Intra-household bargaining for school trip accompaniment of children: A group decision approach

This paper tests a group decision-making model to examine the school travel behavior of students 6–18 years old in the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan area. The school trip information of 1737 two-parent families with a student is extracted from Travel Behavior Inventory data collected by the Metropolitan Council between the Fall 2010 and Spring 2012. The model has four distinct characteristics including: (1) considering the student explicitly in the model, (2) allowing for bargaining or negotiation within households, (3) quantifying the intra-household interaction among family members, and (4) determining the decision weight function for household members. This framework also covers a household with three members, namely, a father, a mother, and a student, and unlike other studies it is not limited to dual-worker families. To test the hypotheses we build two models, each with and without the group-decision approach. The models are separately built for different age groups, namely students 6–12 and 12–18 years old. This study considers a wide range of variables such as work status of parents, age and gender of students, mode of travel, and distance to school. The findings of this study demonstrate that the elasticities of the two modeling approaches differ not only in the value, but in the sign in some cases. In 63% of the cases the unitary household model underestimates the results. More precisely, the elasticities of the unitary household model are as much as 2 times more than that of the group-decision model in 20% of cases. This is a direct consequence of model misspecification that misleads both long- and short-term policies where the intra-household bargaining and interaction is overlooked in travel behavior models.     

基于分类决策树的城市内部迁居人群通勤时间预测模型

针对迁居个体长距离、长时间的通勤现象，以南京迁居人群通勤出行多源数据为基础，综合考虑迁居人群个人家庭属性、迁居属性、建成环境属性及通勤属性，建立迁居人群通勤时间多元线性回归模型，分析各属性对通勤时间的影响. 结合多元线性回归和Logistic 回归确定决策树模型入选变量和通勤时间离散值，利用C4.5 算法建立迁居人群通勤时间决策树，以决策树结构揭示不同背景下迁居个体通勤时间模式特征. 结果显示，相较于个人家庭属性，职住同区、通勤出发时刻、住房类型、通勤距离、通勤方式及社区至主干道的便捷程度对迁居个体通勤时长的影响更为显著，侧面反映社区微观建成环境优化政策更利于提升迁居个体通勤效率.     

旧水泥路面MHB碎石化工艺应用决策标准研究

基于采用MHB对旧水泥混凝土路面实施碎石化破碎工艺在决策、设计、施工与质量控制等环节不够全面、深入,结合多个工程实践,提出了碎石化工艺应用决策标准,研究成果可为旧水泥路碎石化改造提供指导.     

基于模糊多属性决策方法的承发包模式比较研究

在前人对工程承发包模式研究成果的基础上，从项目成本、效益以及风险的角度建立了比较指标体系，并提出了指标赋值方法。将承发包模式的选择问题归结为多属性决策中（MADM）的排序问题，采用离差最大化准则下的多属性决策的最优组合赋权方法来对各指标的权重进行赋值，并采用TOPSIS方法来对各方案进行比较研究。，最后通过算例进行计算和分析。     

基于马尔可夫决策理论的动态火力目标匹配

针对炮兵随行作战时的动态火力目标匹配问题,运用马尔可夫决策理论进行了探索。首先检验了马尔可夫决策理论对动态火力目标匹配的可行性,其次在可行性的基础上建立动态决策模型,最后再对模型进行了验证,所得结果符合炮兵射击的客观实际,为炮兵作战指挥员在动态火力目标匹配上提供了一种合理的决策依据和决策方法。     

基于分段学习模型的自动驾驶行为决策算法研究

在具有车道线的特定自动驾驶场景中,针对目前端到端的行为决策算法直接输入原始图像进行决策导致的网络模型迁移性差、预测精度欠佳、泛化能力不足等问题,提出一种基于分段学习模型的车辆自动驾驶行为决策算法。首先,基于GoogLeNet建立一种端到端的车道线检测网络模型,并引入车道中心线作为决策的重要线索提高算法的迁移能力,同时利用YOLOv3目标检测模型对本车道内前方最近障碍物进行位置检测;而后,经几何测量模型将两者检测结果转换成环境状态信息向量为决策做支撑;最后,构建基于长短期记忆(LSTM)网络的驾驶行为决策模型,根据编码的历史状态信息刻画出动态环境中车辆的运动模式,并结合当前时刻的状态推理得到驾驶行为参量。使用建立的真实驾驶场景数据集对模型分别进行训练、验证与测试,离线测试结果显示车道线检测模型的检测位置误差小于1.3%,车道内前方障碍物检测模型的检测精度达98%以上,驾驶行为决策网络模型表征预测优度的决定系数 大于0.7。为进一步验证算法的有效性,搭建了Simulink/PreScan联合仿真平台,多种工况下的仿真验证试验中多个评价指标均达到工程精度要求,实车测试的试验结果也表明该算法可实现复杂驾驶场景下平稳、准确无偏航的预测效果并满足实时性要求,且与传统端到端模式的算法相比,具有更好的迁移性和泛化能力。     

