An assessment of the performance of the European long intermodal freight trains (LIFTS)

Intermodal rail/road freight transport has always been considered as a competitive alternative to its road freight counterpart in the European medium- to long-distance corridors (markets). Such consideration has been based on the increasing competitiveness of some innovative rail services and the existing and prospective performance of both modes in terms of the full social – internal or operational and external – costs. The most recent innovation of rail technologies and related services launched by some European railway companies, still at the conceptual level, is the Long Intermodal Freight Train (LIFT). This is supposed to be a block train operating in long-distance corridors (markets) with a substantial and regular freight demand.This paper develops analytical models for assessing the performance of the LIFTs, the already-operating Conventional Intermodal Freight Trains (CIFTs), and their road counterpart as well. The performance consists of the full – internal (private) and external – costs of the door-to-door delivery of loading units – containers, swap-bodies, and semi-trailers. The internal costs embrace the operational costs of the transport (rail and road) and intermodal terminal operators. The external costs include the costs of the impacts of door-to-door delivery of loading units on society and the environment. These negative externalities include noise, air pollution, traffic accidents, and congestion.The models are applied to a simplified version of intermodal and road transport system using inputs from the European freight transport sector. The aims are to compare the full costs of particular modalities in order to investigate the potential of the LIFTs as compared with the CIFTs in improving the internal efficiency of the rail freight sector and its competitiveness with respect to its road counterpart. In addition, the paper attempts to assess some effects on the potential modal shift of EU (European Union) transport policies on internalizing transport externalities.     

基于CPLD的0.01s计时器设计

本设计提出了一种基于CPLD的0.01S计时器的设计方案。应用高速集成电路以硬件描述语言VHDL语言描述,采用Altera公司的可编程逻辑器件(CPLD)EPM7064SL84实现的现代智能计时仪表,为广大用户提供了方便。系统具有可靠性高,便于功能扩展,成本低,易普及等优点。     

Modeling children’s school travel mode and parental escort decisions

Understanding of the activity-travel patterns of children is becoming increasingly important to various policy makers. Further, there is also a growing recognition that intra-household interactions need to be explicitly accommodated in travel models for realistic forecasts and policy evaluation. In the light of these issues, this paper contributes towards an overall understanding of the school-travel behavior of children and the related interdependencies among the travel patterns of parents and children. An econometric model is formulated to simultaneously determine the choice of mode and the escorting person for children’s travel to and from school. The 2000 San Francisco Bay Area Travel Survey (BATS) data are used in the model estimation process. Empirical results indicate that the characteristics of child like age, gender, and ethnicity, and employment and work flexibility characteristics of the parents have strong impacts on the mode choice decisions. In addition, the impacts of some of these attributes on the choice of mode to school are different from the corresponding impacts on the choice of mode from school. The distance between home and school is found to strongly and negatively impact the choice of walking to and from school, with the impact being stronger for walking to school. Several land-use and built-environment variables were explored, but were found not to be statistically significant predictors.

试论武术中的艺术美

武术是中国运动项目的国粹,而以动作繁杂、姿态优美的套路,无论在技击还是表演等方面,无不含有艺术性,其中所包含的美更是给人以赏心悦目的理智情感,愉悦身心。本文利用文献资料法、逻辑分析法等方法从艺术美的基本特征出发,结合武术套路运动,通过对人体的动作性、动作的节奏性、体姿的意境性三个方面进行分析,以显示武术套路中艺术美的基本特征,让人以美的角度去欣赏武术套路,从而陶冶情操。     

《2006航运业薪酬福利水平报告》解读

对某舰的单臂尾轴架,采用军标规范中的经验公式对其横向一阶的频率进行了计算;采用有限元数值计算方法,用三维的体单元建立了单臂尾轴架的有限元模型,计算了其前十阶频率和振型;进行了现场的振动特性实验,测得了某舰单臂尾轴架的横向一阶和纵向一阶频率和振型。对所得到的三种结果进行比较研究表明:经验公式计算所得的结果同实验结果相差较大,有限元计算所得的结果同实验结果相差较小;对用于尾轴架振动计算的经验公式应进行进一步的研究;在尾轴架设计时可以采用有限元方法进行振动计算预报。     

如何把握和处理安检中碰到的几个问题

船舶安检是一项专业性很强的工作,如何准确把握和处理船舶缺陷,是安检员的一大难点。例举实际工作中出现的老旧船舶,应急发电机及处所,通风筒、空气管、门槛高度,船舶吨位丈量等问题,如何把握和处理进行了分析和探时,以便促进安检水平的提高。     

基于dSPACE的叉车自动变速器控制系统性能仿真和实验研究

对叉车发动机与液力变矩器的参数进行匹配,确定动力性换挡曲线,采用区间信息值作为换挡逻辑输入量,建立基于车速和油门开度的动力性换挡规律;依据电磁阀工作特性及换挡执行元件工作逻辑,建立电磁阀模型;通过基于dSPACE的叉车自动变速器控制系统实时仿真实验,验证所建立的叉车自动变速器控制模型的正确性,为叉车自动变速器控制器的开发提供了参考。     

基于主成分分析的舰船装备维修费组合预测

针对基于回归的组合预测模型,由于舰船装备维修费预测时可利用的样本小、可用的单项预测方法多,容易导致预测模型的数量比用于组合预测的样本数量多,出现回归系数无法估计的问题。在建立基于回归的舰船装备维修费组合预测模型前,首先对各单项预测方法预测结果进行主成分分析,建立舰船装备维修费实际值在选取主成分上的回归模型,给出基于主成分分析的组合预测模型;然后针对主成分分析中根据主成分的累积贡献率确定主成分数量具有一定的主观性,建议采用AIC确定主成分的数量;最后,采用实例对给出的方法进行分析和验证。结果表明:在舰船装备维修费组合预测中,该方法不仅解决了预测模型多于用来组合预测的样本数量问题,而且还可以解决单项预测方法之间的共线性问题,且其预测性能明显优于常用的组合预测模型。     

DCM船施工钻杆冲洗水泵随机启动器系统的设计

本文将结合船舶水泵的工作原理,对船舶水泵的运行情况进行分析,详细介绍以单片机为核心的钻杆冲洗水泵随机启动器系统的设计。同时通过搭建Proteus仿真模型,针对钻杆附着淤泥的不同程度对船舶水泵进行动态模拟。本文将着重介绍DCM钻杆冲洗中船舶多水泵随机启动器系统的设计。     

基于实例的船舶靠泊操纵技术探讨

船舶靠泊码头操作是驾驶员经常性经历的工作之一,也是操船中事故发生率较高的一项操作.以3个码头靠泊时的体会出发,从制定靠泊计划、了解码头情况、熟知本船性能和控制余速4个方面,进一步总结船舶靠泊码头应注意的事项.