Perceived importance of inclusive street dimensions: a public questionnaire survey from a vision(ing) perspective

Transportation - The increasingly prevalent concept of inclusiveness in the public discourse is gaining a foothold in the paradigm shift of street design from a predominance of vehicular traffic...     

Development of port service network in OBOR via capacity sharing: an idea from Zhejiang province in China

The ‘Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road’ (One Belt One Road, OBOR) strategy initiated by the Chinese government has a significant impact on the business and logistics modes which involves Asia, Europe, Africa, and their adjacent seas. Many countries and ports are developing new strategies that are suitable for this economic environment. Compared with many ports in the world, the ports in Zhejiang province of China have a novel property. In addition to Ningbo-Zhoushan port, there are several other sea ports and river ports in that province. In this paper, we propose a concept of port service network that consists of a huge hub and multiple ports. Ports of small and medium sizes can share their capacities of different types of port service with the hub when the service capacities are integrated into the network. We develop a mixed integer nonlinear programming model to determine the optimal decisions in such a network with constraints on the budget to conduct integration. An optimization algorithm incorporated with a genetic algorithm is developed to solve large size problems. We provide managerial insights on the policies of government, including expanding port capacity, reducing fixed integration cost, and providing better financial condition.     

基于各向异性测度的路面三维图像裂缝识别

为准确而完整地识别路面裂缝,提出了基于1 mm/像素的路面三维图像裂缝自动识别算法．该算法主要包括各向异性测度计算与自适应优化阈值分割、深度验证和多分辨率去噪处理3个部分．首先,针对路面图像像素特征,基于0°、45°、90°和135°四个方向的线性邻域的均值和标准差计算每个像素的各向异性测度（表征方向性的强弱）,并应用最大类间方差法确定最优阈值,将路面图像分为强方向性和弱方向性像素两类;其次,根据半径为d的正方形邻域深度均值设定阈值,用方向性强且深度低于或等于该阈值的像素形成初步的裂缝图像;最后,将裂缝图像划分为多个子块,设计去噪模板对裂缝图像进行滑动窗口去噪处理,获得最终裂缝图像．基于166幅含有各类裂缝的三维路面图像（2048×2048像素）进行测试分析,结果显示,本文算法获得了较高的准确率（均值91．57％）和召回率（均值81．29％）,最终以84．26％的F1均值优于种子识别算法（F1均值69．19％）、Canny边缘检测（F1均值8．15％）和OTSU分割（F1均值5．11％）．     

Planning framework of analytical approaches applied to Zairean transportation

The purpose of the article is to provide an analytical planning framework which includes decision makers, organizations imposing operational and institutional constraints, direct customers and indirect beneficiaries. All these actors have differ-ent, only partially overlapping, interests; this increases the complexity of capital budgeting and imposes limitations on decision-making framework has important implica-tions for project selection, charging and depreciation policies. Although the illus-trations are limited to transport planning, the framework can be easily applied to any sector or country. For example, the English engineering students applied the framework to 18 industries in the U.K.: Auto-diesels, Bass, British Airways, British Gas, British Oxygen, British Petroleum, British Rail, British Steel, British Telecom, East Midland Electricity, Guinness, Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), Inter-national Computers Limited (ICL), Marks & Spencer, Mercury Communications, National Westminster Bank, Rover and Thames Television (see A. Kelvin, 1993, Increasing student participation in the learning process. Higher Education, 26(4), December, 449-470).