A decision support approach to the computerisation of some operational decision problems in community transport

Community Transport (CT) in the UK operates a diverse range of services, and organisations are computerising management and operational functions. This paper describes the approach which has been taken to computerising four operational decision making functions.

The paper considers models of human decision making and problem solving, with particular reference to an information processing view of cognitive activity and to perception and memory. The design of decision support systems is also discussed.

Four decision problems are considered. For each, the paper considers how people tackle the problem, how computers can be used to tackle it and the approach which has been adopted.

For allocating trips to vehicles using a diary, the approach has been to provide a representation on screen of a manual diary. For vehicle brokerage, vehicles are presented to the operator allocating a booking in an order based on the Sequence Number, an index of how ‘difficult to book’ a vehicle is, and the distance of the vehicle's base from the start point of the trip. For the sorting of passenger pick‐ups into an efficient tour, traditional solutions to the travelling salesperson problem have been rejected in favour of a solution using spacefilling curves. Finally, for allocating dial‐a‐ride passenger trips to vehicle shifts an approach has been chosen which presents the operator with appropriate information rather than attempting to automate the scheduling.

The paper concludes that the approach to the diary has been successful and accepted by operators, although the similar approach to the dial‐a‐ride scheduling has not, as the system has not yet been able to replace manual scheduling aids. The facility to order passenger pick‐ups is little used by operators. Finally, it is suggested that the vehicle brokerage problem may be an appropriate use of fuzzy logic.     

Future electricity demand from battery‐powered vehicles

An important decision faced by airline schedulers is how to adapt the flight schedule and aircraft assignment to unforeseen perturbations in an established schedule. In the face of unforeseen aircraft delays, schedulers have to decide which flights to delay, and when delays become excessive, which to cancel. Current scheduling models deal with simple decision problems of delay or cancellation, but not with both simultaneously. But in practice the optimal decision may involve results from the integration of both flight cancellations and delays. In Part I of this paper, a quadratic programming model for the integration decision problem is given. The model can formulate the integration of flight cancellations and delays as well as some special cases, such as the ferrying of surplus aircraft and the possibility of swapping different types of aircraft. In this paper, based on the special structure of the model, an effective algorithm is presented, sufficient computational experiments are conducted and some results are reported. These show that we can expect to obtain a sufficiently good solution in terms of reasonable CPU time.     

邻近建筑物条件下青岛地铁盾构施工风险评价

以往构建的邻近建筑条件下地铁盾构施工风险指标没有考虑指标间的相关性,且忽略专家的犹豫程度,首先从方法创新的角度利用决策实验室法（DEMATEL）确定准则层间综合影响关系,作为控制层结构关系构建网络层次结构模型,求出DEMATEL和ANP相结合的主观混合权重; 再以熵权法求解客观权重,采用主客观权重偏差平方和最小为目标函数求解组合权重; 最后考虑了专家犹豫程度,运用vague集法进行施工风险评价。通过计算得出青岛地铁1号线安安区段风险等级与工程实际相符合,进而验证了该评价方法的实用性。     

二次指数平滑在交通信息短期预测中的应用

通过对当前交通道路信息的实际情况的分析并结合指数平滑预测模型,提出了符合当前交通信息的分段二次指数平滑模型,该模型主要根据某城市一天各时段的拥堵情况计算平滑系数表,在通过二次指数平滑模型对交通信息进行短期预测。该方法充分考虑到了交通道路信息的实际情况,提高了交通信息短期预测的合理性。经过实际交通信息数据验证,结果表明基于该方法预测未来短期交通信息准确率满足使用需求,并为其他交通信息短期预测提供一种新的方法。