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Development of Safety Performance Function Based on Expressway Alignment Homogeneous Section

고속도로 선형 동질구간 기반의 안전성능함수 개발

  • 서임기 (한국도로공사 도로교통연구원) ;
  • 강동윤 (한국지능형교통체계협회 기술연구센터 컨설팅팀) ;
  • 박제진 (한국도로공사 도로교통연구원) ;
  • 박신형 (계명대학교 교통공학과)
  • Received : 2014.06.24
  • Accepted : 2015.02.17
  • Published : 2015.04.01

Abstract

In the past, expressways focused on mobility. However, the paradigm of expressways fuction today has been changed from fast expressways to safe expressways as people's quality of living and consciousness level heightened. In 2012, 3,550 traffic accidents occurred on expressways and 371 people died. The fatality rate of traffic accidents on expressways is almost twice that on general national roads. This study developed accident forecast models (safety performance functions) based on the number of traffic accidents and traffic volumes on six major lines on expressways. It is difficult to forecast safety performance functions for each expressway line because the lines and the scales of expressways are different from each other; therefore, integrated safety performance functions of six lines were determined first, and the coefficients, which can correct the traffic accidents on each line, were calculated. It is believed that this study will contribute in the safer management of expressways by being used as basic information in the establishment of traffic safety strategies for each expressway line in prevention of traffic accidents. Moreover, more studies would be required in the future, which would suggest reliable accident forecasts by calculating correction coefficients by line through integrated models by groups dependent on the characteristics of each line.

과거 고속도로는 이동성 중심의 기능을 주로 담당하였으나, 삶의 질 향상과 의식 수준의 향상에 따라 '빠른 고속도로'에서 '안전한 고속도로'로 고속도로 기능의 패러다임이 변화하고 있다. 고속도로 교통사고는 2012년 기준 3,550건이 발생하였으며, 371명이 교통사고로 사망한 것으로 집계되었고, 치사율은 일반국도의 약 2배에 달하는 것으로 보고되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 고속도로 주요 6개 노선을 대상으로 교통사고건수와 교통량 기반의 사고예측모형(안전성능함수)을 개발하였다. 안전성능함수는 각 노선별로 도로의 선형 및 규모 등이 달라 정확하게 각 노선을 예측하는데 어려움이 있을 것으로 판단되어, 6개 노선의 통합 안전성능함수를 구축하고, 각 노선별로 교통사고를 보정할 수 있는 계수를 산출하였다. 본 연구의 결과는 향후 교통사고 예방을 위한 노선별 교통안전 전략수립의 기초자료로 활용함으로써 보다 안전한 고속도로 관리에 기여할 것으로 판단된다. 향후에는 각 노선별 특성에 따른 그룹별 통합모형을 통한 노선별 보정계수를 산출하여 신뢰성 있는 사고 예측값을 제시하는 연구가 수행되어야 할 것이다.

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