Using the built environment to oversample walk,transit, and bicycle travel

Characteristics of the built environment (BE) have been associated with walk, transit, and bicycle travel. These BE characteristics can be used by transportation researchers to oversample households from areas where walk, transit, or bicycle travel is more likely, resulting in more observations of these uncommon travel behaviors. Little guidance, however, is available on the effectiveness of such built environment oversampling strategies. This article presents measures that can be used to assess the effectiveness of BE oversampling strategies and inform future efforts to oversample households with uncommon travel behaviors. The measures are sensitivity and specificity, positive likelihood ratio (LR+), and positive predictive value (PPV). To illustrate these measures, they were calculated for 10 BE-defined oversampling strata applied post-hoc to a Seattle area household travel survey. Strata with an average block size of <10 acres within a ¼ mile of household residences held the single greatest potential for oversampling households that walk, use transit, and/or bicycle.     

隧道数值模拟计算边界范围研究

本文以某高速公路隧道的开挖和支护过程为工程实例,采用有限差分法岩土分析软件Adina进行全过程模拟,旨在分析模型的边界效应对相应求解精度的影响。研究方法是在其它条件同等的情况下,采用不同的模型边界范围建模,并分别独立进行模拟求解,通过比较不同模型下同一截面的力学响应的差异,进而分析模型边界范围这一单因素对隧洞开挖数值模拟的精度影响。研究思路和结论可以为类似的数值模拟关于如何合理地选择模型边界范围提供参考,从而使模拟实现过程的时效性和精度达到较佳的统一。     

高速铁路矮塔斜拉桥墩塔梁固结段局部应力分析与验证

局部分析是桥梁设计中常采用的重要手段,也是设计中不可或缺的重要环节,利用实体有限元模型能反应出结构细部的受力状况,对考察结构重要部位的真实应力状态、结构设计配筋有着指导性作用。为了解高速铁路矮塔斜拉桥墩塔梁固结段的真实应力状态及验证局部分析中边界条件表达的准确性,以京沈客运专线(115+95)m双线无砟轨道预应力混凝土矮塔斜拉桥为工程背景,利用Ansys有限元建立细化的空间实体有限元模型,并对局部模型的边界条件模拟的正确性进行验证,分析表明,墩塔梁固结段进人洞角点处应力集中,应适当加强配筋,其余部位应力均满足要求,通过验证局部模型的内力传递及支反力,确保实体模型应力结果的准确性,保证结构安全。最后总结出了铁路桥梁中不失一般性的局部分析方法,从而对其他结构局部分析具有借鉴意义。     

深水管中管结构动态边界条件非线性时域分析

随着海洋油气开发工程作业水深的增加,管中管结构承受的波浪、海流深海环境载荷增大,可能会引发强度破坏以及疲劳损伤,造成重大损失,所以开展深水条件下管中管系统的力学行为分析研究是有必要的。本文考虑了顶部张紧力和动态边界,利用有限元模型来模拟管中管结构及其力学行为。并利用接触单元模拟内外管接触的约束条件。综合统计了管柱的接触碰撞位置和应力危险位置,提出了新型扶正器的布置方案,以达到减缓碰撞保护管柱的目的,并对比了等距离设置扶正器的方案。通过对比研究发现本文提出的扶正方案有效减缓了内外管的应力等级,对于实际工程和研究具有一定指导价值。     

The development of the TIGRIS XL model: A bottom-up approach to transport, land-use and the economy

The project appraisal method in the Netherlands distinguishes direct effects, indirect distribution effects and indirect generative effects. Transport models are generally available for calculating the benefits of transport projects to travellers as part of the direct effects. The TIGRIS XL model, a Land-Use and Transport Interaction model, adds indirect distribution effects for the housing and labour market, by modelling changes in the spatial distribution of jobs and residents. This paper describes the current TIGRIS XL model and how it can be applied in the evaluation of transport projects. It refers to work done with the TIGRIS XL model to improve the calculation of the direct benefits by applying the so-called ‘logsum’ method. Finally it discusses ideas on how to extend the TIGRIS XL model to address indirect generative effects as well.The current TIGRIS XL model, its integration with the National Model System (the standard tool for the Dutch government to analyse the effects on passenger transport) and basic design principles are the starting point of such an exploration. These design principles include:

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an emphasis on detail, both spatial as well as in socio-economic segments, to account for differences in the availability of choice alternatives and in choice behaviour, and to provide impacts by region and socio-economic group;

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the requirement that the relationships used rest on an empirical foundation.

