South Korea has the highest suicide rate among the major OECD countries. The suicide rate in Seoul ranges from 21.3 to 23.2 per 100,000 individuals. To improve the survival rate of individuals attempting suicide on Han River bridges, the Seoul Fire Department began installing CCTVs on these bridges in 2012 and has been monitoring them to assess their effectiveness using collected data. This study aimed to evaluate the operational impact of deploying professional monitoring personnel and establishing an integrated video monitoring center by comparing suicide statistics before and after its implementation. The analysis distinguished between two periods: one when water rescue team members monitored the footage themselves after installing their own video monitoring center and the other when deploying professional monitoring personnel and establishing an integrated video monitoring center. After deploying professional monitoring personnel and operating the integrated video monitoring center, the number of rescue dispatches increased by an average of 50%, the survival rate improved by an average of 4.9%, and the mortality rate declined by an average of 4.9%.

This study develops a comprehensive road operation evaluation model that integrates the perspectives of three principal stakeholders: road users prioritizing congestion mitigation, operators emphasizing investment efficiency, and policymakers advocating broader societal goals such as carbon reduction. The analysis database was constructed using traffic data obtained from reliable sources, including the Korea Transport Institute's Big Data Center and Suwon City's Urban Safety Integration Center. Binary logistic regression was employed to identify the factors influencing traffic congestion from the users’ perspective, whereas multiple linear regression models were used to analyze road investment efficiency from the operators’ viewpoint and carbon dioxide emissions from the policymakers’ standpoint. Statistical analyses were conducted on 4,322 road segments in Suwon City, with each evaluation criterion assigned an equal weight of 33.3 points in a unified 100-point scoring system. The analysis identified 15 statistically significant indicators affecting the three evaluation criteria, with the resulting models demonstrating strong explanatory power, evidenced by adjusted R² values of 0.197, 0.593, and 0.544 for traffic congestion, road investment efficiency, and carbon dioxide emission models, respectively. A volume-to-capacity (V/C) ratio of 0.64 was determined to represent the optimal balance point at which the requirements of all stakeholder groups align. When applied to Suwon City's arterial road network, the model identified 248 high-congestion segments (53.13 km), 203 segments with low investment efficiency (26.8 km), and 357 segments with high carbon emissions (156.33 km), each requiring targeted operational improvements. The proposed model addresses the limitations of existing single-stakeholder evaluation frameworks by offering transportation authorities a systematic and multi-dimensional approach to road operation assessment.

This study developed an integrated performance evaluation framework for rural development Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects in Korea and validated its effectiveness through practical application. Based on the FAO’s SAFA (Sustainability Assessment of Food and Agriculture Systems) Tool, the framework enables a balanced assessment across economic, social, environmental, and governance dimensions. The methodology incorporates the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA) to measure the importance and performance of objectives and indicators. The developed framework serves as a tool for Project Design Matrix (PDM) development, monitoring, and evaluation throughout the project’s planning, implementation, and completion phases. During planning, it systematically incorporates stakeholder input in setting objectives and indicators. During implementation, it facilitates real-time monitoring for immediate decision-making and resource reallocation. At completion, it supports comprehensive performance evaluation. Application of the framework to the “Rural Development Programme in Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam” demonstrated its effectiveness in systematizing excessive indicators and clarifying the hierarchical and logical connections between objectives. This performance evaluation framework can enhance project transparency and accountability by overcoming the limitations of current PDM approaches and providing systematic methods for incorporating stakeholder feedback. It is particularly applicable to multi-sectoral rural development programs and is expected to contribute to integrated development in target areas. However, validation through a single case study presents limitations, necessitating future application across diverse regions and project types to verify generalizability.

In this study, a study was conducted to improve the reliability of the valve by developing a valve leakage and reliability measurement system designed to secure the high quality and reliability of the butterfly valve. The system measuring the torque required for valve opening and closing operation, and was configured to operate after multiple opening and closing of the valve to check for leakage of the valve. Finally, a system that can perform efficient work in terms of productivity was developed by enabling leak inspection, torque measurement, and reliability inspection through one integrated system.

