PURPOSES : Driving simulations are widely used for safety assessment because they can minimize the time and cost associated with collecting driving behavior data compared to real-world road environments. Simulator-based driving behavior data do not necessarily represent the actual driving behavior data. An evaluation must be performed to determine whether driving simulations accurately reflect road safety conditions. The main objective of this study was to establish a methodology for assessing whether simulation-based driving behavior data represent real-world safety characteristics. METHODS : A 500-m spatial window size and a 100-m moving size were used to aggregate and match the driving behavior indicators and crash data. A correlation analysis was performed to identify statistically significant indicators among the various evaluation metrics correlated with crash frequency on the road. A set of driving behavior evaluation indicators highly correlated with crash frequency was used as inputs for the negative binomial and decision tree models. Negative binomial model results revealed the indicators used to estimate the number of predicted crashes. The decision-tree model results prioritized the driving behavior indicators used to classify high-risk road segments. RESULTS : The indicators derived from the negative binomial model analysis were the standard deviation of the peak-to-peak jerk and the time-varying volatility of the yaw rate. Their importance was ranked first and fifth, respectively, using the proposed decision tree model. Each indicator has a significant importance among all indicators, suggesting that certain indicators can accurately reflect actual road safety. CONCLUSIONS : The proposed indicators are expected to enhance the reliability of driving-simulator-based road safety evaluations.

iRAP(international Road Assessment Program)에서는 최근 다양한 유형의 도로 정밀자료를 바탕으로 한 AiRAP(Accelerated intelligent Road Assessment Program)을 개발하여 여러 국가별 RAP에 확대 적용해나가고 있는 단계에 있다. 2023년부터 국내 도로 여건을 고려한 한국형 도로안전도 평가 프로그램 개발 연구가 진행 중에 있으며, 개발되는 평가항목 및 기준, 평가기술 등에 적합한 도로안전도 평가 기초데이터 역시 유형 및 범위에 변화가 필요해짐에 따라 이를 충족하는 기초데이터 수집이 가능한 도로안전도 조사장비 개발이 기획 되었다. 이에 따라 본 연구에서는 고사양의 360도 도로영상 촬영장치와 360도 128채널 LiDAR 센서, 정밀 GPS 시스템, 휴대용 운영장 치 등을 갖춘 도로안전도 조사장비를 일반 차량에 탈부착이 가능한 형태로 개발하고자 하였다. 본 개발 장비로 취득 가능한 도로영상 및 점군데이터를 활용하여 AiRAP 자동분석을 통한 도로안전도 평가가 가능한데, 이를 통해 객관적이고 신뢰성 높은 평가가 가능할 것으로 기대된다.

현재, 교통안전진단의 경우 차량 및 보행자의 교통사고를 미연에 방지하고 도로의 전체적인 안전을 도모하고자, 교통안전법 제34조 에 의거하여, 수행 조건에 부합한 경우 교통안전진단을 받도록 규정하고 있다. 교통안전진단의 경우 도로의 구분에 따라 다른 기준을 적용하고 있으며, 도로별 길이를 기준으로 수행 여부를 판단하고 있다. 교통안전진단의 경우 도로의 설계단계, 개시 전 단계 및 운영단계 등 3가지로 구분되어 수행되고 있으며, 각각의 단계별로 진단 수행 내용 및 범위가 조금씩 다르게 진행된다. 설계 단계에서의 교통안전진단의 경우, 해당 도로의 실시 설계 내용을 바탕으로 도로의 안전 을 판단하며, 개시 전 단계의 경우 도로의 신설 이후 운영 전 도로의 안전을 평가한다. 마지막으로 운영 단계의 교통안전진단의 경우 현재 운영 중인 도로에 대하여 도로의 안전을 평가하는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 진단단계별 교통안전진단 중 도로 설계단게에서 수행 시 발생될 수 있는 한계점을 파악하고, 이를 보완할 수 있는 방 안을 제시하여 그 효과를 분석하고자 한다. 또한, 국제 기준으로 운영되고 있는 iRAP(International Road Assessment Programme)의 SR4D( Star Rating for Design)을 통해 설계단계의 교통안전진단 수행 시 효과적이고 안전한 진단결과를 도출해내고자 한다.

