Modification of the Highway Capacity Manual two‐lane highway analysis procedure for Spanish conditions

The US Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) methodology is used in Spain to evaluate traffic operation and quality of service. The effect of passing manoeuvre on two‐lane highway operational performance is considered through adjustment factors to average travel speeds and percent time spent following. The procedure is largely based on simulations in TWOPAS and passing behaviours observed during US calibrations in the 1970s. It is not clear whether US driving behaviour and vehicles' performance are comparable with Spanish conditions. The objective of this research is to adapt the HCM 2010 methodology to Spanish driver behaviour, for base conditions (i.e. no passing restrictions). To do so, TWOPAS was calibrated and validated based on current Spanish passing field data. The calibration used a genetic algorithm. The case study included an ideal two‐lane highway with varying directional traffic flow rate, directional split and percentage of trucks. The updated methodology for base conditions is simpler than the current HCM 2010 and does not rely on interpolation from tables. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

公路工程土石方填筑的施工质量控制

在石料丰富的山区高速公路高填方路段进行施工,经常采用土石混填路堤。从选择料场、控制土石层的虚铺厚度、何时碾压、控制土的含水量、碾压遍数及压路机吨位、检测等方面进行了阐述,分析了土石路基常见病害的形成原因,并提出相应的施工工艺和控制措施。     

下穿既有公路的土江冲隧道双层管棚设计及监测分析

位于常—吉高速公路上的土江冲隧道是一座下穿既有公路的四车道连拱隧道,施工中为了控制地面沉降,在洞口段采用双层管棚作为辅助施工方法,保证了隧道施工安全和319国道的畅通;在隧道开挖过程中,掌子面附近的管棚变形最大,隧道开挖纵向影响范围为1.5~2.0倍开挖高度。文章介绍了管棚设计、施工情况和监测结果。     

高速公路运营收入预测软件的开发

高速公路运营收入预测是高速公路企业进行财务评价的基础,根据交通量和收费标准相结合的预测方法,用V isual Basic编制的小程序实现高速公路基年和未来年运营收入的快速预测,从而结束了手工计算的估算方式,大大提高了工作效率。     

公路施工项目成本管理的探讨

对公路工程项目管理成本控制的原则进行分析。结合在滨德高速公路的施工项目,提出了成本控制措施。     

浅谈创建学习型公路行业

文章针对＂十二五＂时期公路行业发展需要,阐述了创建学习型公路行业的必要性,分析了当前公路行业发展现状与存在的问题,提出了创建学习型公路行业的对策。     

Identifying preferences for public transport investments under a constrained budget

As urban areas face increasing demands for new transport infrastructure to promote a sustainable future with an increasing reality of constrained government budgets, the debate on whether we should focus on rail or bus-based investments continues unabated in many jurisdictions. Associated with the debate is an emotional (or ideological) bias by communities in favour of one mode, especially rail, which carries much sway at the political level as if there is no budget constraint. This paper presents a stated choice experiment to investigate this context as two unlabelled options described by 20 potential drivers of community preferences for improved public transport, where each choice scenario is conditioned on an estimated construction cost and a total annual transport infrastructure budget for the relevant geographical jurisdiction. This is followed by a labelling of each alternative to reveal whether the option is bus rapid transit (BRT) or light rail (LRT) and to establish whether this additional information influences preference revision. Data is collected in all eight capital cities of Australia in mid 2014. Mixed logit models with heteroscedastic conditioning in terms of the cost of the project infrastructure and whether the alternative is labelled BRT or LRT, provide new evidence on the nature and extent of community modal bias in a budget-constrained choice setting. The conclusions are twofold. On the one hand, if a fully compensatory choice rule is assumed (as is common in all previous modal comparison studies), LRT is predominantly preferred over BRT despite budgetary constraints, similarities in quality of service attributes and the opportunity to choose a greater network coverage for a given construction cost. However, when we allow for attribute non-attendance (a semi-compensatory choice rule), the modal bias is no longer a significant driver of preferences.     

高速公路改扩建工程中的环境保护

通过对高速公路改扩建工程环境保护的研究,文章首先分析改扩建工程中环境保护的必要性,并对高速公路改扩建工程中环境保护的具体内容进行分析,重点探讨高速公路改扩建工程中环境保护的具体应用,对某高速公路改扩建案例的深入分析,提出四大环境保护措施。     

公路隧道穿越陡倾煤层采空区力学特性分析

针对隧道穿越陡倾煤层的施工力学特性,采用数值计算方法,探讨隧道施工对采空区围岩变形和受力的影响,结果表明,围岩应力分布规律受采空区影响显著,陡倾煤层采空区前后15 m为隧道施工过程中加强支护和重点监测范围.通过分析陡倾采空区对隧道结构的影响程度和规律,发现采空区的存在使得隧道支护结构主应力最大值增大约15％ ～20％,...     

双线盾构隧道下穿高速公路路基沉降影响研究

双线盾构隧道施工会对高速公路路基造成较大影响,若控制不当会造成路基沉陷甚至坍塌,因此需要研究施工过程中及施工后路基沉降的分布特性与控制方法.文中结合某双线盾构隧道下穿高速公路路基的典型案例,采用数值模拟的方法研究路基沉降的分布特性.结果表明,路基沉降在双线盾构隧道施工完成后仍处于中心对称状态,最大路基沉降出现在双线盾构...