Vehicle kilometers traveled reduction impacts of Transit-Oriented Development: Evidence from Shanghai City

The role of residential self-selection has become a major subject in the debate over the relationships between the built environment and travel behavior. Numerous previous empirical studies on this subject have provided valuable insights into the associations between the built environment and travel behavior. However, the vast majority of the studies were conducted in North American and European cities; yet this research is still in its infancy in most developing countries, including China, where residential and transport choices are likely to be more constrained and travel-related attitudes quite different from those in the developed world. Using the data collected from 2038 residents currently living in TOD neighborhoods and non-TOD neighborhoods in Shanghai City, this paper aims to partly fill the gaps by investigating the causal relationship between the built environment and travel behavior in the Chinese context. More specifically, this paper employs Heckman’s sample selection model to examine the reduction impacts of TOD on personal vehicle kilometers traveled (VKT), controlling for self-selection. The results show that whilst the effects of residential self-selection are apparent; the built environment exhibits the most significant impacts on travel behavior, playing the dominant role. These findings produce a sound basis for local policymakers to better understand the nature and magnitude toward the impacts of the built environment on travel behavior. Providing the government department with reassurance that effective interventions and policies on land use aimed toward altering the built environment would actually lead to meaningful changes in travel behavior.     

铁路沿线城市空间物业开发研究——以宝鸡市南客站核心区站前广场工程为例

为了提升铁路沿线城市空间物业开发的设计手法,结合宝鸡市南客站核心区站前广场工程的设计实践,从系统性设计观、工程性质解析、消防设计思路、空间建构方法、无缝接驳、技术要素等方面进行研究分析,展示将铁路与城市系统进行一体化设计、利用自然资源解决消防和投资问题、平层空间中对多种交通体系的有机组织、不同坐标和高程系统背景下分区域构建柱网、各板块交接处的问题解决等技术成果,总结出同类型建筑的设计思路,力求为该领域的建筑设计发展提供有益的借鉴。     

Evaluating sustainability of supply chains by two-stage range directional measure in the presence of negative data

Assessing sustainability of supply chains is a critical and increasingly complex problem. In recent years sustainability has received more attention in supply chain management (SCM) literature with triple bottom lines including social, environmental, and economic factors. Conventional data envelopment analysis (DEA) models consider decision making units (DMUs) as black boxes that consume a set of inputs to produce a set of outputs and do not take into consideration internal interactions of DMUs. Two-stage DEA models deal with such DMUs. However, existing two-stage DEA models are applicable only in technologies characterized by positive inputs/outputs. This paper aims to build and present a new two-stage DEA model considering negative input-intermediate-output data. Some numerical examples along with some theorems and properties are given to show capability of proposed method. The proposed ideas are used in a case study where 29 Iranian supply chains producing equipment of expendable medical devices are evaluated in terms of sustainability.     

A multi-objective optimization model for sustainable logistics facility location

This paper offers an exploratory study of sustainable facility location. The methodology, based on the classical uncapacitated facility location problem, provides decision makers with a multi-objective optimization model to determine the trade-off among economic, service and environmental considerations. Our results indicate that it may be desirable to open more facilities than optimal from a narrow economic perspective to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of transport and to improve service reliability.     

高等教育大众化视阈下的高等职业教育质量观刍议

随着我国高等教育大众化进程的不断推进,高等职业教育的教育质量成了全社会最为关注的问题．文章运用高等教育理论并结合当前高等职业教育发展的现状,对新时期高等职业教育质量现进行了导引性研究,旨在为目前高等职业教育的发展挖掘和提供多雏视角．     

面向PHM的高速列车谱系化产品技术平台开发和实践

为实现不同速度等级、不同运用环境下高速列车的快速设计、快速制造以及保证谱系产品的健康运营和管理,提出并构建由数据平台、设计平台、制造平台和健康管理平台组成的面向故障预测与健康管理(PHM)的高速列车谱系化产品技术平台.首先,剖析高速列车谱系化与健康管理平台的融合机制,集成零部件研制与使用阶段的研发数据;其次,从技术架构...     

TOD模式效益分析及评价指标体系

本文以TOD模式结构及功能分析为基础,通过确立模式开发涉及的效益主体及其期望目标,遵循效益最大化原则,将TOD模式系统效益划分为交通系统效益、经济效益、社会效益、环境效益4类进行评价分析.同时,在特性分析基础上,进一步确立了效益指标设置思路,并采用层次分析法建立了完整的TOD模式效益评价指标体系,为评价TOD模式效益并促进模式的进一步发展提供了理论支持.     

积极推广应用西部项目成果促进广西交通事业发展

文章介绍了近几年广西交通厅在推广应用和加快西部科技项目成果转化方面采取的措施,阐述了积极推广应用西部项目成果对促进广西交通事业发展的意义。     

论公路职工教育与公路文化建设

文章针对公路行业职工教育现状,分析公路职工教育存在的问题及原因,从提高职工综合素质、加强职工＂三种文化＂建设等方面阐述了加强公路职工教育与公路文化建设的对策。     

百色低碳物流发展浅析

文章阐述了百色发展低碳物流的必要性,分析了百色低碳物流发展所面临的问题,提出了针对性的低碳物流发展思路及建议。