자율주행에 관한 관심은 전 세계적으로 증가하고 있으며, 글로벌 자동차 제조사들과 기술기업들이 자율주행 분야에 대한 투자를 늘 리고 있어 향후 자동차 산업과 교통체계 전반에 큰 변화가 전망된다. 이처럼 자율주행 관련 연구와 개발은 끊임없이 진보하고 있으며, 관련 연구 수행은 계속해서 이루어질 것으로 보인다. 연구 수행에 있어 동향 파악은 필수 요소이며, 본 연구에서는 국내 자율주행 연 구 동향을 분석하고자 한다. 연구 동향을 분석한 다양한 분야의 선행연구 검토 결과, 각각 연구 목적에 맞는 다양한 데이터베이스를 이용하여 데이터를 수집하였으며 연구 주제어 혹은 초록을 분석데이터로 활용하였음을 확인하였다. 자율주행 연구 동향에 대해 분석 한 선행연구 검토 결과, 기존 연구들은 분야를 구분하지 않고 연구를 수집·분석하였음을 확인하였다. 자율주행은 도로, 교통, 자동차, 기계, 컴퓨터, 전자, 전기 등 다양한 분야를 포함하고 있기에 분야별 연구 동향 분석이 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 도로·교통 분야 의 동향 분석을 위해 최근 5년간(2019년~2023년) 국내 도로·교통 분야 등재 학술지에 게재된 학술 논문을 대상으로 연구 동향을 분석 하였으며, 보다 많은 텍스트 데이터를 활용하기 위해 주제어가 아닌 초록을 활용하였다. 키워드 출현 빈도 분석을 통해 주요 키워드를 도출하였으며, 토픽 모델링을 통해 주요 연구주제를 도출하였다. 본 연구에서 수행한 자율주행 연구 동향 파악은 도로·교통 분야에서 향후 수행될 자율주행 연구 방향 수립에 시사점을 제공할 것이라 기대된다.

PURPOSES : The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and its subordinate agencies have recently established various policies for the application of BIM and are implementing these policies, and are increasing project orders with the application of BIM. Developed countries where they have earlier adopted BIM provide BIM standards and guidelines at the national level to support BIM implementation by private-sector constructors. Domestic BIM standards and guidelines, however, have been lacking details on upper-level standards that have to be presented by ordering agencies, thereby limiting the practical application thereof. This study aims to provide BIM practice manual development measures to ensure the facilitation of the writing of BIM outputs and their delivery in the road sector. METHODS: This study first analyzed domestic BIM standards and guidelines, and examined BIM processes in the existing BIM guidelines to determine the major works required in each stage of the implementation of road construction projects. Further, the study determined those matters that were required in working BIM but were not specified in existing BIM guidelines. Those derived contents have been reflected in the definition of the configuration system in the table of contents of the BIM practice manual, and in the contents on the road sector, and the details of each configuration system have been specified. RESULTS : The proposed BIM practice manual for the road sector is a technical guide on BIM guidelines published by public ordering agencies, and provides the basic requirements and methods required for the writing of BIM models. Further, the manual provides working procedures and detailed methods for writing BIM to enable working-level staffers on BIM projects to construct BIM data. The proposed BIM practice manual was configured with considerations for domestic civil-sector BIM technology levels and will be further developed and improved according to the development of domestic BIM technology. CONCLUSIONS : In an effort to respond to the changing domestic construction technology environment, and to apply and activate BIM, this study analyzed domestic BIM standards and guidelines, and defined a working BIM manual configuration system and its detailed configuration method. The findings and improvements are presented as a BIM practice manual on development measures in the road sector. This manual is expected to minimize the repetitive trials and errors and design errors in the construction of road-sector BIM models, to improve the productivity and efficiency in the creation of BIM outputs and their delivery, and to enhance the quality and utilization of the outputs. Further, the proposed manual is expected to provide and share information on the practical cases for BIM, to bolster the capabilities of design engineering, to ensure the linkage with relevant agencies, and thus to expand the diffusion of BIM in a virtuous cycle.

This study examined the characteristics of research activities in the road sector via an analysis of patents and papers. For the text mining analysis, this study used keywords that contained the term “highway” and extracted data; 25,306 patents and 11,940 papers were used for the analysis. Along with a paper analysis, there is a 3P (paper, patent and patent) analysis method used to examine papers and patents. The 3P analysis method analyzes patent trends (time series, country, applicant, institution, and so on), original technology patents, the latest technology trends in the field of interest, and research trends by examining and evaluating key patent rights and their technology and utilization values. More specifically, analyzing patents owned by companies and papers published based on data obtained from text mining, allows researchers to compare intellectual property competitiveness by institution and identify a competitor’s research trends. Based on the results, commercialized tech areas and global research activity trends can be identified to establish a technology strategy. In this regard, this study used keywords only related to “highway” and acquired the following analysis results: To begin with, some of the most noteworthy research and development areas in the road and transport sector recently included “traction hybrid battery,” “information navigation date,” and “navigation determination.” This suggests great implications. Thus far, the road and transport section has traditionally researched “Construction of Roads, Railways, or Bridges” in Section E (Fixed Constructions) of the International Patent Classification and supporting works such as the installation of supports for the road or the construction of platforms, snow fences or similar arrangements. This study, however, found that lately, a lot of research is being conducted on systems such as transport control systems, transport safety, transport control radars or similar systems, sonar or Light Detection and ranging system, and anti-collision systems. In addition, as smart toll collection increasingly becomes available, a lot of research in the field of physics is being undertaken on transmission methods for measures, control signals or similar signs, and ticket dispensers or devices to collect tolls and admission fees. In conclusion, based on the above findings, this study was able to identify that more research in the road and transport sector is being conducted on smart toll collection and tech convergence such as physics and systems than traditional civil engineering as today’s world is heading towards the 4th Industrial Revolution.

PURPOSES: This study aimed to evaluate the performance of pavement management works and to develop a function for estimating the level of service (LOS) and cost of service (COS) for the systematic and quantitative management of pavement performance in the public sector. METHODS: The International Roughness Index (IRI) was used as the performance index for pavement management. Long-term pavement performance data for a period of 7 years (2007-2014) collected by the National Highway Pavement Management System and historical maintenance budget data published by the South Korean government were used to develop the LOS-COS function. Based on the function, a model for estimating the appropriate budget as well as the network conditions was suggested. RESULTS : There was high degree of correlation between pavement performance and the investment level (R = - 0.74). The developed LOS-COS function suggested that the unit cost to improve the network IRI to 1 m/km was 32.6 billion KRW. Further, the maintenance costs normalized with respect to the LOS levels were LOS-A = 88.2 billion KRW, LOS-B = 55.6 billion KRW, and LOS-C = 23.0 billion KRW. CONCLUSIONS: This study proposes a simple way of developing a LOS-COS function. It also shows how to develop a network budget demand and condition estimation model using the LOS-COS function. In addition, it is the first attempt to evaluate the road maintenance budget in South Korea. It is expected that these results will help in the negotiations between the road managers and budget makers.