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    Status and Development of High-speed Railway and Civil Aviation Transportation
    ZHANG Guo-wu
    2016, 16(1): 2-11. 
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    It has been one of the hot issues in the field of transportation that the interaction and coordination between high- speed railway and civil aviation transportation since the opening of the highspeed railway. The 41st conference of“Traffic and Transportation 7+1 Forum”sets its theme as“Status and Development of High-speed Railway and Civil Aviation Transportation”. It focuses on the competition and coordination between the high-speed railway and civil aviation transportation in the background of the integrated transportation. It thinks that in a certain range, high-speed railway and civil aviation transportation can replace each other, and they are mutual competition of transportation mode. On the other hand, the development of high-speed railway is also conducive to the accumulation of air passengers through the railway to the large hub airport. It makes travel more active which through constructing a large comprehensive transportation hub to form a coexisted and complementary market relation

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    Travelers Dynamic Decision Making Based on Decision Field Theory
    LONG Xue-qin,WANG Jian-jun, ZHOU Bei
    2016, 16(1): 12-18. 
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    In order to study the dynamic decision making processes of travelers, based on decision field theory (DFT), automobile travelers’microcosmic and macroscopic dynamic decision making behavior under multiple attribute are studied. The basic model of DFT is analyzed, and travelers’dynamic decision making scene and frame are constructed. Historical travel time, forecast travel time and comprehensive time of the both are considered as route attributes, and calculation method of attention weight matrix is produced according to the difference of attributes and actual travel time. An example is studied, and we find that, freedom travel time is the primacy factor influencing route choice result, travelers rely on route attributes intensely, and preference reversal exists during the decision making, which denotes decision making is continuously changing with the decision time and travelers route choice is the result of time accumulating.

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    Energy Efficiency and Influencing Factors of Chinese Transportation Industry
    SONG Zhen1, CONG Lin2
    2016, 16(1): 19-25. 
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    It has gradually expanded that the gap of energy intensity between Chinese transportation and the average, so that energy saving and environmental protection in transportation industry become one of the short boards. Based on the panel data of Chinese 30 regions from 1995 to 2012, we use the stochastic frontier production function to analyze energy efficiency and the affecting factors of transportation industry. The result proves that, the energy efficiency of Chinese transportation industry is in an overall upward trend with flat W type, and has an average of 56.3% of the energy saving potential. There are significant differences between eastern, central and western region, it shows the spatial pattern of gradual decline from east to west. The results of total factor energy efficiency are more conservative than energy intensity’s; provinces transportation energy efficiency from 2004 to 2012 at an average annual rate of 9.6% divergence; western region diverge most significantly, the average annual rate of 10.7% divergence; economic opening, industrialization process and human resources significantly enhance the energy efficiency of transportation industry, while institutional factors and government intervention is significantly inhibited, and the level of infrastructure are not significant.

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    The Transportation Corridor Mode Choice Model Based on the Interaction Mechanism of Transportation Service Level, Operational Efficiency and Resource Consumption
    SUN Qi-peng, ZHENG Xiao-jing
    2016, 16(1): 26-31. 
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    This paper firstly analyzes the interaction mechanism of the transportation service level, the operational efficiency and the resource consumption. Relevant models are built to show the interaction mechanism between the three factors. The users select a mode of transportation always depend on their perception in the transportation service level. The user's travel demand directly affects the efficiency of a mode of transportation. This efficiency represents the degree of effective utilization of resources. Under the interaction mechanism, this paper builds a travel-based, MNL transportation choice model in a transportation corridor. This paper chooses the Beijing-Xi’an transportation corridor as a case to test the model. The results show that the ordinary rail still undertakes the mostly transportation demand in Beijing-Xi'an transportation corridor.

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    Efficiency Research of Urban Public Transport in China Based on the Analysis of Three Stage DEA Model
    ZHANG Yua, HUANG Cheng-fengb, XU Mao-zenga
    2016, 16(1): 32-37. 
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    This paper is to evaluate the cost efficiency and service effectiveness of public transport under the problem that has not considered the effect of management, external environmental variables and statistical interference. The analysis is performed using Three Stage DEA Method, with public transport operation annual data from 2010 to 2013 for 35 central cities in China. It's concluded that the environmental impact and the random interference effect is significant for service effectiveness; the average cost efficiency of cities which have over ten million population and the eastern regions in China have the better performance, the average service effectiveness of cities which have more than three million populations and the western regions in China have the better performance. While, the service effect of public transport is increasing year by year after the public transport industry back to public welfare position. The technical efficiency of public transport industry is increasing, but the total factor productivity is decreasing. So control the industry's reasonable development scale and enhance the attractiveness is the focus for improving the efficiency.

