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The Valuation of Passenger Comfort Benefits in Urban Railroads (도시철도의 승객 쾌적성 편익에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Young-Eun;Kim, Sung-Soo;Lee, Chang-Ju;Kim, Min-Seong
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2008.06a
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    • pp.1426-1440
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    • 2008
  • In Korea, the concentration for the use of urban railroads is comparatively high during peak hours. In case of road traffic, overcrowdness leads the increase of total travel time and cost naturally but this does not happen in railroad systems because of fixed operational interval. Thus, passenger's disutility is generated physically and mentally from congestion increment. The increase of railroad capacity from new transit lines and expansion of existed lines contributes traveler's comfort benefits to rising. However, present evaluation guidelines for feasibility studies of road and railroad projects do not include any valuation methodology about passenger's comfort benefits. Therefore, in this research, various factors affecting comfort benefits are reviewed and stated preference survey is performed in order to estimate traveler's comfort benefits for congestion reduction. In addition, willingness to pay for congestion avoidance is calculated from that stated preference survey based on Tobit Model. As a result, detailed unit for willingness to pay according to congestion reduction is proposed in this study.

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Analysis of Installation Effect of Section Speed Enforcement System Using ITS Collection and Operation Data (ITS 수집 및 운영 자료를 활용한 구간과속단속시스템 설치효과 분석)

  • Yoon, Young-Min
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.21 no.12
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    • pp.302-309
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    • 2021
  • The section speed enforcement system measures the starting instantaneous speed, the The section speed enforcement system measures the starting instantaneous speed, the ending instantaneous speed, and the section average speed, and imposes fines only for the portion that has been speeding the most. However, according to the Road Traffic Act, most of the systems are installed on highways, so existing research has been conducted on highway sections. In this study, it is expected that the installation of section speed enforcement systems on general national roads will be expanded according to the revision of related laws. ITS collection and operation data targeting the section speed enforcement system installed on National Road 3 Seongnam Icheon-ro was used to analyze traffic speed, standard deviation of traffic speed, and reduction in traffic accidents by dividing it into before installation, trial operation period, and after crackdown. As a result of the analysis, the traffic speed, standard deviation, and traffic accidents decreased by 13%, 25%, and 70%, respectively, after installation, confirming that the installation of the section speed enforcement system greatly contributed to the reduction of accidents.

Growth Characteristics of Ultrahigh-density Microalgal Cultures

  • Richmond, Amos
    • Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.349-353
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    • 2003
  • The physiological characteristics of cultures of very high cell mass (e.g. 10g cell mass/L), termed“ultrahigh cell density cultures”is reviewed. A close relationship was found between the length of the optical path (OP) in flat-plate reactors and the optimal cell density of the culture as well as its areal (g m$\^$-2/ day$\^$-1/) productivity. Cell-growth inhibition (GI) unfolds as culture density surpasses a certain threshold. If it is constantly relieved, a 1.0cm OP reactor could produce ca. 50% more than reactors with longer OP, e.g. 5 or 10cm. This unique effect, discovered by Hu et al. [3], is explained in terms of the relationships between the frequency of the light-dark cycle (L-D cycle), cells undergo in their travel between the light and dark volumes in the reactor, and the turnover time of the photosynthetic center (PC). In long OP reactors (5cm and above) the L-D cycle time may be orders of magnitude longer than the PC turnover time, resulting in a light regime in which the cells are exposed along the L-D cycle, to long, wasteful dark periods. In contrast, in reactors with an OP of ca. 1.0 cm, the L-D cycle frequency approaches the PC turnover time resulting in a significant reduction of the wasteful dark exposure time, thereby inducing a surge in photosynthetic efficiency. Presently, the major difficulty in mass cultivation of ultrahigh-density culture (UHDC) concerns cell growth inhibition in the culture, the exact nature of which is awaiting detailed investigation.

