Applying the Value-Belief-Norm Theory to Marine Contexts: Implications for Encouraging Pro-Environmental Behavior

Encouraging pro-environmental behavior among protected area visitors and other stakeholders has become a priority for marine resource managers. However, there exists a lack of understanding of the human dimensions of resource management regarding the perceptions and attitudes of stakeholders. Using the value-belief-norm theory of environmentalism (VBN) as a framework, the purposes of this investigation were to: 1) test a model of variables that influence stakeholders' intentions to adopt pro-environmental behavior in two marine protected areas (i.e., the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary); and 2) using the relevant literature and information gleaned from the model, suggest techniques that managers can use to encourage pro-environmental intentions. Acceptable goodness-of-fit indices for both of the structural equation models (one for each protected area) provided empirical support for the usefulness of the VBN framework to guide both research in marine contexts and marine protected area management efforts to encourage stakeholders' intentions to engage in pro-environmental behavior. Specific suggestions include increasing stakeholders. knowledge about impacts via environmental education strategies, increasing their awareness of their impacts and their efficacy in mitigating those impacts (e.g., workshops), and developing interpersonal relationships among managers and stakeholders (e.g., implementation intention and follow-up strategies).     

Modeling lane-changing behavior in a connected environment: A game theory approach

Vehicle-to-Vehicle communications provide the opportunity to create an internet of cars through the recent advances in communication technologies, processing power, and sensing technologies. A connected vehicle receives real-time information from surrounding vehicles; such information can improve drivers’ awareness about their surrounding traffic condition and lead to safer and more efficient driving maneuvers. Lane-changing behavior, as one of the most challenging driving maneuvers to understand and to predict, and a major source of congestion and collisions, can benefit from this additional information. This paper presents a lane-changing model based on a game-theoretical approach that endogenously accounts for the flow of information in a connected vehicular environment. A calibration approach based on the method of simulated moments is presented and a simplified version of the proposed framework is calibrated against NGSIM data. The prediction capability of the simplified model is validated. It is concluded the presented framework is capable of predicting lane-changing behavior with limitations that still need to be addressed. Finally, a simulation framework based on the fictitious play is proposed. The simulation results revealed that the presented lane-changing model provides a greater level of realism than a basic gap-acceptance model.     

Active or passive? Sustainable manufacturing in the direct-channel green supply chain: A perspective of two types of green product designs

This paper considers a supply chain in which a manufacturer produces and sells two types of green products in its direct channel under government interventions aiming to improve social welfare. There is a Stackelberg game between the two stakeholders. Our research derives the closed form solutions to the optimal tax, green degree and price for the products, and obtains the strategies for government and manufacturer under different environmental policies. By considering six scenarios, our models obtain the best choice from the comparison between the two cases in which the manufacturer determines its product green degree actively or accepts the green standard set by the government passively. Then, we conduct some sensitivity analyses and explore the scenario in which there is competition between green products and non-green products. The results of this research indicate that the government setting the product green standard and providing the manufacturer with a subsidy is significant.     

地铁车站票务设备节能优化研究

为解决城市轨道交通车站售票能力冗余导致城市电力资源及地铁公司运营成本闲置的问题,分析普通车站日常客流分布,综合考虑地铁车站售票设备成本和乘客的时间成本因素,建立地铁车站售票设备开启数量优化模型,同时通过排队论和Lingo软件进行计算,获得最优化的地铁车站售票设备开启数量。以郑州地铁农业南路站的日常客流为例,应用地铁车站售票设备开启数量优化模型,计算得到农业南路站售票设备优化方案,通过优化方案进行节能成果分析证明,该方案可有效节约城市电力资源及地铁公司运营成本。     

基于规范载荷的舰船设计海况等级确定方法

针对军用规范载荷难以给出舰船设计海况等级的问题,本文通过三维时域非线性水弹性理论分析了舰船在典型航速、不同海况下的波浪载荷极值与规范载荷之间的对应关系,进而提出了一种明确舰船设计海况等级的方法。以某型舰船为例,基于该方法确定了该型舰船的设计海况等级。研究成果表明：该方法可有效明确舰船规范载荷对应下的设计海况等级,在一定程度上为舰船的安全使用提供参考。     

IMO船载航行数据记录仪性能标准简介

船载航行数据记录仪(VDR)是以一种可靠和可恢复的方式,保持船舶在事故前后一段时间,与船舶位置、运动状态、指挥和控制相关信息储存的仪器。IMO对VDR和S-VDR(船载简化的航行数据记录仪)性能标准通过了4项决议,文中简要介绍了经修订的VDR性能标准的"目的"和"定义",VDR的"运行要求",包括"最终记录介质"、"数据选择和安全性"以及"运行连续性"等,特别是列出了MSC.333(90)中要求的20个"应记录的数据项"。本文还对VDR的"运行"和"接口连接"以及"调查机构所使用的下载和回放设备"作了简述。     

泥沙模型的粒径相似比尺问题

运用相似理论对泥沙模型的粒径比尺进行了分析,提出了推移质、悬移质和全沙模型泥沙粒径相似条件;给出了包括细沙在内的泥沙起动粒径比尺的统一计算式和适用不同流区的悬沙粒径比尺的统一计算式;指出模型砂的起动流速不等于模型的起动流速,需进行比尺效应修正。     

船舶安全管理决策的多目标信息效用模型研究

根据船舶安全管理决策的复杂性,运用多目标效用理论,构建了船舶安全管理决策的多目标信息效用模型,并以船舶适航性和经济效益为目标,对所建立的模型进行验证,表明其科学性和合理性。该模型的建立对于理顺安全管理决策多目标之间的关系,实现船舶安全管理决策的科学化,具有十分重要的现实意义。     

RMFC模型在新型拼接式海上栈桥码头三维运动响应计算中的应用

将刚性模块柔性连接器模型(RMFC)应用于拼接式海上栈桥码头的三维运动响应计算,柔性连接器被假定为线性弹簧,采用有限水深三维势流理论计算水动力,重点分析了6种浪向的改变对栈桥码头三维运动响应的影响,并将谱分析结果与实验结果进行了比较.结果表明本文提出的计算模型能够很好地反映拼接式海上栈桥码头的三维运动响应情况,其结果可以作为设计连接器及锚链的依据.