数据流深入解析（下）

本文的上篇是从讨论发动机熄火时‰的OBDII的数据流作为开场序曲的。接下来,我们就要进一步探讨数据流在发动机运转期间的情况。     

Efficiency of routing and scheduling system for small and medium size enterprises utilizing vehicle location data

The routing and scheduling for trucks and vans in an urban road network depends critically on the state of the road network. Trucks and vans impose significant costs on other road users and the environment, so improved routing and scheduling benefits more than just the logistics industry. However, small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) in the logistics business cannot justify investment in planning systems. In this paper, an autonomous routing and scheduling system which is available to SMEs is proposed and the efficiency of the system is investigated. The proposed system accumulates vehicle location data in a central server and uses it to generate traffic information. Test simulations using a grid network demonstrate the effects of utilizing and sharing vehicle location data on delivery efficiency. The simulation results show that the improvement of delivery efficiency is mainly due to the reduction of penalty cost for early and late arrival at the customer location. It is also shown that the system leads to the buffer effect from variations in traffic conditions on delivery cost and this effect is enhanced by taking travel time uncertainty into consideration. It is further shown that the presence of measurement periods with insufficient data results in unreliable routing and scheduling. For a reliable system, data collection over a wider area is required rather than dense data in a subset of links.     

快速诊断电路故障的技巧

本文所述的修理方法可以最大限度地利用电路图，并能迅速，准确地找出断路．短路以及有故障的元器件。[编者按]     

Modeling the bilateral micro‐searching behavior for urban taxi services using the absorbing markov chain approach

This paper develops a mathematical model that is based on the absorbing Markov chain approach to describe taxi movements, taking into account the stochastic searching processes of taxis in a network. The local searching behavior of taxis is specified by a logit form, and the O‐D demand of passengers is estimated as a logit model with a choice of taxi meeting point. The relationship between customer and taxi waiting times is modeled by a double‐ended queuing system. The problem is solved with a set of non‐linear equations, and some interesting results are presented. The research provides a novel and potentially useful formulation for describing the urban taxi services in a network.     

Simple algorithms for minimizing the sum of linear shipment costs and convex port costs

Several methods are discussed for minimizing the sum of linear collection/distribution costs from/to a number of zones, and non-linear costs at processing ports. The non-optimality and computational implications of approximating non-linear cost functions for use with the linear programming technique are discussed. A simple graphical technique is presented and two computational algorithms are developed which make use of the special structure of the problem. The algorithms are illustrated using a simple example. Both algorithms converge to global optima. One is more suitable for hand calculation and the other is easier to program, but both are easily programmed and are computationally efficient.     

Latent Supportive Utility of Irrelevant Attributes in Feature Selection

This paper proposed a novel feature selection method LUIFS (latent utility of irrelevant feature selection) that not only selects the relevant features, but also targets at discovering the latent useful irrelevant attributes by measuring their supportive importance to other attributes. The method minimizes the information lost and simultaneously maximizes the final classification accuracy. The classification error rates of the LUIFS method on 16 real-life datasets from UCI machine learning repository were evaluated using the ID3, Nave-Bayes, and IB (instance-based classifier) learning algorithms, respectively; and compared with those of the same algorithms with no feature selection (NoFS), feature subset selection (FSS), and correlation-based feature selection (CFS). The empirical results demonstrate that the LUIFS can improve the performance of learning algorithms by taking the latent relevance for irrelevant attributes into consideration, and hence including those potentially important attributes into the optimal feature subset for classification.     

Instrumented city database analysts using multi-agents

The Instrumented City (iC) database is a multi-purpose, transport-related database facility for use by the entire academic transport research community. Data from the UK Leicester City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council Traffic Management Computers is logged and archived on a continuous basis, by the Leeds University’s Institute for Transport Studies. Since its inception in 1992, the iC database has been used for various real-time applications such as air quality and noise monitoring, modelling and forecasting. This paper describes the framework that demonstrates the feasibility of using multi-agents as information analysts to process and manage the iC database. The agents are adaptive, interactive and personal. They can be trained via the interactions with the users to be personalised for individual preferences. These agents are designed to be responsible for (1) data clean-up to remove outliers; (2) missing data substitutions; (3) statistical data analysis; (4) data mining to enhance the understanding of the relationships between traffic and air quality, noise and health; and (5) knowledge discovery by identifying unknown but potentially important patterns.     

数据流深入解析（上）

由于发动机故障导致指示灯被点亮,在对这类问题进行诊断时,一定要在熄灭指示灯前读取和记录冻结数据。因为一旦清除了故障代码,再想读取和记录就太迟了．冻结数据将会丢失。     

Office location — city or suburbs?

Suburban offices constitute a growing proportion of the metropolitan office stock in Melbourne. The relocation of around 1700 Coles Myer employees from the Central Business District to Tooronga, 8.5 km south east from the GPO, is an example of office decentralisation. A study of the resultant impacts arising from the relocation has been conducted utilising a before-the-move and after-the-move survey of Coles Myer employees. Both surveys generated response rates in excess of 60%. Office relocation can have various short and long term impacts on employees and will influence decisions relating to residential location, car ownership and the resultant travel and activity patterns. It is not until these impacts are quantified that planners can gain acceptance for strategies designed to minimise the negative impacts associated with dispersed employment opportunities.This paper discuses the suburbanisation of office employment in Melbourne and studies the travel related effect on the employees, whose headoffice is relocated from the CAD to a suburban location. One of the great challenges for transport in the 90's will be the successful management of office location and the resultant impacts on travel.Abbreviations CAD Central Activities District; the CAD is defined as a slightly larger area than that previously referred to as the Central Business District (CBD)     

Do new sources of traffic data make the application of Chaos Theory to traffic management a realistic possibility?

Current signal systems for managing road traffic in many urban areas around the world lack a coordinated approach to detecting the spatial and temporal evolution of congestion across control regions within city networks. This severely inhibits these systems’ ability to detect reliably, on a strategic level, the onset of congestion and implement effective preventative action. As traffic is a time-dependent and non-linear system, Chaos Theory is a prime candidate for application to Urban Traffic Control (UTC) to improve congestion and pollution management. Previous applications have been restricted to relatively uncomplicated motorway and inter-urban networks, arguably where the associated problems of congestion and vehicle emissions are less severe, due to a general unavailability of high-resolution temporal and spatial data that preserve the variability in short-term traffic patterns required for Chaos Theory to work to its full potential. This paper argues that this restriction can now be overcome due to the emergence of new sources of high-resolution data and large data storage capabilities. Consequently, this opens up the real possibility for a new generation of UTC systems that are better able to detect the dynamic states of traffic and therefore more effectively prevent the onset of traffic congestion in urban areas worldwide.