Application of Normal Pantograph to Tilting Vehicle with Technical Modification of Vehicle System (일반 판토그라프의 틸팅차량 적용을 위한 차량시스템의 개선안)

  • Mun, Hyung-Suk;Eum, Ki-Young;Yeo, In-Ho;You, Won-Hee;Kim, Nam-Po
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.887-892
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    • 2004
  • On curved rail, the speed of train must be reduced in order to keep riding comfort. So, the train has the speed limitation in conventional railway line. But if the train has the tilting mechanism, the speed of train is able to be increased while maintaining the riding comfort. Generally, the tilting train is faster than the non-tilting train about 30% in curve. The tilting train technology and reduction of travel time has been carefully investigated by KRRI (Korea Railroad Research Institute). Based on the primary research result from KRRI, tilting control system and tilting operation interlace are considered its core technology to apply tilting train to Korean conventional railway. In this paper application of non-tilting pantograph to tilting system will be introduced. New type of bogie frame and system modification of vehicle are invented to apply non-tilting pantograph to tilting train.

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A Research on Analyzing Current Status and Ways to Improve Access Transportation to Incheon International Airport (인천국제공항 접근교통시설의 현황분석 및 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Suh, Yang Hwan;Kim, Kyong Sook;Han, Soon Wook;Yoon, Sung Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aviation and Aeronautics
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.106-114
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    • 2012
  • As Incheon International Airport(IIA) is located in an island 50-km away from Seoul, various travel equipments for access are required. So far two connecting bridges are constructed funded by civilian funds. For the further bridge construction, the reduction of forecast traffic amount and the government subsidy for the civilian funds are big issues. Comparing the access traffics of IIA to those other competing airports, traffic conditions inside the airport are superior to other competing airports from the management point of view, as utilization conditions and equipment capacities are periodically monitored and evaluated to set up comprehensive countermeasures following constructing by stages. However, while the accessability to IIA is very important, as IIA is built on an island the conflicts between near-by developers and traffic facility operators make further bridge construction difficult. As improving the accessibility to an airport is not easy to achieve only by the IIA management's efforts, the central government level authorities should organize a committee with agencies concerned and analyze the characteristics of access traffic periodically to suggest reform measures for each organization concerned to implement appropriate undertakings at apt timing. For the future, central government's level empirical research on the airport accessibility for synthetic and systematic plan set-up is expected.

An Study on the Travel Time Reduction System of Emergency Vehicles (응급차량 이동시간단축시스템에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Ki-Suk;Nam, Tak-Hoon;Rho, He-Jae;Cho, Sung-Hoon;Lee, Nam-Yong;Park, Jin-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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    • 2017.04a
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    • pp.759-760
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    • 2017
  • 현재 국내 인구수가 약 5000만, 차량대수는 인구수의 절반가까이에 해당하는 2100만대를 넘어서고 있다. 이에 따라 국내 교통 혼잡도는 도로를 넓히고 대중교통을 장려하는 등의 노력을 기울이고 있음에도 증가하고 있다. 교통 혼잡도가 증가함에 따라, 사건 사고를 처리하는 응급차량의 이동이 수월하지 않은 편이다. 1분1초가 중요한 응급차량의 교통을 수월하게 하기 위해 고속도로에 갓길을 설치하는 등의 노력은 하고 있지만, 이것을 일반차량이 이용해도 제재수단이 없어 실효성이 부족하다. 이에 본 논문에서는 gps(네비게이션)를 이용하여 응급차량의 경로를 입력받았을 때 경로상의 차량에게 응급차량이 지나간다는 신호를 보내 사전에 응급차량이 지나갈 수 있는 도로를 확보하여 응급차량이 이동하는 시간을 단축시키는 것을 목적으로 한 시스템이다.

