The impacts of changing flight demands and throughput performance on airport delays through the Great Recession

Several significant events between 2007 and 2009 impacted flight demands and the abilities of the three major New York area airports to handle demand. This paper assesses the results of applying a probabilistic simulation method – which isolates the individual contributions of changes in flight demand and changes in airport throughput performance to changes in flight delays – to diagnose how these different events may have caused operational changes at these airports, and in turn, how the results may be used to inform policies for appropriate countermeasures. The analysis revealed two key observations. Firstly, certain patterns in throughput performance shifts caused the most significant delays, and were more likely to have been caused by controller staffing issues rather than caps. Secondly, relatively constant average delays from one year to the next may result from significant demand drops accompanied by large throughput performance degradations at an airport. This suggests that not only operational limitations on capacity encourage airlines to reduce schedules, but that changed demands can also impact throughput performance. Overall, the analysis indicates that caps may not have provided their fully intended delay benefits. Although they successfully reduced overall flight demands at LGA and JFK, they also directly limited throughput performance at critical times, in turn limiting delay benefits. In addition, demands at the busiest times of the day appear to be relatively inelastic to these operational limitations, insofar as demand profiles at EWR and JFK remained “peaky” in 2008 and 2009. Also, the recession was largely responsible for reducing demands at the airports in 2009, but the delay benefits of this were dampened by a corresponding throughput performance degradation. Based on the above observations, a more direct demand management policy combined with policies that focus on maintaining high staffing capabilities at critical times of the day may be considered, to reduce the likelihood of major queue formation on days that do experience sustained demands. The results also suggest that a more flexible caps system, particularly during times of heavy queues, could be explored. Although airport practitioners have keen understandings of how their airports operate, without the support of quantitative analysis tools, it can be more difficult to argue the need for appropriate countermeasures. An analysis such as the one presented here can provide the detailed quantitative substantiation required to build cases for these targeted policy directives and infrastructure investments.     

Logistic performance evaluation of provinces in Turkey: A GIS-based multi-criteria decision analysis

Logistics performance evaluation of provinces is considered in this study. To do so, a three-step solution approach is developed: (i) determination of 16 geographic and economic indicators, (ii) using geographic information system to assign a logistics score and (iii) prioritizing the indicators and ranking the provinces using multi-criteria decision analysis tools. Proposed methodology is applied to 81 provinces in Turkey as a case study. Results show that the provinces of Istanbul, Izmir, and Hatay are the pioneers. The proposed methodology provides the ability to analyze the impacts of indicators on logistics performance and create a logistics performance map of countries.     

融合可持续理念的交通规划方案比选方法——以亚特兰大大都市区为例

越来越多的机构开始为交通系统的可持续发展定义,并试图将这一概念融入区域交通规划过程.然而,只有极少数的区域规划机构意识到了交通系统和土地利用变化给经济、环境和社会生活质量(这三者通常被认为是可持续交通系统的三个基本方面)带来的广泛影响.首先,论述了使用多个可持续发展指标的多准则决策方法,并应用其评估亚特兰大大都市区的三...     

纯电动汽车动力电池降温性能研究

为了更好地优化纯电动汽车动力电池系统的加热策略,以磷酸铁锂电池包为研究对象,测试其在3种不同环境温度下的电池降温性能,结合实际环境的影响,建立电池降温速率计算模型并通过测试验证。     

风力机叶片翼型气动特性数值模拟

针对NACA63-215翼型绕流流动建立了二维可压缩湍流模型,利用商业软件NU-MECA进行了相应的数值模拟计算.湍流粘度分别采用基于RANS的Spalart-Allmaras和Baldwin-Lomax两种湍流模型来处理,得出了雷诺数为3×106时,翼型NACA63-215的升力系数和阻力系数随来流攻角的变化关系及压力分布图,并与试验数据进行对比.研究结果表明:Spalart-All-maras湍流模型比Baldwin-Lomax湍流模型在预测翼型失速后气动性能方面更加有效,Spalart-Allmaras湍流模型在大攻角下较易收敛且计算出的翼型气动性能与试验值更接近.     

