Turn taking behavior in dual earner households with children: a focus on escorting routines

Transportation - This article discusses results of a study on turn taking behavior in escorting children in dual-earner households. Using a multinomial logit model, the probability of different...     

Design and Evaluation of Robust Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control Systems in Parameter Space

This paper is on the design of cooperative adaptive cruise control systems for automated driving of platoons of vehicles in the longitudinal direction. Longitudinal models of vehicles with simple dynamics, an uncertain first order time constant and vehicle to vehicle communication with a communication delay are used in the vehicle modeling. A robust parameter space approach is developed and applied to the design of the cooperative adaptive cruise control system. D-stability is chosen as the robust performance goal and the feedback PD controller is designed in controller parameter space to achieve this D-stability goal for a range of possible longitudinal dynamics time constants and different values of time gap. Preceding vehicle acceleration is sent to the ego vehicle using vehicle to vehicle communication and a feedforward controller is used in this inter-vehicle loop to improve performance. Simulation results of an eight vehicle platoon of heterogeneous vehicles are presented and evaluated to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed design method. Also, the proposed method is compared with a benchmark controller and the feedback only controller. Time gap regulation and string stability are used to assess performance and the effect of the vehicle to vehicle communication frequency on control system performance is also investigated.     

基于最小延误费用的可变车道数调整模型

考虑在“潮汐式”车流条件下道路的双向流量不平衡,研究以用户最小延误费用为目标的可变车道变换调整方案。将可变车道数作为决策变量建立模型,并给出模型的求解步骤。利用交通仿真软件Vissim结合具体算例进行分析,验证模型的可行性与可用性,并计算出合理的可变车道数。结果证明当方向分布系数大于等于2／3、道路交通条件允许时,设置可变车道可降低所有车辆的延误时间和延误费用。     

川南450t级机动驳船型设计

介绍川南450t级机动驳的主尺度确定和型线设计,并进行了实船营运经济分析,提出了一种适于浅水急流航区、节能经济的平头纵流首外倾双球尾船型.     

城市公交线网优化的双层模型及遗传算法求解

为了有效地优化城市公交网络,综合考虑了乘客和公交企业的利益,建立了双层优化模型。上层模型考虑整个公交系统的利益,以乘客出行和公交企业运营费用最小为目标,下层模型作为辅助,以乘客直达率最大为目标,尽量减少总的换乘次数。针对该模型设计遗传算法进行求解,并给出算法的具体实现步骤。最后考虑定长设线的方法,设计一个简单的算例,给出不同站点数量的线网的优化方案,并对优化结果进行了对比．验证了模型和算法的有效性。