Intermodal Transit System Coordination

In urban areas where transit demand is widely spread, passengers may be served by an intermodal transit system, consisting of a rail transit line (or a bus rapid transit route) and a number of feeder routes connecting at different transfer stations. In such a system, passengers may need one or more transfers to complete their journey. Therefore, scheduling vehicles operating in the system with special attention to reduce transfer time can contribute significantly to service quality improvements. Schedule synchronization may significantly reduce transfer delays at transfer stations where various routes interconnect. Since vehicle arrivals are stochastic, slack time allowances in vehicle schedules may be desirable to reduce the probability of missed connections. An objective total cost function, including supplier and user costs, is formulated for optimizing the coordination of a general intermodal transit network. A four-stage procedure is developed for determining the optimal coordination status among routes at every transfer station. Considering stochastic feeder vehicle arrivals at transfer stations, the slack times of coordinated routes are optimized, by balancing the savings from transfer delays and additional cost from slack delays and operating costs. The model thus developed is used to optimize the coordination of an intermodal transit network, while the impact of a range of factors on coordination (e.g., demand, standard deviation of vehicle arrival times, etc) is examined.     

Mathematical properties and constraints representation for bottom-up approaches to the evaluation of GHG mitigation policies

Bottom-up models, including MARKAL, MESSAGE and AIM, are widely used when analyzing the effect of greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement policies. These bottom-up models are mostly formulated as a linear programming (LP) optimization model to find both the minimal cost combination of abatement technologies and energy flows while satisfying demands. It is not unusual that the bottom-up modeling involves a great number of technical, industrial, socioeconomic and environmental constraints. Investigating representative constraints needed for analyzing GHG abatement policies, this study proposes how to implement these constraints in bottom-up modeling.     

Adapt-Traf: An adaptive multiagent road traffic management system based on hybrid ant-hierarchical fuzzy model

Usually, road networks are characterized by their great dynamics including different entities in interactions. This leads to more complex road traffic management. This paper proposes an adaptive multiagent system based on the ant colony behavior and the hierarchical fuzzy model. This system allows adjusting efficiently the road traffic according to the real-time changes in road networks by the integration of an adaptive vehicle route guidance system. The proposed system is implemented and simulated under a multiagent platform in order to discuss the improvement of the global road traffic quality in terms of time, fluidity and adaptivity.     

用模糊逻辑实现动力定位船舶的艏向寻优

由于各种环境因素随时间不断变化，船舶作为动力定位作业时，最优艏向也是不断变化的，所以艏向寻优是动力定位的关键技术之一，本文用模糊逻辑实现艏向寻优，其优点是，不依赖于环境要素的测量值和数学模型，寻优与控制相结合，反应快，准确程度高。     

辽宁省高速公路管理局收费中心系统改造分析

简要说明辽宁高速公路中心收费系统升级改造方向,结合辽宁高速公路收费系统现状,提出适合辽宁高速公路中心系统升级的解决方案.     

铁路旅客旅行换乘方案优选算法

为给铁路旅客选择合理的旅行方案提供参考,以旅行目标值与换乘目标值之和最小作为目标函数值,考虑旅客从起点站出发、最终到达终到站、在中转站进出平衡的约束条件,建立旅客旅行换乘方案选择问题的数学模型。分别给出旅行时间、换乘次数、票价、距离、到发时刻和综合指数6种目标权值的确定方法,提出最短路法和列车匹配法2种求解方法。最短路法是通过构造并简化旅客运输网络,求出网络上若干条次短路,再根据各条次短路上列车的接续,构造列车换乘方案网络图,根据该网络的目标权值确定最短路,得到最优换乘方案。列车匹配法是根据列车运行图信息直接搜索发、到站的接续列车集合,求其两列车对应的重合停车站,根据重合停车站集合的情况选择迭代步数,剔除显然不利方案,构成换乘方案,根据方案的权值进行比选,得到最优换乘方案。对2种算法均用C#编程实现,并用现有的全路客票数据进行检算。计算结果表明:2种算法均能得到最优换乘方案;列车匹配法所用计算时间比最短路法少160 ms。     

基于遗传算法的集装箱单箱三维装载优化问题

研究应用改进遗传算法优化铁路集装箱单箱三维装箱问题,达到充分利用集装箱装载质量或装载容积的目的。改进遗传算法中考虑货物放置方向、装载容积、装载质量及装载重心等约束条件,并结合方向及顺序约束采用巧妙的个体编码方法,结合装载容积、装载质量及重心约束构造合理的适应值函数。以16件货物装入20英尺箱为实例,应用改进遗传算法进行计算,计算结果为集装箱装载容积利用率为63 18%,并且可以缩短计算时间一半以上。     

PA6-280柴油机的变工况多目标配气正时优化计算

建立了柴油机废气涡轮前的燃气能量和燃油消耗率的综合评价函数，采用多目标优化的方法，对PA6-280柴油机的进排气正时进行了优化计算，分析了配气正时的调控对柴油机性能的影响。     

循环式燃油系统的仿真和优化

本又研究了一种适合劣质燃油（重油）的新型循环式燃油系统（一泵二嘴四阀），并建立了描述新型喷油器的四区模型，以及用于燃油分配器和新型喷油泵的仿真模型。仿真结果与试验结果较为吻合。本文还进行了不同功率点变型方案的仿真研究和结构参数的优化设计分析，以满足不同船舶的需要。     

Observations on colony formation by the cosmopolitan phytoplankton genus Phaeocystis

Few marine phytoplankton have heteromorphic life cycles and also often dominate the ecosystems in which they occur. The class Prymnesiophyceae contains a notable exception: the genus Phaeocystis includes three species that form gelatinous colonies but also occur within their ranges as solitary cells. Phaeocystis antarctica and P. pouchetii are exclusively high latitude taxa, and are notable for regionally tremendous blooms of the colony stage. P. globosa occurs circumglobally, yet its colony blooms primarily are confined to colder waters within its range. Three additional species are warm water forms that have been reported only as solitary cells or loose aggregations that bear little resemblance to the organized colonies of the other taxa. Interpretation of existing data indicates that resource availability (light, temperature and nutrients) by itself is not sufficient to explain this distinction between cold-water colony-forming taxa and warm water solitary cell taxa, nor why colony development in P. globosa is essentially a spatially restricted phenomenon within a much broader geographic range. Colony development by P. globosa in situ has been observed at temperatures ≥20 °C, but only rarely and generally under conditions of seasonally or anthropogenically elevated nutrient supply. Data presented here demonstrate colony development at 20–22 °C in natural plankton communities from oligotrophic waters that were pre-screened through 63 μm mesh (i.e. lacking mesozooplankton and large microzooplankton), but not in unscreened communities containing microzooplankton and >63 μm zooplankton. Reduction of colony proliferation at higher temperatures by mesozooplankton grazing remains as an intriguing possibility that is consistent with available evidence to help explain differences in latitudinal extent of in situ colony development. These data are interpreted within a theoretical framework regarding the potential advantages and disadvantages of the two life cycle stages.