Because most spent nuclear fuel storage casks have been designed for low burnup fuel, a safety-significant high burnup dry storage cask must be developed for nuclear facilities in Korea to store the increasing high burnup and damaged fuels. More than 20% of fuels generated by PWRs comprise high burnup fuels. This study conducted a structural safety evaluation of the preliminary designs for a high burnup storage cask with 21 spent nuclear fuels and evaluated feasible loading conditions under normal, off-normal, and accident conditions. Two types of metal and concrete storage casks were used in the evaluation. Structural integrity was assessed by comparing load combinations and stress intensity limits under each condition. Evaluation results showed that the storage cask had secured structural integrity as it satisfied the stress intensity limit under normal, off-normal, and accident conditions. These results can be used as baseline data for the detailed design of high burnup storage casks.

선박 건조 과정에서 블록이나 장비를 지지하는 A형 캐리어 구조는 하중 변경과 시간이 지남에 따라 점차 변형이 증가하며, 이 에 따라 블록과 접촉하는 면적이 감소하고 분산된 하중에서 집중된 하중으로 패턴이 변화한다. 이러한 현상은 실제 사용 하중을 오판할 가능성이 있다. 특히 A형 캐리어는 영세한 제조 업체에서 자주 사용하고 있으며, 별도의 엔지니어링 기능이 없는 상황이 대부분이라서 손 쉽게 캐리어의 안전사용하중을 계산하는 방법의 개발이 필요하다. 본 연구는 A형 캐리어가 장기적으로 안전하게 사용할 수 있는 하중을 신속하게 평가하는 방법을 제안함으로써, 하중 분포의 변화에 따른 소성 변형과 그로 인한 안전 문제를 예측하고 대응할 수 있다. 제안된 방법은 캐리어의 중앙 집중하중과 전체 분포하중 조건에 대해서 유한요소해석(빔, 쉘 모델링)을 통한 결과를 기반으로 빔-이론을 수정하 여 제안되었다. 빔 모델링에서 집중하중 조건은 보정계수 0.73, 분포하중에서는 0.69를 이론값에 곱해서 안전사용하중이 가능하다. 쉘 모 델링의 경우, 집중하중은 0.75와 분포하중은 0.69를 사용할 수 있다. 본 연구는 선박 건조 작업 현장의 안전을 개선하고, 실제 작업 환경에 서의 안전 사용 하중 판단에 신속하고 효과적인 결정을 내릴 수 있는 기초 자료로 활용될 수 있다.

본 연구는 델파이 기법 및 전문가 설문을 통해 지역별 교육인프라 격차가 심한 해양수산안전분야의 교육시설을 설립하기 전 평가해야 하는 항목과 지표를 도출하였다. 그 결과 지리적요인, 사회적요인, 행정적요인에서 고려해야 하는 7개의 지표를 선정하였다. 각 지표를 객관적으로 평가하기 위해 ‘국가균형발전종합정보시스템’, ‘국가통계포털’ 등에 공표된 자료를 활용하여 평가할 수 있도록 평가지 표를 개발하였다. 각 지표별 가중치 선정을 위해 계층분석(AHP) 방식을 적용하였으며 AHP분석 결과, 해양수산안전 교육시설 입지선정에 가장 중요한 영향을 미치는 10가지 요인은 해기사 분포, 고속․고속화철도 접근성, 5톤미만 소형선박 수, 고속도로 IC접근성, 어선세력 분 포, 관련산업 밀접도, 신항만 예정지, 무역항 분포, 해양레저승선인원 수, 지자체의 토지장기무상임대 가능여부 순으로 나타났다. 본 연구 에서 개발한 해양수산안전교육시설의 입지평가 지표는 국가 공공데이터를 활용하여 각 지역별로 평가할 수 있는 지표로 객관적인 평가 가 가능한 장점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 본 평가지표는 해양수산안전 교육시설 뿐만아니라 다른 해양 관련 시설 설치 타당성을 검증하는 데에도 활용 할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

