The Movingo integrated ticket: seamless connections across the mälardalen region of Sweden

ABSTRACT

The need for improved public transport (PT) ticketing in ever-growing deregulated PT markets has made well-designed integrated ticketing systems a priority area of intervention for PT service providers around the world. Yet, very little practical evidence of its impacts are reported in Sweden and in the world at large. The focus of this study was the impacts of the Movingo integrated ticketing scheme in terms of PT patronage, user satisfaction and the perceived quality of the ticketing set-up. Three travel surveys were conducted along the Stockholm-Uppsala route. Methods including logistic regression and correlated t-tests were used to analyse the samples. The findings suggest that the scheme made rail commuting more attractive resulting in an overall increase of about 24% in ticket sales with 3% – 15% car commuters reporting that they patronised PT services after the project. The scheme also resulted in increased rail commuter satisfaction. The overall perceived quality of the ticketing set-up did not however improve due to interoperability challenges. Service providers’ uncertainty about equitable distribution of revenue among the participating service providers, interoperability challenges and the lack of interest among most of the participating service providers to sell Movingo tickets are some issues to be addressed.     

铁路冷藏车不稳定传热反应系数法的研究与分析

由于铁路冷藏车在结构、运行环境等方面与普通建筑相比存在较大区别,故传热特性不同,反应系数差异大。使用反应系数法研究铁路冷藏车的不稳定传热过程,利用计算机辅助分析方法对冷藏车围护结构的不稳定传热进行数值计算,考察不同车速、不同方程根项数以及不同反应系数项数等对冷藏车负荷计算精度的影响。研究表明:冷藏车运行速度对整体计算精度影响不大,取200 km.h-1时的相关数值最佳;方程根值取至-25,车顶的反应系数项数取至第30项,车壁和车底的反应系数项数取至第15项,即可满足求解精度要求。     

日本高速铁路噪声预测方法

日本在设计、建设北陆新干线时采用的高速铁路噪声预测方法,是根据高速铁路噪声的特点,按车辆下部噪声、构筑物噪声、集电系噪声、车辆上部空气动力噪声分别计算后合成,预测受声点处的噪声级。该方法对我国高速铁路和客运专线铁路的噪声预测有一定参考价值。     

Organic carbon budget for the Gulf of Bothnia

We calculated input of organic carbon to the unproductive, brackish water basin of the Gulf of Bothnia from rivers, point sources and the atmosphere. We also calculated the net exchange of organic carbon between the Gulf of Bothnia and the adjacent marine system, the Baltic Proper. We compared the input with sinks for organic carbon; permanent incorporation in sediments and mineralization and subsequent evasion of CO₂ to the atmosphere. The major fluxes were riverine input (1500 Gg C year^− 1), exchange with the Baltic Proper (depending on which of several possible DOC concentration differences between the basins that was used in the calculation, the flux varied between an outflow of 466 and an input of 950 Gg C year^− 1), sediment burial (1100 Gg C year^− 1) and evasion to the atmosphere (3610 Gg C year^− 1). The largest single net flux was the emission of CO₂ to the atmosphere, mainly caused by bacterial mineralization of organic carbon. Input and output did not match in our budget which we ascribe uncertainties in the calculation of the exchange of organic carbon between the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Proper, and the fact that CO₂ emission, which in our calculation represented 1 year (2002) may have been overestimated in comparison with long-term means. We conclude that net heterotrophy of the Gulf of Bothnia was due to input of organic carbon from both the catchment and from the Baltic Proper and that the future degree of net heterotrophy will be sensible to both catchment export of organic carbon and to the ongoing eutrophication of the Baltic Proper.     

