Analysis of factors that may be essential in the decision to fly on fully autonomous passenger airliners

This research investigates factors that influence opinion in the decision to fly on fully autonomous passenger airliners primarily from the perspective of aviation and technology professionals. Bayesian statistical inference and a two‐level fractional factorial survey are used to sample passengers' views on fully autonomous airliners. Eight trust, safety, and cost factors are incorporated into a vignette set in the future. Factors include automation levels, safety records, liability guarantees, airline integrity, and service disruptions. Dependent variables exist in five post‐vignette questions and essentially ask “Would you” or “Would you not” be willing to fly on a fully autonomous airliner? Sixteen versions of the vignette, each with unique trust, safety, and cost levels, present varying (unknown) degrees of influence to the survey respondents. For every demographic, the research shows a 99% statistically significant difference between the “prior” and “posterior” sampled population proportions willing to fly. The most significant positive influence involves integrity characteristics of the airline, while the most negative influence relates to life insurance liability guarantees. Research from 2003 suggested that this mode of travel would be acceptable to only 10.5% of respondents. When the 2003 research is used as a Bayesian prior probability, the resulting posterior probability for the demographics sampled can be modeled as a beta distribution, indicating 95% probability that the sampled proportion of the population willing to fly is between 33.2% and 36.4%. After adjusting for age and profession demographics to match the US population, the 95% probability bounds on the proportion willing to fly are 31.35% and 34.15%. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

基于模糊逻辑推理的燃料电池客车再生制动控制策略

以燃料电池客车为研究对象,在分析城市公交客车制动特点的基础上,进行了制动能量回收的分析计算,提出了一种简单实用的再生制动控制策略的模糊化设计方法。道路试验表明,该设计具有明显的节能效果。     

基于非完备贝叶斯网络的车型识别方法

针对BP神经网络等车型识别算法不能很好地适应我国车型复杂状况，分析了贝叶斯网络（IDS-BN）算法中完备数据集的问题，提出了基于非完备数据集的贝叶斯网络车型识别方法和车型识别系统结构模块，基于该模块拟定了车型特征变量．构建了车型识别网络模型，并给出了模型参数学习、车型分类器等算法，包括MDL评分和贪婪搜索的结构学习、EM参数学习、随机模拟采样推理等。实验表明，该方法识别率较高，鲁棒性好，满足我国车型识别的实际要求。     

基于小波包分解和特征能量提取技术的车内传导干扰源识别

车内大功率用电设备的电压波动是车内产生传导干扰的主要原因。文中介绍了通过对采集的干扰信号进行小波包分解,对系数进行最小风险的去噪处理,然后提取特征能量来识别车内传导干扰源。最后采用EM-test设备发生干扰信号进行实验,结果表明该方法对车内电压波动的主要干扰源有较强的识别能力。     

信号控制下交叉口延误计算方法研究

为了对交通信号控制参数进行优化,需要对交叉口延误进行定量的分析与计算。根据信号控制交叉口理论,在以往定时信号延误研究的基础上,基于交叉口一个进口方向的车辆延误分析,针对交叉口各进口方向同时处于非饱和与同时处于过饱和交通状况,分析并推导了交叉口延误公式.并用具体的算例说明了公式的用法。公式表明了交叉口延误与信号控制参数、车辆到达率等参数之间的动态关系,为进一步研究交通信号自适应控制方法和建立交通信号控制参数优化的性能指标函数提供了信息。     

适用于一票制公交大数据的系统化处理方法及应用 ——以银川市为例

为分析公交乘客出行特征,利用公交IC卡数据、公交GPS数据、车载机数据和单程站点关系表,通过各类数据关联融合,提出适用于一票制公交大数据的系统化处理方法。基于Oracle搭建分析数据库,采用Python语言编写代码,构建了乘客上车站点推断算法、基于出行链的乘客下车站点推断算法、基于概率的乘客下车站点推断算法和乘客换乘站点识别算法4种站点推断算法。基于此,运用银川公交大数据进行客流集散点识别、客流走廊识别,得到公交站点上下客流量分布情况、公交线路客流量分布情况、公交站点的换乘客流量分布情况。研究结果表明,一票制公交大数据系统化处理方法在分析公交乘客出行特征方面具有一定的应用价值。     

