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PHA-LEC-SCL法公路隧道施工安全评价研究

为了制定科学的公路隧道施工安全评价的基本模式,针对公路隧道施工的危险、有害因素的危害程度及特殊工艺,将公路隧道施工系统分为隧道开挖、爆破、施工用电、施工通风、出碴与洞内运输、支护衬砌等6个主要子系统.运用预先危险性分析法(PHA)对公路隧道施工的危险、危害因素进行辨识和定性分析,结合作业条件危险性评价法(LEC)对公路隧道施工系统中各子系统进行危险性评价,定量分析计算PHA中的子系统各个危险因素的危险等级,并采用安全检查表(SCL)对公路隧道施工现场进行安全综合评价,建立了安全评价方法之间的内在联系.PHA-LEC-SCL法确立了公路隧道施工安全评价的基本模式.     

屏山渡湘江大桥设计

屏山渡湘江大桥采用预应力混凝土连续箱梁,跨径组合为45 270 45m,桥墩高度仅7·4m。文章简要介绍了该桥的总体方案设计、上部结构设计、计算要点以及底板上弯钢束布置,为类似桥梁的设计提供借鉴。     

横滩整治措施与效果分析

文章介绍了横滩整治工程的措施与效果,分析该滩获得成功整治的关键技术与经验,为类似工程提供参考。     

Identifying preferences for public transport investments under a constrained budget

As urban areas face increasing demands for new transport infrastructure to promote a sustainable future with an increasing reality of constrained government budgets, the debate on whether we should focus on rail or bus-based investments continues unabated in many jurisdictions. Associated with the debate is an emotional (or ideological) bias by communities in favour of one mode, especially rail, which carries much sway at the political level as if there is no budget constraint. This paper presents a stated choice experiment to investigate this context as two unlabelled options described by 20 potential drivers of community preferences for improved public transport, where each choice scenario is conditioned on an estimated construction cost and a total annual transport infrastructure budget for the relevant geographical jurisdiction. This is followed by a labelling of each alternative to reveal whether the option is bus rapid transit (BRT) or light rail (LRT) and to establish whether this additional information influences preference revision. Data is collected in all eight capital cities of Australia in mid 2014. Mixed logit models with heteroscedastic conditioning in terms of the cost of the project infrastructure and whether the alternative is labelled BRT or LRT, provide new evidence on the nature and extent of community modal bias in a budget-constrained choice setting. The conclusions are twofold. On the one hand, if a fully compensatory choice rule is assumed (as is common in all previous modal comparison studies), LRT is predominantly preferred over BRT despite budgetary constraints, similarities in quality of service attributes and the opportunity to choose a greater network coverage for a given construction cost. However, when we allow for attribute non-attendance (a semi-compensatory choice rule), the modal bias is no longer a significant driver of preferences.     

Cooperation in transit delivery in West German metropolitan areas

West Germany is densely populated, averaging 245 inhabitants/km², but varying widely between urban agglomerations and rural areas. Transport volume has increased by 40% since 1970, with virtually all growth due to private automobiles. Since 1981 public transit has been suffering from decreasing demand.A 1964 Expert's Report to the German federal government was the stimulus for initiating an effective funding mechanism for new public transit construction. In 1965 Germany's first federated transit authority was founded for the region of Hamburg.Principal among the goals of any cooperative agreement among transit companies are improvements for the passengers and improvement of revenues for the companies. To attain these ends, two distinct forms of transit aggrements have been developed in Germany: transit cooperative (Verkehrsgemeinschaft) and transit federation (Verkehrsverbund). The former is more suitable for smaller to medium-sized towns, while the latter is more suitable for larger cities. The two types are described in this article.German transit federations during the 1970s succeeded in significantly increasing ridership, while during the 1980s patronage has either remained steady or has declined. Yet transit federations showed much better perfomance than did public transit in general. In terms of costs and revenues, no public transit organization in Germany is able to break even; deficits vary between 42% and 55%. The author concludes, however, that hidden subsidies for automobile traffic are far higher, because of environmental damage and the high social cost of traffic accidents.     

信息化条件下炮兵火力计划评估

通过对影响炮兵火力计划评估的各指标因素的分析，构建了各炮兵火力计划评估指标模型，为评估炮兵火力计划的优劣及炮兵火力计划的优选提供有益的参考。     

一种特殊工况下的船闸施工工艺介绍

以上海赵家沟船闸工程为例,提出不同于传统的新型船闸施工工艺流程。将深基坑支护施工技术与船闸施工技术有机结合,并采取若干工艺改进。新工艺解决了在城市环境下特殊工况船闸施工的难题。     

公路工程索赔费用的计算

介绍了公路工程索赔费用实践的过程,详述了索赔费用的计算方法,并分析了索赔费用的实例,在正确运用索赔、维护企业的正当权益、改变亏损局面方面具有重大意义。     

沥青路面基层与面层局部粘结失效的受力分析

采用ANSYS通用计算软件,考虑不同的粘结状态,对沥青路面基层和面层间局部粘结状态变化时,各层底面的最大主应力和最大剪应力的变化情况进行计算。结果表明:当车轮荷载作用在粘结状态变化区域时,上面层和下面层底面的最大主拉应力随粘结的失效显著增加,中面层底面的最大主拉应力和各层底面的最大剪应力受粘结状态变化的影响较小;当车轮荷载作用在粘结状态完好区域边缘时,各面层底面将产生较大的剪应力,但最大剪应力受粘结状态变化的影响较小。