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School Zone Safety Improvement Using Smart Bollard

Smart Bollard를 이용한 어린이보호구역에서의 안전성 제고에 관한 연구

  • 김회경 (동아대학교 도시계획학과) ;
  • 임재문 (정림이엔씨 건축사사무소) ;
  • 설재훈 (동아대학교 미디어디바이스 연구센터) ;
  • 오윤표 (동아대학교 도시계획학과)
  • Received : 2012.06.15
  • Accepted : 2012.10.11
  • Published : 2013.02.04

Abstract

This paper is aimed to introduce to a moving bollard (i.e., smart bollard) to improve the pedestrian safety along the crosswalk in the school zone as a means to physically separate pedestrians and approaching vehicles, to propose the appropriate criteria for its installation and implementation from the traffic engineering perspective, and to evaluate its effectiveness with the microscopic simulation model. The simulation results indicate that implementing the smart bollard results in the decrease of average approaching speed and traffic throughput and the most critical factors affecting its effectiveness are yellow time of the traffic signal directly associated with the location of the advance warning sign and its operation time, 5~6 seconds and 2~3 seconds, respectively.

본 연구에서는 어린이보호구역에서 교통안전의 증진을 위하여 상류부에 접근하는 차량의 감속과 어린이보호구역 내에 위치한 횡단보도에서 발생하는 차대사람 간의 교통사고를 최소화하기 위하여 물리적인 보차분리가 가능한 구동식 bollard, 즉 smart bollard를 제안하고 설치와 운영에 요구되는 조건들을 교통공학적인 측면에서 이해하고 그 제원을 제시하였다. 미시적 시뮬레이션 모델을 통해 제안된 smart bollard를 평가해본 결과, 설치 전과 비교하여 구간 평균통행속도와 통과교통량의 감소효과를 보여 어린이보호구역 교통안전의 증진에 효과가 있음을 보였다. 또한 구간 평균통행속도와 통과교통량을 효과적으로 줄여줄 수 있는 가장 결정적인 파라미터는 smart bollard 사전 경보등의 설치에 관여하는 황색신호시간의 길이와 smart bollard의 구동시간으로서 각각 5~6초와 2~3초가 적합한 값으로 판명되었다.

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