我国近期道路交通事故发展趋势分析与预测

在讨论发达国家交通事故发展变化规律及我国道路交通安全现状的基础上,对我国近期交通安全形势进行分析,并采用灰色系统理论对我国未来五年的交通事故总量进行预测。对于提高道路安全水平具有积极的意义。     

绕碰撞点转动的汽车二维碰撞速度分析

利用刹车印公式、动量守恒定理和相对质心转动的冲量矩定理．通过测量出碰撞点的位置,在不需要车辆回转角速度、法向弹性恢复系数和切向相时滑动摩擦系数的情况下,推算出一种两汽车发生二维碰撞时的速度。     

机动车超速行驶防范对策分析

机动丰超速行驶是引起交通事故的主要原因,是严重的道路交通违法行为之一。机动丰超速是由于驾驶人没有及时纠正驾驶过程中的误判、误动的结果。引起超速的原因包括驾驶人、机动车、交通安全设施和其他因素四个方面,应从教育培训、法律、交通安全设施、交通科技四个方面采取措施预防超速。     

区域经济分析与地方公路交通量预测分析

论述区域经济分析过程中的注意要点,介绍经济发展的预测方法,阐述交通量与区域经济之间的相关性及几种模型的应用。     

双车道公路事故多发点成因及防治措施

根据某公路的历年事故统计资料,对双车道公路典型事故多发点按照其所处的位置,从一般公路段、平面交叉口及城镇化公路段三个类别对事故发生的原因进行详细的分析,最后针对各种事故的成因提出原则性对策,指导事故多发点的整治改造。     

交通事故摄影测量中相机标定的扩展两步法

为了利用摄影测量技术提高交通事故数据采集的效率,分析了交通事故与相机标定方法的特点,提出了交通事故现场摄影测量的扩展两步相机标定方法。在扩展两步标定方法中,首先对相机进行线性标定,然后进行非线性修正,最后进行图像校正,并提出了完整的标定步骤和程序,进行了相机标定实验。扩展方法标定的结果与线性标定结果相比,最大绝对误差和相对误差分别为10.9和1.7%,最小绝对误差和相对误差分别为4.1和1.0%,表明扩展两步相机标定方法能够显著提高相机标定精度,抗噪性能稳定。     

江西省高速公路路侧交通事故统计分析和路侧障碍物处理对策

通过调查江西省昌樟高速梅林段、梨温高速和泰井高速2006年至2007年单车路侧交通事故,详细记录并分析事故资料,总结出江西省高速公路单车路侧事故的特点以及相应路侧障碍物在路侧事故中的反应特点,提出13种常见路侧障碍物的处理对策。     

Efficient missing data imputing for traffic flow by considering temporal and spatial dependence

The missing data problem remains as a difficulty in a diverse variety of transportation applications, e.g. traffic flow prediction and traffic pattern recognition. To solve this problem, numerous algorithms had been proposed in the last decade to impute the missed data. However, few existing studies had fully used the traffic flow information of neighboring detecting points to improve imputing performance. In this paper, probabilistic principle component analysis (PPCA) based imputing method, which had been proven to be one of the most effective imputing methods without using temporal or spatial dependence, is extended to utilize the information of multiple points. We systematically examine the potential benefits of multi-point data fusion and study the possible influence of measurement time lags. Tests indicate that the hidden temporal–spatial dependence is nonlinear and could be better retrieved by kernel probabilistic principle component analysis (KPPCA) based method rather than PPCA method. Comparison proves that imputing errors can be notably reduced, if temporal–spatial dependence has been appropriately considered.     

Modeling the Car-Truck Interaction in a System-Optimal Dynamic Traffic Assignment Model

Several transportation problems, such as implementation of truck-only lanes, require understanding the interaction of heterogeneous dynamic traffic flows in order to provide accurate solutions. System-optimal dynamic traffic assignment can be modeled using a network loading procedure based on the cell transmission model, that is, the hydrodynamic wave model, and solved by linear programming. However, this framework cannot handle the asymmetric integration between the flow of trucks and cars. This article presents a novel formulation for network loading in system-optimal dynamic traffic assignment considering car–truck interactions. By using an embedded cell transmission model, this formulation incorporates a set of assumptions related to the kinematic characteristics of the flow of cars, trucks, and their interactions that can be solved using linear programming. We present numerical results supporting our modeling assumptions. Likewise, the observed emergent behavior captures the car–truck interactions accurately and indicates that minimum system-optimal travel time is obtained by encouraging cars to use highways with shorter distances.     

Did California’s hand-held cell phone ban reduce accidents?

On July 1st, 2008, California enacted a ban on hand-held cell phone use while driving. Using California Highway Patrol panel accident data for California freeways from January 1st, 2008 to December 31st, 2008, we examine whether this policy reduced the number of accidents on California highways. To control for unobserved time-varying effects that could be correlated with the ban, we use high-frequency data and a regression discontinuity design. We find no evidence that the ban on hand-held cell phone use led to a reduction in traffic accidents.