城市交通需求管理创新：按照行驶里程定价与计费的车险

城市交通导致的一系列外部性问题日益严重,交通需求管理的作用尚未充分发挥。机动车辆保险创新可能是交通需求管理的一个有效方法。按照行驶里程定价与计费的车险是对传统车险的重大改进,能够有效减少交通量和缓解由此而导致的外部性,当前在我国大城市进行这一类型的车险业务创新可以创造良好的经济和社会价值。     

城市轨道交通需求预测方法比较

针对常用的"四阶段"法在轨道交通需求预测中存在的不足,提出轨道交通客流分配应将全人口全方式出行量在综合交通网络中进行分配的观点,并应用赋权有向图相关理论构造"综合交通网络",提出轨道交通需求预测的"三阶段"方法。     

区域运输通道内影响旅客出行方式选择的因素

首先给出运输通道的概念,阐述我国现有的旅客出行方式。从我国现有的这些交通方式入手,探讨影响旅客出行方式选择的因素,即影响人们选择出行方式的因素可分为宏观因素和微观因素。宏观因素如社会经济发展水平、城市化水平、交通政策等,决定着出行方式的总结构;微观因素如出行目的和出行时间,则决定交通方式的选择。     

我国供应链管理研究综述

20世纪末以来,供应链管理日益成为企业竞争的核心竞争力,是提高企业核心竞争力和国家综合国力的重要途径.通过多年的发展与实践,供应链管理理论与实践都取得了很好的充实与发展.回顾和整理了国内供应链管理文献,对供应链管理内涵和研究现状进行了归纳与总结,并提出了供应链管理未来的发展趋势.     

城市新区道路横断面规划设计研究

道路系统的建设是引导城市新区开发、改善投资环境的重要措施。城市道路横断面作为道路交通功能实现的重要载体,其合理规划设计有利于保障道路安全畅通,提高资源利用效率,实现城市社会经济的良性发展。     

基于公交智能调度系统的公交换乘算法实现

通过对城市居民公交出行选择影响因素和选择逻辑的分析,利用地理信息系统（GIS）技术构建公交换乘数据模型和公交智能调度系统数据计算出行时间,以此为基础实现以最少换乘次数为第一目标,出行时间最短为第二目标的公交换乘算法。该算法考虑了步行换乘、行驶时间、换乘时间及公交线路上、下行因素对换乘查询的影响,能够较快地提供公交换乘方案。     

考虑行驶时间不确定性的合乘路径鲁棒优化方法

为应对实际合乘过程中时间不确定性带来的负面影响,本文研究不确定行驶时间下的合乘问题。采用预算不确定集合描述时间变量,引入不确定性水平可调节的预算系数,构建以车辆总里程最短和车辆数最少为目标的合乘路径鲁棒优化模型。并设计两阶段算法求解,第1阶段以两乘客间的可行合乘路径为基础,从车辆总里程节省率和乘客时间窗匹配灵活性两方面设计公式量化合乘匹配机会,以匹配机会为权重构建乘客图网络并聚类乘客需求;第2阶段设计以顺序插入启发式方法构造初始解的禁忌搜索算法求解。案例数据实验结果表明：本文聚类方法能保证优化质量并提高85%以上的计算效率,同时能缩减乘客等车时间和绕行距离;增大预算系数时解的鲁棒性逐渐提高,但会增加10%~40%的车辆数并降低1%~10%的里程节省率;大规模乘客案例和窄时间窗案例的合乘路径对不确定时间的敏感性更高,宽时间窗案例无需增加过多额外车辆和总里程就能达到较高水平的路径鲁棒性。     

Optimal locations and travel time display for variable message signs

This paper first develops a network equilibrium model with the travel time information displayed via variable message signs (VMS). Specifically, the equilibrium considers the impact of the displayed travel time information on travelers’ route choices under the recurrent congestion, with the endogenous utilization rates of displayed information by travelers. The existence of the equilibrium is proved and an iterative solution procedure is provided. Then, we conduct the sensitivity analyses of the network equilibrium and further propose a paradox, i.e., providing travel time information via VMS to travelers may degrade the network performance under some poor designs. Therefore, we investigate the problem of designing the VMS locations and travel time display within a given budget, and formulate it as a mixed integer nonlinear program, solved by an active-set algorithm. Lastly, numerical examples are presented to offer insights on the equilibrium results and optimal designs of VMS.     

Forecasting travel behavior using Markov Chains-based approaches

Recent advances in agent-based micro-simulation modeling have further highlighted the importance of a thorough full synthetic population procedure for guaranteeing the correct characterization of real-world populations and underlying travel demands. In this regard, we propose an integrated approach including Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) simulation and profiling-based methods to capture the behavioral complexity and the great heterogeneity of agents of the true population through representative micro-samples. The population synthesis method is capable of building the joint distribution of a given population with its corresponding marginal distributions using either full or partial conditional probabilities or both of them simultaneously. In particular, the estimation of socio-demographic or transport-related variables and the characterization of daily activity-travel patterns are included within the framework. The fully probabilistic structure based on Markov Chains characterizing this framework makes it innovative compared to standard activity-based models. Moreover, data stemming from the 2010 Belgian Household Daily Travel Survey (BELDAM) are used to calibrate the modeling framework. We illustrate that this framework effectively captures the behavioral heterogeneity of travelers. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the proposed framework is adequately adapted to meeting the demand for large-scale micro-simulation scenarios of transportation and urban systems.     

Quantifying travel time variability at a single bottleneck based on stochastic capacity and demand distributions

Travel time reliability, an essential factor in traveler route and departure time decisions, serves as an important quality of service measure for dynamic transportation systems. This article investigates a fundamental problem of quantifying travel time variability from its root sources: stochastic capacity and demand variations that follow commonly used log-normal distributions. A volume-to-capacity ratio-based travel time function and a point queue model are used to demonstrate how day-to-day travel time variability can be explained from the underlying demand and capacity variations. One important finding is that closed-form solutions can be derived to formulate travel time variations as a function of random demand/capacity distributions, but there are certain cases in which a closed-form expression does not exist and numerical approximation methods are required. This article also uses probabilistic capacity reduction information to estimate time-dependent travel time variability distributions under conditions of non-recurring traffic congestion. The proposed models provide theoretically rigorous and practically useful tools for understanding the causes of travel time unreliability and evaluating the system-wide benefit of reducing demand and capacity variability.