Incorporating sustainability assessment in transportation planning: an urban transportation vehicle-based approach

Environmental assessments are on the critical path for the development of land, infrastructure and transportation systems. These assessments are based on planning methods which, in turn, are subject to continuous enhancement. The substantial impacts of transportation on environment, society and economy strongly urge the incorporation of sustainability into transportation planning. Two major developments that enhance transportation sustainability are new fuels and vehicle power systems. Traditional planning ignores technology including the large differences among conventional, hybrid and alternative fuel vehicles and buses. The introduction of alternative fuel vehicles is likely to change the traditional transportation planning process because different characteristics need to be taken into account. In this study a sustainability framework is developed that enables assessment of transportation vehicle characteristics. Identified indicators are grouped in five sustainability dimensions (Environment, Technology, Energy, Economy and Users). Our methodology joins life cycle impacts and a set of quantified indicators to assess the sustainability performance of seven popular light-duty vehicles and two types of transit buses. Bus Rapid Transit receives the highest sustainability index and the pickup truck the lowest. Hybrid electric vehicles are found to have the highest sustainability index among all other passenger vehicles. A sensitivity analysis shows the proposed sustainability dimensions produce robust sustainability assessment for several weighting scenarios. The results are both technology and policy sensitive, thus useful for both short- and long-term planning.     

连锁零售业库存／配送一体化决策优化模型与算法

针对在一个区域内拥有一个配送中心和n个在地理位置上分散的连锁分店的连锁零售业．建立VMI思想下适合于A类商品和一些重要的B类和C类商品的单一商品确定型需求的库存／配送一体化优化模型，并采用逐步迭代的方法对模型进行求解，可得出使系统在一定时期总成本最小的经济订购批量，最后用一个算例使连锁零售业库存，配送一体化决策在物流成本节约方面的优越性得以验证。     

关于城市桥梁在8度强震区的抗震设计讨论

为了研究一般跨径城市桥梁在8度地震区的抗震设计方法,文章以具体工程为例,采用规范推荐的参数和公式,拟合出场地在E1和E2作用下水平地震动反应谱;通过有限元建模分析,对规范推荐的延性抗震体系和减隔震体系做了详细的计算和分析,研究结果标明:两种抗震体系均能满足相关规范的设计要求;但是减隔震体系在设计阶段造价更低,震后修复费用也较小,在经济性方面有较大的优势。     

城市轨道交通财务可持续发展探讨

虽然各城市的财政状况及轨道交通企业体制存在一些差异,但由于城市轨道交通本身的特性,大部分项目都面临着资本金不足、还本付息压力巨大、运营收支无法匹配等问题。从目前我国城市轨道交通财务方面的现状入手,分析其中存在的问题,并从投融资、成本控制、政策扶持等方面提出具体实施建议:减轻轨道交通企业债务成本,采取措施降低运营企业的成本负担,给予轨道交通企业必要的税费优惠政策,建立合理的票价调整机制,实现轨道交通企业收入来源多样化,建立政府购买服务的机制。     

本土音乐与城镇老龄群体音乐活动之关系探微——以甘肃省为例

音乐与其所处文化背景构成的共生关系，是一种普遍而又复杂的社会文化现象，而本土音乐与城市特定人群音乐活动之间的关系更以其特殊的文化形态，成为音乐社会学切入社会微观领域观测音乐与社会互动的重要角度。本文以甘肃省为例，探悉本土音乐与城镇老龄群体音乐活动之间的关系，并以此为镜像，观测当前本土音乐的存在现状及其文化变迁，进而为城市音乐文化研究提供一份重要资料。     

以数据为中心的舰载分布式系统

在分析传统的以处理为中心的舰载分布式系统存在的诸多瓶颈的基础上,研究了以数据为中心的设计方法。采用实时发布-订阅协议的数据分发服务,提供了1种以数据为中心的通信规范,定义了1个可扩展、与平台无关、与位置无关的基础服务模型。该模型在空间、时间、传输、功能方面都是松散耦合的。实时数据发布者和订阅者,通过设置和调整服务质量参数,可以实现不同的数据需求和传输方式。系统内的各种数据能轻松发送和接收,有利于系统灵活动态的扩展和升级,易于组建更大范围的应用系统。     

“多管齐下,方能解忧”——对改善城市交通环境的思索

结合时代特征,从当前城市交通矛盾的两个主要方面——交通需求和交通供给展开分析,以解决目前特大、大型城市交通拥堵问题。     

Dynamic diurnal social taxonomy of urban environments using data from a geocoded time use activity-travel diary and point-based business establishment inventory

In this paper, we explore the diurnal dynamics of joint activity participation in a small city in Pennsylvania, USA, using behavioral data and an inventory of business establishments. We account for the variation caused by the collective impact of social, temporal and spatial choices of individuals to produce predicted space–time visualizations of activity participation. The focus is on how social contexts of an activity impact the temporal and spatial decisions regarding the activity locations and how this impact varies depending on activity types. A comparison across activity types and social interaction types is made among spatial patterns during a day. The CentreSIM dataset, which is a household-based activity diary survey collected in Centre County (Pennsylvania, USA) in 2003, provides very detailed social interaction information enabling the analysis of social, spatial and temporal aspects of activity participation. In this paper we use this information to develop a spatio-temporal interpolation method and demonstration based on kriging. In this way, we extract the dynamic social taxonomy of places from the behavioral information in the dataset and suggest how urban and transportation models can be informed from the dynamics of places by observing “what is taking place” (activities being pursued in the context of this paper) combined with “what exists” (business establishments) or “what is available” (businesses that are open). The method here can also be used to improve the design of urban environments (e.g., filling gaps in desired activity locations), manage specific places (e.g., extending the opening and closing times of businesses), study transportation policies that are sensitive to time of day (e.g., pricing of parking to discourage crowding and traffic congestion), and modeling of spatio-temporal decisions of social activities in travel demand models (e.g., to guide the development of model specification and representation of the space in which behavioral models are applied).