Airline delays,congestion internalization and non-price spillover effects of low cost carrier entry

This paper develops an econometric model of flight delays to investigate the influence of competition and dominance on the incentives of carriers to maintain on-time performance. We consider both the route and the airport levels to inspect the local and global effects of competition, with a unifying framework to test the hypotheses of 1. airport congestion internalization and 2. the market competition-quality relationship in a single econometric model. In particular, we examine the impacts of the entry of low cost carriers (LCC) on the flight delays of incumbent full service carriers in the Brazilian airline industry. The main results indicate a highly significant effect of airport congestion self-internalization in parallel with route-level quality competition. Additionally, the potential competition caused by LCC presence provokes a global effect that suggests the existence of non-price spillovers of the LCC entry to non-entered routes.     

From Twitter to detector: Real-time traffic incident detection using social media data

The effectiveness of traditional incident detection is often limited by sparse sensor coverage, and reporting incidents to emergency response systems is labor-intensive. We propose to mine tweet texts to extract incident information on both highways and arterials as an efficient and cost-effective alternative to existing data sources. This paper presents a methodology to crawl, process and filter tweets that are accessible by the public for free. Tweets are acquired from Twitter using the REST API in real time. The process of adaptive data acquisition establishes a dictionary of important keywords and their combinations that can imply traffic incidents (TI). A tweet is then mapped into a high dimensional binary vector in a feature space formed by the dictionary, and classified into either TI related or not. All the TI tweets are then geocoded to determine their locations, and further classified into one of the five incident categories.We apply the methodology in two regions, the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Metropolitan Areas. Overall, mining tweets holds great potentials to complement existing traffic incident data in a very cheap way. A small sample of tweets acquired from the Twitter API cover most of the incidents reported in the existing data set, and additional incidents can be identified through analyzing tweets text. Twitter also provides ample additional information with a reasonable coverage on arterials. A tweet that is related to TI and geocodable accounts for approximately 5% of all the acquired tweets. Of those geocodable TI tweets, 60–70% are posted by influential users (IU), namely public Twitter accounts mostly owned by public agencies and media, while the rest is contributed by individual users. There is more incident information provided by Twitter on weekends than on weekdays. Within the same day, both individuals and IUs tend to report incidents more frequently during the day time than at night, especially during traffic peak hours. Individual tweets are more likely to report incidents near the center of a city, and the volume of information significantly decays outwards from the center.     

37500m3乙烷运输船液货舱的载荷传递

本文针对为应对美国页岩气革命而研发的37,500m3全球最大型乙烷运输船,就超长的C型独立液货舱的静态载荷如何传递到船体结构,进行了深入地分析研究,设计了不同的载荷分布方式和相应的装载工况,并通过有限元方法进行了分析验证,得出了一些实用的结论,对今后采用C型独立液货舱的液化气船的设计提供了重要参考。     

基于可持续发展视角的大学生英语实际应用能力培养对策研究

实际应用是英语教学和学习的根本出发点。笔者结合多年英语教学工作实践,分析了英语实际应用教学的现状,并提出了大学生英语实际应用能力培养的主要对策。     

R407C在客车空调中的应用技术

介绍R407C与R134a理论热力循环计算方法;对R407C客车空调系统性能的变化、零部件和材料的选用进行技术分析;为R407C客车空调器的研发设计提供参考。     

基于PID算法和89C52单片机的温度控制系统

基于数字PID控制算法和89C52单片机的温度控制系统,该系统通过温度传感器DS1820对温度进行采样和转换,然后执行数字PID控制,输出控制量来调节可控硅触发端的通断,从而实现对温度的控制。     

船舶电力系统同步相量测量装置的研制

实现一种适用于船舶电力系统的同步相量测量装置,介绍了时钟同步模块、数据采集模块和数据处理模块。采用基于Nuttall窗函数的双谱线插值FFT算法对电力谐波进行分析,并对IEEE C37.118协议进行扩展,使之适用于船舶电力系统同步相量参数测量。用标准信号源对装置进行测试,相量幅值误差小于0.2%,相位误差小于0.2°。满足电力系统实时监控的要求。     

采用C型独立液货舱的超大型乙烷运输船(VLEC)研究

美国的页岩气繁荣发展在中短期内将造成乙烷供应的不断增长,将带来对欧洲及亚洲地区大宗出口的机遇;而全球乙烷运输需求的增长和船东对船舶经济性要求的提高,让超大型乙烷运输船(VLEC)应运而生。论文对VLEC的船型方案进行了比较分析,重点研究采用C型独立液货舱围护系统的VLEC的液罐设计方法,通过对采用碟形封头的总舱容为81 500 m3和采用球形封头的总舱容为75 500 m3的VLEC船型进行方案设计和研究,论证了论文提出的采用C型独立液货舱的超大型乙烷运输船这一方案的可行性。     

浅析西门子BDPC系统在CTV上的 可行性

本文主要目的是分析西门子Blue Drive Plus C（随后简称BDPC）系统及其配置是否能够应用在深水动力定位原油输送船（随后称CTV）上。通过供需关系对比法,首先实现CTV实现海上自由航行、跟随定位、连接FPSO与～30万吨油轮之间浮管、加油跟随定位、紧急脱离、绿色环保运行等工况下的正常与应急储备动力需求,随后分析西门子BDPC直流系统及其运用技术,针对本项目提供的特殊配置,与CTV提出需求进行对比,结论是BDPC依靠它的直流发电、配电、逆变、储能等技术,可以满足CTV的配置需求,论证了BDPC系统运用在性能优越的深水原油输送装置CTV是可行的。     

一种基于SA4828的交流调速电路的设计

SA4828是一种三相PWM波形发生器,可提供高质量、全数字的脉宽调制波形.本文介绍了SA4828的控制原理及在交流调速应用中的硬软件设计方法.