Socially and environmentally appropriate urban futures for the motor car

In its relatively short life, the automobile has provided a level of mobility unlikely to have been feasible with a reliance on conventional forms of land based public transport. It has contributed in both a positive and negative way to the quality of life, transforming our cities, our way of life, and giving us a greater command over time and space. Concern over the undesirable social and environmental impacts has increased over time, with calls for governments to take action to reduce the automobile's dominant role. New investment in fixed-track public transport and bus priority systems together with strategies to discourage travel have been proposed to improve accessibility and to aid in cleaning up the physical environment. This paper reviews some of the issues facing society as it works to identify policies to achieve an economically and environmentally sustainabie future. There is a need for a broader set of policies to facilitate alternative land use-transport lifestyles while facing appropriate pricing signals. Some of the key issues are adjustments in the relative prices of location and transport, spatial incentives to make public transport economically viable (i.e. changing urban densities, zoning/incentive changes to allow more infill), road pricing (i.e. charging cars the economic cost of using the roads), new information technology systems (e.g. IVHS) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of transport infrastructure, major improvements in the fuel efficiency of fossil fuelled vehicles, and alternative-fuelled vehicles (clean-air vehicles).     

HX_D1C型机车司机操纵台造型优化设计

我国电力机车司机操纵台的设计在消化吸收国外的产品,但在造型设计上不够完美。文章对HXD1C型电力机车司机操纵台外观造型不够完美的地方进行了分析,从造型与设计的细节上对司机操纵台进行了优化,并提出新的替代方案。     

UML建模技术在轨道交通CTCS-3级列车控利系统测试案例生成中的应用

针对CTCS-3级列车控制系统测试案例的特点和生成过程,提出了UML建模技术在测试案例生成中的应用.说明了利用这种方法生成测试案例的优势,介绍了生成测试案例的总体思路.测试案例的生成分为两步,即功能特征的提取和基于UML建模的测试案例生成.从UML的静态建模分析和动态建模分析两个方面阐述了具体实现过程,并举例说明了UM...     

基于期权理论的铁路货运定价模型

为了规避铁路运输企业和协议客户在市场价格波动情况下所面临的风险,在铁路货运的定价过程中引入期权的概念,利用二叉树模型为期权定价,在此基础上构建了基于铁路运输企业和协议客户收益最大条件下的铁路货运定价模型。研究结果表明:通过铁路运输企业和协议客户的最优定价决策可以求得铁路运输企业制定的协议价格和协议客户的期权购买量;协议价格与现货市场价格正相关,与铁路运输企业的长期准备成本正相关、短期准备成本负相关;随着期权价格和期权执行价格的升高,协议客户在契约市场所购买的期权数量逐渐减少。     

Introduction: Habitual travel choice

In this introduction to the special issue on habitual travel choice, we provide a brief account of the role of habit in travel behaviour, discuss more generally what habitual choice is, and briefly review the issues addressed in the solicited papers. These issues include how habitual travel behaviour should be measured, how to model the learning process that makes travel choice habitual, and how to break and replace car-use habits.     

基于键合图的车用蓄电池建模与仿真

按照键合图的规则,分别建立了蓄电池等效电路的键合图模型和冷却系统的键合图模型,然后将电系统和热系统耦合在一起,实现了蓄电池系统的键合图模型,最后建立了蓄电池的数学模型和仿真模型,并实现了动态仿真。     

Bus Priority Using pre-signals

The need to provide efficient public transport services in urban areas has led to the implementation of bus priority measures in many congested cities. Much interest has recently centred on priority at signal controlled junctions, including the concept of pre-signals, where traffic signals are installed at or near the end of a with-flow bus lane to provide buses with priority access to the downstream junction. Although a number of pre-signals have now been installed in the U.K., particularly in London, there has been very little published research into their design, operation and optimisation. This paper addresses these points through the development of analytical procedures which allow pre-implementation evaluation of specific categories of pre-signals. The paper initially sets out three categories of pre-signal, which have different operating characteristics, different requirements for signalling and different impacts on capacity and delay. Key issues concerning signalling arrangements for these categories are then discussed, together with a summary of the analytical approach adopted and the assumptions required. Equations are developed to allow appropriate signal timings to be calculated for pre-signalised intersections. Further equations are then developed to enable delays to priority and non-priority traffic, with and without pre-signals, to be estimated with delay being taken here as the key performance criterion. The paper concludes with three application examples illustrating how the equations are applied and the impacts of pre-signals in different situations.The analyses confirm the potential benefits of pre-signals, where these signals apply to non-priority traffic only. Where buses are also subject to a pre-signal, it is shown that disbenefits to buses can often occur, unless bus detectors are used to gain priority signalling.     

关于一、三级公路安全性认知因素的试验建模研究

在实测86处一级公路典型路段和188处三级公路典型路段道路结构基础上,确定驾驶员对国道一、三级公路的安全性认知因素集,进而针对一级公路的38处样本路段和三级公路的77处样本路段,组织47名驾驶人员进行现场认知评价试验,并应用模糊集合原理和模糊统计方法对评价试验得到的2829组(一级路673组、三级路2156组)有效认知试验评语数据进行分析处理,得到一、三级公路安全性认知因素的模糊评价隶属函数,从而给出驾驶人员对一、三级公路道路条件和交通环境的安全性模糊评价模型。     

大连新建地铁对公交出行选择的影响

为了分析城市新建地铁项目对居民公共交通出行的影响，改善公交服务水平，提高公共交 通的分担率，针对大连市新建地铁线路展开研究。以大连市地铁1 号线沿线站点作为研究区域， 采用SP （Stated Preference） 调查方法，收集了300 名地铁沿线居民对常规公交以及新建地铁两种 出行方式的选择数据。通过建立二项Logit 模型，分析出行成本、换乘时间等选择方案特性变 量，出行特性变量以及出行者特性变量对于居民出行方式选择行为的影响，并计算弹性值及模型 精度。结果表明，通过调整出行成本及换乘时间可有效提高地铁分担率。由此提出相关政策建 议：对于出行成本，可从出行者年龄及出行次数两方面制定不同的优惠政策；对于换乘时间，可 从提高可达性、完善购票系统以及调整发班频率三方面进行改善。     

Risk assessment framework for exposure of cargo and ports to natural hazards and climate extremes

There is an increase in risks and catastrophic losses in maritime transport including ports and cargo. Significant losses have been associated with large scale natural hazards, such as earthquakes, tsunami, cyclones, and other extreme weather events. This paper identifies the main gaps in understanding maritime risks in transportation research. The gaps are attributed to insufficient empirical work available from the maritime transport and logistics research community to guide multi-risk and natural hazards impact assessment on seaport and cargo. In addition, disaster studies communities have barely made adequate efforts to understand and assess port and cargo risks arising from multi-hazards and disaster events. This paper examines existing conceptual frameworks concerning exposure and risk assessments of natural catastrophe’s impacts. Furthermore, the paper identifies trends and gaps in risk assessment frameworks in the field of disaster studies that can be beneficial for maritime risk research. The authors propose a new risk assessment framework that can guide future research and multi-hazard risk assessment processes at different scales of maritime risks.