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    Computation of Road Curvature from a Sequence of Consecutive In-vehicle Images
    HU Zhao-zheng,ZHANG Lan,BAI Dong-fang,ZHAO Bin
    2016, 16(1): 38-45. 
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    A novel method to compute road curvature is proposed by using a sequence of consecutive log images. We first calibrate the in- vehicle camera system and reconstruct road lane lines. The error analysis model is applied to evaluate the reconstructed 3D data points such that only those data points with low reconstruction errors are utilized for curvature computation. The reconstructed curves from consecutive log images are registered with Iterative Closest Point (ICP) algorithm and mapped into a reference coordinate system. The 3D data on the mapped curves are finally used for circle fitting to compute the radius and the curvature. The proposed curvature computation method is tested with real video log images on two different road segments with the corresponding radii of 96 m and 430 m. The computation results demonstrate that the proposed method is both accurate and practical to compute the curvature. Furthermore, it outperforms the single-image based method for slow curvature computation.

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    Vehicles Detection and Tracking Algorithm for Complex Nighttime Traffic Scene
    SHEN Zhen-qian,MIAO Chang-yun,GENG Lei
    2016, 16(1): 46-51. 
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    Vehicles detection and tracking algorithm for nighttime traffic surveillance is proposed in order to further improve the accuracy of video vehicle detection and tracking at night. Light spots segmentation and connect- component matching techniques are used to detect and locate headlights of vehicles and employs region tracking-based method to track headlights. Headlights, which are the only salient features of vehicles in nighttime, are segmented by improved Otsu method, and non-vehicle illumination sources are filtered out according to the geometrical shape, size and location of headlights. Then, headlights are paired and classified based on the geometrical symmetry of headlights. Finally, a region-based tracking algorithm is employed to locate and track headlights. The results prove that the average accuracy rate of the algorithm is more than 97%, and the processing speed is 15.8% higher than the existing

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    Highway Travel Time Prediction Based on Multi-source Data Fusion
    ZHAO Jian-dong,XU Fei-fei,ZHANG Kun,BAI Ji-gen
    2016, 16(1): 52-57. 
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    In order to predict highway travel time accurately, toll collection data and microwave detection data are fused for travel time prediction. First, based on two prediction results, the decision level fusion strategy is determined. Then, the weight distribution model and back propagation neural network model are selected as the basic models. The next, because the neural network convergence is slow and easy to fall into local optimum, the Genetic algorithm is adopted to optimize the neural network model. Finally, on Beijing segment of Jingha Highway, suitable performance indices are proposed to compare the performance of three models in different traffic states, including weekday and weekend. The results show that the fusion model based on GA- BP neural network based on microwave detection data and toll data produced sufficient accuracy and stability. The Mean Relative Error (MPE) of all prediction periods are less than 10% for the normal and holiday traffic flow, which can better meet the practical requirements.

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    A Recognition Model of Lane Change Intention Based on Driver's Decision Mechanism
    NI Jie, LIU Zhi-qiang
    2016, 16(1): 58-63. 
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    According to the producing mechanism of driver's lane change decision, desired speed satisfaction, risk perception coefficient and change feasibility coefficient are put forward and quantified as the identification parameters of lane change decision. The results of analyzing real vehicle test data indicate that quantitative indicators have different correlation with lane change decision, and there is a significant difference among the beginning of lane changing, lane keeping and transition state stage. Fuzzy neural network model is established to identify driver's lane change intention by using desired speed satisfaction, risk perception coefficient and feasibility coefficient of lane change as the input feature index. The research results show that the model accuracy in the early stage of lane change is 89.93%, and the false alarm rate is 9.52%, which both are better than BP neural network model by taking the collision time TTC as input vectors and the Logistic model by using RV, RP and RS as variables. It shows that the model has a good predictive accuracy.