Seasonal forecasting has numerous socioeconomic benefits because it can be used for disaster mitigation. Therefore, it is necessary to diagnose and improve the seasonal forecast model. Moreover, the model performance is partly related to the ocean model. This study evaluated the hindcast performance in the upper ocean of the Global Seasonal Forecasting System version 5-Global Couple Configuration 2 (GloSea5-GC2) using a multivariable integrated evaluation method. The normalized potential temperature, salinity, zonal and meridional currents, and sea surface height anomalies were evaluated. Model performance was affected by the target month and was found to be better in the Pacific than in the Atlantic. An increase in lead time led to a decrease in overall model performance, along with decreases in interannual variability, pattern similarity, and root mean square vector deviation. Improving the performance for ocean currents is a more critical than enhancing the performance for other evaluated variables. The tropical Pacific showed the best accuracy in the surface layer, but a spring predictability barrier was present. At the depth of 301 m, the north Pacific and tropical Atlantic exhibited the best and worst accuracies, respectively. These findings provide fundamental evidence for the ocean forecasting performance of GloSea5.

Eutrophication and algal blooms can lead to increase of taste and odor compounds and health problems by cyanobacterial toxins. To cope with these eco-social issues, Ministry of Environment in Korea has been reinforcing the effluent standards of wastewater treatment facilities. As a result, various advanced phosphorus removal processes have been adopted in each wastewater treatment plant nation-widely. However, a lot of existing advanced wastewater treatment processes have been facing the problems of expensive cost in operation and excessive sludge production caused by high dosage of coagulant. In this study, the sedimentation and dissolved air flotation (SeDAF) process integrated with sedimentation and flotation has been developed for enhanced phosphorus removal in wastewater treatment facilities. Design and operating parameters of the SeDAF process with the capacity of 100 m3/d were determined, and a demonstration plant has been installed and operated at I wastewater treatment facility (located in Gyeonggi-do) for the verification of field applicability. Several empirical evaluations for the SeDAF process were performed at demonstration-plant scale, and the results showed clearly that T-P and turbidity values of treated water were to satisfy the highest effluent standards below 0.2 mg/L and 2.0 NTU stably for all of operation cases.

최근 인천, 부산 등 지자체를 중심으로 해사법원의 설치에 대해 논의 중이다. 본 연구의 목적은 통합 ELECTRE-CRITIC-ISM기법 기반 해양사고 발생건수를 이용하여 해사법원의 설치 우선순위 평가 모델을 개발하고, 우리나라 해사법원의 설치에 적용하여 유용성을 확인하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 먼저 31개의 무역항 중에서 해양사고 데이터가 통합 관리되는 9개의 무역항을 제외한 22개의 무역항을 대상으로 6개의 고등법원 관할에 매칭하였다. 두번째는 CRITIC법은 평가항목인 5년간의 해양사고 발생건수에 대하여 중요도를 산정하고 ELECTRE법과 결합하기 위해 이용되었다. 마지막으로 ELECTRE&ISM법은 해양사고 발생건수의 변동 폭을 고려한 고등법원 간 선호도 및 비선호도를 분석하고 우선순위를 평가하기 위해 이용되었다. 해양사고 발생건수의 변동 폭을 중간으로 고려하여 최종순위를 평가한 결과 부산고등법원이 1위, 광주고등법원은 2위, 서울고등법원 3위, 대전 및 대구고등법원은 4위, 수원고등법원은 6위로 우선순위가 높게 나타났다. 따라서 부산고등법원에 해사법원의 우선설치가 필요하다.

