Process Save Reduction by Macro Joint Approach: The Key to Real Time and Efficient Vehicle Simulation

Applying a non-linear model reduction method to the tire suspension system of road vehicles enables an automatic transfer of complex offline simulation vehicle models to a mathematical model, which fits the real time simulation requirements. The basic assumption, that high frequent inner suspension dynamics are not relevant to handling manoeuvres, converts the differential algebraic equation system (DAE) of suspensions with kinematical closed loops into pure elasto-kinematical linkage equations. The equations of motions can be represented as an ordinary differential equation system (ODE) and considerable simulation time reductions are obtained for the off-line simulation and real time simulation is enabled. This so-called macro joint approach is an alternative modelling method to the well-known look-up table representation of suspension kinematics but it keeps the parameterisation of the original suspension model and is suitable to parameterised real time MBS models. With a second step the dynamics, caused by compliance in the suspension bushings, are reduced to their quasi-static behaviour. The consideration of these quasi-elasticity has nearly no influence on the necessary simulation time. This contribution shows the theoretical background and demonstrates the advantage of the macro joint model reduction approach on a typical vehicle example.     

平地机安装自动找平系统的使用与校对

平地机被广泛应用于各种路面工程的平整及其它工程的改良施工中,介绍了平地机自动找平系统的组成、作用、控制,着重对系统的三大作用、校对时间作了说明.     

沥青混合料最大理论密度的计算

通过对矿质集料的物理状态及其在混合料中存在方式进行分析,探讨了沥青混合料最大理论密度计算中矿料密度的引用及其影响.     

冲击压实后旧水泥混凝土路面作为垫层及其回弹模量的试验研究

在提出冲击压实后旧水泥混凝土路面作为加铺结构层之一的设计思路的基础上，阐述实测回弹模量的重要性；通过对大量实测承载板数据进行分析，获得了实施冲击压实处理后旧水泥混凝土板及板下基层回弹模量的量值范围和变化规律，作为加铺层设计的计算参数，并用来评价其残余承载能力。     

信号交叉口摩托车与汽车混合交通流运行特性分析

摩托车出行在近期是我国中小城市居民的主要出行方式之一,因此摩托车、汽车混合交通流也是我国很多中小城市主要的机动车交通流形式。摩托车车流与汽车车流在道路上行驶的行为与特征上存在的差异较大。本文在对摩托车、汽车的混合交通流信号交叉口的实际调查基础上,将摩托车与汽车的相关数据分开进行统计分析,得到了较为符合实际的摩托车、汽车混合交通流在信号交叉口的特征,对交叉口的设计、提高信号交叉口的安全性和通行能力有重要的意义。     

基于可持续发展的城市客运交通方式分担率预测模型研究

可持续发展是人类21世纪的主题,因此在交通方式分担率预测时不仅要考虑需求,更要考虑社会经济、资源及环境。文章即基于这一思想提出了可持续发展的客运交通方式分担率宏观优化模型,在宏观控制的基础上,充分考虑影响城市客运交通结构的各因素,建立了基于距离曲线的城市客运交通方式分担率预测模型,并通过实例进行了分析验证。     

混凝土桥面沥青铺装层受力敏感性分析

针对混凝土桥面沥青铺装层,进行铺装层沥青混凝土的受力分析,包括铺装层的粘结层结构状态、水平作用力、温度、超载的敏感性分析。同时为了明确对铺装层沥青混凝土的性能要求,把铺装层的受力状态与普通路面结构的受力状态进行对比分析,分析结果表明粘结层结构状态、水平作用力、温度及超载对铺装层受力状态有显著影响,桥面铺装受力情况比路面面层结构不利,因此应提高桥面铺装沥青混凝土的性能,尤其是沥青混凝土的抗疲劳性。     

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.