PURPOSES : This study investigates the effects of three different three-color arrow traffic light operations on right-turn vehicles at intersections in Busan Metropolitan City. METHODS : Intersections in this study were categorized as general intersections (Type 1), intersections with right-turn pockets (Type 2), and intersections with scramble crosswalks (Type 3), and were investigated in terms of the efficiency (i.e., control delay) and safety (i.e., number of conflicts) of right-turn vehicles by employing VISSIM 2023 and SSAM3. RESULTS : From a mobility perspective (i.e., control delay), the protected/permitted operation outperformed the other two methods at the three types of intersections. The protected operation, similar to the results of the protected/permitted operation, was also superior to the permitted operation in terms of safety (i.e., number of conflicts). CONCLUSIONS : Protected/permitted operation has been proven to be a more efficient and safer measure than other operation methods for alleviating the problems of protected right-turn operation, which is currently implemented without three-color arrow traffic lights.

곧 다가올 미래에는 자율운항선박, 육상 원격제어센터에서 제어되는 선박, 그리고 항해사가 탑승하여 운항하는 선박이 함 께 공존하며 해상을 운항할 것이며, 이러한 상황이 도래했을 때 해상 교통 환경의 안전을 평가할 수 있는 방법이 필요할 것으로 사료 된다. 이에 본 연구에서는 자율운항기술을 사용하여 항해사가 직접 조종하는 선박과 자율운항선박이 공존하는 해상환경 하에서 선박 조종시뮬레이션을 통해 통항 안전성을 평가하기 위한 방안을 제시하였다. 자선은 6-자유도 운동 기반의 MMG 모델을 심층 강화학습 기법 중 하나인 PPO 알고리즘으로 학습하여 자율운항 기능을 갖출 수 있도록 설계하였다. 타선은 평가 대상 해역의 해상 교통 모델 링 자료로부터 선박이 생성되도록 하였고, 기 학습된 선박모델을 기반으로 자율운항 기능을 구현되도록 하였다. 그리고 해양기상 자 료 데이터베이스로부터 조위, 파랑, 조류, 바람에 대한 자료를 수집하여 수치 모델을 수립하고 이를 기반으로 해양기상 모델을 생성하 여 시뮬레이터 상에서 해양 기상이 재현되도록 설계하였다. 마지막으로 안전성 평가는 기존의 평가 방법을 그대로 유지하되, 선박조 종시뮬레이션에서 해상교통류 시뮬레이션을 통한 충돌 위험성 평가가 가능하도록 하는 시스템을 제안하였다.

The aim of this study is to ensure the structural integrity of a canister to be used in a dry storage system currently being developed in Korea. Based on burnup and cooling periods, the canister is designed with 24 bundles of spent nuclear fuel stored inside it. It is a cylindrical structure with a height of 4,890 mm, an internal diameter of 1,708 mm, and an inner length of 4,590 mm. The canister lid is fixed with multiple seals and welds to maintain its confinement boundary to prevent the leakage of radioactive waste. The canister is evaluated under different loads that may be generated under normal, off-normal, and accident conditions, and combinations of these loads are compared against the allowable stress thresholds to assess its structural integrity in accordance with NUREG-2215. The evaluation result shows that the stress intensities applied on the canister under normal, off-normal, and accident conditions are below the allowable stress thresholds, thus confirming its structural integrity.

A transfer cask serves as the container for transporting and handling canisters loaded with spent nuclear fuels from light water reactors. This study focuses on a cylindrical transfer cask, standing at 5,300 mm with an external diameter of 2,170 mm, featuring impact limiters on the top and bottom sides. The base of the cask body has an openable/closable lid for loading canisters with storage modules. The transfer cask houses a canister containing spent nuclear fuels from lightweight reactors, serving as the confinement boundary while the cask itself lacks the confinement structure. The objective of this study was to conduct a structural analysis evaluation of the transfer cask, currently under development in Korea, ensuring its safety. This evaluation encompasses analyses of loads under normal, off-normal, and accident conditions, adhering to NUREG-2215. Structural integrity was assessed by comparing combined results for each load against stress limits. The results confirm that the transfer cask meets stress limits across normal, off-normal, and accident conditions, establishing its structural safety.

