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A Study on Safety Impacts for VMS Traffic Information

VMS 교통정보의 교통안전효과에 관한 연구

  • Received : 2014.12.31
  • Accepted : 2015.02.03
  • Published : 2015.02.28
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Abstract

Recently ITS have been increasingly applied on the roads to resolve traffic problems. Especially, Variable Message Sign (VMS), which is the one of ITS for traffic management and traffic safety, can be used for providing information about road conditions, climate conditions. In this study, data acquisition and statistical analysis were conducted for estimating safety impacts of providing traffic information through VMS. As a result of analyzing traffic characteristics before and after providing traffic information through VMS, average travel speed was decreased and vehicles tended to drive on centerline of lanes in 1st and 2nd lane after providing traffic information through VMS. Also, in order to analyze safety impacts of provided VMS traffic information, traffic safety hazard zone was established in each lane and probability distributions of passing traffic on the study area was estimated through Anderson-Darling Test. As a result of this, safety impacts of VMS traffic information in 1st lane could, on average, increase in left and right side of the lane by 0.69% and 7.07%, respectively. In case of 2nd lane, safety impacts could, on average, increase in left and right side of the lane by 2.71% and 0.02%, respectively.

최근 교통문제를 완화하기 위하여 ITS를 적용하는 도로가 늘어나고 있다. 특히 가변전광표지(VMS: Variable Message Sign)는 전방도로상황, 기상상황 등 교통정보를 제공하여 교통흐름관리 및 교통안전관리를 하는 ITS 중 하나이다. 이런 VMS의 교통정보제공의 교통안전효과를 분석하기 위하여 현장조사를 통해 데이터를 수집하고 수집된 데이터에 대한 통계학적 검증을 시행하였다. VMS 교통정보제공 전 후의 차량주행특성은 교통정보제공 시 1차로와 2차로 모두 평균주행속도가 감소하고 차로 내 차량통행이 차로중심을 기준으로 통행하는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 VMS 교통정보제공이 교통안전효과에 미치는 영향을 분석하기 위하여 교통위험지역을 선정하고 구간을 통과하는 차량에 대한 확률분포를 Anderson-Darling Test를 통해 산정하여 비교하였다. 비교결과 1차로에서 VMS 교통정보제공으로 인해 교통안전효과가 차로양쪽 각각 0.69%와 7.07% 향상되는 것으로 나타났으며, 2차로의 경우 차로양쪽 각각 2.71%와 0.02% 향상되는 것으로 분석되었다.

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