본 연구는 3개의 종돈회사가 보유하고 있는 6곳의 GGP 농장에서 분만한 Yorkshire종의 번식기록을 이용하여 농장과 산차간의 상호작용효과를 구명하는데 있다. 총산자수와 생존산자수의 평균은 각각 13.4±3.6두와 12.5±3.4두였으며, LSO와 LDO의 평균 세대간격은 각각 17.5개월과 22.0개월로 추정되었다. 산차별 총산자수 기록의 분포는 A(10), B(21), C(30) 그룹과 B(20), B(22), C(31) 그룹에서 뚜렷한 차이를 나타내었으며, 농장×산차의 상호작용효과는 고도의 유의차(P < 0.01)가 인정되었다. Model Ⅱ에서 추정된 유전력과 반복력은 총산자수에서 각각 0.13과 0.21, 생존산자수에서 각각 0.11과 0.19로 나타났다. 총산자수의 육종가를 이용하여 선발된 분만 기록이 있는 개체의 top 1% 비율은 ModelⅠ에서 A(10)농장이 67.4%로 가장 높았고 B(20), C(30), B(21)순이었으나, ModelⅡ에서 B(22)농장이 35.8%로 가장 높았고, B(20) 34.7%, B(21) 12.6%순이었다. 총산자수의 육종가를 이용하여 선발된 자손의 기록이 있는 씨수퇘지들의 top 1% 비율은 ModelⅠ에서 A(10)농장이 55.6%로 가장 높았으나 ModelⅡ에서 C(31)농장이 33.3%로 가장 높았고 B(20)과 B(21) 22.2%순이었다.

For economic evaluation of integrated operation to sewage facilities, benefit-cost analysis was performed to watershed sewage works project in 7 watershed areas, 156 facilities. In this study, the cost before and after integrated operation was compared and benefits are calculated from the reduction of operators, increasement treated pollution loads, reduction cost through operation convenience, reduction water consumption through effluent reuse, and improvement of life benefit. The result showed that cost was 8,500million won and benefit was 16,747million won, so benefit was 49% higher than cost. B/C analysis result showed that B/C ratio was 1.97 and it is similar to other researches. The benefits of integrated operation included convenience of data management, increase of emergency response, decrease of complains with sewage which was not reflected numerically, so the benefits of integrated operation were expected much greater than this result.

In this study we developed an integrated precast concrete decks for a rapid construction. The structural performance in the integrated precast bridge decks is evaluated by real-scale test bed and detailed finite element analyses. The numerical analysis results were compared with the experimental data from a real-scaled single-span precast/prestressed concrete bridge decks under truck loading. Parametric studies are focused on the various effects of external loads on the structural behavior for different locations and measuring points on the precast bridge decks. The assessment in this study indicates that the integrated precast bridge decks show an excellent structural performance as expected.

PURPOSES: Road Design Consistency Evaluation can guarantee road alignments with safety factors, however it can be hard work to deal with general car accident factors in only this evaluation index. Ideal Road Design Consistency Evaluation is show the mutual balance of road alignment and human factors with a variety of factors for road safety. METHODS: This study carried out overall road safety evaluations which are methods of running speeding consistency and car platoon safety analysis (driver's behaviors factors) as well. RESULTS: Out of 13 sections in a experimental road layout, safety factors of 8 sections showed 'Good' or 'Fair' status. However, 'Poor' results were found out in 5 sections. Particularly, it showed the different outcomes among the 4 evaluation methods used in this study. CONCLUSIONS: Road safety countermeasures were proposed for the potentially dangerous sections in road which failed to identify in the other methods. This study will contribute toward future study of more reliable Road Design Consistency Evaluation in the future for road safety.

The current environment of technological and competitive changes influences not only the business R&D environment but also government driven national R&D strategies. Open innovation has now become an important paradigm that is replacing the outdated paradigm of closed innovation. Many companies and nations have been increasing R&D investment because R&D has been considered a driving force for national and corporate competitive advantage. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare the performance of R&D focused on open innovation according to scientific and technological outputs which is based on paper publications, patents and etc. Comparisons should not be only based on the quantity but also on the quality of the output. This paper shows that it is possible to develop DEA models that utilize the Analytical Hierarchical Process in order to transform the qualitative index into a quantitative index. Hence, the relative efficiency for R&D organizations is obtained based on both quantity and quality outputs and subsequently provides comprehensive and realistic methods for decision makers to identify levels of project efficiency.