The post-processing methods proposed on this paper for the calculation of the direct benefits and indirect generative effects are consistent with these design principles. To calculate the indirect generative effects, a post-processing module is proposed which transforms changes in travel times and land-use into agglomeration effects. These agglomeration effects combine several of the generative effects, like scale economies, an increasing variety of products, labour market matches and knowledge spill-over. The effects of changes in the agglomeration indicator on productivity can be estimated with existing data sources, as was demonstrated in the UK (Graham, 2005).     

A preliminary proposal for urban and transportation planning in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake

The purpose of this paper is to propose information of use in the reconstruction of urban transport and infrastructure in response to the Great East Japan Earthquake. In particular, knowledge of urban planning and transportation planning is summarized to help in drawing up physical plans.     

铁路用地系统设计研究

依据国家和行业相关设计规范、标准对铁路工程建设用地的要求,总结分析近年来铁路建设项目在勘察设计、施工及运营期间有关铁路用地系统设计问题,对铁路用地分类、用地设计原则、数量计算原则、不同阶段计算精度与方法、用地指标分析、用地系统设计典型工点类型划分及设计注意事项等6个方面进行全面归纳总结,提出提高铁路用地系统设计质量的改进措施及建议,为后续建设项目提供借鉴,避免在用地设计系统方面出现类似问题。     

Microphytobenthos biomass at Kerguelen's Land (Subantarctic Indian Ocean): repartition and variability during austral summers

Microphytobenthos biomass has been measured at several coastal sites on the SE of the main island of the Kerguelen Archipelago (Indian Ocean), during several austral summers (1985–1992), using a conventional fluorometric method. Heterogeneity tests, conducted on two different intertidal sites (Port-Aux-Français, PAF; and Port-Raymond, PRA), showed low standard deviations, whereas the mean concentrations were highly different. Pigment concentrations showed a high variability related to the characteristics of the sediments: from low biomass in coarse intertidal sand, submitted to intense scouring (0.32±0.31 μg Chl a g⁻¹ dw, 0.29±0.14 μg Phaeo g⁻¹ dw) to high biomass in intertidal muddy sand in sheltered areas, particularly along estuaries (54 μg Chl a, 15 μg Phaeo g⁻¹ dw at Korrigan). The subtidal muddy sediments under a Macrocystis pyrifera (Linné) and Durvillaea antarctica (Chamisso in Choris) belt exhibited high concentrations in phaeopigment (Phaeo) (up to 136±83 μg g⁻¹ dw; PRA), while the concentration of chlorophyll a (Chl a) was relatively low. The dense macroalgal canopy supports an important epiphytic diatom biomass (mainly the genera Cocconeis Ehrenberg and Grammatophora Ehrenberg), which is sedimenting after degradation and is in part responsible of the high levels of Phaeo in all sediments. Macroalgal debris were observed, but diatom frustules were dominant in most surficial subtidal sediments. A circatidal mud, in the Morbihan Bay, made of a sponge spicule mat (50 m deep; 4.96 μg Chl a g⁻¹ dw), showed a very low Chl a/Phaeo ratio (0.1), while it reached up to 6 in intertidal sand. Surprisingly, a penguin rookery beach, at the east side of Courbet Peninsula, was characterized by a very low biomass (0.07±0.04 μg Chl a g⁻¹ dw), while it was nutrient enriched, particularly with nitrates.In comparison with the data at the similar latitude, but in temperate regions from the Northern Hemisphere, the microphytobenthos biomass, recorded at Kerguelen's Land, exhibited relatively high pigment concentrations, particularly the Phaeo, and supported a dense and diversified subtidal macrofauna composed of polychaetes (particularly Thelepus extensus Hutchings and Glasby), sea urchins, mytillids and gammarids. The exuberant macroalgal canopy, coastal indentations and low tidal amplitude must be in part responsible of these large benthic primary and secondary biomasses.     

基于用地分析的公交站场布局规划研究

城市规模的不断扩大和城市化进程的加快使得大城市的交通问题日益突出,大力发展公共交通,是解决密集型大都市交通问题的有效办法。文章介绍广州市公交站场布局方法,分析存在问题的原因,为此类设施用地规划提供参考。     

日本轨道交通与土地的综合开发

分析日本国土开发利用、轨道交通建设运营、以及轨道交通与土地综合开发的成功经验。日本是世界上人口密度最大的国家,采取以轨道交通为骨干的公共交通为主导的城市发展策略,由于轨道交通建设经营主体的多元化,铁道主业与其它产业的兼营,特别是轨道交通与土地的综合开发利用,成功的解决了城市交通问题,实现了轨道交通的商业化建设与运营,实现了城市经济、社会、环境、交通的协调发展。