Optimal bus fleet management strategy for emissions reduction

Transportation is a major cause for environmental degradation via exhaust emissions. For many transit-oriented metropolitan areas, bus trips often constitute a sizeable mode share. Managing the bus fleet, in particular updating buses to comply with the newer emissions standards, therefore, can have a substantial impact on transportation-induced air quality. This paper presents the approach of remaining life additional benefit–cost (RLABC) analysis for maximising the total net benefit by either early-retiring or retrofitting the current bus fleet within their lifespans. By referring to the net benefits for different bus types estimated by RLABC analysis, the most beneficial management scheme for the current bus fleet can be identified. Optimal bus fleet management (BFM) models based on the RLABC analysis for the operator and the government are developed. Then a government subsidy plan is produced to achieve win–win solutions, which will offer efficient and flexible management schemes. To illustrate the approach, the largest bus company in Hong Kong, which carries more than 23% of the total trips in Hong Kong, is taken as a case study example. Instead of adopting a fixed retirement plan, such as replacing buses at the age of 17 as is currently practised, the proposed method develops an optimal BFM scheme that progressively phases out buses or retrofits them. This study produces promising results to demonstrate the large benefit of this approach for optimal bus fleet management.     

城市轨道交通项目后评价体系研究

分析我国城市轨道交通项目后评价的研究现状,建立城市轨道交通项目后评价体系,包括过程后评价、效益和影响后评价、可持续性后评价和综合后评价四个部分,并详细介绍各部分内容。     

沥青混凝土路面预防性养护效益计算及参数

路面预养护效益分析是路面预养护技术的核心,是比选预养护方案和确定实施时机的前提。根据美国等路面预养护效益分析的经验,结合我国公路养护技术水平,对沥青混凝土路面预养护效益分析中的效益指标、效益计算基线和预养护时间范围展开了讨论;进而,提出我国现阶段沥青混凝土路面预养护分析中效益指标选用建议和它们计算下基线的参考值,以及预养护时间范围的控制指标和控制标准的建议值。     

公路隧道互补结合竖井送排的改进型混合通风方式研究

针对特长公路隧道常规分段纵向式通风系统运营费用昂贵的问题,提出采用双洞互补与竖井送排相结合的改进型混合通风方式。在理论分析的前提下给出换气横通道与竖井的合理结合方案,详细推导适用于超出常规双洞互补通风方式限制长度的隧道的改进型混合通风方式计算方法;通过比较传统分段通风方式和改进型混合通风方式的交通风与隧道结构利用效率,对改进型混合通风方案的经济效益进行工程实例分析。结果表明：改进型混合通风方式与常规分段纵向式通风方式相比,前者有效地提高了交通风的利用率,降低了由于交通风太过富余而对隧道通风产生的不利影响,同时减少了资源的浪费;在最不利的行车阻滞工况下,改进型混合通风方式需要通过竖井进行送排的风量之和由1 723.06 m³·s^-1降至804.62 m³·s^-1,降幅达53.3％,有效地减少了轴流风机的功率,降低了对竖井的设计要求;在隧道通风最不利工况下,射流风机的配机功率提高了84%,轴流风机配机功率降低了52.4%,虽然射流风机购置费用增加,但总配机功率仍然减少13.1%,极大地节省了运营费用;在土建方面,改进型混合通风方式增加了2个横风道,取消了部分送排联络通道,相互抵消,但竖井的规模减小,土建费用有所下降;改进型混合通风方式增加了2条排烟通道,解决了双洞互补通风方式中火灾排烟困难的问题。     

城市智能交通管理系统效益评价研究

为了更加科学、全面的反应智能交通管理系统建设项目效益,本文提出包括交通运行状况、交通管理效能、交通安全效益和社会经济效益四个维度的评价指标体系,同时,为了保证评价指标体系具有可操作性,引入相关度的概念来量化各项指标与智能交通管理系统各组成之间的相关程度。基于本文的研究成果,可为今后开展智能交通管理系统项目效益评价工作提供借鉴。     

轨道交通开发利益还原计算方法研究

在介绍以往研究内容的基础上,建立计算轨道交通开发对土地价值增长影响的模型,选取地块中心点离最近的轨道交通车站的距离和离最近的轨道交通换乘站的距离作为模型的自变量,土地价值增长大小作为模型的因变量,并根据已有的调查数据,建立新的地价函数关系模型。该方法提高了模型的适用性,并且能够获得更好的数据结果。     

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通过对ITS 投资项目的费用效益分析的系统研究，提出了建立ITS 投资项目费用效益分析的框架和技术流程的具体步骤，阐述了评价指标的计算方法、方案的可行性评价和方案选优等内容，研究了费用和效益的划分和估计方法. 另外，本文提出了不确定性分析的概念和方法，并对敏感性分析和概率分析进行了重点研究. 结合IDAS 软件，通过示例论述了上述方法的技术实现.     

Exploring active transportation investments and associated benefits for municipal budgets: a scoping review

Municipalities play an important role in the planning and development of communities that support active transportation (AT), which refers to human-powered modes of travel, such as walking and cycling. Municipal-level stakeholders involved in land-use and transportation infrastructure planning consider multiple social, environmental and economic considerations to inform decision-making and investments in AT. Evidence around the fiscal benefits of AT investment for local governments has not been systematically identified. This scoping review sought to explore the existing evidence regarding investments in AT and opportunities for savings on municipal expenditures and revenue generation. In total, 7060 records were located and screened; of which 162 full-text articles were reviewed. Ultimately, 23 articles met our inclusion criteria and were included in this review. The available evidence focuses on potential economic benefits of AT in the areas of tax revenues, property values, consumer spending and employment, all of which are relevant sources of revenue generation in municipal operating budgets. An evidence gap was identified regarding AT infrastructure investments and benefits corresponding to municipal expenditures (e.g. maintenance cost savings). Notably, a large portion of literature was published after 2009, suggesting that municipal-level evidence on the fiscal benefits of AT investments may just be emerging.     

自航耙吸式挖泥船艏吹施工工艺及效益分析

在黄骅港内航道、港池、泊位水域,采用自航耙吸式挖泥船艏吹施工工艺进行吹填施工,提高了效率,节约了成本,减少疏浚船舶施工与正常航行作业船舶之间的干扰,保证了进出港船舶正常运行。     

The role of volume-delay functions in forecasting and evaluating congestion charging schemes: the Stockholm case

This paper uses observations from before and during the Stockkholm congestion charging trial in order to validate and improve a transportation model for Stockholm. The model overestimates the impact of the charges on traffic volumes while at the same time it substantially underestimates the impact on travel times. These forecast errors lead to considerable underestimation of economic benefits which are dominated by travel time savings. The source of error lies in the static assignment that is used in the model. Making the volume-delay functions (VDFs) steeper only marginally improves the quality of forecast but strongly impacts the result of benefit calculations. We therefore conclude that the dynamic assignment is crucial for an informed decision on introducing measures aimed at relieving congestion. However, in the absence of such a calibrated dynamic model for a city, we recommend that at least a sensitivity analysis with respect to the slope of VDFs is performed.