 1999.03a
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    • pp.463-470
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    • 1999
  • The railroad transportation system has more advantages over other transportation systems in terms of low cost, safety and mass transportation The development in economy and social environments lead to the increase of the transportation between cities. As a result, the increased capacity of transportation system is required and maintenance of transportation facilities becomes more important, In the railroad system mud-pumping is one of the troubles to cause distortion of rails and progressive disrupture of subgrade. h this study, SASW measurements were performed to investigate stiffness structures at the sites with mud-pumping and without mud-pumping, Comparison of the stiffness structures revealed the mechanism of mud-pumping and provided information to choose measures for the mud-pumping.

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