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    Variable Speed Limit on Freeway Based on the Cost of Traffic Delay and Crash Damage
    WANG Lei,LIN Yong-jie
    2016, 16(1): 64-70. 
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    Taking traffic volume and speed collected by traffic detection system as input variables, this paper proposes three kinds of step-by-step variable speed limit control models to minimize estimated delay cost, crash cost and comprehensive cost, respectively. The freeway crash rate is estimated based on volumeover- capacity and speed deviation by the existing model, and then the comprehensive cost is computed in terms of estimated delay and crash rate. In tests that used field freeway from about 20km segment of Qinglan freeway with eight variable speed limit signs, these developed three controls show promise in reducing the numbers of vehicle stops, stopped delay and equivalent travel delay based on micro simulation results, smoothing traffic speed and improving traffic safety. Nevertheless, travel time of freeway vehicles is increased a little. Additionally, sensitivity analysis of driver compliance rate indicates that benefits of variable speed limit are gradually reduced as compliance rate decreased. When the compliance rate is below 80%, benefits are significantly decreased; and benefits are essentially unchanged if it is less than a threshold of 60%.

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    Detection Modes of Field Strength Measurement in Railway Dedicated Mobile Communication Network
    DING Jian-wena, b,LIU Yangc,FEI Danc,ZHONG Zhang-duic
    2016, 16(1): 71-77. 
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    In the field strength measurement of railway dedicate mobile communication network, the selection of detection mode determines accuracy of measurement results. The detectors available are the max peak, the average and the RMS detector. The max peak detection is applied in the standards of railway digital mobile communication system (GSM-R) field strength measurement. This paper investigates the difference between the field measurement results and practical application effect of communication system in railway operation which affects the actual performance of the communication system. We mainly study the working mechanism of field strength measurement receiver and different detector, and propose the detection model according to the mathematical description. Then the field strength measurement methodology for the verification of different detection is designed in the laboratory static scenario and railway field dynamic scenario. At last the measurements are carried out and the data of different detection modes are compared and analyzed. The analysis result shows that the RMS detection is more suitable for GSM- R field strength measurement.

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    Coordinated Perimeter Flow Control for Two Subareas with Macroscopic Fundamental Diagrams
    ZHAO Jing1,MAWan-jing2,WANG Tao2,LIAO Da-bin2
    2016, 16(1): 78-84. 
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    In order to improve the performance of the entire road network, and prevent the congestion transfer caused by the optimal control for a single traffic control subarea, a coordinated perimeter flow control model is proposed. The proposed model aims at two adjacent traffic control subareas. The macroscopic fundamental diagram for each of the subareas and the relationship of the inflows and outflows are considered. After describing the interaction between the two subareas by the game theory, a game-based control logic is formulated and solved to maximum the performance of the two subareas as a whole. The feasibility and benefits of the proposed control are tested by VS2010 simulation. The results show that different control strategies lead to different benefits of the two subareas. However, a stable and efficient operation situation could be obtained by multiple gaming. Moreover, the subarea with lower network capacity may deserve more protection. The inflow should be controlled when its number of internal vehicles reaches the optimal value.

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    Study on WSN-based Railway Safety Monitoring System
    DUAN Jia-ying, SHI Tian-yun
    2016, 16(1): 85-91. 
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    Based on the structure and characteristics of the existing railway safety monitoring system, this paper makes full use of the advantages of wireless sensor network(WSN) to improve the system. Zigbee and RFID technology are used to design the system architecture, network and data transmission scheme of WSNbased railway safety monitoring system. On the basis of the existing railway safety monitoring system, the function of the train-wayside transmission is added into the system so the environment condition in front of the train can be transmitted to the train. In addition, the deployment scheme of Zigbee node and RFID node is studied and a simulation case study of node deployment is used. This system can effectively reduce the difficulty of installation and deployment cost of railway safety monitoring system, and provide the running environment in front of the train in real-time, thus guarantee the safety of high-speed train operation.

