From Twitter to detector: Real-time traffic incident detection using social media data

The effectiveness of traditional incident detection is often limited by sparse sensor coverage, and reporting incidents to emergency response systems is labor-intensive. We propose to mine tweet texts to extract incident information on both highways and arterials as an efficient and cost-effective alternative to existing data sources. This paper presents a methodology to crawl, process and filter tweets that are accessible by the public for free. Tweets are acquired from Twitter using the REST API in real time. The process of adaptive data acquisition establishes a dictionary of important keywords and their combinations that can imply traffic incidents (TI). A tweet is then mapped into a high dimensional binary vector in a feature space formed by the dictionary, and classified into either TI related or not. All the TI tweets are then geocoded to determine their locations, and further classified into one of the five incident categories.We apply the methodology in two regions, the Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Metropolitan Areas. Overall, mining tweets holds great potentials to complement existing traffic incident data in a very cheap way. A small sample of tweets acquired from the Twitter API cover most of the incidents reported in the existing data set, and additional incidents can be identified through analyzing tweets text. Twitter also provides ample additional information with a reasonable coverage on arterials. A tweet that is related to TI and geocodable accounts for approximately 5% of all the acquired tweets. Of those geocodable TI tweets, 60–70% are posted by influential users (IU), namely public Twitter accounts mostly owned by public agencies and media, while the rest is contributed by individual users. There is more incident information provided by Twitter on weekends than on weekdays. Within the same day, both individuals and IUs tend to report incidents more frequently during the day time than at night, especially during traffic peak hours. Individual tweets are more likely to report incidents near the center of a city, and the volume of information significantly decays outwards from the center.     

Geometric design safety estimation based on tire–road side friction

A closed-loop drive–vehicle–road–environment system (DVRES) model was established using Adams/Car and Matlab/Simulink. Dynamic responses of lateral tire forces based on tire–road side friction and road geometric characteristics are used to investigate vehicle side slip for geometric design safety estimation. The root mean square, the maximum values of lateral tire forces, comfort limit on curves and vehicle trajectories are used to quantify the safety margin of side friction. The simulation results show that the safety margins of lateral tire forces for radius, operating speed and superelevation rate were 18.2%, 19.3% and 17.6%, respectively, to guarantee good vehicle lateral reliability and ride comfort, while lower speeds are optimal in wet and slippery roads. Finally, a case study was conducted to illustrate the analysis of road design safety, and on-site experiment testing further validated the accuracy and reliability of the closed-loop DVRES model.     

连锁零售业库存／配送一体化决策优化模型与算法

针对在一个区域内拥有一个配送中心和n个在地理位置上分散的连锁分店的连锁零售业．建立VMI思想下适合于A类商品和一些重要的B类和C类商品的单一商品确定型需求的库存／配送一体化优化模型，并采用逐步迭代的方法对模型进行求解，可得出使系统在一定时期总成本最小的经济订购批量，最后用一个算例使连锁零售业库存，配送一体化决策在物流成本节约方面的优越性得以验证。     

语料记忆在英语教学中的价值辩护与实施策略

外语学习离不开记忆，记忆的形式有多种多样。本文从多角度为语料记忆作价值辩护，阐述它的实施策略及要注意的问题，旨在说明语料记忆是在外语学习环境下提高英语学习效率的重要途径。     

长江口新一代车客渡船的设计特点

介绍长江口新一代车客渡船的设计特点，包括：节能效果显著的非对称双尾鳍船型；富有个性的新颖船舶外观造型；以及既经济实用又能体现时代气息的舱室装潢设计。     

丰田卡罗拉轿车转向困难故障分析

本文主要介绍一部2012款卡罗拉电动转向系统(EPS)的构造,工作原理,分析该车出现转向困难,组合仪表上P/S警告灯亮起故障的原因,并提出解决故障的方法。     

浅谈车用油耗器测量电路的优化设计

车用油耗器设计中测量电路的设计是关键技术,重点介绍了分频技术和M/T测速技术的优点、原理和在设计中的应用方法。     

Fe—21Ni—4Mn合金磁场诱发马氏体形貌和惯习面

本文采用强脉冲磁场、光学显微镜和 H.R.Pak 等提出的惯习面确定方法研究了 Fc-21Ni-4Mn 合金中磁场诱发马氏体形貌和惯习面.结果表明,Fe-21Nj-4Mn 合金冷却形成板条马氏体,而在 Ms 温度以上,磁场诱发形成多片状而少板条马氏体,且随温度升高,磁场诱发马氏体形貌为蝶状.磁场诱发马氏体惯习面与冷却形成的马氏体相同,均为(225),对于蝶状马氏体发现了一种新的对称面(110).     

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。