Simulation-based assessment methodology to improve ground service operations at a hub airport

ABSTRACT

Airport terminals are dynamic environments and security/passport services generally constitute costly bottlenecks in terminals. Increases in the number of airline passengers compels airport terminals to provide more efficient services to its customers under space and resource limitations. This study examines the level of service of passenger processes at Istanbul Atatürk Airport by constructing a comprehensive simulation model. It focuses mainly on passport control services and passenger transfer security services because of the airport's hub status and the strategy of Turkish Airlines. The increasing number of transfer passengers may cause disruptions in departure flight schedules due to slow passenger processes. After validating the model, we investigate the consequences of three main alternative solutions, including 17 sub-scenarios, to capture target quality levels. Finally, we provide the results for each scenario to investigate the optimum allocation of resources to terminal operations.     

富水区隧道环向盲管间距优化分析北大核心CSCD

富水区隧道涌水遵循“以堵为主、防排结合”的处置原则,其中排水体系构建的合理性是隧道安全施工与良好运营的关键因素。首先分析隧道排水体系,揭示其工作原理,然后利用FLAC 3D有限差分软件,对鸿图特长隧道富水断层区设置的不同环向盲管间距进行三维流固耦合模拟,通过分析渗水压力、锚杆受力及涌水量,揭示塑性区体积及分布区域特征。研究结果表明:沿隧道轴向,支护结构孔隙水压力大致呈周期性分布,其周期近似等于环向盲管纵向间距;加密环向盲管,在降低支护结构受力并减小塑性区体积的同时,会增加隧道排水量;随环向盲管间距的增大,注浆加固圈塑性区首先出现在围岩好的区域,断层区出现塑性区最晚;断层区锚杆加固效果较差,可通过减小钢拱架环向间距以提高结构刚度,使注浆加固圈沿轴向受力更合理。综合考虑各种因素,建议在建工程断层区环向盲管间距设置为3 m,断层附近区间距为4 m。     

Analysis of the application and development of integrated electric power technology for unmanned ships北大核心CSCD

近年来,随着动力、信息等技术的不断发展,无人船在反水雷、反潜、电子战、海上安全、海上拦截等军用领域凸显出越来越大的优势。为此,首先阐述无人船及其动力技术的发展概况,明确综合电力系统已成为中大型无人船的重要发展趋势,然后介绍综合电力系统在有人/无人平台的应用情况,提出设备尺寸、重量和振动噪声控制等问题是综合电力系统应用于无人平台的研究重点,最后阐明无人平台综合电力技术的发展趋势,指出综合电力系统智能化运行、高性能电机材料、复杂电机系统信息感知、电力电子器件与系统、高性能电能变换和高效储能是无人平台综合电力技术的关键科学问题。     

Advancing Coastal Habitat Resiliency Through Landscape-Scale Assessment

Coastal areas are among the most biologically rich regions in the world. They provide tremendous benefit to people through ecological services like pollution filtration, carbon sequestration, and storm protection. However, human activity has decreased the ability of ecosystems to provide these services, and in many coastal areas, restoration is not as effective as it could be. Limited success is largely attributed to vague goals and a lack of holistic, science-informed planning. Quantifying coastal habitat health can aid in setting better restoration goals and lead to greater restoration success. The Long Island Sound Study National Estuary Program conducted the first comprehensive look at coastal habitat health for the Long Island Sound Estuary. In this study we also reviewed landscape-scale habitat assessment progress within other coastal programs. Results can be applied to establish ecosystem health-oriented goals that improve habitat function and resilience across coastal areas.     

Adaptation planning for climate-resilient urban infrastructures

This paper analyzes the interdependency across two critical infrastructures of transportation and motor fueling supply chains, and investigates how vulnerability to climatic extremes in a fueling infrastructure hampers the resilience of a transportation system. The proposed model features both a bi-stage mathematical program and an extension to an ‘α-reliable mean-excess’ regret model. The former aspect allows decision makers to optimize the pre-disaster asset prepositioning against the maximum post-disaster system resilience. The latter aspect of the proposed model devalues the impact of ‘low-probability, high-cost’ sub-scenarios upon model results. The model reveals the reliance of post-disaster urban mobility on the interdependent critical infrastructure of motor fueling supply chains. The results also suggest how investment in the fueling infrastructure’s vulnerable elements protects urban mobility while the transportation network is stressed or under attack.     