Lights,camera, legal action! The effectiveness of red light cameras on collisions in Los Angeles

This study estimates the effect of red light cameras (henceforth cameras) on collisions under the Los Angeles Automated Photo Enforcement Program that ran from 2006 to 2011. To control for selection bias and unobservables, a data set is constructed such that intersections with cameras are compared to control groups of nearby intersections without cameras, matched on observable characteristics. To capture potential spillover effects of cameras, control groups at various distances from the intersections with cameras are considered. A Poisson panel data model with random coefficients is applied to these data and estimated using Bayesian methods. The program suffered from weaknesses in enforcement. The city’s courts did not uphold citations and this dampened the effect cameras had on drivers. These problems are accounted for in modeling. Controlling for these concerns, results indicate that the cameras decreased red light running related collisions, but increased right-angle and injury collisions, as well as collisions overall.     

Travel time estimation from sparse floating car data with consistent path inference: A fixed point approach

Estimation of urban network link travel times from sparse floating car data (FCD) usually needs pre-processing, mainly map-matching and path inference for finding the most likely vehicle paths that are consistent with reported locations. Path inference requires a priori assumptions about link travel times; using unrealistic initial link travel times can bias the travel time estimation and subsequent identification of shortest paths. Thus, the combination of path inference and travel time estimation is a joint problem. This paper investigates the sensitivity of estimated travel times, and proposes a fixed point formulation of the simultaneous path inference and travel time estimation problem. The methodology is applied in a case study to estimate travel times from taxi FCD in Stockholm, Sweden. The results show that standard fixed point iterations converge quickly to a solution where input and output travel times are consistent. The solution is robust under different initial travel times assumptions and data sizes. Validation against actual path travel time measurements from the Google API and an instrumented vehicle deployed for this purpose shows that the fixed point algorithm improves shortest path finding. The results highlight the importance of the joint solution of the path inference and travel time estimation problem, in particular for accurate path finding and route optimization.     

高速铁路轨道基准网测量与数据处理新方法

高速铁路轨道基准网在我国工程测量领域是个新生事物,最近几年才从德国引进。本文在学习德国测量技术的前提下,结合这几年在我国的应用情况,在分析总结其优缺点的基础上,提出与德国方法完全不同的、具有自主知识产权的CPⅣ网测量与数据处理的新方法。新方法中采用13m间隔布设CPⅣ点,CPⅣ点采用强制对中标志,采用构网法进行CPⅣ平面网的自动测量,根据中视法的高差构建具有多余观测的CPⅣ高程网,对CPⅣ平面网和CPⅣ高程网进行严密间接平差和验后精度评定。新的CPⅣ网测量精度和测量效率更高,数量处理理论更严谨。观测实验结果表明：本文提出的新方法理论严谨、切实可行,值得推广应用。     

Severity of pedestrian injuries due to traffic crashes at signalized intersections in Hong Kong: a Bayesian spatial logit model

The present study intended to (1) investigate the injury risk of pedestrian casualties involved in traffic crashes at signalized intersections in Hong Kong; (2) determine the effect of pedestrian volumes on the severity levels of pedestrian injuries; and (3) explore the role of spatial correlation in econometric crash‐severity models. The data from 1889 pedestrian‐related crashes at 318 signalized intersections between 2008 and 2012 were elaborately collected from the Traffic Accident Database System maintained by the Hong Kong Transport Department. To account for the cross‐intersection heterogeneity, a Bayesian hierarchical logit model with uncorrelated and spatially correlated random effects was developed. An intrinsic conditional autoregressive prior was specified for the spatial correlation term. Results revealed that (1) signalized intersections with greater pedestrian volumes generally exhibited a lower injury risk; (2) ignoring the spatial correlation potentially results in reduced model goodness‐of‐fit, an underestimation of variability and standard error of parameter estimates, as well as inconsistent, biased, and erroneous inference; (3) special attention should be paid to the following factors, which led to a significantly higher probability of pedestrians being killed or sustaining severe injury: pedestrian age greater than 65 years, casualties with head injuries, crashes that occurred on footpaths that were not obstructed/overcrowded, heedless or inattentive crossing, crashes on the two‐way carriageway, and those that occurred near tram or light‐rail transit stops. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.