PURPOSES : This paper aims to improve the evaluation method of the Level of Service(LOS) for urban streets presented by the current Korean Highway Capacity Manual(KHCM) and suggest its utilization plan as a part of the methods to evaluate the sustainability of a transportation policy. METHODS : This paper carried out a research in 3 steps to develop a new evaluation method. First of all, this paper reviewed the previous studies related to the LOS of urban streets and the socially requested items for a sustainable transportation system. Then this paper derived an index and weight through expert questions to select an evaluation index. Lastly, this paper compared the results according to the existing evaluation methods with the new evaluation methods through case studies. This paper used an Analytic Hierarchy Process(AHP) for importance analysis and weight selection between new evaluation items and indices, and applied a Grey System Theory(GST) for a synthetic and integrated evaluation between the selected evaluation indices. RESULTS : As a result of evaluating the LOS according to the existing evaluation methods and the integrated evaluation methods using a GST through case studies, it was analyzed that new methods' results are less than or equal to the existing evaluation methods; and as a result of applying a weight between evaluation indices according to AHP, it was noticed that the total score seems to rise more when the LOS in the existing evaluation is calculated lower. It was analyzed that the LOS calculated by reflecting the newly established evaluation items and the importance between indices in this study has difference from the LOS of the existing urban streets. CONCLUSIONS : It is expected that this evaluation method can diagnose the current conditions when establishing a future sustainable traffic system and can be used for the measurement of the sustainability effects of the improvement plans and so on.

One of The standard issue in riding on the wave of the information system(IS) is records of performance, grow unprecedently fast, and has highly uncertain future. Within the framework of IS Evaluation, The main purpose of this study is to suggest performance quality evaluation system as follows, The Integrated Quality Evaluation Model Design(IQEMD) of Information System helps corporations to improve productivity, customer service and corporate competitive power. To respond flexibly this trend, we have to realize that the information system has to keep the most effective optimal information network at the proper time. The existing evaluation method has been concentrated on the evaluation of a degree of the information system maturity focused on static viewpoints. The evaluation of potential factors to affect the future-oriented performance, that can analyze both unit business being able to apply an information system base was used efficiently well and what performance evaluation item was obtained actually, was insufficient relatively. In this paper, An integrated quality evaluation method will analyze a degree of information system maturity in dynamic evaluation viewpoints rather than in static evaluation viewpoints. finally we estimated the relative degree of importance of each determinant using the AHP methodology The validity of the proposed model was also partially proved using two different methods, holistic and historical approach.

점탄성감쇠기가 설치된 구조물의 통합최적설계기법 및 비용효율성 평가기법을 제시하였다. 구조부재와 점탄성감쇠기의 사용량을 설계변수로 하여, 생애주기비용을 최소화하도록 최적화문제를 정식화하였으며, 유전자알고리즘을 적용하여 최적의 설계변수를 검색하였다. 수치예제에 대한 통합최적설계 수행 결과를 통해 지반운동 특성에 따른 점탄성감쇠기의 최적배치 및 각 층 강성의 최적분포 경향을 분석하였으며, 점탄성감쇠기가 설치되지 않은 구조시스템과의 생애주기비용 비교를 통하여 비용효율성을 평가하였다. 점탄성감쇠기는 특히 중약진지역에서 높은 비용효율성을 보이는 것으로 나타났다.

Generally, the navigational safety of a ship under various loading conditions is evaluated by a loading manual. However, the loading manual handles only statical factors such as weight and buoyancy of ship without including any wave conditions. Practically ship's safety is much concerned with the occurrences on the rough sea as propeller racing, rolling, deck wetness, vertical acceleration, lateral acceleration, slamming and so on. The purpose of this paper is to present a synthetic and practical evaluation method of navigational safety using the integrated seakeeping performance index(ISPI) under loading conditions of ship in seaways. The method is calculated by means of the ISPI by measuring only vertical acceleration. Judgement of dangerousness is carried out for four lading conditions : homogeneous full loaded, half loaded, heavy ballast loaded, and normal ballast loaded conditions. In developing the practical evaluation system of navigational safety, it is useful to solve the difficulties in measuring factors by sensors. And by applying the evaluation diagrames, navigators are able to avoid dangerousness by keeping away of the danger encountering angle of wave direction which the diagram shows.