Neighborhood services,trip purpose,and tour-based travel

Communities are increasingly looking to land use planning strategies to reduce drive-alone travel. Many planning efforts aim to develop neighborhoods with higher levels of accessibility that will allow residents to shop closer to home and drive fewer miles. To better understand how accessible land use patterns relate to household travel behavior, this paper is divided into three sections. The first section describes the typical range of services available in areas with high neighborhood accessibility. It explains how trip-based travel analysis is limited because it does not consider the linked (chained) nature of most travel. The second section describes a framework that provides a more behavioral understanding of household travel. This framework highlights travel tours, the sequence of trips that begin and end at home, as the basic unit of analysis. The paper offers a typology of travel tours to account for different travel purposes; by doing so, this typology helps understand tours relative to the range of services typically offered in accessible neighborhoods. The final section empirically analyzes relationships between tour type and neighborhood access using detailed travel data from the Central Puget Sound region (Seattle, Washington). Households living in areas with higher levels of neighborhood access are found to complete more tours and make fewer stops per tour. They make more simple tours (out and back) for work and maintenance (personal, appointment, and shopping) trip purposes but there is no difference in the frequency of other types of tours. While they travel shorter distances for maintenance-type errands, a large portion of their maintenance travel is still pursued outside the neighborhood. These findings suggest that while higher levels of neighborhood access influences travel tours, it does not spur households to complete the bulk of their errands close to home.     

Time windows in workers' activity patterns: Empirical evidence from the Netherlands

This paper assumes that activities at the home and work location are important determinants of individuals' paths through time and space. Fixed activities at these locations determine to a large extent the duration and timing of time windows – blocks of time available for participation in travel and out-of-home non-work activities. Taking the time spent at home and at the workplace as a starting point, this paper classifies activity patterns on workdays into six groups with distinct home- and work-stay patterns. For this, data are used from the 1998 Netherlands National Travel Survey. The six clusters vary in terms of the duration and timing of time windows and some of the differences can be explained by commute characteristics, types of non-work activities performed, workers' sociodemographic attributes, and their spatiotemporal environment. However, the impact of sociodemographic and spatiotemporal variables on cluster membership is shown to be weak.     

中国汽车工业可持续发展的必由之路--新型能源清洁汽车

随着汽车的不断普及,来自能源及环保的压力不断增大。分析了电动汽车及代用燃料汽车的前景,并阐述了我国应当加快清洁能源汽车研制的必要性及在该领域已经取得的成果,最后展望了我国未来新型能源汽车的前景。     

乳化沥青稀浆封层技术在新建路面上的应用

简要介绍了乳化沥青稀浆封层技术在新建路面上的应用,以及稀浆封层设备的操作和施工方法.     

筑路设备维修的经济分析

利用经济学基本原理,阐述如何对设备的维修工作进行效益分析,对提高施工企业的设备维修管理水平具有一定的借鉴作用.     

公路交通经济增长中的制度因素分析

在总结传统的经济增长理论(资本决定论、技术进步论、人力资本论、专业化的人力资本和特殊知识积累论)的基础上,采用新制度经济学的分析方法,对建国以来中国公路交通的制度变迁和经济绩效及其相互关系进行了实证分析,指出了制度在公路交通发展中的极端重要性;提出了"生产要素的制度性边界"这一概念,指出制度边界具有随经济、技术等因素变化而不断变化的特性,在此基础上建立了新的经济增长分析框架和模型;为打破制度的"低度均衡",扩展生产要素的制度边界,最后提出了关于加快制度创新的建议。     

公路特大型泥石流研究及防治新理念

作为我国一种严重的公路水毁类型，公路特大型泥石流灾害至今尚未解决，本文建构了该类泥石流研究及防治新理念，对于公路建筑物的安全与稳定、确保公路交通有序进行具有重要意义。研究认为，公路泥石流研究及防治的主要对象是具有大冲大淤性能、毁损作用强烈的特大型泥石流；必须遵循以泥石流发育机理研究为基础、防治技术研究为手段、防治工程研究为目的的研究原则；详细分析了公路泥石流水毁模式，概化分析了冲淤变动型沟谷泥石流的发育特性；开发了防治效果极佳的速流结构，运用运动状态函数法建构了速流结构设计理念，运用动力学建构了泥石流最大抛程计算理论。     

西部公路发展策略研究

采用SWOT分析法作为西部公路发展策略的制定方法,在对西部公路交通系统的内外部环境影响因素归纳、剖析的基础上,给出了西部公路内外部环境分析与评价的方法,按重要性确定了西部公路发展环境的优势(S)与劣势(W)、机会(O)和威胁(T)因素,并采用定量与定性方法相结合提出了西部公路发展的建议策略,为西部公路发展在策略层面提供了理论指导。     

基于自适应遗传算法的路堤边坡稳定性分析方法

基于圆弧滑动面假定,提出了一种用自适应遗传算法搜索最危险滑动面及其对应的最小安全系数的新方法。该方法是一种改进的遗传算法,采用自适应求取适值、动态调整交叉率和变异率、自适应区间收缩。自适应遗传算法有效克服了传统方法易陷入局部极小的缺陷,提高了算法的搜索效率、精度和稳定性。     

沥青路面破损程度分级与破损换算系数取值的探讨

本文分析现行规范中对沥青路面破损程度、密度分级以及破损换算系数取值中存在问题,通过分析沥青路面破损程度与路面使用状况关系,结合沥青路面养护措施,提出沥青路面裂缝破损密度分级的方法,并对车辙破损严重程度分级标准、裂缝和车辙破损换算系数的修正值提出建议。