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Evaluation of Road Safety Audit on Existing Freeway by Empirical Bayes Method

경험적 베이즈 방법에 의한 공용중인 고속도로 교통안전진단사업의 효과평가

  • 문승라 ((주)경화엔지니어링 교통계획부)
  • Received : 2012.01.06
  • Accepted : 2012.03.20
  • Published : 2012.04.15
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Abstract

Road safety audit is the preventive enhancement strategy for safety. : it gets rid of beforehand the potential factor of a traffic accident in the stage of road planning and design and it evaluates the appropriation for road geometric structure or safety facility to prevent traffic accident in the stage of operation after the construction. Since this strategy is introduced to our country in the early 2000s, various projects have been processed and it was legislated recently. And now, the evaluation of past project for its continuation is needed. Therefore, in this study the evaluation of road safety audit on existing freeway is performed. The spatial extent of this study is Yong-dong line on which the safety treatment was executed in 2005 and 2006. And, the temporal range of this study is each 2-year of before and after from 2005 and 2006. The empirical bayes method of observational evaluation studies is applied to analyze. As a result, there is an effect of improvement on most of treated sections. But there is ineffective or negligible on some sections. Compared with the detail of treatment on each section, the effect of multiple or various treatments is good for that section. On the other hand, the section on which effect doesn't appear is the result of single or unimportant treatments. Throughout these results, the concrete analysis can be performed and the countermeasures designed for the section on which effect doesn't appear. Also it is used as reference to the future plan and direction of road safety audit on existing freeway.

도로교통 안전진단은 도로의 계획 및 설계단계에서부터 교통사고가 발생할 수 있는 요소를 찾아내 미리 개선하고 건설 후 운영단계에도 도로구조나 안전시설이 사고방지에 적정한지를 평가하는 예방적 차원의 안전성 강화 제도이다. 이 제도는 2000년대 초에 우리나라에 소개된 이래 다양한 사업이 진행되어 왔고 법제화되었으며, 사업의 지속화를 위해 현재까지 진행된 사업에 대한 평가가 필요한 시점이다. 이러한 필요성에 따라 본 연구에서는 공용중인 고속도로의 교통안전진단사업에 대한 효과 평가를 수행하였다. 연구의 공간적 범위는 영동고속도로이며 2005년과 2006년도에 시행된 안전진단사업에 대해 전후 2년을 평가기간으로 하여 분석하였다. 평가방법은 관찰적 사전 사후 평가방법 중 경험적 베이즈 방법을 적용하였다. 효과평가 결과 사업이 시행된 대부분의 구간에서 개선효과가 있는 것으로 나타났으나 일부 구간에서는 효과가 없거나 미미한 것으로 나타났다. 이를 각 구간별 개선조치 내용과 비교하여 검토한 결과 해당 구간에 여러 개선조치가 시행된 경우 효과가 양호하게 나타났으며, 효과가 나타나지 않는 구간은 개선조치가 적거나 단일한 경우가 일반적이었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 개선효과가 나타나지 않는 구간에 대해서는 구체적인 분석과 대응책 마련이 가능할 것이다. 또한 향후 공용중인 고속도로 안전진단사업의 사업내용 및 방향설정 등에 참고로 활용될 수 있다.

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