Pricing strategies for port competition and cooperation

This paper analyzes the effects of integration between two neighbor ports with a third port sharing the same overlapping hinterland. The merger (integrated port) can select either the price discrimination or uniform pricing strategy after integration. Our study reveals that port integration is always beneficial to the merger and the third port, but results in the reduction of consumer surplus and social welfare, regardless of the type of pricing strategy implemented. Further analysis shows that when the inland transportation cost to the ports is relatively low or sufficiently high, a better option is for the merger to adopt the price discrimination strategy. When port pollution is considered and has a relatively large impact, the integration of the two ports improves green social welfare for the region. This finding provides strong support for the ongoing port integration in China. In terms of pricing strategy, the uniform pricing strategy generates higher green social welfare when both inland transportation cost and pollution are relatively low, or both are significantly high. Otherwise, the price discrimination strategy generates the best result for the region.     

新时期高职院校统战工作策略研究

高校统战工作历来是党的统一战线工作的一个重要方面,是高校党的工作的重要组成部分。认清当前高校统战工作新形势,研究开展新时期统战工作新对策,对于做好高校统战工作,充分调动广大党外知识分子的积极性和创造性,完成好高校统战工作肩负的历史使命,具有重要意义。     

材料性能和压入深度对球压痕堆积/沉陷的影响

压痕硬度受材料堆积/沉陷影响明显,通过有限元仿真技术分析了材料性能和压入深度对堆积/沉陷的影响,结果表明,随着弹性模量与屈服强度比、压入深度增加或硬化指数减小,材料的沉陷量减小而堆积量增加;当弹性模量与屈服强度比相对较小时,堆积/沉陷受硬化指数的影响较明显。根据建立的等效应变与材料堆积/沉陷的拟合函数关系,可以判断压痕过程的堆积/沉陷状态,从而对计算得到的压痕硬度的准确性进行评判。     

《快速公交（BRT）智能系统技术要求》实施效果研究

《快速公交(BRT)智能系统技术要求》以朝阳路和安立路BRT智能系统的建设为出台的重要基础,在运营调度、乘客信息服务、路口信号优先、图像监控、电子设备等十三个方面执行效果良好,大大提高了BRT智能系统建设和运行维护质量,提升了系统运行效率.     

市政管道工作井的工作机理研究

对不同土质、不同施工方法、不同用途的工作井进行归纳总结。通过分析工作井的受力工况,建立空间模型,对工作井的受力机理进行研究,得到不同种类工作井的特点,并对以往的计算理论进一步优化,为各类工作井的设计与施工提供技术参考。     

从企业调查探析高职生职业道德教育

职业道德教育一直是高职院校德育工作的重点和难点。文中通过对企业的问卷调查,分析企业对大学生职业道德素养的现实内在需要,探讨从教育观念、教育模式、考核体系等方面加强大学生职业道德教育的对策建议。     

基于工学结合、校企合作的《桥梁结构施工与检测》课程建设成效

文中介绍了广东交通职业技术学院骨干院校建设过程中,专业教师与广东桥梁施工龙头企业共建基于工学结合、校企合作的《桥梁结构施工与检测》课程的成效,“工学结合、校企合作”为本课程建设的特色和亮点。希望对道路桥梁工程技术专业及专业群的其它课程建设能起到借鉴作用。     

Ground-truthing social vulnerability indices of Alaska fishing communities

Abstract

Community vulnerability is increasingly evaluated through quantitative social indices, typically developed using secondary data sources rather than primary data collection. It is necessary to understand the validity of these indices if they will be used to inform policy and decision making. This paper presents a ground-truthing effort to validate quantitative indices that characterize the well-being of Alaska fishing communities. We utilized ethnographic data collected from 13 representative communities and a capital assets framework to ground-truth the indices, in which qualitative ranks of vulnerability were compared against quantitative indices. The majority (73.8%) of ranks were in complete or moderate agreement and the results indicate that most of the indices are representative of community vulnerability; yet some variables utilized to create the indices could be modified to better reflect realities in Alaska. Indices of commercial fishery engagement and reliance appeared to be more reliable than socio-economic indicators, particularly for smaller fishing communities. We also confirmed that the indices do not capture political, or ecological factors that affect levels of community vulnerability. We conclude that quantitative indices of community vulnerability are useful rapid assessment tools; however, they should be validated, and complemented with ethnographic data prior to their implementation as policy making and management tools.     

Optimal subwork zone operational strategy for short‐term work zone projects in four‐lane two‐way freeways

Roadside trees in Singapore are regularly trimmed for the purpose of traffic safety and roadside tree‐trimming project is one typical type of short‐term work zone projects. To implement such a short‐term work zone project, contractors usually divide an entire work zone into multiple subwork zones with the uniform length. This paper aims to determine an optimal subwork zone strategy for the short‐term work zone projects in four‐lane two‐way freeways with time window and uniform subwork zone length constraints. The deterministic queuing model is employed to estimate total user delay caused by the work zone project by taking into account variable traffic speeds. Based on the user delay estimations, this paper proceeds to build a minimization model subject to time window and uniform length constraints for the optimal subwork zone strategy problem. This paper also presents a variation of the minimization model to examine the impact of unequal subwork zone length constraint. Since these minimization models belong to the mixed‐integer non‐differentiable optimization problems, an iterative algorithm embedding with the genetic simulated annealing method is thus proposed to solve these models. Finally, a numerical example is carried out to investigate the effectiveness of the proposed models. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.