Non-commuters: the people who walk to work or work at home

The paper focuses on the socioeconomic characteristics of workers at home and those who walk to work and these are compared with commuters (those who travel to work by motorized transportation). Understanding of such characteristics of these people is useful for purposes of designing policies that encourage these forms of "travel" to work, if it is believed desirable for planning or environmental purposes. For example, subsidizing public transportation may also have an impact on the proclivity to work at home or walk to work. Using a large census data set for Israel, separate subsamples are analyzed for heads of household and for their spouses. Metropolitan areas as well as peripheral urbanized areas are analyzed separately. Logit analysis is used to identify those variables that affect the likelihood of different groups of people to walk to work or to work at home.It is shown that walkers to work tend to be lower-income, less-educated people with lower asset ownership rates. Females are overrepresented amongst them, while "high-status" professionals are underrepresented. Workers at home appear to be a more complex group. They tend to have higher levels of education and wealth than commuters, but earn less on average. They include proportionately more females. The likelihood of working at home increases with home size and with ownership of some durable goods. The workers at home may in fact be comprised of two or more differing groups with contrasting characteristics, one higher-income and higher-educated, the other with lower socio-economic indicators. Because they may be a heterogeneous group, development of planning policies to encourage non-vehicle commuting may require different policy tools for the different subgroups.     

绿化修剪车避障工作装置运动学分析

以绿化修剪车的工作装置为研究对象,通过矩阵分析法建立了工作臂矢量运动方程,完成了机械臂的运动学分析。同时,运用ADAMS对绿化修剪车的工作装置进行了运动学仿真,得到了绿化修剪车触杆的运动包络图和割草机触杆末端的位移、速度及加速度,验证了机械臂数学模型的正确性。最后,根据绿化修剪车工作装置的实际运动情况和仿真结果,推算出绿化修剪车的最大作业速度和避障时间,为后续液压系统设计和工作臂的控制设计提供了理论依据。     

装配式公路钢桥机械辅助架设器具的研究

装配式公路钢桥在国防交通应急保障和平时抢险救灾中发挥着重要作用，但目前这类钢桥一直是人工拼装架设，存在主要构件既大又重、架桥的劳动强度大、速度慢、安全性差等问题。以现有的公路施工机械——50装载机为主要机械，研究了一套机械化辅助架设钢桥的器具，介绍了器具的主要结构和功能。采用此套器具，能够解决桥件的吊装、桥件的水平短途运输，以及桥架设好后整桥推运到位问题，减轻劳动强度，提高架桥速度。     

地铁车辆段地下固定式架车机组设计接口与包容性分析

地下固定式架车机组是地铁车辆段的关键设备,介绍地下固定式架车机组的功能及组成,分析该设备在地铁车辆段土建及各系统设计时与各专业的接口,并提出设计时各专业间的设备界面划分,论述地下固定式架车机组的包容性设计,保证其施工图设计的顺利开展。     

基于小波提升格式理论的隧道衬砌缺陷定量识别分析

为提高探地雷达信号分析中小波基函数选取或构造的针对性和适应性，降低构造计算复杂性，并使所构造的小波基能更准确提取隧道衬砌结构背后空洞检测信号特征点信息，提出一种根据提升格式小波理论和目标信号波形特征来构造匹配小波的方法，并将所构造的小波基应用于空洞检测信号特征点的识别中。该方法以完全重构滤波器条件和提升格式小波为理论基础，首先选择一个简单而一般的初始双正交滤波器组，通过对初始双正交滤波器进行提升和对偶提升，获得不同的提升算子和对偶提升算子，从而得到更新后含自由变量的高阶滤波器组函数表达；其次，依据探地雷达信号的固有特点，对新滤波器组中重构端小波函数中的自由参数进行优化，并对新小波基与实际探地雷达信号的相似度进行计算和检验，最终构造出既满足线性相位、紧支撑性，又具有与探地雷达信号匹配度高等优势的新双正交小波基。将新小波基应用于室内空腔检测试验及实际工程中空洞缺陷的定量分析中，结果表明，同其他类型小波相比，用提升方法构造的小波能更准确地识别空洞缺陷信号突变点发生的时刻和位置，能更准确地实现隧道工程中空洞缺陷的位置和垂直尺寸的定量分析，从而大大提高探地雷达对缺陷探测的可靠度和准确度。     

Influence of polygonal wear of railway wheels on the wheel set axle stress

The coupled vehicle/track dynamic model with the flexible wheel set was developed to investigate the effects of polygonal wear on the dynamic stresses of the wheel set axle. In the model, the railway vehicle was modelled by the rigid multibody dynamics. The wheel set was established by the finite element method to analyse the high-frequency oscillation and dynamic stress of wheel set axle induced by the polygonal wear based on the modal stress recovery method. The slab track model was taken into account in which the rail was described by the Timoshenko beam and the three-dimensional solid finite element was employed to establish the concrete slab. Furthermore, the modal superposition method was adopted to calculate the dynamic response of the track. The wheel/rail normal forces and the tangent forces were, respectively, determined by the Hertz nonlinear contact theory and the Shen–Hedrick–Elkins model. Using the coupled vehicle/track dynamic model, the dynamic stresses of wheel set axle with consideration of the ideal polygonal wear and measured polygonal wear were investigated. The results show that the amplitude of wheel/rail normal forces and the dynamic stress of wheel set axle increase as the vehicle speeds rise. Moreover, the impact loads induced by the polygonal wear could excite the resonance of wheel set axle. In the resonance region, the amplitude of the dynamic stress for the wheel set axle would increase considerably comparing with the normal conditions.     

Can Coastal Management Programs Protect and Promote Water-Dependent Uses?

Anecdotal evidence indicates that commercial and recreational water-dependent uses have been under development pressure in recent years, and in some cases have been converted to other uses. The conversion of water-dependent uses, which range from commercial shipyards to recreational marinas, may have many public costs, including the loss of access to public trust waters, the loss of jobs and associated economic activity, and the loss of traditional working waterfronts. This two-part study investigated the role of five coastal management programs in the northeastern United States in managing, monitoring, and protecting water-dependent uses. First, coastal managers in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey were interviewed to assess the conversion problem. Second, in collaboration with New York City-based Regional Plan Association, follow-up interviews were conducted with coastal managers and local planners in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey to gain greater insight into the role of coastal management programs and local governments in managing and promoting water-dependent uses. This article presents select findings from this study and discusses recommendations for improving the capacity of coastal management programs and local governments to manage water-dependent uses for the benefit of the public.     

整车车身蒙皮的制作工艺

本文介绍了公交车和旅游车整车蒙皮的制作和装配工艺,叙述了玻璃钢模具的制作过程;阐述了张拉蒙皮简单工装的制作过程和工作原理。     

质量控制点在金塘大桥钢箱梁防腐涂装工程中的应用

介绍了质量控制点设置的原则,在进行工序分析的基础上,成功运用质量控制点对金塘大桥钢箱梁电弧喷涂长效防腐项目进行质量控制,并取得显著成效。为防腐涂装施工企业有效运用质量控制点提高工程质量,提供了一定的借鉴。     

建立工程船舶折旧制度的建议

工程船舶日益突出的作用,与其地位不相称的固定资产管理混乱问题及相关的船舶折旧条款的欠缺引人深思.文章从我国工程船舶的使用现状,工程船舶相关折旧准则、制度的制定及国外固定资产折旧情况分析提出制定制度的紧迫性,并给出了适合我国国情的工程船舶折旧制度的建议.