(Unintended) Transport impacts of an energy-environment policy: The case of CNG conversion of vehicles in Dhaka

Motor vehicles are one of the major sources of air pollution in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. The government took various policies to convert the petroleum vehicles on road to run on compressed natural gas (CNG), which allows both air quality improvements and energy security benefits. One of the market friendly policies to encourage the fuel switch was to increase the price differential between CNG and petrol and diesel. This has allowed a wide-scale adoption of CNG as the fuel of choice. However, several years into the policy, there is now a widespread belief among the policymakers that the CNG conversion may have increased car ownership and car travel due to their lower running costs, resulting in more congestion and a reversal of the strategy is on the cards. It is therefore important to test the hypothesis whether CNG conversion had genuinely increased car ownership and car travel in Dhaka city. This paper presents the results of a questionnaire survey and an econometric intervention analysis to understand the impact of CNG conversion on car ownership and car travel in Dhaka. Attention is also given to disentangle the self-selection and price-induced travel effects of CNG conversion. Results show that ownership did not increase, but travel of on-road vehicles increased due to the CNG policy. However, additional congestion costs are still around one half of the health benefits brought about by the policy.     

Privacy protection method for fine-grained urban traffic modeling using mobile sensors

With the ubiquitous nature of mobile sensing technologies, privacy issues are becoming increasingly important, and need to be carefully addressed. Data needs for transportation modeling and privacy protection should be deliberately balanced for different applications. This paper focuses on developing privacy mechanisms that would simultaneously satisfy privacy protection and data needs for fine-grained urban traffic modeling applications using mobile sensors. To accomplish this, a virtual trip lines (VTLs) zone-based system and related filtering approaches are developed. Traffic-knowledge-based adversary models are proposed and tested to evaluate the effectiveness of such a privacy protection system by making privacy attacks. The results show that in addition to ensuring an acceptable level of privacy, the released datasets from the privacy-enhancing system can also be applied to urban traffic modeling with satisfactory results. Albeit application-specific, such a “Privacy-by-Design” approach would hopefully shed some light on other transportation applications using mobile sensors.     

装载机连杆机构优化设计

结合传统设计方法和现代优化方法有效地解决了原设计中装载机不能满足平移性和自动放平性的问题;在用作图法确定铰接点大致位置的基础上,建立了连杆机构参数化模型,并对模型进行了优化研究。结果表明:新机构能满足平移性和自动放平性要求。该方法对类似的机构优化问题有一定的参考价值。     

汽车噪声控制技术的最新进展与发展趋势

对汽车噪声控制技术领域的最新进展及发展趋势进行综述,包括噪声控制技术在汽车新产品设计中的应用(整车级别的声学品质目标设定、系统和元件级别的声振特性目标设定)、NVH仿真分析的置信度、NVH虚拟环境技术、车辆噪声控制的材料及结构技术等相关主题。     

基于浑沌神经网络的动态交通量预测方法研究

介绍了目前国内外道路交通量预测的方法、特点及实际的预测效果.由于城市道路交通的复杂性,使得一些现有交通量预测方法的预测精度不高.针对这些问题,应用混沌神经网络,建立了城市道路交叉口出口交通量的浑沌神经网络预测模型,并与传统的BP神经网络预测结果对比,表明此模型具有较好的预测效果.     

橡胶粉改性沥青混合料对环境影响的研究

文章通过橡胶粉改性沥青混合料筑路材料对公路噪音和周围水环境的影响监测和试验,得到如下结论:橡胶粉改性沥青混合料能有效地降低噪音的产生;橡胶粉改性沥青混合料沥出液含有有毒物质,但土壤吸附、挥发作用等自然处理方法可消除这些有毒物质的毒性,从而降低橡胶粉改性沥青混合料沥出液对公路周围水环境的影响。     

汽车后桥噪声的分析与试验研究

本文对ＪＨＣ６４００型汽车后桥的噪声功率，表面声强，表面声压，表面振速及相应的频谱等进行了全面，系统的测量与分析，研究结果表明：后桥噪声能量主要分布在中心频率为０．８－２ｋＨｚ的频带内，它由桥体和桥盖的表面噪声构成，后桥噪声产生的根本原因是，后桥齿轮副在运转中产生的冲击与振动；噪声产生的直接原因是后桥表面的振动，所以后桥噪声的治理应在上述频带内以振动控制为主，以振动传递的路径和发声体做为主要研究对     

声强测量技术在汽车噪声控制中的应用

简述了声强测量法的基本原理,分析了开发的声强测量系统的特性,介绍了该系统在汽车噪声控制中的应用实例,证明该系统能准确地确定主要噪声源之所在,为采取有效的降噪措施提供可靠依据。     

大客车车内噪声控制的试验研究

通过对６１００型大客车的大量试验研究，认为在噪声控制标准中除对Ａ声级测定结果应规定限值外，还应对整个噪声频带规定限值，以便较全面地改善车内噪声环境。根据该车的结构特点，提出了一系列改善噪声及振动性的措施，经部分改进试验，取得良好的效果。     

粉煤灰加筋土挡墙工作机理的离心模型试验研究

将能够完全满足模型相似律的离心模型试验方法应用于粉煤灰加筋挡墙研究中。试验基于整体刚性面层加筋土挡墙结构研究了粉煤灰加筋土挡墙的工作机理、筋材中的应变分布、粉煤灰加筋挡墙的变形。结果表明,加筋土挡墙所发生的侧向位移量远小于素土无加筋挡墙的位移量,且加筋层竖向间距越小,加筋层越密,相对侧向位移量越小,加筋效果越明显;因粉煤灰填筑密度较轻,加筋后的挡墙所发生的相对侧向位移量较小,说明加筋效果明显。