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    Modeling of Competitive Driving Behavior Based on Theory of Planned Behavior
    LI Peng-fei,SHI Jian-jun,LIU Xiao-ming
    2016, 16(1): 92-98. 
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    This paper aims to investigate the dimensionality of drivers’behaviors and analyze the motives of competitive driving behavior. Data are collected from a self- reported questionnaire completed by 225 drivers on the internet. Principal component analysis (PCA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) are used to analyze the underlying factor structure. Four latent factors are derived, including speed advantage, space occupation, contention over the right- of- way, and space advantage. Structural equation modeling is established to explain the correlation between drivers’attitude and driving behavior based on Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB). Results indicate that competitive driving behavior could be predicted by the combination of attitudes, subjective norm, control of perceived behavior, and social environment through the medium of behavior intention. A high correlation between the dimensions of social environment and intention is observed. This is an effective way to rectify the competitive driving behavior.

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    Modeling and Analyzing of Traffic Flow on the Work Zone of Urban Signalized Intersection Based on Social Force
    QIU Xiao-ping, SUN Ruo-xiao, MALi-na, YANG Da
    2016, 16(1): 99-104. 
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    The capacity of urban signalized intersection will decrease and traffic flow will run chaotically because of a work zone sets in the intersection. In order to study urban signal intersection work zone traffic flow at a micro level, it puts forward a new applicable social force model of intersection traffic flow for the first time, based on initial social force model. Factors affecting the capacity of island work zone are analyzed. A data collection program is designed to obtain data of work zone intersection. The measured data and genetic algorithm (GA) are used to do the presented model calibration, and then it is evaluated with several statistical indicators. The results show that the average absolute relative error of simulation traffic data and real data is 0.028, so it can make a reference to analyze the traffic flow of urban signal intersection work zone.

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    Criticality Calculation of Road Links Based on Local Network Traffic Flow Redistribution
    ZHANG Jian-xu,JIANG Yan
    2016, 16(1): 105-110. 
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    Based on the defined failure scope of the link, its criticality calculation is quantified in terms of vulnerability and importance. The vulnerability is calculated by the probability of link failure under the some failure rules. Link importance evaluation is based on the network reconstruction after the link failure. The local node OD is redistributed on the local reconstructed network within the scope of failure link. Link importance calculation contains two aspects: impact indicator of variation of traveler time cost F(U fa) and traffic load variation indicator of local network F(S fa) . This method conforms to the changed effect of road network after link failure. It effectively avoids a current problem that time-varying OD data is difficult to be obtained. It also solves the singularity problem of choosing existing evaluation indicators. Experiment shows that this algorithm can be effectively applied to link criticality calculation in large-scale road network, and provides the theoretical basis of identifying critical links and evaluation the effect of road closure.

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    Capacity Calculation under Through Operation between Urban Rail Transit and Suburban Railway
    LI Ming-gao, MAO Bao-hua, DU Peng, ZHANG Xiang-yu, LIU Lu
    2016, 16(1): 111-115. 
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    The tracing time interval between heterogeneous trains is different to homogeneous trains, and the capacity declines under through operation. Based on the analysis of the calculation principles of tracing time interval, the capacity calculation model of shared- track under through operation is present. The result shows that the suburban rail tracing time interval is 110s and the urban rail transit is 85s under the given parameters. The more through train operated, the greater of the capacity declined. If the actual tracing time interval is 120s, then the through train cannot dispatch when the needed headway to meet the demand is less than 125s, and it can dispatch by 1:1 when is more than 212s.

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    Algorithms of Station Passenger Flow Forecast of Suburban Rail Transit Based on Distribution Time
    DING Xiao-bing, XU Xing-fang
    2016, 16(1): 116-122. 
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    The stranded passenger flow forecasting of suburban rail station is related to the adjustment of operation plan, trip mode choice of passengers, and prediction of travel time, especially for operation scheme optimization based on fast- slow mode is of great importance. First of all, the theory of angle expenses is introduced, from the cost of the way of transit trip and subway lines, which determines the passenger choice. It uses the passenger flow data obtaining from AFC as data support. A forecasting method of passenger flow is presented based on period distribution. Secondly, it analyzes the law of passenger flow and traffic exchange platform based on train passenger status. It also proposes the waiting passenger train ridership interaction model, and studies the algorithm. Finally, this paper takes a suburban line as example calculation. It shows that the accuracy of the prediction results is improved. This can be as supplementary for railway traffic planning, guidance for passenger flow, and be of certain reference and practical.

