Transport resilience and vulnerability: The role of connectivity

This paper aims to adopt a critical stance on the relevance and interpretation of the recently emerging concepts of resilience and vulnerability in transportation studies. It makes a clear distinction between engineering and ecological interpretations of these concepts and offers a systematic typology of various studies in this field. A core element in the study is the linkage between the aforementioned concepts and connectivity/accessibility in transport networks. The methodological findings in the study are put in perspective by addressing also such concepts as robustness, reliability and friability of transport systems.     

Demi-flexible operating policies to promote the performance of public transit in low-demand areas

The efforts of providing attractive transport service to residents in sparse communities have previously focused on operating flexible transit services. This paper identifies a new category of transit policies, called demi-flexible operating policies, to fill the gap between flexible transit services and conventional fixed-route systems. The passenger cost function is defined as the performance measure of transit systems and the analytic work is performed based on a real-world flag-stop transit service, in which we compare its system performance with another two comparable systems, the fixed-route and flex-route services, at expected and unexpected demand levels in order to be closer to reality. In addition, the dynamic-station policy is introduced to assist the flex-route service to better deal with unexpectedly high demand. Experiments demonstrate the unique advantages of demi-flexible operating policies in providing affordable, efficient, and reliable transport service in low-demand operating environments and this work is helpful to optimize the unifying framework for designing public transit in suburban and rural areas.     

Analysis of air traffic control operational impact on aircraft vertical profiles supported by machine learning

The Air Traffic Management system is under a paradigm shift led by NextGen and SESAR. The new trajectory-based Concept of Operations is supported by performance-based trajectory predictors as major enablers. Currently, the performance of ground-based trajectory predictors is affected by diverse factors such as weather, lack of integration of operational information or aircraft performance uncertainty.Trajectory predictors could be enhanced by learning from historical data. Nowadays, data from the Air Traffic Management system may be exploited to understand to what extent Air Traffic Control actions impact on the vertical profile of flight trajectories.This paper analyses the impact of diverse operational factors on the vertical profile of flight trajectories. Firstly, Multilevel Linear Models are adopted to conduct a prior identification of these factors. Then, the information is exploited by trajectory predictors, where two types are used: point-mass trajectory predictors enhanced by learning the thrust law depending on those factors; and trajectory predictors based on Artificial Neural Networks.Air Traffic Control vertical operational procedures do not constitute a main factor impacting on the vertical profile of flight trajectories, once the top of descent is established. Additionally, airspace flows and the flight level at the trajectory top of descent are relevant features to be considered when learning from historical data, enhancing the overall performance of the trajectory predictors for the descent phase.     

旅游交通规划成套技术探究

从行业、角度、目标和路径四大方面更新旅游交通规划理念,建立时空、资源、体验三大模块规划体系,达到旅游交通网络构建、功能拓展、配套完善的效果。在此规划体系基础上,根据不同地区特色,突出主题品牌设计,创新产品供给,紧密结合当地规划与落地方案,形成了丰富的规划应用成果,为交旅融合快速发展奠定理论基础。     

Integrated planning of static and dynamic charging infrastructure for electric vehicles

This paper investigates the optimal deployment of static and dynamic charging infrastructure considering the interdependency between transportation and power networks. Static infrastructure means plug-in charging stations, while the dynamic counterpart refers to electrified roads or charging lanes enabled by charging-while-driving technology. A network equilibrium model is first developed to capture the interactions among battery electric vehicles’ (BEVs) route choices, charging plans, and the prices of electricity. A mixed-integer bi-level program is then formulated to determine the deployment plan of charging infrastructure to minimize the total social cost of the coupled networks. Numerical examples are provided to demonstrate travel and charging plans of BEV drivers and the competitiveness of static and dynamic charging infrastructure. The numerical results on three networks suggest that (1) for individual BEV drivers, the choice between using charging lanes and charging stations is more sensitive to parameters including value of travel time, service fee markup, and battery size, but less sensitive to the charging rates and travel demand; (2) deploying more charging lanes is favorable for transportation networks with sparser topology while more charging stations can be more preferable for those denser networks.     

Extending Time to Collision for probabilistic reasoning in general traffic scenarios

Vehicle-to-vehicle communication systems allow vehicles to share state information with one another to improve safety and efficiency of transportation networks. One of the key applications of such a system is in the prediction and avoidance of collisions between vehicles. If a method to do this is to succeed it must be robust to measurement uncertainty and to loss of communication links. The method should also be general enough that it does not rely on constraints on vehicle motion for the accuracy of its predictions. It should work for all interactions between vehicles and not just a select subset. This paper presents a method to calculate Time to Collision for unconstrained vehicle motion. This metric is gated using a novel technique based on relative vehicle motion that we call “looming”. Finally, these ideas are integrated into a probabilistic framework that accounts for uncertainty in vehicle state and loss of vehicle-to-vehicle communication. Together this work represents a new way of considering vehicle collision estimation. These algorithms are validated on data collected from real world vehicle trials.     

一类大规模运输网络多阶段随机规划配流模型

利用随机规划理论，分析大规模运输网络的基本特性及优化，是近几年交通运输领域发展起来的一种新的研究方向，已广泛地应用于交通运输管理的各个部门。本文在分析了一类大规模运输网络在市场经济模式下的基本特性的基础上，提出了一类适用范围更广、更复杂的多阶段和广义多阶段随机规划配流模型。     

A Novel Evolutionary Feedforward Neural Network with Artificial Immunology

A hybrid algorithm to design the multi-layer feedforward neural network was proposed. Evolutionary programming is used to design the network that makes the training process tending to global optima. Artificial im-munology combined with simulated annealing algorithm is used to specify the initial weight vectors, therefore im-proves the probabiligy of training algorithm to converge to global optima. The applications of the neural network in the modulation-style recognition of analog modulated rader signals demonstrate the good performance of the network.     

主动磁轴承的神经网络辨识研究

简述了主动磁轴承的工作原理及数学模型,在传统系统辨识的基础上提出了基于BP神经网络的非线性辨识方案.通过闭环控制使转子稳定悬浮,并在控制器的输出信号中加入随机噪声,以使系统被充分激励.按照10 kHz的采样频率对磁轴承的I/O数据进行采样,以用于磁轴承特性的辨识.对某单自由度磁轴承的仿真表明,神经网络模型能够以很高的精度逼近磁轴承的输入输出数据,且对不同的输入信号有较好的泛化能力,验证了所提方案的有效性.     

电子商务综合发运跟踪系统的研究

基于中国电子商务和物流业的发展现状，提出了采用3层开发模型实现综合发运跟踪服务的设计方案，详细讨论了数据库表设计、应用系统间信息的表示和处理、基于2层隧道协议（Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol,L2TP)的拨号虚拟专用网（Virtual Private Network,VPN)技术的网络结构设计和查询反馈关键技术的实现问题。