Reliable sensor deployment for network traffic surveillance

New sensor technologies enable synthesis of disaggregated vehicle information from multiple locations. This paper proposes a reliable facility location model to optimize traffic surveillance benefit from synthesized sensor pairs (e.g., for travel time estimation) in addition to individual sensor flow coverage (e.g., for traffic volume statistics), while considering probabilistic sensor failures. Customized greedy and Lagrangian relaxation algorithms are proposed to solve this problem, and their performance is discussed. Numerical results show that the proposed algorithms solve the problem efficiently. We also discuss managerial insights on how optimal sensor deployment and surveillance benefits vary with surveillance objective and system parameters (such as sensor failure probabilities).     

新型三桩式防撞设施的数值模拟分析

针对目前通航河道上船舶撞桥事故频发,而桥梁往往缺乏有效防撞设施的现状,提出新型三桩式桥梁防撞设施的设计方案.三桩式桥梁防撞设施具有占地少、造价低和吸能效果明显等优点,能够满足运河桥墩防撞的要求.根据船舶与桥梁碰撞的相关理论,采用ANSYS/LS-DYNA非线性有限元软件模拟船舶与三桩式防撞设施的碰撞作用,深入分析和评估...     

考虑路段失效的军事物流配送中心选址模型

针对战场保障网络常常遭受敌人打击的现象,建立了考虑路段失效的军事配送中心可靠选址模型.模型为双层规划形式,上层规划的目标是优化系统在无路段失效和出现路段失效时所覆盖的总的需求量,下层规划的目标是最小化某一路段失效时系统覆盖的需求量.采用启发式算法求解下层规划,运用遗传算法求解整个模型.通过一个算例验证模型的优越性和算法的有效性.算例结果表明,尽管模型所得选址方案在无路段失效时覆盖的需求量,小于不考虑路段失效的最大覆盖模型选址方案覆盖的需求量,但在最佳路段失效时模型选址方案的覆盖效果优于后者.     

Is the curb 80% full or 20% empty? Assessing the impacts of San Francisco’s parking pricing experiment

The city of San Francisco is undertaking a large-scale controlled parking pricing experiment. San Francisco has adopted a performance goal of 60–80% occupancy for its metered parking. The goal represents an heuristic performance measure intended to reduce double parking and cruising for parking, and improve the driver experience; it follows a wave of academic and policy literature that calls for adjusting on-street parking prices to achieve similar occupancy targets. In this paper, we evaluate the relationship between occupancy rules and metrics of direct policy interest, such as the probability of finding a parking space and the amount of cruising. We show how cruising and arrival rates can be simulated or estimated from hourly occupancy data. Further, we evaluate the impacts of the first two years of the San Francisco program, and conclude that rate changes have helped achieve the City’s occupancy goal and reduced cruising by 50%.     

高速公路改扩建作业区交通安全设施设置研究

根据高速公路改扩建施工区的交通特性及驾驶人的反应特征,将施工作业区划分为7个分段,构建驾驶人视认模型,并对各个分段安全设施进行设置,可保障高速公路施工作业区的安全与通畅,这已被郑洛高速公路所证实。     

旅游城市高铁站站前广场综合交通改善设计——以黄山北站为例

在全国高铁网络逐步构成的背景下,旅游城市高铁站站前广场在高铁运营后逐渐显现出了设施配套不足、交通组织混乱等问题.以黄山北站为例,通过分析黄山北站客流特征、站前广场交通设施现状、交通组织及运行,对黄山北站客流进行了预测,对交通设施规模进行了测算.根据预测结果,提出了交通改善策略,并从设施布局、交通组织等方面提出了近期和远期的具体交通改善方案.     

公路路基排水设施及其施工方法研究

工程实践表明，积水是影响公路使用寿命的重要因素。鉴于此，依据新疆地区特殊的地质条件，提出适合该地区的公路路基排水技术，并探讨排水设施的施工方法，可为新疆地区相关工程项目提供参考与借鉴。     

Expirable parking reservations for managing morning commute with parking space constraints

When total parking supply in an urban downtown area is insufficient, morning commuters would choose their departure times not only to trade off bottleneck congestion and schedule delays, but also to secure a parking space. Recent studies found that an appropriate combination of reserved and unreserved parking spaces can spread the departures of those morning commuters and hence reduce their total travel cost. To further mitigate both traffic congestion and social cost from competition for parking, this study considers a parking reservation scheme with expiration times, where commuters with a parking reservation have to arrive at parking spaces for the reservation before a predetermined expiration time. We first show that if all parking reservations have the same expiration time, it is socially preferable to set the reservations to be non-expirable, i.e., without expiration time. However, if differentiated expiration times are properly designed, the total travel cost can be further reduced as compared with the reservation scheme without expiration time, since the peak will be further smoothed out. We explore socially desirable equilibrium flow patterns under the parking reservation scheme with differentiated expiration times. Finally, efficiencies of the reservation schemes are examined.     

A study on smart parking guidance algorithm

Parking problem becomes one of major issues in the city transportation management since the spatial resource of a city is limited and the parking cost is expensive. Lots of cars on the road should spend unnecessary time and consume energy during searching for parking due to limited parking space. To cope with these limitations and give more intelligent solutions to drivers in the selection of parking facility, this study proposes a smart parking guidance algorithm. The proposed algorithm supports drivers to find the most appropriate parking facility considering real-time status of parking facilities in a city. To suggest the most suitable parking facility, several factors such as driving distance to the guided parking facility, walking distance from the guided parking facility to destination, expected parking cost, and traffic congestion due to parking guidance, are considered in the proposed algorithm. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, simulation tests have been carried out. The proposed algorithm helps to maximize the utilization of space resources of a city, and reduce unnecessary energy consumption and CO₂ emission of wandering cars since it is designed to control the utilization of parking facility efficiently and reduce traffic congestion due to parking space search.     

船舶机舱应急设施管理和使用应注意的问题

通过对船舶机舱应急设施管理中存在问题的列举,分析了原因,并提出了改进措施。