PURPOSES : The purpose of this study is to analyze the improvement effect of the distributed arrangement of a vehicle base, which is a policy on maximizing the cost efficiency and timely/spatial effectiveness of special transportation system (STS) operation for improving the mobility of the elderly and disabled. METHODS: (1) The characteristics of the current distributed arrangement of an STS vehicle base in an urban area was analyzed. (2) The quantitative improvement effect was derived by analyzing the actual measurement of operation during STS distributed arrangement test operation in Namyangju city. RESULTS : (1) Cities with large area and populations, which have a distributed living zone in an urban area, have a higher distributed arrangement ratio than urbanized smaller cities. (2) Based on the effectiveness analysis of the STS distributed arrangement test operation, the total travel time and distance decreased. CONCLUSIONS : (1) For the STS distributed arrangement, parking spots, driver standby, and restrooms must be prepared. Facilitating STS as a public institution consignment makes it easier to secure a vehicle base and management by utilizing public facilities. (2) Implementing the STS distributed arrangement of vehicle base allows for efficient response to demand through effective management of vehicles, which eventually decreases travel time and distance. This decrease not only reduces management costs but also increases supply expansion without an increase in the number of vehicles.

PURPOSES: As the population of the mobility handicapped, who are classified as the disabled, the elderly, pregnant women, children, etc., has increased, the voices for guaranteeing their rights have been increasing as well. Thus, the design manuals for roads and sidewalks for the mobility handicapped were developed by the local government, such as the Ministry of Land, Transport, and Tourism, in Seoul City. However, according to the 2013 survey results of the Seoul Metropolitan City, the mobility handicapped still feel uncomfortable with the sidewalks, and particularly request for the improvement of the step and slope of the sidewalk curb. Therefore, in this study, we conducted an empirical experimental study to determine the slope of the sidewalk curb and height of the steps considering the mobility handicapped and analyzed whether there is a statistically significant difference. METHODS: The methodology of this study is an empirical experimental one. In the study, five non-disabled people, 10 wheelchair users, and 10 eye patch and stick users walked about 2-3 min on the sidewalk plates of the sloped type (0%, 5%, 6.3%, 8.3%) and stepped type (0 cm, 1 cm, 3 cm, 6 cm), and their human physiological responses, such as the skin temperature, volume of perspiration on forehead and chest, and heart rate, were measured and recorded. After combining the data, we conducted a nonparametric test, ANOVA, or t-test to determine whether there was a statistically significant difference according to each slope and step type. RESULTS: It was found that for the non-disabled, there was no significant difference in human physiological responses according to the slope and steps of the sidewalk. It can be said that the non-disabled do not feel much physiological discomfort while walking. In the case of the sloped sidewalk plate, the heart rate of the wheel chair users increased when the slope was 6.3%. In the case of the eye patch and stick users, the volume of perspiration on the chest increased at a slope of 5.0%. In general, it is judged that a sidewalk with a slope that is less than 5% does not cause a change in the physiological response. In the case of a stepped sidewalk plate, when 0 cm, 1 cm, and 3 cm were compared for wheelchair users, the amount of forehead perspiration increased from 1 cm. Meanwhile, in the case of the eye patch and stick users, when 0 cm and 6 cm were compared, the amount of perspiration on the forehead and chest as well as the heart rate all increased at 6 cm. Taken together, in the case of wheelchair users, a difference was shown when the height of the step of the sidewalk plate was 1 cm, suggesting that installing it at 0 cm does not cause any physiological discomfort. Moreover, in the case of the eye patch and stick users, when comparing only 0 cm and 6 cm, 0 cm was considered to be suitable, as there was a difference in physiological response at 6 cm. CONCLUSIONS: In this study, we set the human physiological responses such as chest skin temperature, amount of perspiration, and heart rate as evaluation items, and our study was considered to be a meaningful experiment that targeted wheelchair users as well as eye patch and stick users. The validity of the evaluation items was confirmed, as the results of human physiological responses were significant. As for the sidewalk design, according to the experiment result, it is considered that differential application should be implemented according to the type of mobility handicap, rather than uniformly applying a sidewalk step of 2 cm and sidewalk slope of 1/25, which are the current legal standards.

