提升交通试验检测质量措施探讨

文章结合行业发展实际,分析了当前交通试验检测机构普遍存在的问题,并从提升试验检测机构检测能力、提高服务水平和从业能力角度提出了相应的解决措施。     

橡胶粉改性沥青混合料对环境影响的研究

文章通过橡胶粉改性沥青混合料筑路材料对公路噪音和周围水环境的影响监测和试验,得到如下结论:橡胶粉改性沥青混合料能有效地降低噪音的产生;橡胶粉改性沥青混合料沥出液含有有毒物质,但土壤吸附、挥发作用等自然处理方法可消除这些有毒物质的毒性,从而降低橡胶粉改性沥青混合料沥出液对公路周围水环境的影响。     

百色-罗村口高速公路高填方路堤稳定性分析

文章结合广西百色-罗村口高速公路段高填路堤段路面出现20多处纵向直线形张开裂缝情况,分析路基稳定性及路面开裂形成机理,介绍利用边坡稳定分析计算软件以及圆弧滑动法对路基的稳定性进行计算的方法,并对路堤综合整治提出了相关的建议。     

特大桥施工测量精度浅析

文章以兰渝铁路嘉陵江双线特大桥为工程背景,在介绍施工测量平面控制网的基础上,阐述了桥梁施工测量放样的精度要求及具体控制措施,分析了测量误差产生的原因,并提出了相应的测量精度评定方法。     

U型桥台开裂原因分析及加固方案探讨

文章结合高速公路U型桥台开裂的典型工程实例,分析了U型桥台裂缝产生的原因,提出了相应的加固处治方案,并阐述了加固方案的实施要点与处治效果。     

基于Midas Civil的简易车桥耦合振动分析

文章以某40m预应力混凝土简支T梁为例,利用单轴车桥耦合振动数值模型及基于MidasCivil的简易车桥耦合振动模型对移动车辆荷载作用下的T梁结构动力响应情况进行计算分析。结果表明,基于MidasCivil的简易车桥耦合振动模型与数值模型的结构挠度峰值计算结果相差不大,可用于简单的车桥耦合振动分析。     

城市道路交叉口竖向设计方法及实例分析

文章介绍了道路平面交叉口竖向设计的原则和一般形式,阐述了常用的交叉口竖向设计方法及适用性,并结合工程设计实例,对比分析了两套拟定交叉口竖向设计方案的优缺点,得出最优方案,为今后城市道路交叉口竖向设计提供参考。     

Reliable sensor deployment for network traffic surveillance

New sensor technologies enable synthesis of disaggregated vehicle information from multiple locations. This paper proposes a reliable facility location model to optimize traffic surveillance benefit from synthesized sensor pairs (e.g., for travel time estimation) in addition to individual sensor flow coverage (e.g., for traffic volume statistics), while considering probabilistic sensor failures. Customized greedy and Lagrangian relaxation algorithms are proposed to solve this problem, and their performance is discussed. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms solve the problem efficiently. We also discuss managerial insights on how optimal sensor deployment and surveillance benefits vary with surveillance objective and system parameters (such as sensor failure probabilities).     

Increasing the capacity of signalized intersections with separate left turn phases

A separate turn phase is often used on the approach leg to an intersections with heavy left turns. This wastes capacity on the approach because some of its lanes cannot discharge during its green phases. The paper shows that the problem can be eliminated by reorganizing traffic on all the lanes upstream of an intersection using a mid-block pre-signal. If drivers behave deterministically, the capacity that can be achieved is the same as if there were no left turns. However, if the reorganization is too drastic, it may be counterintuitive to drivers. This can be remedied by reorganizing traffic on just some of the available lanes. It is shown that such partial reorganization still increases capacity significantly, even if drivers behave randomly and only one lane is reorganized. The paper shows how to optimize the design of a pre-signal system for a generic intersection. It also identifies both, the potential benefits of the proposed system for a broad class of intersections, and the domain of application where the benefits are most significant.     

A shockwave profile model for traffic flow on congested urban arterials

In this paper a new traffic flow model for congested arterial networks, named shockwave profile model (SPM), is presented. Taking advantage of the fact that traffic states within a congested link can be simplified as free-flow, saturated, and jammed conditions, SPM simulates traffic dynamics by analytically deriving the trajectories of four major shockwaves: queuing, discharge, departure, and compression waves. Unlike conventional macroscopic models, in which space is often discretized into small cells for numerical solutions, SPM treats each homogeneous road segment with constant capacity as a section; and the queuing dynamics within each section are described by tracing the shockwave fronts. SPM is particularly suitable for simulating traffic flow on congested signalized arterials especially with queue spillover problems, where the steady-state periodic pattern of queue build-up and dissipation process may break down. Depending on when and where spillover occurs along a signalized arterial, a large number of queuing patterns may be possible. Therefore it becomes difficult to apply the conventional approach directly to track shockwave fronts. To overcome this difficulty, a novel approach is proposed as part of the SPM, in which queue spillover is treated as either extending a red phase or creating new smaller cycles, so that the analytical solutions for tracing the shockwave fronts can be easily applied. Since only the essential features of arterial traffic flow, i.e., queue build-up and dissipation, are considered, SPM significantly reduces the computational load and improves the numerical efficiency. We further validated SPM using real-world traffic signal data collected from a major arterial in the Twin Cities. The results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the model. We expect that in the future this model can be applied in a number of real-time applications such as arterial performance prediction and signal optimization.