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Effects of LED Safety Induction Block on Crosswalk Accident

횡단보도 LED안전유도블록 설치에 따른 효과분석

  • Park, Dae-Young (Department of Bio Industrial Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University) ;
  • Yoo, Kyong-Kon (Division of Mechatronics, Korea Polytech University) ;
  • Choi, Won-Sik (Department of Bio Industrial Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University)
  • 박대영 (부산대학교 바이오산업기계공학과) ;
  • 유경곤 (한국폴리텍VII대학 메카트로닉스과) ;
  • 최원식 (부산대학교 바이오산업기계공학과)
  • Received : 2014.04.07
  • Accepted : 2014.07.10
  • Published : 2014.07.31

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze the effects of LED safety block using the government database. To evaluate these effects, the night accident data was obtained from 2007 to 2011 from the database. At the LED-installed area, compared to the uninstalled area, the number of night traffic accidents, injured and mortality had decreased by 26.2%, 21.2% and 38.3%, respectively. The LED-installed intersections are safer than the LED-uninstalled roads from a traffic accidents perspective. In conclusion, a LED safety block is quite effective in decreasing the number of traffic accidents. Although this study was conducted using the data from Changwon city, where LED safety blocks have been installed so far, these results can provide valuable data to other cities considering the implementation of these LED safety blocks.

야간에는 주간에 비해 통행량감소에 따른 운전자의 법규위반이 많아지고 음주 및 운전자의 피로가 증가하여 교통사고의 위험성은 급격히 증대된다. 따라서 야간에 발생하는 교통사고를 줄이기 위해서는 야간의 특수성을 고려한 실효성 있는 교통사고 방지대책이 수립되어야 한다. 야간에 보행자 교통사고가 잦은 지점에 LED안전유도블록을 설치하여 도로조명개선 효과를 분석하였다. 횡단보도진입로인 보행자대기구간에 보행선 개념으로 업라이트조명방식인 LED안전유도블록을 설치하여 효과를 분석한 결과, LED를 설치한 지점에서 야간 교통사고 발생건수는 26.2% 부상자수는 21.2% 그리고 사망자 수는 38.3%감소하였다. 본 연구는 안전보행조명장치의 설치시기가 서로 다르며 그 표본의 수가 적어 전국적인 대표성을 가지고 있다고 볼 수는 없으나, 체계적인 분석을 통한 개선사업의 효과를 구체화 할 수 있는 대안은 제시할 수 있을 것이다.

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