Dynamic control and traffic performance in a freeway corridor: a simulation study

This paper describes simulation studies that were conducted to assess the performance of a freeway corridor control system. The system combines an advanced traffic management system with a motorist information system that provides route guidance to individual drivers. It has a hierarchical structure: The corridor level control acts in a supervisory capacity dynamically allocating traffic among alternative corridor facilities, including freeways, frontage roads, and signalized arterials. The local level control then selects control parameters for the individual facilities based on the predicted usage at the corridor level. A user specified performance function is optimized in the process. Both recurrent and nonrecurrent congestion scenarios were simulated using the SCOT model as a test bed. It is shown that, in most cases, significant benefits in performance can be obtained when the system operates as designed.     

Characterization of driving patterns and development of a driving cycle in a military area

This study develops a gradient-sensitive driving cycle for vehicles in military areas with paved and unpaved roads over steep and undulating terrain. The methodology develops the driving cycle using micro-trips extracted from real-world data taking into account factors that affect fuel consumption. The accuracy of cycle depended on the root mean square error and information value.     

基于ANP与模糊理论的寒区隧道冻害风险评估与管理研究

冻害风险是寒区隧道工程建设中的常见灾害,其影响因素复杂,不确定因素较多。文章在广泛调研基础上,结合基于Likert量表的问卷调查建立了冻害风险评价指标体系,利用ANP综合分析各因素之间的相互影响度,计算出二级指标的整体权重,找出主要风险源;再运用模糊评价法分析处理专家评价意见,结合整体权重计算出冻害风险综合评价分值。昆仑山隧道实例证明,该体系具有针对性、客观性和可行性,可有效识别冻害风险影响因素;利用ANP与模糊综合评价可辨识出主要风险源并给出量化风险指标,可为实现有效的风险管理提供理论依据。     

Competition and disruption in a dynamic urban supply chain

Rapid changes and complexities in business environments have stressed the importance of interactions between partners and competitors, leading supply chains to become the most important element of contemporary business environments. There is a concomitant need for foresight in describing supply chain performance in all operating environments, including those involving punctuated disruptions. Furthermore, the urban metropolis is now widely recognized to be an environment which is especially vulnerable to supply chain disruptions and for which integrated supply chain decisions can produce very substantial net benefits. Accordingly, this paper presents a dynamic supply chain network model formulated as a differential variational inequality; the model is fashioned to allow consideration of supply chain disruption threats to producers, freight carriers, and retail enterprises. The DVI is solved using a fixed-point algorithm, and a simple numerical example, introduced to illustrate how the impacts of supply chain disruptions may be quantified, is presented.     

Vehicle electrification in a developing country: Status and issue,from a well-to-wheel perspective

The increase of public attention, scientific research and political interest in environmental problems associated with transportation has provided the motivation for re-invention of electric vehicles. However the usage of grid-dependent EVs with a high-carbon electricity grid might produce more damage to the environment. This study aims to provide an environmental impact comparison of ICEVs, HEVs and EVs during their usage cycle, by modeling their energy consumption (electricity or fuel) and the supply chains of the supplied energy, (well-to-wheel) based on a life cycle assessment. The results show that running EVs with the existing mixed sources of electrical energy produce larger impacts on the environment 60% of the time; when compared to HEVs. When compared to ICEVs, EVs produce a larger environmental impact on 7 out of 15 environmental impact categories. Overall the environmental impacts of EVs are substantial based on the well-to-wheel analysis. It will continue to be so if no change is made to the methods of electricity generation in the near future. Given that the environmental profile of EVs is linked with the existing national electricity generation mix, the national electricity supply must be made cleaner before the electrification of the urban transport system.     

盾构隧道的爆破施工监测与安全防护

城市地铁盾构穿越上软下硬地层施工中,通常采取爆破方案对基岩进行处理.文章针对施工现场地处深圳市5A级主要大型主题乐园欢乐谷内的盾构工程,对在建构筑物和已建成构筑物的安全防护提出了一些关于爆破施工中地上、地下安全防护与监测的思路和解决办法.     

Development of a signal-head-free intersection control logic in a fully connected and autonomous vehicle environment

Establishment of effective cooperation between vehicles and transportation infrastructure improves travel reliability in urban transportation networks. Lack of collaboration, however, exacerbates congestion due mainly to frequent stops at signalized intersections. It is beneficial to develop a control logic that collects basic safety message from approaching connected and autonomous vehicles and guarantees efficient intersection operations with safe and incident free vehicle maneuvers. In this paper, a signal-head-free intersection control logic is formulated into a dynamic programming model that aims to maximize the intersection throughput. A stochastic look-ahead technique is proposed based on Monte Carlo tree search algorithm to determine the near-optimal actions (i.e., acceleration rates) over time to prevent movement conflicts. Our numerical results confirm that the proposed technique can solve the problem efficiently and addresses the consequences of existing traffic signals. The proposed approach, while completely avoids incidents at intersections, significantly reduces travel time (ranging between 59.4% and 83.7% when compared to fixed-time and fully-actuated control strategies) at intersections under various demand patterns.     

Traffic rationing and pricing in a linear monocentric city

This paper presents a simple spatial equilibrium model for a linear monocentric city to investigate the effects of rationing and pricing on morning commuters' travel cost and modal choice behavior in each location. Under rationing and pricing, every day in the morning peak hour, each commuter is classified as either “free” or “rationed”. “Free” commuters are allowed to use the highway without paying the toll, whereas “rationed” commuters can avoid the toll only if they travel by transit. Each day, a fraction of commuters are rationed in their free use of the highway, and the rationing fractions are determined systematically so that everyone is equally rationed in a given period. It is found that Pareto‐improving rationing and pricing scheme might be obtained as a combination of the rationing degree and the toll associated with rationing. Extension to the rationing and pricing scheme with cordon and park‐and‐ride service has been made. Cordon and park‐and‐ride might help in improving the efficiency of rationing and pricing strategy although remains its Pareto‐improving property. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Adding a new station and a road link to a road–rail network in the presence of modal competition

In this paper we study the problem of locating a new station on an existing rail corridor and a new junction on an existing road network, and connecting them with a new road segment under a budget constraint. We consider three objective functions and the corresponding optimization problems, which are modeled by means of mixed integer non-linear programs. For small instances, the models can be solved directly by a standard solver. For large instances, an enumerative algorithm based on a discretization of the problem is proposed. Computational experiments show that the latter approach yields high quality solutions within short computing times.     

复杂环境下浅埋隧道的爆破震动监测与控制技术

深圳地铁5号线和7号线在太安站—怡景站区间为浅埋暗挖隧道,地表建筑物密集,按规范规定必须在爆破施工的同时进行震动监测,以保证施工环境的安全.文章选取了有代表性的监测断面,对其监测数据进行了分析,得出了沿隧道径向和法向的震动规律:径向上,在掌子面(0测点)两侧对称的测点的震动速度规律反映为成洞区大于开挖区;法向上,以掌子面(0测点)为中心,往两个方向呈现震速下降的趋势,而且近似线性下降.分析结果表明,采用密集减震孔和竹节的减震方法能够起到明显的减震效果,径向的减震效果比法向的要好.