Commuters’ behavior towards upgraded bus services in Greater Beirut: Implications for greenhouse gas emissions,social welfare and transport policy

Climate change is one of the most critical environmental challenges faced in the world today. The transportation sector alone contributes to 22% of carbon emissions, of which 80% are contributed by road transportation. In this paper we investigate the potential private car greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions reduction and social welfare gains resulting from upgrading the bus service in the Greater Beirut Area. To this end, a stated preference (SP) survey on mode switching from private car to bus was conducted in this area and analyzed by means of a mixed logit model. We then used the model outputs to simulate aggregate switching behavior in the study area and the attendant welfare and environmental gains and private car GHG emissions reductions under various alternative scenarios of bus service upgrade. We recommend a bundle of realistic bus service improvements in the short term that will result in a reasonable shift to buses and measurable reduction in private car emissions. We argue that such improvements will need to be comprehensive in scope and include both improvements in bus level of service attributes (access/egress time, headway, in-vehicle travel time, and number of transfers) and the provision of amenities, including air-conditioning and Wi-Fi. Moreover, such a service needs to be cheaply priced to achieve reasonably high levels of switching behavior. With a comprehensively overhauled bus service, one would expect that bus ridership would increase for commuting purposes at first, and once the habit for it is formed, for travel purposes other than commuting, hence dramatically broadening the scope of private car GHG emissions reduction. This said, this study demonstrates the limits of focused sectorial policies in targeting and reducing private car GHG emissions, and highlights the need for combining behavioral interventions with other measures, most notably technological innovations, in order for the contribution of this sector to GHG emissions mitigation to be sizable.     

重载铁路调度优化系统内部通信关键问题及算法研究

为研究重载铁路调度优化系统内部通信的关键问题,对调度优化系统内部通信结构和特点进行分析,得出影响通信的关键问题,通过对这些问题进行分析和建模,建立UDP和TCP相结合的总线式通信机制,从而保证系统内部通信的可靠性,满足调度优化系统内部通信的要求。     

基于多维信息特征分析的驾驶人认知负荷研究

准确评估驾驶人认知负荷水平，对于深入研究驾驶人行为特性，改善驾驶安全性具有重要意义。现有的驾驶人认知负荷分类方法，大多基于心电、脑电等生理信息和车辆信息，由于特征选择上的单一性，导致驾驶人认知负荷分类模型的分类精度不高。设计基于跟驰场景的不同认知负荷N-back次任务试验，通过采集受试者的生理信号和车辆信号，结合NASA_TLX主观评分和机器学习算法，提出了基于多维信息特征融合的驾驶人认知负荷分类方法。研究表明：基于生理信息和车辆信息的多维信息特征认知负荷分类方法，其精度显著高于传统的基于生理信息的认知负荷分类方法，以多维信息特征为输入，随机森林法以其稳定性好、抗过拟合能力强的特点，表现出优异的分类效果，相比神经网络和支持向量机，具有最高的平均分类精度。     

铁道车辆轴箱弹簧断裂故障对动力学性能的影响

车辆运行过程中,当轴箱弹簧突发断裂故障,会造成动力学状态和性能突变,一系悬挂刚度突然减小,暂时失去承载能力,会威胁车辆行车安全。结合整车的动力学仿真,建立了轴箱弹簧断裂过程的力学模型,对整个断裂过程进行仿真,模拟了轴箱弹簧突然断裂工况下车辆动力学性能变化,分析了轴箱弹簧断裂条件下车辆直线行车安全性以及曲线通过安全性。计算分析结果表明:轴箱弹簧突然断裂导致一系悬挂刚度剧变,引起轮轨垂向力先减小后增大,轮重减载率、脱轨系数等参数增大直至超限,但对轮轨横向力影响不大。     

某VAN客车空调各出风口出风量分析及优化

以某VAN客车顶置空调风道实体模型为分析对象,模拟了空调风道内部气流分布,分析了空调风道各出风口的风量分配。通过对客调出风口结构的优化,使空调风道各出风口的体积流量趋于均匀,各出风口体积流量标准差、空调风道压力损失有所降低,各项指标得到明显改善,优化效果显著。     

An assessment of the performance of the European long intermodal freight trains (LIFTS)

Intermodal rail/road freight transport has always been considered as a competitive alternative to its road freight counterpart in the European medium- to long-distance corridors (markets). Such consideration has been based on the increasing competitiveness of some innovative rail services and the existing and prospective performance of both modes in terms of the full social – internal or operational and external – costs. The most recent innovation of rail technologies and related services launched by some European railway companies, still at the conceptual level, is the Long Intermodal Freight Train (LIFT). This is supposed to be a block train operating in long-distance corridors (markets) with a substantial and regular freight demand.This paper develops analytical models for assessing the performance of the LIFTs, the already-operating Conventional Intermodal Freight Trains (CIFTs), and their road counterpart as well. The performance consists of the full – internal (private) and external – costs of the door-to-door delivery of loading units – containers, swap-bodies, and semi-trailers. The internal costs embrace the operational costs of the transport (rail and road) and intermodal terminal operators. The external costs include the costs of the impacts of door-to-door delivery of loading units on society and the environment. These negative externalities include noise, air pollution, traffic accidents, and congestion.The models are applied to a simplified version of intermodal and road transport system using inputs from the European freight transport sector. The aims are to compare the full costs of particular modalities in order to investigate the potential of the LIFTs as compared with the CIFTs in improving the internal efficiency of the rail freight sector and its competitiveness with respect to its road counterpart. In addition, the paper attempts to assess some effects on the potential modal shift of EU (European Union) transport policies on internalizing transport externalities.     

辊压成型设备在客车蒙皮制造中的应用

介绍几种不同结构的辊压成型设备及其在客车蒙皮制造中的应用，以满足客车不同部位蒙皮成型的要求。     

客车底盘纵梁数控冲孔生产线

简要介绍客车底盘纵梁数控冲孔生产线的发展历史与现状；着重介绍SPU12—32-4型汽车U型纵梁三面数控冲孔生产线和SPTB120—10型纵梁数控平板冲孔生产线的特点。     

CAN总线在ATP车载系统中的应用

本文介绍了CAN总线在ATP车载系统中的应用,在系统的仿真和调试过程中,事实证明,本系统采用的CAN通信网络实时性强,可靠性高,满足了系统对于通信网络的要求。     

基于法国规范的道路平面停车视距计算及研究

平面停车视距作为一项重要的平面设计指标,在法国标准下体现得更加复杂,设计精准度要求高,设计时容易忽略。为探究法国标准下道路平面停车视距的一般规律,消除设计时的易错点,文中以喀麦隆雅温得至杜阿拉高速公路项目为依托,采用法国规范中平面视距的计算方法,计算典型段落的停车视距真实值,并与法国规范的要求值进行对比分析,提出设计参考及建议。结果表明,平曲线半径R及行驶车辆观察点与曲线内侧遮挡物的距离e1、被观察点与曲线内侧遮挡物的距离e2,是影响平面视距的主要因素,设计时应严格控制。