PURPOSES: Owing to the growth of income and socio-economic levels, demands from road users have diversified. Accordingly, new road policies are being actively sought. The metropolitan city government of Busan has been focused on constructing and expanding roads to accommodate the increasing traffic demand. Given the increase in functional characteristics, we need to re-evaluate the hierarchy and function of roads, and specifically remodel the road planning and operations that fit into their functions.METHODS : First, this study focuses on introducing the minimum condition required to redefine the hierarchy of the roads. Second, the authors propose a new model that identifies the impact level of road hierarchy adopting discriminated analysis technique.RESULTS: Authors suggest that we redefine the hierarchy of roads in the central business distinct in Busan, and specifically the arterial roads in Busan, namely, Joonang-daero and Gaya-ro. These roads need to be reequipped with cross walks, a lower speed limit, and exclusive bus lanes to improve their accessibility.CONCLUSIONS: The authors found that the sub-arterial and collector roads have been subjected to excessive loads, owing to inappropriate functions being assigned to the main arterial road. Moreover, given that through traffic is concentrated on the sub-arterial and collector roads, over-speeding and other safety issues are consequently created.

본 연구는 교통안전공단과 사단법인 녹색교통운동이 공동으로 개발한 교통문화지수와 관련한 2002년과 2003년의 전국 81개 도시 자료를 토대로 통계적 분석을 행하여 이들 대상도시들을 유형화하고, 집단별 영향요인에 근거하여 교통사고 예방대책들을 제시하고자 하였다. 먼저 교통문화지수와 영향요인들에 대한 주성분분석 결과로는 4개의 주성분으로 구분 지울 수 있었으며, 도시 특성별 최적 집단 수는 4개가 적합한 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이들 유형화된 집단별 교통문화지수에의 영향요인을 단계별 다중 회귀분석법을 이용하여 분석한 결과, 4개 집단 모두 높은 설명력을 갖는 회귀모형을 구축할 수 있었다. 이에 따라 각 집단별 교통사고 예방대책들을 구체적으로 제시할 수 있었으며, 아울러 투자된 시설이 얼마나 교통사고 예방에 효과적이었는가를 분석할 필요성이 있음을 향후의 연구 과제로 제시하였다.

Traffic accidents increase with the increase of the vehicles in operation on the street. Especially big traffic accidents composed of over 3 killed or 20 injured accidents with the property damage become one of the serious problems to be solved in most of the cities. The purpose of this study is to build the discrimination model on big traffic accidents using the Quantification II theory for establishing the countermeasures to reduce the big traffic accidents. The results are summarized as follows. 1)The existing traffic accident related model could not explain the phenomena of the current traffic accident appropriately. 2) Based on the big traffic accident types vehicle-vehicle, vehicle-alone, vehicle-pedestrian and vehicle-train accident rates 73%, 20.5% 5.6% and two cases respectively. Based on the law violation types safety driving non-fulfillment center line invasion excess speed and signal disobedience were 48.8%, 38.1% 2.8% and 2.8% respectively. 3) Based on the law violation types major factors in big traffic accidents were road and environment, human, and vehicle in order. Those factors were vehicle, road and environment, and human in order based on types of injured driver’s death. 4) Based on the law violation types total hitting and correlation rates of the model were 53.57% and 0.97853. Based on the types of injured driver’s death total hitting and correlation rates of the model were also 71.4% and 0.59583.