Transportation agencies experiences with decision support systems for airport ground access planning

This article reports on a field investigation into the ways that transportation agencies use quantitative and qualitative information for making strategic decisions regarding airport ground access. The study analyzes the value of this information for planning airport ground access improvements at seven major international airport sites.The major finding of the research is that quantitative modeling for strategic decision support is very difficult, costly and time consuming. Modelers are confident that the models are accurate and reliable but executives generally lack confidence in the results. Transportation officials believe that the information supplied is flawed by a number of defects that minimize its value for strategic decision makers. The information defects described in this article provide an analysis of the structural difficulty of using quantitative modeling for transportation problems of strategic importance. To date, qualitative information is not frequently used, but some transportation agencies are considering its application to designing transportation services. Although this study is limited to airport ground access, the authors feel that this evidence, in conjunction with the evidence from other studies in the transportation area, dictates a need for wariness in the development of decision support systems for transportation planners. Developers of decision support systems for transportation planners must be aware of modeling costs and defects and consider how to improve the timeliness, relevance and credibility of information quantitative models provide transportation executives. Fundamentally it is important to recognize that decision makers tend, either singularly or in concert with other individuals or groups, to be the champions of a long-term vision for the community. When modeling produces inconsistent or wide ranging results that contradict their position, decision makers may not only discard modeling activities, but lose confidence in the models altogether. As a consequence, transportation planners are faced with the challenge of how to improve quantitative modeling. The most reliable and effective means for improvement is incorporation of qualitative techniques which provide greater understanding of customer perceptions and human behavior.     

Trip Chain's Activity Type Recognition Based on Support Vector Machine

This paper focuses on support vector machine (SVM) based trip chain's activity type recognition. First, the time-series location information of person trip is processed to obtain the trip chain elements including moving processes and activities, and the activity options are extracted from the geographic information system (GIS) around the activity sites. Second, the activity features are drawn from spatio-temporal factors of trip chain to serve as the input feature vector of classifier. A SVM based one-to-one classifier is established and the method of one-to-one classifier voting is adopted to decide the most likely activity type from the activity options. Finally, the classifiers are trained with simulation data based on the Gaussian radial basis (RBF) kernel function and the multilayer perception (MLP) kernel function respectively, and then examined by cross validation. The result shows that in the one-to-one classifying scheme, the highest and lowest right recognition rate with RBF are 99% and 62%, and the corresponding results with MLP are 97% and 54%, respectively.     

土工格栅加筋土及其在桥梁接线中的应用

论述了土工格栅加筋土的作用机理、加筋材料、应用领域及施工方法，工程实践证明采用此技术具有显著的效益，其应用前景广阔。     

公路建设项目水土保持工作存在的问题探讨

公路建设项目水土保持工作正逐步走向正轨，但在具体的贯彻落实中还存在认识不到位，设计不合理，执行不彻底等问题，影响了水土流失的防治，应当引起相关部门足够的重视并采取措施加以解决。     

大型三轴流变试验轴压及围压装置与应用

针对道路工程领域中高填路堤土体填料应力特点,提供一种新型粗粒土三轴流变试验的轴向压力和围压力装置,克服了现有粗粒土三轴流变试验中加载持久性及稳定性问题.采用该装置研制了适合粗粒土路堤填料的大型三轴流变试验仪(命名为GSRT),用于粗粒土路堤填料流变试验,为开展道路工程领域的粗粒土路堤填料三轴流变试验研究提供了工具.     

转K1型转向架组装工艺

介绍了转K1型转向架的结构特点和关键技术参数,着重分析了侧架导框的加工、侧架与支撑座板的组焊和转向架的组装工艺等。     

盐渍土机场地基处理研究

概述盐渍土的工程危害，得出道面下水盐运动所导致的盐分、水分迁移是造成盐渍土地区机场的迅速破坏的原因，并对盐渍土地区机场与公路差异进行了比较，在总结目前常用的处理方法的基础上，结合机场特殊性探讨了适合机场的处理办法。     

泡沫轻质土及其在改扩建工程中的应用分析

以广西南宁经钦州至防城港段改扩建工程采用泡沫轻质土进行填筑施工为例,详细论述了泡沫轻质土的结构与性能指标,明确了泡沫轻质土的施工技术要点及其应用优势,以期为类似项目提供有价值的参考。     

公路路基压实影响因素及其控制指标

介绍了含水量对压实效果影响机理、压实含水量对土基的长期稳定性的影响,阐述了合理选择填土含水量改善压实效果的方法,并通过分析指出土基的压实含水量应控制的范围。     

在建公共建筑周边道路软基处理方案研究

针对南方软土地区在建体育馆等公共建筑周边地基处理问题,文章通过对水泥搅拌桩及竖向塑料排水板+堆载预压两种方法的技术性、经济性及可实施性等方面进行对比,得出水泥搅拌桩是此种工况下更合理的工程设计方案。根据大型公共建筑和周边市政道路容易产生不均匀沉降的问题,提出了增加土工格栅及设置绿化过渡带等处理措施,并提出通过施工期间的沉降监测及施工工序,尽量减小软土地区不同类型建筑物的不均匀沉降,可为类似工程提供借鉴。