An Exploration of the Relationship between Timing and Duration of Maintenance Activities

The timing and duration of an activity episode are two important temporal aspects of activity-travel behavior. Understanding the causal relationship between these two variables would be useful in the development of activity-based travel demand modeling systems. This paper investigates the relationship between these two variables by considering two different causal structures – one structure in which time-of-day choice is determined first and influences duration and a second structure in which activity duration is determined first and affects time-of-day choice. These two structures are estimated within a discrete-continuous simultaneous equations framework employing a full-information maximum likelihood methodology that allows error covariance. The estimation is performed separately for commuter and non-commuter samples drawn from a 1996 household travel survey data set from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. The results of the model estimation effort show that the causal structure in which activity duration precedes or affects activity timing (time of day choice) performs better for the non-commuter sample. For the commuter sample, the findings were less conclusive with both causal structures offering equally good statistical measures of fit. In addition, for the commuter sample, all error correlations were found to be zero. These two findings suggest that time of day choice and activity episode duration are only loosely related for the commuter sample, possibly due to the relatively non-discretionary and inflexible work activity and travel.     

Correlation between automotive CO, HC, NO, and PM emission factors from on-road remote sensing: implications for inspection and maintenance programs

Carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbon (HC), and nitrogen oxide (NO) emission factors (EFs) are measured with a commercial vehicle emissions remote sensing system (VERSS) during a large-scale vehicle exhaust emissions study in Las Vegas. Particulate matter (PM) EFs are simultaneously measured for individual vehicles with a newly developed PM-VERSS based on ultraviolet backscatter light detection and ranging (Lidar). The effectiveness of CO and HC EFs as proxy for NO and PM EFs for spark-ignition vehicles is evaluated. Poor correlations were found between EFs for pollutants on an individual vehicle basis indicating that high EFs for one or more pollutants cannot be used as a predictor of high EFs for other pollutants. Stronger functional relationships became evident after averaging the EF data in bins based on rank-order of a single pollutant EF. Low overlap between the highest 10% emitters for CO, HC, NO, and PM was found. These results imply that for an effective reduction of the four pollutants, inspection and maintenance (I/M) programs, including clean screening, should measure all four pollutants individually. Fleet average CO and HC concentrations determined by gaseous VERSS were compared with fleet average CO and HC concentrations measured at low-idle and at high-idle during local I/M tests for spark-ignition vehicles. The fleet average CO concentrations measured by I/M tests at either idle were about half of those measured by remote sensing. The fleet average high-idle HC concentration measured by I/M tests was about half of that measured by VERSS while low-idle I/M and VERSS HC average concentrations were in better agreement. For a typical vehicle trip, most of the fuel is burned during non-idle conditions. I/M measurements collected during idling conditions may not be a good indicator of a vehicle’s potential to be a high emitter. VERSS measurements, when the vehicle is under a load, should more effectively identify high emitting vehicles that have a large contribution to the mobile emissions inventory.     

Hub location with flow economies of scale

A characteristic feature of hub and spoke networks is the bundling of flows on the interhub links. This agglomeration of flows leads to reduced travel costs across the interhub links. Current models of hub location do not adequately model the scale economies of flow that accrue due to the agglomeration of flows. This paper shows that current hub location models, by assuming flow-independent costs, not only miscalculate total network cost, but may also erroneously select optimal hub locations and allocations. The model presented in this paper more explicitly models the scale economies that are generated on the interhub links and in doing so provides a more reliable model representation of the reality of hub and spoke networks.     

汽车半主动悬架的神经网络自适应控制

本文提出了用两个线性神经网络对汽车半主动悬架系统进行在线辨识和控制的策略，介绍了该控制系统中神经网络的在线训练方法，进行了仿真计算和结果分析。     

声强测量技术在摩托车噪声控制中的应用

本文介绍了声强测量技术在某１２５摩托车噪声控制中的应用，利用开发的ＣＥＣ声强测量分析系统对该摩托车进行噪声识别，快速，准确地找到其主要噪声源，通过有针对性地采取降噪措施，使该车行驶噪声显著降低。     

电控机械式自动变速器车辆坡上起步控制研究

电控机械式自动变速器车辆坡上起来的控制一直是一个难点。本文针对坡上起步辅助装置的应用，对起步阻力辩识和离合器工作过程进行了系统的研究，制定了坡上起步的最佳控制策略。     

汽车传动系统机械故障诊断方法的研究

本文针对汽车传动系统主要零部件的特点，研究了基于振动信号的故障诊断方法，包括特征提取、模式分类和诊断决策全过程。     

驾驶员动视力对交通安全的影响及检测系统的研究

本文就驾驶员动视力的好坏对行车安全的影响进行了探讨,重点分析了驾驶员事故群与无事故群动视力的差异的显著性,论述了检测驾驶员动视力的必要性。同时介绍了动视力检测仪的检测原理、仪器的结构及检测方法。该仪器可以自动地对各类人员进行动视力、动静视力和静视力的检测。     

汽车操纵动力学十八自由度模型仿真研究

本文介绍了根据多刚体动力学中的凯恩方法建立的一般两轴汽车的十八自由度数学模型。     

汽车轮胎结构非线性有限元分析

本文综述了轮胎力学的发展历史与现状，阐明了轮胎结构分析的几各主要方法、研究内容及其优缺点，并重点介绍了在子午三维非线性有限元结构分析方面的工作，包括轮胎的充气，竖直加载、稳态滚动、滚动阻力及温度场分析，给出了相应的算例。由于采用一些新的方法和技术，考虑了更真实的轮胎材料模型，结构和载荷，使得分析更为有效、精确，分析结果可作为轮胎的设计，试验与改进的依据。