在福建湄洲湾建设煤炭储运基地势在必行

湄洲湾具有丰富的深水岸线资源,具备建设煤炭储运基地的优良条件。文章阐述在莆田湄洲湾建设煤炭储运基地的重要意义和建设的必要性及可行性。     

Coping with uncertainty: an expedition into the field of new transport technology

Many decisions taken by mankind are rational only to a limited extent. This holds for individual travel behaviour, but also for long-range strategic decisions on transport systems or transport technology. In any decision problem, coping with uncertainty is the most critical element. The introduction of new transport technology is surrounded by uncertainty. For example, there is uncertainty about the pace and extent of adoption of new technology and there is uncertainty about the impact of new technology in terms of increased sustainability or increased efficiency. This article maps uncertainty surrounding new transport technology and identifies ways in which to deal with uncertainty in policy making. The findings will be illustrated with electric vehicles, particularly with two specific strategies to deal with uncertainty: interactive technology watching and experimentation in a market niche. The paper concludes with a discussion of success factors that influence the outcomes of such strategies.     

The response of the legal system to technological innovation in aquaculture: A comparative study of mariculture legislation in California,Florida and Maine

This article examines salt‐water aquaculture (mariculture) legislation in California, Florida, and Maine, as illustrative of one generic response of the law to aquacultural innovation. Unlike aquacultural legislation in other states, generally drafted to restrict leasing of coastal waters for specific existing technologies, the legislation studied represents a more flexible approach which would accommodate new technologies. Analysis of specific provisions of the three laws indicates the complexity of the issues involved and a variety of mechanisms selected for regulating mariculture, and identifies different state priorities and goals. This report concludes that whereas broadly drafted legislation exemplified by the statutes under study is more likely to accommodate new mariculture technologies than piecemeal legislation, there are a number of complex issues that must be identified and resolved in order to achieve the desired results. The failure of each of the states to respond fully to the broad range of issues involved may inhibit aquacultural innovation or unduly restrict nonaquacultural uses of the coastal zone.     

A test of inter-modal performance measures for transit investment decisions

Choices among alternative transit capital investments are often complex and politically controversial. There is renewed interest in the use of performance indicators to assist in making rational and defensible choices for the investment of public funds. To improve the evaluation of rail and bus performance and provide more useful information for transit investment decision-makers, it is important to use performance indicators that fairly and efficiently compare different transit modes. This paper proposes a set of inter-modal performance indicators in which service input, service output, and service consumption are measured by total cost, revenue capacity miles/hours, and unlinked passenger trips/miles respectively based on economic principles and evaluation objectives. The proposed improvements involve the inclusion of capital as well as operating costs in such comparisons, and the recognition of the widely varying capacities of transit vehicles for seated and standing passengers. Two California cases, the Los Angeles – Long Beach Corridor and the Market/Judah Corridor in San Francisco, are used for testing their usefulness in the evaluation of the efficiency and effectiveness of rail and bus services. The results show substantial differences between performance indicators in current use and those proposed in this study. The enhanced inter-modal performance indicators are more appropriate for comparing the efficiency and effectiveness of different modes or a combination of transit modes at the corridor and system levels where most major investment decisions are made. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

基于ITS的公共交通换乘等待时间最短调度问题研究

为使公共交通的换乘时间实现最佳衔接,先进的公共交通系统的高效率和优势得以体现,在对各国研究现状分析的基础上,研究了ITS实时提供公共交通信息的条件下,公共交通换乘等待时间最短调度问题。为了对公共交通换乘总等待时间最短目标下的公共汽车发车时刻表确定方法进行分析,应用运筹学理论,分别针对一个换乘点和多个换乘点的情况建立了线性规划模型,并用一个换乘点的算例验证了模型的可行性和有效性。结果表明：该方法能最大限度地减少乘客换乘总等待时间,尤其是对于发车间隔较大的公共交通方式间换乘的时间节约效果更为明显。     

智能交通系统的现状及发展

论述了智能交通系统的组成及国内外智能交通系统发展状况,对我国智能交通系统的环境、任务现状、发展进行了分析并提出了建议。智能交通系统作为运用现代信息技术将交通四要素“人-车-路-环境”有机结合在一起的系统工程,将从根本上解决困扰现代交通的安全、通畅、节能和环保问题。     

我国动车组维修管理方式探讨

分析我国首条客运提速线——广深线所用瑞典X2000和国产“蓝箭”2种动车组的运用维制青况,从发挥动车组运输效率、方便维护的角度,对我国电动车组的研制与检修管理提出了建议。     

Regulating transport’s environmental impacts in a deregulating world

In recent years, a growing awareness of the environmental impacts of transport has played a major part in the shift towards policies to manage the demand for travel. As a result, a substantial increase in the role of public transport has been identified as necessary in any strategy towards more environmentally sustainable transport patterns. At the same time there has been a quite separate process of deregulation and the withdrawal of the state from the transport market. These two trends appear to represent potentially contradictory processes. This article draws upon two major studies that explore the relationship between increasing needs for environmental regulation and the privatisation of bus and rail services. It is shown that, as currently organised in Britain, the development of bus and rail services are inadequately linked to strategic environmental policymaking and, rather than being part of the solution to transport’s environmental impacts, there is a real danger that these ‘green’ methods of transport could slide into simply being part of the problem itself. It is concluded that privatisation and deregulation does not mean the end of the need for policy mechanisms, but they do mean that policy has to be implemented in a very different way.     

论不同提供主体下道路资源的有效供给

从准公共产品的特征出发，分析了道路资源典型的准公共产品特性，阐述了公共部门提供（准）公共产品和私人部门提供（准）公共产品同样都存在着低效率和社会福利损失的原因。在针对由政府部门提供免费道路、政府提供收费道路以及私人提供收费道路三种供给方式进行了经济学比较的基础上，提出了几种以公私合作供给为基础的道路资源有效供给方式。     

公路超限超载治理的宏微观经济学分析

在分析公路超限超载运输的经济学性质、发生发展的一般内在机理与中国特性的基础上,结合公路超限超载问题解决的经典经济学思路与中国国情提出了相应长效治理机制。