The generators of paratransit trips by persons with disabilities

Identifying the generators of paratransit trips by persons with disabilities is important to comprehend the current demand patterns and forecast future demand. Only a handful of studies have been conducted so far to identify the generators of paratransit trips and most focused on the home end of the trips. Given some of the inconsistencies in past studies and the scarcity of studies on the generators of trips away from home, this study attempts to identify the generators of paratransit trips beginning and ending at clients’ homes and away from home. It uses an extremely large dataset consisting of 1.91 million trips made by NJ TRANSIT’s Access Link clients, socioeconomic data from the American Community Survey, employment data from the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics, and establishment data from Dun and Bradstreet. The analytical methods include an ordinary least squares model (OLS) and several spatial generalized linear mixed models (GLMM) to identify the characteristics of census block groups associated with Access Link trip generation at home and away from home, Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis to identify the types of establishments located in the immediate vicinity of drop-offs, and a multinomial logit model (MNL) to examine the relationship between the characteristics of the establishments in the vicinity of drop-offs and the characteristics of the dropped-off clients. Together, the various analyses provide useful insights about paratransit trip generators at the macro and micro levels. Some implications of the findings are discussed.     

基于硬化泥膜的填舱换刀技术研究

为了解决砂土地层盾构刀盘换刀作业面易涌水、涌砂进而导致作业面失稳坍塌问题,采用水泥砂浆和膨润土浆液组成的混合浆液在土舱压力作用下,通过刀盘开口向砂土地层渗透,经固化后在原有稳定泥膜的基础上形成新型混合泥膜,在利用风镐清除土舱内硬化混合浆液的同时,保留刀盘前段形成的混合泥膜,即可进行盾构刀盘换刀作业。通过在广州某地铁盾构施工项目中的应用,表明本施工技术能为砂土地层盾构换刀提供高效且安全的解决方案。     

A data model applied to the knowledge-based ICAS

Image-guided computer aided surgery system (ICAS) contributes to safeness and success of surgery operations by means of displaying anatomical structures and showing correlative information to surgeons in the process of operation. Based on analysis of requirements for ICAS, a new concept of clinical knowledge-based ICAS was proposed. Designing a reasonable data structure model is essential for realizing this new concept. The traditional data structure is limited in expressing and reusing the clinical knowledge such as locating an anatomical object, topological relations of anatomical objects and correlative clinical attributes. A data structure model called mixed adjacency lists by octree-path-chain (MALOC) was outlined, which can combine patient's images with clinical knowledge, as well as efficiently locate the instrument and search the objects' information. The efficiency of data structures was analyzed and experimental results were given in comparison to other traditional data structures. The result of the nasal surgery experiment proves that MALOC is a proper model for clinical knowledge-based ICAS that has advantages in not only locating the operative instrument precisely but also proving surgeons with real-time operation-correlative information. It is shown that the clinical knowledge-based ICAS with MALOC model has advantages in terms of safety and success of surgical operations, and help in accurately locating the operative instrument and providing operation-correlative knowledge and information to surgeons in the process of operations.     

汽车运动噪声研究现状及展望

随着汽车运动速度的提高及汽车日益轻量化,汽车的车内外运动噪声越来越严重,影响行车的安全性、舒适性、动力性和经济性,也干扰其它车辆的行驶和附近居民的正常生活,其研究具有重要意义。分析引起运动噪声的主要噪声源,概述其形成机理,介绍其研究现状及方法,并对其发展进行展望。     

“船舶—堆场—列车”混堆堆场箱位分配模型

集装箱海铁联运港口堆场作业箱型复杂,为了提高港口作业能力和效率,基于进口、出口箱的混合堆存方式,对"船舶-堆场-列车"作业堆场箱位分配问题进行研究."船舶-堆场-列车"作业堆场负责堆存通过船舶、列车及外集卡进出港口的集装箱.本文在待分配箱的作业时间及箱区已知的前提下,以集装箱堆存产生的压箱数最小为目标,建立"船舶-堆场-列车"作业混堆堆场箱位分配模型,根据模型特点设计了启发式算法进行求解,并进行算例分析.结果表明,所建模型和求解算法能够有效减少堆场的压箱数,满足箱型堆存要求,提高港口作业效率.     

侧推减阻降噪装置设计与应用探索

侧推减阻降噪装置是一种填补国内空白的特种船舶装置,此装置可针对性解决因侧推通道激发的局部紊流及气泡层影响船舶声学设备正常使用的难题,该文介绍了该装置产生的背景、预期功能、设计校核方案及船上安装使用方法,经实船验证,该装置满足母船声学设备使用要求。     

由船舶响应反推当前海浪频谱的探索研究

借助白噪声谱在数学处理上的独特优势,利用计算流体力学方法(CFD),生成了高精度的白噪声长峰不规则波,实现了船模在该海浪环境下顶浪航行时的纵摇及垂荡耦合运动的数值模拟,从而计算船模纵摇和垂向加速度的响应幅值算子(RAO),达到了由海上实测摇荡时历反推较高精度海浪频谱的目标,并将反推结果与海上实测海浪数据进行了对比,效果良好,从而为在航船舶提供了一种获取当前海浪信息的新方法。     

船用低速柴油机曲轴轴向振动研究

以船用大功率低速柴油机柔性体曲轴为对象,在考虑气体力、运动部件惯性力、扭纵耦合效应等因素的情况下,建立曲轴、连杆、活塞的刚柔混合动力学模型。通过数值仿真,分别对连杆推力、连杆法向力和切向力对曲轴轴向振动的影响进行分析。分析结果表明：法向力是曲轴轴向振动的直接激励源,切向力是曲轴轴向振动的间接激励源-切向力引起曲轴扭振,进而引起曲轴纵振;同时法向力和切向力对曲轴轴向振动的影响非常相近;而连杆推力(法向力和切向力合力)引起的曲轴轴向振动是扭纵耦合振动的结果,并非两种分力作用结果的简单叠加。     

水管路系统低噪声配置研究

管路系统的水力功能和振动噪声性能相互影响皆为设计目标。舰船领域中冷却水管路系统长期开启,管路系统振动及船外辐射噪声受到关注。为实现船外辐射噪声的控制,有必要建立水力和声学的协调设计技术。文章以低噪声配置原则为管路系统设计指导,基于复杂水力管网计算方法进行管系合理配置,基于管系等效水梁及管系—船体声固耦合整体建模方法进行振动及船外辐射噪声计算评估,形成了水力与声学协调的管路系统低噪声配置技术流程。以典型冷却水管路系统为对象,初步测试验证了配置原则和计算方法。     

一种网格 k-近邻集的边界点识别算法

为了高效识别聚类边界,根据边界周围区域存在密度差异的特征,提出了一种网格 k‐近邻集的边界识别算法（BGN ）。在网格空间中,该算法根据网格单元和它最近邻居单元的 k‐近邻集的质量及其单元间中心距离确定边界度,由边界度和边界阈值判断每个网格单元是否为边界单元或噪声单元。通过从边界单元中提取更靠边缘的数据作为边界点的方式,使得边界更精细。实验结果表明,该算法能有效和快速识别出多密度数据集的聚类边界和噪声。