The association of the population recruitment of gulf menhaden, Brevoortia patronus, with Mississippi River discharge

Gulf menhaden, Brevoortia patronus, which constitutes a major industrial reduction fishery in the USA, spawn across the northern Gulf of Mexico with a focus of spawning about the Mississippi Delta. This species is estuarine dependent; adults spawn over the continental shelf and their larvae are transported, by mechanisms that are presently not well understood, to estuarine nursery areas. Larval gulf menhaden, along with some other surface oriented larval fishes, appear to aggregate along the Mississippi River plume front, while evidence of the ecological consequences of this aggregation in terms of the feeding, growth, and survival of larvae is ambiguous. On an annual scale, Mississippi River discharge is negatively associated with numbers of half year old recruits. Discharge of the Mississippi River and the population recruitment of gulf menhaden may be plausibly linked through the action of the river's plume and its front on the shoreward transport of larvae. Greater river discharge results in an expansive plume that might project larvae farther offshore and prolong the shoreward transport of larvae. An indirect, decadal scale, positive response of recruitment and river discharge is possible, but not certain. Recruitment became elevated after 1975 when river discharge increased and became highly variable. This response might owe to enhanced primary and secondary production driven by nutrient influx from the Mississippi River.     

200km/h客货共线单线隧道内接触网设计探讨

通过对遂渝线单线隧道内接触网悬挂的介绍,探讨了以新的设计方式进行速度200 km/h客货共线隧道内接触网平面设计的方法,并通过遂渝线情况的研究,对下一步的设计提出了建议。     

基于和谐理念的出租车客运系统发展研究

从行业管理角度出发。采用和谐理念．分析当前出租车客运系统的“负效应”。探讨其表现形式和成因。通过对目前出租车客运系统和谐状态的判断。指出相关的和谐要点和简单措施。     

提速干线编组站出发子系统内部匹配与协调关系

分析提速干线编组站货物列车到发时刻不均衡运营特征,根据编组站作业特点和要求,运用排队论和随机过程理论,对出发子系统转场和接车可靠性、临界密集出发时间进行计算分析。认为出发子系统允许的接车延误概率应控制在0.12以内;当区间通过能力利用率在繁忙时间达0.85以上时,出发场的到发线应在10股以上。提高出发子系统转场和接车可靠性的措施包括:提高无调比、适当增加出发场到发线数量、降低编组调车机车的作业负荷、减小出发时间间隔不均衡系数。给出一定出发强度下的临界密集发车时间计算式,便于指导运输组织工作。改善出发子系统匹配与协调关系的有效途径包括:合理配置列检组数、转线接车延误率控制在10%以内、密集到发期间区段通过能力利用率不能超过90%、降低衔接区间发车时间间隔变异系数、连续高密集发车时间不能超过临界发车时间、适当增加分类线及到发线数量、优化列车运行计划、平衡双向系统作业负荷、加强管理、优化运输组织。     

旅客列车发车时间域优化研究

在大量问卷调查的基础上,根据旅客对不同到发时间域选择的偏好,确定了各发车时间域旅客出行的方便系数。利用目标规划原理,以旅客出行方便程度最大为目标,构造了三级控制策略。在考虑客运站到发线能力,以及旅客列车必须在合理的时间域发车等约束条件下,建立旅客列车发车时间域的目标规划模型。利用该目标规划模型,可根据旅客列车实际运行的需要,通过变化控制策略和赋予各目标的优先因子,实现对列车发车时间域的优化。根据模型约束目标正负偏差变量,计算了各级控制策略实现程度系数。最后,以太原站始发旅客列车为实例,利用变换方案对该目标规划模型的运用进行了分析,并将目标规划优化结果和传统确定发车时间域的结果以及指派模型优化结果进行比较分析。     

Development and Deployment of Public Transport Policy and Planning in Taiwan

Over the past decade, the escalating roadway congestion and environmental deterioration due to heavy use of private vehicles have provoked the Taiwan government to realize the importance of public transport systems. Under the “carrot-and-stick” rationales, the government has formulated public transport policies and exercised a series of related initiatives by providing sufficient and higher quality of public transport services so as to attract more private vehicle users. In this paper, the planning philosophy and policy formulation of Taiwan’s public transport development are highlighted. The most important initiatives, including the Five-year Enhancement of Mass Transportation Program and the upgrading public transport schemes in the National Development Plan are examined. Based on previous experience and lessons, we point out the most challenging issues that the government will encounter. Suggestions for the future of public transport planning are also addressed.