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    Network Evolution-based Planning Model for Intercity Railway Network within Urban Agglomeration
    HUANG Chao, LIU Su, LV Ying
    2016, 16(1): 123-128. 
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    Intercity railway network plays an important role in the integration of urban agglomeration, and reasonable planning is of great significance on the basis of urban agglomeration spatial structure. This paper, based on network evolution, takes node importance and economic contact intensity as major parameters of network evolution, and a planning model of the intercity railway network of urban agglomeration is constructed, under the comprehensive consideration of social economy of the specific urban agglomeration. With the analysis of technical performance and constraints of the intercity railway network, evolution mechanism and evolution algorithm are present. At last, the Chengdu-Chongqing urban agglomeration is taken as a case to validate the planning model. The result shows that this model is reasonable and efficient, and provides an important guidance on the intercity railway network planning.

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    Classification of Railway Passengers Based on Cluster Analysis
    LV Hong-xia,WANGWen-xian,PU Song,YV Da-ben
    2016, 16(1): 129-134. 
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    Classification of railway passenger is a crucial strategy of simplifying the problem of boarding choice for passengers. According to the survey data of Chengdu-Wuhan railway lines, this paper takes characteristic and travel features of passengers as property variables. Firstly, property variables are clustered by hierarchical clustering. The variables of great relevance such as time value and monthly income, trip purpose and cost sources are combined. Secondly, passenger samples are clustered by affinity propagation algorithms according to the simplified nodes indexes. Clustering effectiveness indexes contained CH, Hart and IGP indexes are analyzed to the clustering consequence. The result indicates that it is of the best effect while the passengers are divided into 6 sorts. The boarding choice of passengers in survey data also shows that different types of passengers give preferences to diversified transport product.

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    Departure Time Choice Behavior Based on Bounded Rationality
    LUAN Kun,FU Zhong-ning,JUAN Zhi-cai
    2016, 16(1): 135-141. 
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    Subject to such limitations as cognitive ability and logical reasoning ability, it is difficult for individual to be perfectly rational in the travel decision-making process. Taking departure time choice as an example, key behavior factors such as spatial knowledge acquisition, learning, cognition update and solution search are introduced. The theoretical framework of travel decision- making process is built based on bounded rationality. Departure time behavioral intention survey program is designed by integration of RP and SP survey methods. Individual’s knowledge representation is studied, and cognitive update is completed by using Bayesian learning theory. Functions of search cost and search gain are defined. By using survey data, departure time heuristic search rules and decision rules are derived based on PART and RIPPER algorithm separately. The results show that there exist perception threshold in individual’s departure time choice behavior under bounded rationality, rather than seeking global optimal solution.

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    Congestion Pricing and Refund Optimization Model Based on Mode Choice
    JIANG Yi-bing,SUN Hui-jun,WANGWei
    2016, 16(1): 142-147. 
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    By analyzing travel behavior of users with cumulative prospect theory, a congestion pricing and refund optimization model is proposed. And the optimal fare discount rate and best toll are obtained with it. Then a numerical example is used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the model. There are four situations: without subsidy and without toll, without subsidy and with toll, with subsidy and without toll, with subsidy and with toll. In this paper, the total system costs in the situations above are compared to the situation without subsidy and without toll. Moreover, the cost expense savings of government and passengers in the situation with subsidy and with toll compared with the situation without subsidy and without toll are also got. At last, the results show that the model is in accord with the users’actual choice behavior. The comparisons show that the policies of congestion pricing and subsidy can effectively reduce the total system cost and save the expense cost of government and passengers by bus. And appropriate congestion toll and fare discount rate can effectively make more people choose public transport.

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    Planning Bus Rapid Transit Line Based on the Maximum Service Population Coverage
    WANG Zhong,LAN Feng-min
    2016, 16(1): 148-154. 
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    Bus rapid transit (BRT) has advantages in speed, comfort and capacity over conventional bus service and hence is chosen by more and more cities. However, the planning of BRT line is lack of a scientific approach and heavily relies on planner’s experience. This paper, aiming to develop a scientific model for BRT line planning, establishes a mathematical model with the objective of maximizing the service population, which is subjected to a number of constraints such as distance between stations, expense, etc. The problem is formulated as a single-objective linear integer programming model, and is solved with exhaustive attack method by selecting the best plan out of a group of feasible solutions. In addition, the BRT line and stop settings are further assessed with the factor of non-linear coefficient. It provides planners a scientific and robust method to improve the BRT line planning.