A Voronoi Tabu Search Algorithm for the Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (차량경로 문제에 관한 보로노이 다이어그램 기반 타부서치 알고리듬)

  • Kwon, Yong-Ju;Kim, Jun-Gyu;Seo, Jeongyeon;Lee, Dong-Ho;Kim, Deok-Soo
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.469-479
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    • 2007
  • This paper focuses on the capacitated vehicle routing problem that determines the routes of vehicles in such a way that each customer must be visited exactly once by one vehicle starting and terminating at the depot while the vehicle capacity and the travel time constraints must be satisfied. The objective is to minimize the total traveling cost. Due to the complexity of the problem, we suggest a tabu search algorithm that combines the features of the existing search heuristics. In particular, our algorithm incorporates the neighborhood reduction method using the proximity information of the Voronoi diagram corresponding to each problem instance. To show the performance of the Voronoi tabu search algorithm suggested in this paper, computational experiments are done on the benchmark problems and the test results are reported.

A Novel Picometer Positioning System for Machine Tools and Measuring Machines

  • Mizumoto, Hiroshi;Yabuta, Yoshito;Arii, Shiroh;Tazoe, Yoichi;Kami, Yoshihiro
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2005.06a
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2005
  • A novel tri-mode ultraprecision positioning system for machine tools and measuring machine is proposed. The basic coarse mode uses a Twist-roller Friction Drive (abbr. TFD), and controls several tens of millimeters of the machine-table travel with nanometer order of positioning resolution. The fine mode also utilizes the TFD with a fine adjusting mechanism. The resolution of the fine mode is in the range of sub-nanometer. For realizing picometer positioning, the ultra-fine mode is executed by using an active aerostatic guideway. On the bearing surface of this active guideway, several Active Inherent Restrictors (abbr. AIRs) are embedded for controlling the table position. An AIR unit consists of a piezoelectric actuator having a through hole, one end of the hole on the bearing surface acts as an inherent restrictor. Owing to the aerostatic mechanism of the AIR, the deformation of the piezoelectric actuator in the AIR unit causes much reduced table displacement. Such motion reduction is effective for ultraprecision positioning. Current positioning resolution of the ultra-fine mode is 50pm, however the final goal of the positioning resolution is expected to be in the order of picometer.

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A control system for dual-axis linear motor

  • Uchida, Yoshiyuki;Nohira, Shigemitsu;Seike, Yoshiyuki;Shingu, Hiroyasu;Sumi, Tetsuo;Furuhashi, Hideo;Yamada, Jun
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1992.10b
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    • pp.340-343
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    • 1992
  • Fundamental positioning characteristics of a dual-axis Sawyer linear motor are described. The Sawyer motor is capable of high positional accuracy. An electronic control unit of the motor whose velocity is proportional to the frequency of the electric current was produced in our laboratory. The positioning system was constructed using two Sawyer motors, an air bearings suspension unit and an electronic control unit. The stable motion of the motor was confirmed on the open loop operation. The adjustable operating conditions were the live load of 1 kg, the maximum acceleration of 1.2G and the maximum velocity of 350 mm/s. Absolute positioning accuracy was improved within .+-.5.mu.m, on microstep operating conditions of dividing one pitch of 508.mu.m into 508 steps. The following two conclusions were obtained. An accelerating-cruising-decelerating control is effective for reduction in the travel time required. Also, microstep operation is effective for improving the resolution of position.

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Development of a Robotic System for Searching Human Victims in Disasters (재난 인명 탐색을 위한 로봇 시스템 개발)

  • Kang, Jong-Kyu;Lee, Geun-Hyung;Lee, Sung-Uk;Seo, Yong-Chil;Choi, Chang-Hwan;Jung, Seung-Ho;Kim, Seung-Ho;Jeong, Kyung-Min
    • Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 2007
  • This paper introduces a mobile robotic system being developed for urban search and rescue. In order to search human victims in narrow spaces, we developed two types of serially linked mobile robots, named KAEROT-Centipede and KAEROT-SnakeTV1, that can climb over large vertical steps or travel inside narrow vertical pipes. To send such mobile robots to the disaster areas coping with large obstacles, we also developed a assistant mobile robot, named KAEROT-QuadTrack, that has 4 articulated track modules. This paper describes the mechanical structure and control architecture of the serially linked mobile robots and the supporting configuration for torque reduction of the assistant mobile robot during spinning motion that usually requires large driving torque. The experimental results show that such robotic systems have good mobility over the various terrains in disaster areas.