PURPOSES: Climbing lanes on expressways managed by the Korea Expressway Corporation (KEC) have been hot potatoes due to conflicts between slow-moving vehicles such as trucks and other vehicles at the merging section as well as the less popularity with the slow-moving vehicles. In order to resolve such problems, KEC has altered existing climbing lanes to passing-type climbing lanes in 1999. The new type of climbing lanes showed an apparent improvement in mobility. For example, the speeds of vehicles using both climbing lane and other lanes improved a lot. However, there has been no clear evidence about improved safety. METHODS: This research effort was initiated to evaluate the safety of the new passing-type climbing lanes using the comparison-group(CG) method based on three-year-long traffic accident data sets before and after the change, respectively. RESULTS: The passing-type climbing lanes showed twice increased traffic accidents even though the traffic accidents on old type climbing lanes increased 1.1% during the same periods. In addition, in-depth study, the merging area of the passing-type climbing lanes was found out to be the weakest section where 43.8% traffic accidents out of total traffic accidents happened. It is noted that the merging area of the old type climbing showed only 25.0% traffic accidents. CONCLUSIONS : The new passing-type climbing lanes were found to be weak in terms of safety when compared with the old type climbing lanes. Especially, the merging area should be improved to reduce the risk of traffic conflicts between slow-moving vehicles and other vehicles.

PURPOSES : This research is to evaluate the effects of zig-zag marking. METHODS : Based on the literature review, This research adopt Comparison Group method which was developed by Hauer. RESULTS : The findings are as follows. Effectiveness of treatment at all site 1.06, intersection 0.92, median bus lane 1.93, school zone 0.50, below 6-lane 0.48, above 6-lane 1.19, cat vs person 0.57, car vs car 1.36, car only 1.29. CONCLUSIONS : Though the analysis, it was founded that zig-zag marking on the small scale road(below 6-lane) and school zone contribute to reduce traffic accidents(effectiveness of the treatment : 0.50, 0.48). But the accidents at large scale road and median bus lane where installed zig-zag marking demonstrated negative result.(effectiveness of the treatment indicates exceed 1.0).

고속도로의 교통사고는 다양한 원인들에 의해 발생되고, 그중 운전자의 부주의는 가장 중요한 교통사고 원인으로 알려져 있다. 주의 및 규제표지와 노면요철포장 등의 도로안전시설은 이러한 운전자 부주의를 막기 위해 설치 운영되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 서해안고속도로 일부구간에 설치된 길어깨-노면요철포장의 교통사고감소 효과를 분석하기 위해 C-G 방법 (Hauer에 의해 개발된 비교그룹을 이용하는 사전 사후 분석방법)을 수행하였다. 분석결과 길어깨에 도로요철포장을 설치한 도로는 설치하지 않은 도로에 비해 차도이탈사고가 연간 2.43건 정도 감소한 것으로 나타났으며 감소율은 0.38(표준편차 0.21)인 것으로 나타났다. 차도이탈사고는 교통사고 중 길어깨-노면요철포장 설치에 가장 민감하게 영향을 받는 사고형태이다. 본 연구를 통해 서해안고속도로에 설치된 길어깨-노면요철포장은 교통사고 감소에 기여한 것으로 분석되었으며, 특히 차도이탈사고가 현저하게 감소된 것으로 분석되었다.