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    Bus Routes Optimization and Adjustment Based on the Optimal Service Capability of Urban Bus Stop
    BAIWei,JIANG Xin-guo,ZHANG Guo-peng
    2016, 16(1): 155-161. 
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    A large number of urban bus routes and bus stops are clustered in the central business area, which provides the mobility for the city residents but brings about traffic-related problems at the same time. For example, one of the common phenomena is that many buses are seriously delayed at the bus stop, particularly in the rush hours. The paper attempts to minimize the total delay of the buses at the same stop through analyzing the characteristics of bus routes and docking time of the buses, taking into account the temporal characteristics of the docking buses and the passengers' demand, and finally determining the optimal capacity of the bus stop. The paper proposes a new approach to reduce the redundancy of bus routes at the same stop. The paper also verifies the practicability of the model through a case study.

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    Traffic Status Prediction Based on Random Restart Hill-climbing
    QIAN Chao, DAI Liang, LIN Shan, LI Xue
    2016, 16(1): 162-168. 
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    Construct of reasonable network structure which influencing traffic status is the prerequisite of realizing traffic status prediction. In order to improve Hill-climbing algorithm, which may trap into the local optimum instead of the global optimum, a new traffic status prediction method is proposed based on Random Restart Hill-climbing. Proposed multi-network structures are obtained by executing Hill-climbing algorithm iteratively, to create directed acyclic graphs randomly. Furthermore, selection criterion for nodes and directed edges in the optimal Bayesian network structure is determined by the definition of directed edges-confidence and the calculation of confidence- threshold. The intelligent predictions and comprehensive evaluations of four kinds of traffic status including free, smooth, congestion and jam are achieved by using optimal Bayesian network structure. Results indicate that the prediction results are satisfactory with a high accuracyrate of more than 85% only selecting two variables such as hour and holiday. Therefore, the proposed method provides an effective way and experimental proof for monitoring, warning and decision analysis of expressway operation status.

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    Convergence of Travel Time Fluctuations in Elastic Demand
    LIU Li-juan,ZHANG Ning
    2016, 16(1): 169-175. 
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    The convergence of travel time fluctuations in elastic demand is analyzed. MITSIM is adopted to simulate the process of the vehicles running on the road. The expected travel time is estimated by the simulation data before the vehicle go through the road segment. Traffic demand is determined by demand function and expected travel time. While one vehicle enters into the road, the time is recorded. When one vehicle exits the road, the time is recorded, too. The actual travel time of the vehicle is computed by the recorded data. Coefficient of standard deviation is used to measure the amplitude of travel time fluctuations. The results show that the travel time fluctuations converge as the extension of the road for any latent demand, that the convergence rate is reduced with the latent traffic demand increasing and that the convergence rate is improved with the elastic coefficient increasing.

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    Low-income Commuters’Mode Choice Utilizing Attitude-behavior Model
    CHENG Long, CHEN Xue-wu, YANG Shuo
    2016, 16(1): 176-181. 
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    To analyze modal choice behavior of low income commuters and reveal the influence of individual’s socio-demographics, activity attributes and latent attitude variables on mode choice, an integrated attitude-behavior model is utilized to estimate these relationships based on Fushun activity-based travel survey. Firstly, based on a multiple indicators multiple causes model to analyze effects of explanatory factors on attitude variables, results indicate gender, age and driving license possession play important roles on attitude formation. Then, multinomial Logit models with and without latent variables are both estimated. Findings show that the latent variables enriched choice model provides additional explanation on travel behavior. Socio-demographics, activity attributes and attitude variables exert different impacts on low income commuters’mode choice.

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    Flight Operation Key Risk Factors Inference Based on Operation Data
    WANG Yan-tao, LI Rui, LU Fei, TANG Jian-xun, ZHAO Yi-fei
    2016, 16(1): 182-188. 
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    In order to reduce the flight operation risk caused by flight operation controllers’individual differences, and further improve the airlines operation control ability, based on the systemic analysis of flight operation procedures, combined with the operation data, screening of risk factors from the aspects of flight crew, airports, weather, routes and aircraft, the flight operation control risk assessment index is established. Using the Bayesian network analysis method based on the fault tree and insecurity event analysis reports over the years as the sample data, the probability of occurrence of unsafe events by forward reasoning is predicted. Adopting three types of importance index analysis to identify the key risk factors. The result shows that five key risk factors probability value are more than 40% resulting in a high flight operation risk value, such as pilot and co- pilot’s technical level, crew matching and air traffic controller cooperation, etc. Risk inference result is entirely consistent with actual operation situation.