基于CSL隧道支护结构的喷膜防水层黏结性能试验研究北大核心CSCD

文章针对隧道渗漏水严重的问题,采用一种新型隧道喷膜防水技术,建立与前、后混凝土均具有黏结性能的隧道支护结构形式(CSL),从而克服混凝土加防水板的传统支护结构在防水性能上的弊端。喷膜防水层与前、后混凝土间的黏结性能是CSL设计的一个重要参数,直接决定CSL的防水和支护性能。鉴于此,文章开展了CSL隧道支护结构喷膜防水层黏结性能试验,研究喷射混凝土基面干湿状态、膜层厚度对CSL黏结性能的影响。研究表明:层间黏结强度与膜层厚度的平方根成反比;在保证喷射混凝土基面无流动水的情况下,喷射混凝土基面含水有助于提高防水膜与喷射混凝土的黏结强度,充分发挥其黏结性能;随着含水率的增加,CSL结构黏结强度呈现逐渐增大的趋势。     

CMC改性海水泥浆性质变化及砂地层成膜试验研究北大核心CSCD

为探究泥水盾构穿越海底砂地层时羧甲基纤维素钠(CMC)对海水泥浆性质及成膜效果的影响,配制不同CMC掺量的海水泥浆,分析泥浆泌水率、黏度、Zeta电位等性质的变化情况,并开展了泥浆渗透成膜试验。研究结果表明:相对于海水泥浆,加入CMC后的泥浆黏度逐渐增大,2h泌水率显著减小,形成的泥膜中结合水含量逐渐变大,泥膜渗透系数减小至4.03×10^(-8)cm/s;改性海水泥浆中粒径小于75μm的细颗粒含量显著增加,静置24h后,泥浆上部呈现浑浊,下部依然存在较严重的沉淀;当CMC掺量达到0.16%时,改性海水泥浆2h泌水率小于10%,成膜渗透流量小于0.01m^(3)/m^(2),可以保证泥浆短期稳定性并形成致密泥膜。     

岩溶隧道排水管结晶堵塞试验与数值模拟研究北大核心CSCD

为实现岩溶区隧道排水系统堵塞过程的精准刻画和预警防控,开展了与现场1∶1等比例的排水系统堵管室内试验,探讨了仿真现场水动力、水化学和干湿循环条件下管道结晶沉淀量的变化规律,构建了考虑水动力和碳酸盐岩组分溶解-沉淀化学反应耦合驱动过程的数值模型,结合室内试验数据,对所建立的隧道排水管结晶堵塞模型进行验证。模拟结果表明,随着时间的推移,模拟值与试验观测值之间的误差逐渐减小,至15 d左右,二者拟合决定系数R2为0.67,证明在相对较长时间尺度下,所构建的数值模型在一定程度上能够较好地预测隧道排水管道内的结晶生成过程,模型能为隧道排水系统堵塞问题的防治提供理论指导,进而为岩溶隧道地质灾害的早期识别与安全评价提供保障。     

Optimal transport strategies for European cities

A new procedure for generating optimal transport strategies has been applied in nine European cities. A public sector objective function which reflects concerns over efficiency, environmental impact, finance and sustainability is specified and a set of policy measures with acceptable ranges on each, identified. Optimal strategies based on combinations of these policy measures which generate the optimal value of the objective function, are identified, and compared between cities. Resulting policy recommendations are presented. The results demonstrate the importance of an integrated approach to transport strategy formulation. They emphasise the role of changes in public transport service levels and of fares, and of charges for car use. By contrast, new infrastructure projects are less frequently justified. In the majority of cities the revenues from car use charges are sufficient to finance other elements in the strategy. However, private sector involvement either in initial financing or in operation may be desirable. Revised objective functions to reflect private sector involvement are specified, and optimal strategies with private sector operation of public transport are also identified. The requirement to meet private sector rates of return for public transport operation typically results in lower frequencies and higher fares; charges for car use then need to be raised to satisfy public policy objectives, but system performance is reduced. This revised version was published online in June 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Automated real-time railway traffic control: an experimental analysis of reliability,resilience and robustness

Railway transportation provides sustainable, fast and safe transport. Its attractiveness is linked to a broad concept of service reliability: the capability to adhere to a timetable in the presence of delays perturbing traffic. To counter these phenomena, real-time rescheduling can be used, changing train orders and times, according to rules of thumb, or mathematical optimization models, minimizing delays or maximizing punctuality. In the literature, different indices of robustness, reliability and resilience are defined for railway traffic. We review and evaluate these indices applied to railway traffic control, comparing optimal rescheduling approaches such as Open Loop and Closed Loop control, to a typical First-Come-First-Served dispatching rule, and following the timetable (no-action). This experimental analysis clarifies the benefits of automated traffic control for infrastructure managers, railway operators and passengers. The timetable order, normally used in assessing a-priori reliability, systematically overestimates unreliability of operations that can be reduced by real-time control.