Privacy protection method for fine-grained urban traffic modeling using mobile sensors

With the ubiquitous nature of mobile sensing technologies, privacy issues are becoming increasingly important, and need to be carefully addressed. Data needs for transportation modeling and privacy protection should be deliberately balanced for different applications. This paper focuses on developing privacy mechanisms that would simultaneously satisfy privacy protection and data needs for fine-grained urban traffic modeling applications using mobile sensors. To accomplish this, a virtual trip lines (VTLs) zone-based system and related filtering approaches are developed. Traffic-knowledge-based adversary models are proposed and tested to evaluate the effectiveness of such a privacy protection system by making privacy attacks. The results show that in addition to ensuring an acceptable level of privacy, the released datasets from the privacy-enhancing system can also be applied to urban traffic modeling with satisfactory results. Albeit application-specific, such a “Privacy-by-Design” approach would hopefully shed some light on other transportation applications using mobile sensors.     

鱼雷主动声引信仿真试验技术探讨

首先介绍了鱼雷主动声引信的工作原理和仿真试验方法;然后给出了仿真试验系统组成、工作原理、系统各部分的硬件设计以及仿真试验流程;构建了一个软硬件结合的仿真试验系统。     

Short-term forecasting of high-speed rail demand: A hybrid approach combining ensemble empirical mode decomposition and gray support vector machine with real-world applications in China

Short-term forecasting of high-speed rail (HSR) passenger flow provides daily ridership estimates that account for day-to-day demand variations in the near future (e.g., next week, next month). It is one of the most critical tasks in high-speed passenger rail planning, operational decision-making and dynamic operation adjustment. An accurate short-term HSR demand prediction provides a basis for effective rail revenue management. In this paper, a hybrid short-term demand forecasting approach is developed by combining the ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and grey support vector machine (GSVM) models. There are three steps in this hybrid forecasting approach: (i) decompose short-term passenger flow data with noises into a number of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) and a trend term; (ii) predict each IMF using GSVM calibrated by the particle swarm optimization (PSO); (iii) reconstruct the refined IMF components to produce the final predicted daily HSR passenger flow, where the PSO is also applied to achieve the optimal refactoring combination. This innovative hybrid approach is demonstrated with three typical origin–destination pairs along the Wuhan-Guangzhou HSR in China. Mean absolute percentage errors of the EEMD-GSVM predictions using testing sets are 6.7%, 5.1% and 6.5%, respectively, which are much lower than those of two existing forecasting approaches (support vector machine and autoregressive integrated moving average). Application results indicate that the proposed hybrid forecasting approach performs well in terms of prediction accuracy and is especially suitable for short-term HSR passenger flow forecasting.     

波浪模型试验应当注意的一些问题

根据实践经验,按照波浪物理模型试验要求、工作大纲、试验条件、制作模型、试验过程和报告编写等环节,总结了容易疏忽的问题,并给出了解决这些问题的方法和建议,以促进模型试验成果的科学性和可靠性,提高工作效率,避免不必要地失误。可供从事此项工作人员特别是经验不多的年轻人借鉴和参考。     

基于元胞理论的船厂码头移泊作业问题算法

为了解决大规模船厂的码头移泊作业问题，基于船舶移动路径具有过程演进的特性，建立了码头移泊作业问题的元胞数学模型。按照问题元胞模型的演进特性和演变规则，采用蚁群智能算法来对模型进行求解，并论证了该算法的收敛性。通过实例计算，其结果与船厂实际操作安排进行比较和分析，验证了该算法的有效性和优越性。     

Evolving competition between Hong Kong and Shenzhen ports

Shenzhen Port (SZP), once a negligible local port, has risen dramatically to a world-leading container port and an “equal” player with Hong Kong Port (HKP). Will this market share reallocation continue, or will equilibrium be eventually realized for HKP to prosper continuously? We examine the relationship between these two ports to answer this question. We propose a new transformation method to describe the growth of container cargo transport demand, define the quantitative measures of the competition relationship and port competitiveness, and present a rigorous analytical framework with econometric tests and models to understand the true relationship between HKP and SZP. Direct empirical tests suggest that SZP complements HKP; however, the two ports exhibit strong competition when the effect of demand growth is excluded. Considering transshipment separately, we find that the impact of SZP on HKP is negative in transshipment but complementary in direct shipment. We may conclude that HKP does not affect SZP, whereas SZP has competitive power over HKP. These results are consistent with the findings of some previous theoretical studies.     

基于GRNN的GSM-R场强覆盖预测算法

在比较Hata模型修正方法和GRNN算法场强覆盖预测效果的基础上,仿真分析了训练集构成和平滑因子选择对GRNN算法预测效果的影响,给出了训练集构成和平滑因子选择的方法;提出了电波传播环境相似系数来表征GRNN模型在不同环境下的适用性。仿真结果表明,两种传播环境的相似系数越大,由一种环境下测试数据确定的GRNN在另一环境下的预测精度越高。     

Asymmetric response model for evaluating airline service quality: An empirical study in cross-strait direct flights

In this paper we propose a framework to investigate service quality asymmetrically. An asymmetric response model within structural equation framework is developed to study the relationship between service quality and the passenger’s behavioral intention in the cross-strait direct flight (Taiwan–Shanghai). The results reveal that service quality in the loss region has more impact on behavioral intention than service quality in the gain region. Hence, attention should be paid to the service quality of important attributes in the loss region and strategies should ensure service quality of those important attributes that meet passenger’s expectations.     

公路平面信号交叉口左转车道长度设计

平面交叉口作为道路系统的一个重要组成部分,其服务水平的好坏对整个道路系统的安全和效率有着重要的影响。因为来自不同方向的车流在此处合流、分流和交叉,其中频繁的左转车辆阻碍直行车流的行驶,降低了交叉口的通行能力,增加了交叉口的延误,并增大交通事故率。如果合理设置左转车道能够有效地将左转车辆从直行车流中分离出来,减小车流速度方差,并降低追尾事故的发生;而左转车道,长度的设计是设置左转车道的关键元素,本文主要是针对信号交叉口选取适当的设计指标建立模型,并通过TSIS软件进行仿真分析,得出专用左转相位下的左转车道排队长度,进而计算出左转车道的设计长度。     

南宁市交通管理和控制系统优化方案分析工具的建立

交通仿真是采用计算机数字模型来反映复杂的交通现象,对交通运动随时间和空间的变化进行跟踪描述和分析。不同精度的交通仿真模型有不同的优缺点,要客观的评估城市的交通管理和控制系统优化措施,应将不同精度的模型配合,作为分析工具。本次研究采用中宏观的SATURN作为主导模型,对南宁市的宏观的交通进行整体分析,以及对不同交通改善方案进行评估。选用TSIS、SYNCHRO交通仿真软件作为辅助的交通分析工具,对局部地区的交通及信号配时作较为具体的分析,以利于本研究针对各种建议方案进行客观性的整合分析与应用。