土-结构相互作用的桥梁多尺度建模与分析

考虑土-结构相互作用(SSI)是地震激励下桥梁抗震性能评估的热难点之一.由于考虑土体影响多而建立的结构模型计算耗时极长,为了提高效率,现采用一致多尺度建模方法,将所研究部位建为实体单元,其他部位建为梁单元,单元之间采用适当的方法进行界面连接,保证宏观、精细单元间的变形协调,并对某一桥梁进行分析,验证了该方法的正确性.在此基础上,基于多尺度建模方法,建立三跨连续梁桥模型,对其进行弹塑性时程分析,对比分析考虑SSI和不考虑SSI效应的桥梁模型在地震激励下的响应结果,研究SSI效应对桥梁抗震性能的影响.结果表明:多尺度建模方法可以在保证计算精度的前提下有效地提高计算效率;考虑SSI效应能够有效地降低桥梁的抗震性能需求.因此,在设计时应加以考虑.     

电动汽车整车运行性能检测试验技术

电动汽车的生产和制造需要符合相关的标准,并且还要对整车的性能进行测试,只有这样才能更好的符合汽车上路的条件。本文主要是将国标要求作为基础来对电动汽车的最高车速、滑行能力、加速性能、制动性能和爬坡能力和能量消耗率和续航里程进行测试,通过实施一定的检测试验方法和配套的相关试验设备来做好检测,并且要对测试的结果进行分析,对电动汽车的运行性能进行进一步的优化,从而推进我国电动汽车行业的更好发展和进步。     

钢网面板加筋土挡墙动力特性试验的变形研究

基于泥质红砂岩粗粒土填料，采用MTS分别模拟地震荷载、交通荷载、加-卸载多循环荷载进行大尺寸模型试验，研究了钢网面板土工格栅加筋土挡墙在上述荷载作用下的动力特性，获得了不同峰值的水平地震激励下模型挡墙不同位置的水平动位移、竖向动位移峰值响应等实测值；采用不同频率、不同幅值的竖向交通荷载正交试验法，获得了该模型挡墙在重复荷载作用下的最大水平变形、最大沉降量及位置等动力特性参数值；通过7种荷载、21组加卸载循环试验，获得了加一卸载多循环荷载作用下的实测沉降值。试验结果表明：该加筋结构具有整体变形的特性，是优良的抗震结构，能承受抗震设防烈度为9度的地震荷载；同时该加筋结构具有良好的稳定性和抗破坏性，重复荷载的幅值和振动次数对结构动力变形特性的影响较大，而振动频率对变形特性的影响不显著；多循环荷载作用下该加筋结构能够明显减小不均匀沉降。过长的筋材并不能明显地改善加筋土挡墙的动力特性。     

回收聚酯纤维沥青混合料路用性能试验研究

对普通沥青混合料、常规聚酯纤维沥青混合料、回收聚酯纤维沥青混合料的路用性能进行了研究分析。通过沥青混合料的高温性能、水稳定性及疲劳性能试验，对比了常规聚酯纤维与回收聚酯纤维对沥青混合料路用性能的改善效果。研究结果表明沥青混合料中掺入2种聚酯纤维后，其路用性能具有明显的改善，其中对高温性能和疲劳性能的改善幅度最大，而对水稳定性的改善幅度较小。回收聚酯纤维的路用性能改善效果弱于常规聚酯纤维。     

基于MATLAB的抗滑桩锚固段内力程序化与可视化计算研究

基于Matlab数学软件，对采用“K”法计算的抗滑桩锚固段内力和变形计算过程进行了程序化设计，使得充分保证抗滑桩设计计算准确性的前提下，大大提高了计算效率，且实现了计算结果的可视化，并把此研究成果应用于常（德）至吉（首）高速公路滑坡处治中抗滑桩的设计计算。研究成果对今后滑坡地质灾害的抢险，保证抗滑桩设计的经济性与合理性，均具有及其重要的意义。