6 papers presented at the 2024 International Co-operation on Theories and Concepts in Traffic Safety.

• Predicted Relative Time-to-Collision: Evaluating Pedestrian Potential Risk at Non-Signalized Intersections by  Tengfeng Lin, Zhixiong Jin, Hwasoo Yeo and Inhi Kim
• Differences between pedestrian injury severity determinants at school and non-school zones: new findings from streetscape quality factors by Reuben Tamakloe, Kaihan Zhang, Asim Alogaili and Inhi Kim
• Variability in the impact of factors influencing elderly pedestrian-injuries in crashes at intersections and non-intersections before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic by Reuben Tamakloe, Kaihan Zhang and Inhi Kim
• The Role of Human Subjective Perceptions and Objective Measurements of the Urban Environment in Explaining Pedestrian Injury Severity by Kaihan Zhang, Reuben Tamakloe and Inhi Kim
• Factors Influencing Injury Severity Among Elderly Pedestrians – Insights from Urban Imagery and Explainable Machine Learning by  Kaihan Zhang, Reuben Tamakloe and Inhi Kim
• Micro Mobility Safety Challenges: A Study on Drivers Overtaking Bicycles and E-Scooters in Relation to Road Conditions and Prior Riding Experience by Hyunchul Park, Taeho Oh, Jaehyuck Lim and Inhi Kim

Jinwon has been appointed as the Principal Investigator, with Rueben and Gyounghoon joining as Co-Researchers. The team has been awarded the Post-Doctoral Growth-Oriented Collaborative Research Fund to support their work. The project, titled “Metaverse-based Testbed Augmentation & Development and Proof of Mixed Traffic Control Strategies,” will be funded with a total research budget of 900 million won over the next three years, from September of this year until August 2027. Kitae and Inhi will serve as mentors for this groundbreaking research.

Jaeeun has been awarded the Graduate Student Research Encouragement Fund by the National Research Foundation (NRF). She will carry out the research titled “Optimization Strategies for Traffic Operations in Mixed Autonomous Vehicle Environments to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions” from September of this year until August of the next year, with a total research budget of 12 million won.

The Graduate Student Research Encouragement Fund, awarded to Jaeeun, is a newly initiated program this year designed to support the research of graduate students with creative and challenging ideas.

Congratulations to Hyunchul Park , a master’s student, for being selected as a Kim Young-han Global Leader Scholarship recipient. The total scholarship amount is 4 million won.

Join me in congratulating Tengfeng Lin (Ten) and @Jaeeun Jung from TUPA on getting the best presentation awards from the 2024 fall Korea ITS conference in Jeju!!!

• Variational Autoencoder Spatial Temporal Graph Convolutional Network: 결측 데이터 기반 속도 예측을 위한 딥러닝 프레임워크 by Tengfeng Lin (Ten)

• 강화학습을 이용한 자율협력주행차량(CAV) 기반 회전교차로 운영제어전략 by Jaeeun Jung

I am happy to share good news with you all that @Donghyun Kwon got ” Young Scholar Award” by ‘MESH(Mobility Ecology Summit Hour)’. Based on his quality master’s thesis, he got this award. He was awarded 2 million won in prize money and a certificate!! Well done @Donghyun Kwon

We welcome Prof. Dr. Ing. Dietmar Göhlich and Prof. Sangyoung Park from TU Berlin. This is a biannual event at KAIST, where world-class researchers exchange research ideas and directions.

4 wonderful presentations were made as below;

• Intelligent Mobility Solutions: Overview of current projects and research results at TU Berlin; Speaker: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dietmar Göhlich (TU Berlin)
• Potential Issues in Infrastructure Planning for Emerging Mobility Modes; Speaker Prof. Jinwoo Lee (KAIST)
• Electrification of transportation systems: Light-weight EVs to heavy-duty vehiclesSpeaker; Prof. Sangyoung Park (TU Berlin)
• Power Electronics Technology for Mobility Electrification; Speaker: Prof. Kibum Park (KAIST)

Hyyncheol got the National Research Foundation (NRF)’s Graduate Student Research Encouragement Fund. He will carry out the research project titled “Developing an Aggressive Pedestrian Model for Autonomous Vehicle Safety Testing” from July of this year to June of next year, with a total research budget of 12 million won.