특별교통수단은 이동에 심한 불편을 느끼는 교통약자에게 이동을 지원하기 위하여 휠체어 탑승설비 등을 장착한 차량을 의미한다. 각 지자체에서는 관련법에 의거 특별교통수단 운행 법정대수에 따라 운행하고 있으나, 운영에 따른 인력 및 예산부족 등의 문제가 발생하고 있다. 이러한 배경에서 본 연구는 보다 효율적인 이동편의시설의 운영과 교통약자의 수요에 맞는 이동권을 보장하기 위해 교통약자 특별교통수단의 운영현황을 살펴보고, 교통약자의 이용편의를 증진할 수 있는 방안을 모색하고자 한다. 연구의 공간적 범위는 대전광역시이며, 시간적 범위는 2017년 상반기 6개월 운영현황 데이터를 분석하였고, 이용자 만족도 설문을 실시하여 IPA(Importance-Performance Analysis) 분석을 실시하였다. IPA 분석은 서비스 제공자가 특정 서비스에 대하여 우선순위를 결정할 때 만족도와 중요도를 함께 고려하여 대응전략을 검토하는 분석방법으로 분야별 항목에 대한 중요도와 만족도의 판단정도를 리커트척도로 설문한 후, 실행격자에 중요도는 수직축, 만족도는 수평축으로 하여 각각의 속성에 대한 평균값을 구하여 이를 각 속성의 위치를 실행격자 상에 표기하여 각 사분면별 대응 전략을 수립할 수 있다. 대전광역시는 2005년 휠체어 차량 5대를 시작으로 2017년 7월 현재 승합차량 82대, 임차택시 70대 총 152대의 특별교통수단을 운영중에 있으며, 2018년 1월 교통약자이동지원센터를 설립할 예정이다. 본 연구에서는 대전광역시 특별교통수단 이용대상 교통약자를 대상으로 설문조사를 실시 한 후, IPA분석을 통해 문제점분석 및 활성화를 위한 개선방안을 제시하였다.

The types and characteristics of services that airport service systems provide have recently been diversified and specialized to meet various needs of users and their travelling activities. A service for the mobility handicapped is one of the newly demanded services. However, current services for them, which are provided by most of the Korean airports, are not sufficient to satisfy their needs. Additionally, there exist a lot of constraints in the use of those services, which makes it difficult for the mobility handicapped to use them effectively. Another problem is that a lot of the mobility handicapped do not even know that airports now offer services specialized for them. Considering that Korean airports have been recognized as a top-level service provider for about decades, it can be claimed that such an inferior quality of services for the mobility handicapped should be urgently improved. With this issue in mind, this study aims to propose an approach to improving the quality of airport services for the mobility handicapped. Firstly, we examined the actual conditions of the services for the mobility handicapped and identified the limitations of the current services, based on the results of literature review and questionnaire survey against the mobility handicapped and stakeholders of the services currently provided. Then we established a set of design improvement requirements and suggested several ways to improve the services for the mobility handicapped. Finally, we pointed out several issues to be resolved to design better specialized services for the mobility handicapped.

정부는 교통약자에게 이동성을 확보해 대중교통 이용의 형평성을 제공하기 위해 교통수단과 시설공급 위주의 개선사업에 주력하고 있다. 그러나 시설위주의 공급만으로 효과적인 교통약자 이동편의성 증진을 도모하기에는 역부족이다. 그러므로 보다 적극적인 활성화 방안의 일환으로, 교통약자가 대중교통을 이용하는데 있어서 기피하는 요소와 선호하는 요소를 분석하여 필요에 부합하는 경로정보제공서비스가 필요하다. 이에 본 연구에서는 유입링크기반의 전체경로삭제방법을 네트워크에 확장 적용해봄으로써 링크(수단)통행경로를 최소통행시간 순으로 탐색하는 K경로탐색 알고리즘을 이용하여 교통약자의 특성을 반영한 경로정보제공알고리즘 및 그 적용성 평가를 시도하였다. 해당 알고리즘에서 교통약자의 특성은 환승속성으로 반영하였으며, 환승속성은 교통약자의 유형에 따른 상이한 환승도보시간과 환승이동시 필요한 편의시설의 유무와 선호하는 시설에 따른 가중치를 둠으로써 적용하였다. 또한 해당 알고리즘에 대한 실제 네트워크에서의 적용성을 검증하기 위해 수도권전철망을 노드와 링크의 네트워크로 구축하여 적용성을 평가하였다. 평가결과 K경로탐색 알고리즘의 적용성이 타당한 것으로 분석되었으며 향후 확장성이 확인되었다.