Socially and environmentally appropriate urban futures for the motor car

In its relatively short life, the automobile has provided a level of mobility unlikely to have been feasible with a reliance on conventional forms of land based public transport. It has contributed in both a positive and negative way to the quality of life, transforming our cities, our way of life, and giving us a greater command over time and space. Concern over the undesirable social and environmental impacts has increased over time, with calls for governments to take action to reduce the automobile's dominant role. New investment in fixed-track public transport and bus priority systems together with strategies to discourage travel have been proposed to improve accessibility and to aid in cleaning up the physical environment. This paper reviews some of the issues facing society as it works to identify policies to achieve an economically and environmentally sustainabie future. There is a need for a broader set of policies to facilitate alternative land use-transport lifestyles while facing appropriate pricing signals. Some of the key issues are adjustments in the relative prices of location and transport, spatial incentives to make public transport economically viable (i.e. changing urban densities, zoning/incentive changes to allow more infill), road pricing (i.e. charging cars the economic cost of using the roads), new information technology systems (e.g. IVHS) to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of transport infrastructure, major improvements in the fuel efficiency of fossil fuelled vehicles, and alternative-fuelled vehicles (clean-air vehicles).     

地铁地下车站公共区防排烟设计相关探讨

通过对广州、深圳等城市已通车地铁地下车站工程的分析,从设计本身以及最新规范的相关防排烟条文出发,论述地铁地下车站公共区的防排烟模式和排烟风机的选择,提出防排烟设计在防排烟模式、防烟分区划分以及排烟风机选择方面应注意的事项,并给出相应的建议.     

基于时变因素的桥梁可靠度指标计算

在预应力桥梁服役过程中,桥梁构件的抗力水平可能降低,同时在运营过程中,桥梁的交通量有可能发生增长,考虑这些时变因素的桥梁可靠度是值得关心的问题。本文总结归纳了三种典型的抗力退化模式,以某地交通量观测结果为依据,拟合了其增长函数;建立抗力衰减和荷载增长的时变模型;接着,本文以某现役预应力混凝土桥梁构件为背景,利用蒙特卡罗法模拟计算了考虑时变因素的可靠度指标,讨论了其安全使用年限。     

物流配送点选址模型及其算法研究

首先介绍以最低送货运输费用为目标 ,借助最小二乘法推导出单物流配送点的选址模型及其迭代算法 ;在此基础上重点分析了已知物流配送点数目条件下的选址和物流服务分配问题 ,提出用二进制数的矩阵来描述物流服务分配方案 ,推导出其选址的数学模型 ,并给出交替选址迭代算法 ;最后讨论了如何把在未知配送点数目条件下的选址问题转化为已知配送点数目条件下的选址问题来求解     

车载动态实时可视化交通信息服务系统

一种新型城市交通信息服务系统,它采用GPS接收机、数码像机、有线/无线智能传感器、辅以人工等方式完成路况信息采集,经控制中心处理后按1～3次/min频率生成全面、综合反映路况信息的实时、动态交通图,通过无线传输为公众提供实时、动态路况信息,并用全新概念的车载显示器Skipper显示路况信息,实现道路车辆均衡化、提高道路利用率。论述了其开发背景、系统构成及工作原理、核心产品开发与运用等。     

A cross-country study of fairness and infringement on freedom as determinants of car owners' acceptance of road pricing

Jakobsson et al. (2000) found that in Sweden public acceptance of road pricing decreases if it is perceived to be unfair and to infringe on freedom. The present study reports a survey investigating whether the same effects are found in the Asian countries of Japan and Taiwan. The results indicate that fairness plays the same role. However, income had a direct effect on acceptance in Taiwan but not in Japan or Sweden.     

Bus Priority Using pre-signals

The need to provide efficient public transport services in urban areas has led to the implementation of bus priority measures in many congested cities. Much interest has recently centred on priority at signal controlled junctions, including the concept of pre-signals, where traffic signals are installed at or near the end of a with-flow bus lane to provide buses with priority access to the downstream junction. Although a number of pre-signals have now been installed in the U.K., particularly in London, there has been very little published research into their design, operation and optimisation. This paper addresses these points through the development of analytical procedures which allow pre-implementation evaluation of specific categories of pre-signals. The paper initially sets out three categories of pre-signal, which have different operating characteristics, different requirements for signalling and different impacts on capacity and delay. Key issues concerning signalling arrangements for these categories are then discussed, together with a summary of the analytical approach adopted and the assumptions required. Equations are developed to allow appropriate signal timings to be calculated for pre-signalised intersections. Further equations are then developed to enable delays to priority and non-priority traffic, with and without pre-signals, to be estimated with delay being taken here as the key performance criterion. The paper concludes with three application examples illustrating how the equations are applied and the impacts of pre-signals in different situations.The analyses confirm the potential benefits of pre-signals, where these signals apply to non-priority traffic only. Where buses are also subject to a pre-signal, it is shown that disbenefits to buses can often occur, unless bus detectors are used to gain priority signalling.     

交通综合信息平台建设研究

建立一个基于GIS-T的交通综合信息平台。它能够接受、存储和处理多源异构数据．能够为各种应用子系统和公众提供良好的信息服务。同时，对平台的框架设计、功能构成以及平台实现的关键技术进行说明和分析。     

城市公交线网优化的线性模型

为了对现有公交线网进行优化,有效利用现有交通资源,解决城市交通问题,运用系统科学的思想,通过对城市公交线网优化的主要内容、优化原则、优化目标以及约束条件的分析,兼顾考虑乘客出行时间、公交线网密度和公交企业的利益以及公交线网的布局对整个城市的交通系统的影响,提出了优化目标的函数表达式及相应约束条件的数学表达式,建立了公交线网优化的线性模型,并给出了运用逐步筛选法对所提出的数学模型进行求解的方法。     

基于WebGIS车辆定位系统的设计

探讨了如何利用WebGIS技术实现在Internet环境下车辆定位中的应用,包括系统的组成、工作原理、短消息和WebGIS架构等内容,该设计方法是在微软最新的开发环境.Net和Mapinfo公司的MapX控件基础上开发实现的,详细解释了WebGIS架构和介绍了车辆定位系统的主要功能。系统的实现使用户可以直接在Internet环境下完成查询指定车辆的位置等相关信息,为智能交通的实现奠定了基础。