Maritime accident investigation and temporal determinants of maritime accidents: A case study

This paper presents the results of an investigation into temporal determinants of maritime accidents based on a data-set obtained from the proceedings of formal inquiries in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). The results show that there is no statistically significant outcome between the probability for an accident and the time of watch. Thus the results do not confirm previous studies, which reported significant time of day effects.The outcome of this study indicates that marine inquiries can provide useful data for an analysis of underlying causes of maritime accidents. It is suggested that accident inquiries should be extended into the area of watch systems employed and should record the hours of work and of rest of the officers on the watch involved in a maritime accident.     

The role of professional associations in shipping

This article is in three parts. The first covers the historical development of qualifying associations. The second covers the particular role of maritime institutions that include The Royal Institution of Naval Architects, The Institute of Marine Engineering Science and Technology and The Nautical Institute. The third and final section considers the future for maritime professional associations in the context of international shipping.     

龙屯路立交钢管混凝土简支系杆拱桥主桥设计研究

柳州龙屯路立交桥主桥结构形式为跨径92.5 m下承式简支系杆钢管混凝土拱桥,通过分析结构体系的温度敏感性,本桥接近同类结构形式的极限跨度。主要介绍该桥的结构设计和结构静力计算情况,并对结构的合理拱轴系数进行分析研究。     

"讨债"期限的时效

“讨债难”的现象在水运企业、个体船户间司空见惯,人们对此已见怪不怪。经营业务中,经常遇到这样一种情况:甲方欠乙方的运费,由于种种原因到了合同约定的付款期限没有付清。后来虽经乙方多次上门催要,甲方仍未偿还,最后乙方不得不将甲方诉诸法庭。但结果却是:由于乙方因没有证     

A high order linear model for the prediction of internal lee waves at the main sill of the Strait of Gibraltar

A linear theory for the physical fields in the water column under the action of large amplitude internal lee waves at the main sill of the Strait of Gibraltar is developed. The procedure is a combination of the perturbation and normal modes methods in order to study steady resonant conditions. The lowest order linear approach of the methodology resumes the Taylor–Goldstein equation, which can reconstruct the main features of the observed fields but the high order approach gives the finest structure and sometimes the largest contributions. The role of the non-linear terms is investigated up to the second order taking into account the non-linear interactions between modes, leading to an effective reconstruction of the whole water column for the velocity field.     

内燃机车牵引噪声源的噪声贡献量的统计能量分析(SEA)研究

以东风４型内燃机车为例，用简化了的内燃机车车体结构，建立了定置状态下３种输入情况的内燃机车的统计能量分析（ＳＥＡ）模型，得出了与机车在负荷试验台上进行试验时相符的模型，给出了机车各主要牵引噪声源对环境的噪声贡献量的计算方法，并实验验证了理论分析的结论．     

Analysis of Driver's Decelerating Strategy in a Car-following Situation

This report describes a decelerating driver-model expressed by driving mode transition in car-following situations. The assumptions for constructing the model are that decelerating strategy of a driver is classified into several simple driving modes and that a driver changs his driving modes based on his perceptible characteristics and experiential rules. Deceleration action is divided into three states; following, standing and braking, which are applied to the model. The model has two paths for driver's decelerating action, one of which is selected by the driver based on the perceptible characteristics and experiential rules. The suitability of the model has been experimentally verified.     

浅析现代科技对测绘的影响

测绘技术是随着科技的发展而不断进步的,促进了测绘技术的一次次革命,到今天功能齐全的网络测绘技术,无不显示了科技对测绘技术的影响力。本文主要讨论了高科技测绘技术的特点,并在此基础上介绍了几个当今比较流行的信息测绘技术,然后讨论了信息技术带给测绘工业体制上改革,以及最终信息化测绘的发展方向。     

Impact of information technology on public transport fares data

The work described was undertaken as part of the CASSIOPE project in the EC DRIVE programme. A range of fare collection procedures in public transport is described, and the importance of these for data collection by operators is stressed. It is suggested that such data management could be standardized and to this end four case studies were carried out in different European cities. Data models were built for each city, and these models are merged into a preliminary version of a generalized model. The need and uses for such a fare collection data model is explained.