机动车交汇时灯具炫目性的讨论

在背景亮度为1 cd/m2的晚上,摩托车及汽车驾驶员无论使用近光灯、转向信号灯或专用昼间行驶灯,在各交汇距离相对上升对比度阈值小于2时,均不会产生炫目,不会影响对向行驶摩托车驾驶员的观察和判断能力;而摩托车和汽车远光灯在任何距离时的相对上升对比度阈值远远大于2时,在摩托车和摩托车交汇时,会产生炫目,造成交通行驶隐患.     

盐铁会议的本质

盐铁会议不是一次关于政策的论争,汉武帝时期的政策不存在一个前后的分期.盐铁会议从本质上讲,是专权的霍光通过开会的形式利用儒生对桑弘羊施以打击的政治运动.之后,霍党势力就取代功勋赫赫声名极高的桑弘羊,控制了西汉帝国的财政大权.在这次政治运动中,儒生积极地参与了对桑弘羊的打击.     

基于移动网格技术的微型客车会车外流场仿真研究

本文采用计算流体力学CFD软件,对微型面包车与大型客车相会进行了会车多工况仿真计算,给出了处于会车特征位置的小车侧面压力值及压力场分布图,为我国实现汽车外形自主研发提供方法借鉴。     

Equilibrium properties of taxi markets with search frictions

The equilibrium properties of an aggregate taxi market are investigated using a general bilateral searching and meeting function which characterizes the search frictions between vacant taxis and unserved customers. Three specific issues are analyzed for meeting functions that exhibit increasing, constant and decreasing returns to scale. Firstly, service quality in terms of customer wait/search time and average profit per taxi are examined jointly in relation to taxi fleet size, and a Pareto-improving win-win situation is identified, where an increase in taxi fleet size leads to improvements in both service quality and market profitability. Such a Pareto-improving situation is found to emerge if and only if the meeting functions show increasing returns to scale. Secondly, the properties of the socially optimal solution are examined. It is found that the taxi fleet size should be chosen such that the total cost of operating vacant taxis equals the total cost of customer waiting time multiplied by an asymmetric factor of the meeting function, and that taxi services should be subsidized at social optimum only when the meeting functions show increasing returns to scale. Thirdly, the Pareto-efficient services are examined for trade-offs between social welfare and profits in the light of partially conflicting objectives of the public sector and the private taxi firms using a bi-objective maximization approach. The taxi utilization rate and the customer wait/search time or service quality are proved to be constant along the Pareto frontier and equal to those at social optimum if the meeting functions show constant returns to scale. Extensions are made to the cases with increasing and decreasing returns to scale.     

Dynamic modeling and control of taxi services in large-scale urban networks: A macroscopic approach

Taxis are increasingly becoming a prominent mobility mode in many major cities due to their accessibility and convenience. The growing number of taxi trips and the increasing contribution of taxis to traffic congestion are cause for concern when vacant taxis are not distributed optimally within the city and are unable to find unserved passengers effectively. A way of improving taxi operations is to deploy a taxi dispatch system that matches the vacant taxis and waiting passengers while considering the search friction dynamics. This paper presents a network-scale taxi dispatch model that takes into account the interrelated impact of normal traffic flows and taxi dynamics while optimizing for an effective dispatching system. The proposed model builds on the concept of the macroscopic fundamental diagram (MFD) to represent the dynamic evolution of traffic conditions. The model considers multiple taxi service firms operating in a heterogeneously congested city, where the city is assumed to be partitioned into multiple regions each represented with a well-defined MFD. A model predictive control approach is devised to control the taxi dispatch system. The results show that lack of the taxi dispatching system leads to severe accumulation of unserved taxi passengers and vacant taxis in different regions whereas the dispatch system improves the taxi service performance and reduces traffic congestion by regulating the network towards the undersaturated condition. The proposed framework demonstrates sound potential management schemes for emerging mobility solutions such as fleet of automated vehicles and demand-responsive transit services.