PURPOSES : This study evaluates the effectiveness of traffic flow optimization when giving safety strategy guidance to a connected autonomous vehicle (CAV) based on information received through infrastructure cooperation in a V2X environment for non-signal intersection. METHODS : To evaluate the effectiveness of safety strategy guidance based on developed traffic flow control algorithm at a non-signalized intersection, it was implemented on simulation. A scenario based on the Level of Service (LOS) and the market penetration rate(MPR) of autonomous vehicles was established. The simulation results were divided into safety, operation, and environment to evaluate the effect, and the effect of optimizing traffic flow was finally derived through the integrated evaluation score. RESULTS : As a result, when safety strategy guidance was provided, the number of conflicts and CO emissions decreased by about 29% and about 15%, improving safety and environmental performance. In the case of operation, the mean of delay time was increased overall by 1%, but in the case of MPR 50 and above, the delay time was reduced by about 38%, thereby increasing operation. Finally, the aspect of traffic flow optimization, effectiveness of safety strategy guidance was derived through the integrated evaluation score, and the average integrated evaluation score improved from MPR 20 or higher. CONCLUSIONS : Providing guidance had the effect of optimizing traffic flow at a non-signal intersection. In the future, V2X communications will provide CAV with algorithm-based guidance developed in this study to control driving behavior. it will support safe and efficient driving at non-signal intersections.

Human and material damage can be reduced if the risk is evaluated by engineering analysis of fire combustion products, smoke concentration, and smoke movement speed in the event of a fire in apartment houses and officetels. In this study, a lot of research on related safety evaluation in the basement needs to be studied and reflected in design, so experimental research was conducted to analyze the flow of smoke through computer simulation and provide analysis data through evacuation safety evaluation. First of all, the five-story underground parking lot subject to simulation has a large floor area, which is advantageous for improving evacuation safety performance, but it uses temperature detectors to increase detection time and fire spread speed. Second, it was analyzed that the evacuation time at all evacuation ports did not exceed the evacuation time, and as the time from the start of evacuation to the evacuation time was 216.9% compared to the travel time, it was evaluated that the safety performance of the evacuation was secured. Third, the above simulation results are a comprehensive safety evaluation based on the non-operation of fire extinguishing facilities in the fire room to increase safety, which means that smoother evacuation safety performance can be secured by linking fire extinguishing facilities.

The operation time of a disposal repository is generally more than one hundred years except for the institutional control phase. The structural integrity of a repository can be regarded as one of the most important research issues from the perspective of a long-term performance assessment, which is closely related to the public acceptance with regard to the nuclear safety. The objective of this study is to suggest the methodology for quantitative evaluation of structural integrity in a nuclear waste repository based on the adaptive artificial intelligence (AI), fractal theory, and acoustic emission (AE) monitoring. Here, adaptive AI means that the advanced AI model trained additionally based on the expert’s decision, engineering & field scale tests, numerical studies etc. in addition to the lab. test. In the process of a methodology development, AE source location, wave attenuation, the maximum AE energy and crack type classification were subsequently studied from the various lab. tests and Mazars damage model. The developed methodology for structural integrity was also applied to engineering scale concrete block (1.3 m × 1.3 m × 1.3 m) by artificial crack generation using a plate jacking method (up to 30 MPa) in KURT (KAERI Underground Research Tunnel). The concrete recipe used in engineering scale test was same as that of Gyeongju low & intermediate level waste repository. From this study, the reliability for AE crack source location, crack type classification, and damage assessment increased and all the processes for the technology development were verified from the Korea Testing Laboratory (KTL) in 2022.