Automated tuning of ITS management and control systems: Results from real-life experiments

The design and deployment of the majority of Management and Control Systems (MCS) for ITS involves a tedious, effort- and time-consuming manual tuning and calibration procedure not only during the initial design and deployment of the ITS but, in most cases, during its whole lifetime. Recently, we have developed and evaluated, both by means of theoretical analysis and extensive simulation experiments, a new methodology which fully automatically takes over the manual tuning and calibration procedure. Most importantly, this new methodology, called Adaptive Fine-Tuning (AFT), achieves to improve the performance of the system and compensate the effect of the continuous changes of its behavior that may be due to either internal or external factors. In this paper, we report results of implementing AFT to a real-life ITS MCS. More precisely, this paper reports and analyzes the results from implementing AFT to an urban traffic signal control application. The results from AFT real-life application demonstrate that it is capable of significantly improving the performance of the system in a safe and robust manner. Moreover, the real-life results exhibit the capability of AFT to efficiently adapt and compensate in cases of changes in the system behavior, even if these changes are significant.     

清洁汽车--未来中国城市车辆发展的方向

本文着重介绍了燃气汽车近3年来在中国的发展及取得的成果,并从能源结构调整和环保两大意义上阐述了发展燃气汽车的必要性和重要性,并就未来燃气汽车的发展做了展望。     

大学生财商教育问题探析

文章分析了国内外财商教育现状,阐述了财商的内涵及财商教育的原则,并从观念、知识、行为等三个层面提出了开展大学生财商教育的方法,具有一定的指导意义。     

国内外钣金与涂装创新创业现状分析

钣金与涂装是汽车售后市场的重要组成部分,为了解国内外钣金与涂装创新创业现状,文章采用问卷调查、实地考察、文献研究等方法进行了研究,分析得出以下结论:钣金与涂装设备产品更加环保、便利,工艺更加安全、高效,生产管理更加智能化、数据化,生产三废处理更加绿色环保,从业人员在工作中自制设备工具使操作变得更简易。通过对钣金与涂装行业创业的调查,发现汽车钣喷快修连锁化发展迅速,用户忠诚度、满意度稳中有升;钣喷维修小店机遇与挑战并存,在售后维修市场夹缝中求生存;技工院校钣喷创新创业教育已逐步展开。     

中外地铁安全对比分析

对国际重大地铁事故进行简单统计分析,指出造成地铁安全事故风险的主要原因。在此基础上,对地铁运营安全风险管理的特点和定义进行探讨,并进一步介绍国内外大型城市地铁运营的典型风险管理体系,探讨地铁运营过程中的风险管理特点及现状,对比分析国内外地铁运营管理体系的异同点。指出目前国内地铁运营风险管理中存在的主要问题,并针对其中问题提出具体的建议性措施。     

生成语法与认知语法之比较

生成语法和认知语法都反对行为主义的语言观,充分认识到认知与语言密切相关,但二者还是有很大的差异.文章从哲学和心理学基础、语言共性论、语言研究的途径以及语义的地位等四方面将生成语法与认知语法进行了比较.     

基于认知策略的听力教学

本文从认知语言学理论的角度出发，分析了听力理解的过程以及在这一过程中的信息处理模式，并以此为理论依据，指出了听力教学中运用认知策略的重要性并具体阐述了三种认知策略在听力理解中所起的重要作用。     

乌鲁木齐市综合交通现状与未来发展趋势浅析

对乌鲁木齐市综合交通现状进行了基础调查分析,在此基础上探讨了城市交通未来的发展方向与趋势,以期为未来乌鲁木齐城市综合交通系统的发展提供参考。     

Mind the map! The impact of transit maps on path choice in public transit

This paper investigates the impact of schematic transit maps on passengers’ travel decisions. It does two things: First, it proposes an analysis framework that defines four types of information delivered from a transit map: distortion, restoration, codification, and cognition. It then considers the potential impact of this information on three types of travel decisions: location, mode, and path choices.¹ Second, it conducts an empirical analysis to explore the impact of the famous London tube map on passengers’ path choice in the London Underground (LUL). Using data collected by LUL from 1998 to 2005, the paper develops a path choice model and compares the influence between the distorted tube map (map distance) and reality (travel time) on passengers’ path choice behavior. Results show that the elasticity of the map distance is twice that of the travel time, which suggests that passengers often trust the tube map more than their own travel experience on deciding the “best” travel path. This is true even for the most experienced passengers using the system. The codification of transfer connections on the tube map, either as a simple dot or as an extended link, could affect passengers’ transfer decisions. The implications to transit operation and planning, such as trip assignments, overcrowding mitigation, and the deployment of Advanced Transit Information System (ATIS), are also discussed.