两相邻路口的混杂自动机模型与信号协调控制

根据相邻路口间相互关系,利用混杂自动机模型确定路口信号周期单元,利用道路车流运动模型确定2个相邻交通路口的信号延时参数,并提出了一种信号灯优化策略来协调控制方案。在此条件下,寻找相邻交叉路口信号灯在动态交通条件下的最佳轮转次序和最佳绿信比。仿真结果表明,此方法可以有效地协调两相邻路口的红绿灯信号,在一定程度上改善了路段的交通状况。     

基于最优加权Steiner树的枢纽型物流中心选址问题

为了满足近年来物流运输业快速发展的需要,促进物流中转运输网络的合理化建设,研究了枢纽型物流中心的功能和选址原则,详细分析了影响枢纽型物流中心选址的各种因素,提出了基于结点带权的欧氏Steiner最优树的枢纽型物流中心选址方案.针对该方案设计了相应的智能优化算法,并进行了具体的程序实现.借助该方案不仅可以使总的运输成本最小,而且能够在无需事先确定备选点的数量和位置的情况下实现同时确定枢纽型物流中心的数量及位置的目标.最后以长三角地区枢纽型物流中心的建设问题为背景,对各种数据进行了仔细的分析比较,从中确定若干区域作为物流服务需求点集,并将各种因素的综合效用作为物流需求点的权值,对上述算法进行了有效性验证.     

Decomposition analysis of decoupling freight transport from economic growth in China

Freight transport industry plays a significant role in boosting economic growth, while also creating many negative externalities for social welfare and the environment. Using data from 1997 to 2017, this study employs the complete decomposition technique to identify the driving forces of freight transport and explores its internal relations with economic growth in China. The decomposition analysis focuses on four factors that are responsible for freight transport: economic activity, industrial structure, transport intensity, and haulage distance. Then, the decoupling index is adopted to examine the decoupling relationship between freight transport and economic growth in China. The results showed that weak decoupling between freight transport and economic growth was the main state during the study period. A strong decoupling effect was identified in 1997–1998, 2012–2013, and 2014–2015, whereas no decoupling effect was observed in 1998–1999, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012. The transport intensity was the most important contributor to the decoupling progress, the industrial structure effect played a role in promoting the decoupling progress over half of the years during the research period, and the haulage distance effect facilitated the decoupling progress in more than one-third of the years examined.     

Forecasting the impacts of climate change on inland waterways

Inland waterways are vulnerable to climate change as river navigation depends on water levels. Droughts can severely disrupt inland navigation services by reducing water levels either to completely non-navigable ones or to levels that oblige operators to reduce vessel load. We analyse the impacts of droughts induced by climate change using projections of river discharge data provided by eleven different climate model runs. We consider location specific characteristics by focusing the analysis on four specific locations of the Rhine and the Danube where a substantial part of the total freight activity in the European Union (EU) takes place. For the majority of the cases and scenarios considered, a decrease of the number of low water level days is projected, leading to fewer drought related disruptions in the operation of the inland waterway transport system. Although the uncertainties from the climate projections should not be neglected, the navigation sector could benefit from global warming which means that European inland waterways might be one of the few sectors where climate change can have negligible, or even positive, impact. The average economic benefit, for the cases considered, from the decrease of low water levels by the end of the century is projected to be almost €8million annually.     

Data-driven ferry network design with candidate service arcs: the case of Zhuhai Islands in China

ABSTRACT

We investigate a ferry network design problem with candidate service arcs (FNDP-SA), which is a new variant motivated by areal-world case from Zhuhai Islands. In this research, the design of a ferry schedule must conform to strict constraints including technical feasibility, safety issues, environmental impacts and moreover, avoid conflicting with ferries from neighboring cities (i.e. HongKong, Shenzhen and Macao). Therefore, a set of cautiously approved service arcs are firstly given, based on which the ferry service network is optimized. This study is among the first to formally describe the FNDP-SA and model it as an integer program. A hybrid variable neighborhood descent (VND)-based algorithm is developed. Two sets of instances are generated based on the case of Zhuhai Islands, where the first set is based on historical ticket sales data while the second set is derived by incorporating increased demands in the future according to a questionnaire survey. Numerical studies have shown that 59% cost reduction on the first set can be achieved by the proposed VND algorithm when compared with manual results. Research outcomes of this study have been adopted and implemented to facilitate the sustainable development of the ferry service of Zhuhai Islands.     

