公路交通安全评价系统1．0版本的开发与应用

实践证明,公路交通安全评价是提高公路安全水平的有效手段。尽管其在我国还是一个较新的课题,但已经引起相关部门的重视,国内也开展了很多安全评价方法的研究。《西部地区公路安全评价》是系统研究公路安全评价方法的一个课题。而公路交通安全评价系统1.0版本是在该课题成果基础上开发的一套实用化的工具,它包括交通基础数据的管理和事故多发段判别、规范符合性分析、事故预测、速度一致性分析、路侧危险度分级等分析模块。本文对该系统各个模块的功能进行了阐述。     

冷却液温度为边界条件的柴油机起动试验研究

为了研究冷却液温度对柴油机起动过程初期燃烧不稳定性及排放的影响规律,在一台单缸直喷式柴油机上,利用缸压和单循环采样测试系统对柴油机起动初期单个工作循环的燃烧和排放进行了试验研究。结果表明:冷却液温度是影响柴油机起动过程不稳定的重要因素之一。较低的冷却液温度导致柴油机起动初期燃烧不稳定性增加,失火和不完全燃烧循环较多,从而导致HC排放升高,而且冷却液温度低造成的滞后燃烧会产生较高的CO排放。冷却液温度升高后,失火循环消除,同时着火延迟期明显缩短,最高燃烧压力升高,HC和CO排放显著降低,NOx排放升高,表明燃烧状况改善。     

基于实时交通信息的行程时间估算及路径选择分析

路段行程时间的估计和预测是诱导系统的关键技术之一。由于路网参数不断变化,路段行程时间的估计必须满足实时性的要求。以城市交通控制系统的基本设施为基础,根据我国城市交通目前的发展状况,分析了影响路段行程时间的各种因素和路段行程时间的组成。利用设置在路段上的车辆自动检测装置搜集到的实时交通流信息,并结合随机服务系统的相关理论建立了城市道路路段行程时间的动态计算模型,提出了一种具有真实最短路径意义的实时动态最短路径选择的方法。     

TSP系统在隧道工程施工地质预报中的应用和发展

TSP是瑞士Amberg测量技术公司专门为隧道施工地质超前预报而设计的地震探测仪器。该系统从数据采集、处理和成果解释及评估高度智能化，其特点是：预报距离大（隧道掌子面前方至少150m），无须利用掌子面，对隧道施工妨碍小，易于操作和快速评估。通过TSP的探测，能够提前了解到掌子面前方围岩的地质情况，为施工及确定合理的支护参数提供依据，确保隧道施工安全和质量。介绍了TSP系统在隧道施工地质超前预报中的应用事例及其技术的发展。     

人工神经网络在路堤沉降预测中的应用

以人工神经网络法为主，研究了多因素条件下的沉降预测问题，同时与浅岗法和S型曲线法这2种在近几年推广应用的预测方法进行了对比。结果表明，3种方法预测的最终沉降大体相近，它们之间的区别在于人工神经网络法预测的沉降较大（同时更接近实测值）；S型曲线法较小；浅岗法居中。由于神经网络是用实测数据直接建模，少了人为干扰因素，并且偏大的数值对工程来说是偏于安全的，所以选用人工神经网络预测沉降比较适宜。     

福宁高速公路声环境探讨

通过对福建省福鼎宁德段高速公路声环境现状的调查研究,采用类比分析的方法,确定其沿线所要保护的声环境敏感点,合理科学预测交通噪声对声环境的影响,提出减轻噪声污染的若干措施。     

里双桥重建工程道路改建方案设计

合理的横断面形式、平纵线形指标、路基路面设计是城市道路改建中的关键。结合苏州老城区道路改建项目,针对现状建设条件、交通量预测结果,推荐采用三块板断面布置形式。通过拆除原侧分带、压缩非机动车道形式,使现状双向四车道实现双向六车道,同时新建侧分带保留了四排绿化,充分考虑了老城区道路绿化景观需求。拓宽新建段一般路基设计采用20 cm C20混凝土处理,路面设计根据现状弯沉值推荐了两种方案,为城市道路改建工程提供经验参考。     

数据处理方法在路堤工后沉降预测中的应用

介绍了3种预测路堤工后沉降的模型及求解方法，并应用于工程实例中；把3种方法得到的结果与实测结果相比较，指出各种方法各有优点，各有其适用情况。     

A study of the environmental impacts of intelligent automated vehicle control at intersections via V2V and V2I communications

This article presents a novel intersection traffic management system for automated vehicles and quantifies its impact on fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of CO₂ relative to traditional traffic signal and roundabout intersection control. The developed intelligent traffic management (ITM) techniques, which are based on a spatiotemporal reservation scheme, ensure that vehicles proceed through the intersection without colliding with other vehicles while at the same time reducing the intersection delay and environmental impacts. Specifically, the spatiotemporal reservation scheme provides each vehicle a collision-free path that is decomposed into a speed profile along with navigational instructions. The integration of the developed microscopic traffic simulator with instantaneous emission model, provides improved assessments of the environmental impact of traffic control strategies at intersections. The simulator architecture integrates several ITM algorithms, vehicle sensors, V2V/V2I communications, and emission and fuel consumption models. Each vehicle is modeled by an agent and each agent provides information depending on the specific vehicle sensors. The ITM system is supported by V2V and V2I communications, allowing the exchange of information among vehicles and infrastructure. The data include the estimated vehicle position and speed. Compared with traditional traffic management techniques, the simulation results prove that the proposed ITM system reduces CO₂ emissions significantly. The research also shows that these reductions are more significant when the traffic flow increases.     

The impacts of changing flight demands and throughput performance on airport delays through the Great Recession

Several significant events between 2007 and 2009 impacted flight demands and the abilities of the three major New York area airports to handle demand. This paper assesses the results of applying a probabilistic simulation method – which isolates the individual contributions of changes in flight demand and changes in airport throughput performance to changes in flight delays – to diagnose how these different events may have caused operational changes at these airports, and in turn, how the results may be used to inform policies for appropriate countermeasures. The analysis revealed two key observations. Firstly, certain patterns in throughput performance shifts caused the most significant delays, and were more likely to have been caused by controller staffing issues rather than caps. Secondly, relatively constant average delays from one year to the next may result from significant demand drops accompanied by large throughput performance degradations at an airport. This suggests that not only operational limitations on capacity encourage airlines to reduce schedules, but that changed demands can also impact throughput performance. Overall, the analysis indicates that caps may not have provided their fully intended delay benefits. Although they successfully reduced overall flight demands at LGA and JFK, they also directly limited throughput performance at critical times, in turn limiting delay benefits. In addition, demands at the busiest times of the day appear to be relatively inelastic to these operational limitations, insofar as demand profiles at EWR and JFK remained “peaky” in 2008 and 2009. Also, the recession was largely responsible for reducing demands at the airports in 2009, but the delay benefits of this were dampened by a corresponding throughput performance degradation. Based on the above observations, a more direct demand management policy combined with policies that focus on maintaining high staffing capabilities at critical times of the day may be considered, to reduce the likelihood of major queue formation on days that do experience sustained demands. The results also suggest that a more flexible caps system, particularly during times of heavy queues, could be explored. Although airport practitioners have keen understandings of how their airports operate, without the support of quantitative analysis tools, it can be more difficult to argue the need for appropriate countermeasures. An analysis such as the one presented here can provide the detailed quantitative substantiation required to build cases for these targeted policy directives and infrastructure investments.