Motorway crash duration and its determinants: do durations vary across motorways?

Traffic congestion has been a growing issue in many metropolitan areas during recent years, which necessitates the identification of its key contributors and development of sustainable strategies to help decrease its adverse impacts on traffic networks. Road incidents generally and crashes specifically have been acknowledged as the cause of a large proportion of travel delays in urban areas and account for 25% to 60% of traffic congestion on motorways. Identifying the critical determinants of travel delays has been of significant importance to the incident management systems, which constantly collect and store the incident duration data. This study investigates the individual and simultaneous differential effects of the relevant determinants on motorway crash duration probabilities. In particular, it applies parametric Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) hazard‐based models to develop in‐depth insights into how the crash‐specific characteristic and the associated temporal and infrastructural determinants impact the duration. AFT models with both fixed and random parameters have been calibrated on one year of traffic crash records from two major Australian motorways in South East Queensland, and the differential effects of determinants on crash survival functions have been studied on these two motorways individually. A comprehensive spectrum of commonly used parametric fixed parameter AFT models, including generalized gamma and generalized F families, has been compared with random parameter AFT structures in terms of goodness of fit to the duration data, and as a result, the random parameter Weibull AFT model has been selected as the most appropriate model. Significant determinants of motorway crash duration included traffic diversion requirement, crash injury type, number and type of vehicles involved in a crash, day of week and time of day, towing support requirement and damage to the infrastructure. A major finding of this research is that the motorways under study are significantly different in terms of crash durations; such that motorway 1 exhibits durations that are on average 19% shorter compared with the durations on motorway 2. The differential effects of explanatory variables on crash durations are also different on the two motorways. The detailed presented analysis confirms that looking at the motorway network as a whole, neglecting the individual differences between roads, can lead to erroneous interpretations of duration and inefficient strategies for mitigating travel delays along a particular motorway.     

基于SIMULINK的岸边集装箱起重机减摇系统仿真

在岸边集装箱起重机起升机构和小车运行机构模型的基础上建立简化的单摆模型,通过对模型的受力分析建立非线性方程.同时在MATLAB的SIMUUNK环境下对此模型进行动态仿真,达到通过控制小车的驱动力来控制吊具的摆角的目的.     

CBTC系统基于站台局域无线覆盖的后备控制等级功能扩展

讨论目前CBTC系统中不同等级后备模式的工作原理及存在的功能缺陷,提出了一种在现有系统上增加站台区域车-地双向无线通信覆盖以实现站区紧急停车防护和站台屏蔽门控制的技术解决方案。     

导弹装备基于状态的维修理论研究

随着导弹装备的复杂化,传统的维修方式日益暴露弊端.基于状态的维修（CBM）在实践应用中日益显示其优越性和巨大的经济效益.论文分析了CBM的特点,阐述了CBM的实施条件,进一步分析了基于CBM的导弹装备维修流程.     

基于模型扰动抑制的直线伺服电机滑模鲁棒控制

针对直接驱动的交流永磁直线电机直接驱动伺服系统,提出一种将模型扰动抑制方法和滑模控制相结合构成的鲁棒跟踪控制策略.滑模控制器保证了系统对给定的快速跟踪性能;而模型扰动抑制补偿器在很大程度上抑制了速度闭环系统内的各种扰动（包括负载及直线电机的端部效应力等）,从而削弱滑模控制的抖振对系统稳态性能的影响.仿真结果表明该方案在保证伺服系统的快速性同时,对系统参数变化和阻力扰动具有很强的鲁棒性.     

GLOBAL MEASURE ON IMAGE CONTENT

IntroductionContent- based image retrieval has been proposedto allow retrieval to be performed on the basis ofa variety of aspects of image content[1] .A chal-lenging problem arises with many imagedatabases,within which queries are posed via vi-sual or pictorial examples.A common visualquery to an image database system would involvefinding all images in the database which containa subimage that is similar to the query image.Such retrievals must be based on embedded con-tent features,such as sh…     

大型跨海桥梁防撞设施设计与施工技术

结合大型跨海桥梁防撞研究的特点,根据桥区的环境特点和防撞要求,提出适合大型跨海桥梁主通航孔的防撞方案.通过对桥梁防撞方案进行选型研究,考虑采用释能附体钢套箱保护桥梁的主通航孔桥墩,这种防撞设施占用航道空间少,易于制造和维护,具有良好的经济性.采用双层组合模块化防撞钢套箱设计,应用大量自动化焊接、涂装设备,保证大型防撞钢...     

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1.Institute of Transportation Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084,China； 2.Bureau of Lanzhou Urban Planning and Management, Lanzhou 730030,China     

A numerical investigation of the impact of turbulence on the feeding rates of Oithona davisae

Individual based numerical simulations of the copepod, Oithona davisae, feeding on motile prey, Oxyrrhis marina, under variable turbulent conditions are performed. These simulations correspond to laboratory observations conducted by Saiz et al. [Saiz, E., Calbet, A., and Broglio, E., 2003. Effects of small-scale turbulence on copepods: the case of Oithona Davisae. Limnol. Oceanogr., 48:1304–1311.].The flow field in the simulation is reconstructed by a kinematic simulation whose characteristic scales are derived from the grid mesh and the dissipation rates of the laboratory experiments. The kinematic simulation provides a simplified model, which while not fully realistic, captures the basic relevant feature of turbulence. A hop and sink swimming behaviour is prescribed for O. davisae, while O. marina moves along helical paths with random changes of directions.Three possible effects are tested: the existence of a time threshold in the duration of the contacts between predator and prey, a progressive reduction of the perceptive distance with increasing turbulence level and an abrupt reduction in feeding of O. davisae when the flow speed, in relation to the copepod position, is higher than a prescribed threshold. This last approach introduces an intermittency in the feeding which depends on the variations of velocity both in space and time within the numerical box.The introduction of the time threshold causes a dome-shaped relationship between the simulated enhancement factor and the dissipation rate, while with the other two effects, a monotonic decrease in the enhancement factor is observed, with values reasonably close to the ones observed in the laboratory experiment. In all the cases, the use of realistic values of biological parameters (e.g. swimming behaviour) reproduces response curves in the range of the observations.     

铁路电力设备的状态检修技术探讨

在借鉴国际经验和研究我国铁路电力设备检修现状的基础上,找出了我国铁路电力设备检修中存在的不足;重点阐述了电力设备检修技术进步的情况,对优化管理状态修的可行性模式进行了论证,给出了电力设备检修优化管理的思路与建议。