A distributed VNS algorithm for optimizing dial-a-ride problems in large-scale scenarios

These days, transportation and logistic problems in large cities are demanding smarter transportation services that provide flexibility and adaptability. A possible solution to this arising problem is to compute the best routes for each new scenario. In this problem, known in the literature as the dial-a-ride problem, a number of passengers are transported between pickup and delivery locations trying to minimize the routing costs while respecting a set of prespecified constraints. This problem has been solved in the literature with several approaches from small to medium sized problems. However, few efforts have dealt with large scale problems very common in massive scenarios (big cities or highly-populated regions). In this study, a new distributed algorithm based on the partition of the requests space and the combination of the routes is presented and tested on a set of 24 different scenarios of a large-scale problem (up to 16,000 requests or 32,000 locations) in the city of San Francisco. The results show that, not only the distributed algorithm is able to solve large problem instances that the corresponding sequential algorithm is unable to solve in a reasonable time, but also to have an average improvement of 9% in the smaller problems. The results have been validated by means of statistical procedures proving that the distributed algorithm can be an effective way to solve high dimensional dial-a-ride problems.     

湛茂阳城市带县域综合交通可达性研究

在借鉴已有研究成果的基础上,以湛茂阳城市带18个县域单位为研究对象,通过利用综合交通可达性指数及交通区位优势度、县域内交通连通度和对外通达性三个分指数,全面分析湛江国际机场搬迁前后湛茂阳城市带各县级行政区的交通可达性空间格局特征。结果表明:湛江国际机场搬迁后,湛茂阳城市带综合交通可达性得到明显提升,较高可达性市县区由7个增加至10个;表现出更强的空间集聚性和空间自相关,并且形成以湛江各区、茂南区和江城区为中心,沿海连续形成可达性高值带状片区。对湛茂阳城市带县域尺度综合交通可达性进行研究能够为区域协调均衡发展提供更好的理论和实践指导。     

基于不确定理论的常规公交车辆调度优化

为提高公交车的利用效率，本文将公交车辆调度方案划分为高峰型和平峰型。在考虑乘 客候车时间与站间运行时间不确定的现实条件下，综合考虑不同车型的运营成本和乘客候车成 本；基于不确定理论建立混合车型下的双重不确定多目标规划模型，并通过遗传算法的python编 码求解。以南昌市211路公交上行为例，进行sumo仿真结果表明：在保证公交持续运营的前提 下，调整车辆调度方案有助于降低成本和提高运行效率；在高峰期，将发车间隔降低25%，公交车 统一使用纯电动客车，总成本降低5%，平均延误减少4%；平峰期，总成本降低10%，平均延误降 低3%。两组仿真结果发现，考虑不确定因素的公交车辆合理调度安排有利于充分利用公交车辆 资源和提高运行效率。     

交通运输综合执法提升水运企业监管效能的思考

文章以南通市交通综合行政执法为例,通过分析原执法模式存在的不足和问题,解析综合执法的意义,并对如何提升综合执法效能进行探讨。     

铁路运输企业视角下的公、铁运输企业短期博弈分析

在"一带一路"战略背景下,铁路物流中心的公铁联运业务至关重要。公铁联运业务各主体的协同存在易变性,资源双方是否信任会影响各自的策略选择。本文以铁路运输企业为主导,铁路运输企业接到客户公铁联运订单时会借助平台发布公路运输需求信息,公路运输企业根据自身情况向铁路运输企业表达意愿,最后铁路运输企业根据其采取的策略找到自身是否接受合作的均衡条件。本文通过对公、铁运输企业的短期博弈分析,找到双方合作的均衡条件,为双方利益分配奠定基础。