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    Multi-criteria Optimization Model and Solving Algorithm for Hazardous Materials Transportation Path
    DAI Cun-jie, LI Yin-zhen,HE Rui-chun, MAChang-xi
    2016, 16(1): 189-195. 
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    For the problem of various types of hazardous materials transportation in road network based on risk control, with consideration of the path selection needs to different transportation decision- makers, a multi- criteria optimization model under risk constraint is developed. According to the risk threshold of section/path and the risk measures produced by hazardous materials, a bidirectional topological search algorithm is developed to generate residual network of each type of hazardous material by deleting the infeasible nodes and edges from original network. An improved label setting algorithm is applied to search the optimized path with different criteria in each of the residual network to generate non-dominated path set. The adjustment strategy is given to the critical sections among different paths in the set, and the computing time complexity of obtaining non-dominated path set is analyzed. Finally, an example is used to verify the validity of the model and the algorithm.

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    An En-route Sector Probability Traffic Demand Prediction Method
    TIANWen,ZHANG Ying,DAI Xiao-xu,HU Bin
    2016, 16(1): 196-201. 
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    With air traffic congestion spreading from terminal areas to upper en- route network, accurate prediction of the probabilistic en- route sector traffic demand changes is important for airspace congestion management, since the existing methods aren’t suitable for our actual air traffic control data. To solve this problem, based on the existing air traffic data of aircraft passing point time, the data statistics method based on prediction error distribution characteristics is designed, and an en-route sector probability traffic demand prediction method is proposed. Combined with the typical operation data of south- middle area, the prediction error distribution of passing- point time in sectors is abstracted and verified, the sector traffic demand and its probabilistic distribution is obtained. It is founded that the accuracy of probability traffic demand prediction is improved comparing to classic methods. Thus, this method is more suitable to provide traffic demand prediction results for our upper en-route congestion management research.

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    Optimization of Liner Ship Fleet Mix Strategy under Emission Trading System
    ZHU Mo, ZHEN Hongb, GAN Ai-ping
    2016, 16(1): 202-208. 
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    With the trend of imposing market-based mechanisms in shipping industry, this paper proposes an optimization model for liner ship fleet mix strategy under carbon emission trading system, which minimizes the total expected operational costs in multiple periods. The uncertain carbon emission allowance price is described by Geometric Brownian Motion. A numerical experiment with real industrial data is carried out to analyze optimized fleet mix strategy and carbon emission volume. Result shows that by involving liner companies into emission trading system, fleet carbon emissions can be reduced significantly, while companies need to pay for the allowances purchase. Another conclusion that based on sensitivity analysis of bunker prices shows: the impact of emission trading system on motivation to use energy-efficient ships and fleet carbon mitigation increases along with the rising of bunker price.

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    Selection of Escorting Position Based on Major Covering Location Theory
    GAO Tian-hang, LV Jing
    2016, 16(1): 209-216. 
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    Taking aim at the efficiency problem existing in the adjoint escorting strategy employed by the navy, this paper adopts the concept of regional escort. A selection model of the escorting position is established based on the major covering location theory. The model is divided into pirates hijacking model, merchant ships distress and navy rescue model, the selection of escorting position model. The high- risk waters deployed in major areas are subjected to improve efficiency of escort naval escort. To solve the model quickly and effectively, a modified algorithm, combining genetic algorithms and greedy algorithms, is proposed, which makes the result more realistic. The calculation result of the case indicates that the proposed model and algorithm can select reasonable escort position for the navy, which makes the escort more efficient and stable.

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    Vulnerability Study for Public Transport Network of Valley City: Case of Lanzhou
    FENG Hui-fang, LI Cai-hong,WANG Rui
    2016, 16(1): 217-222. 
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    The public transport network vulnerability of Lanzhou is studied based on complex network theory. Firstly, the bus stations network are constructed according to the space L model and the static topological properties is analyzed. Then, the metrics about the vulnerability of urban public transport network is established on the basis of the random failure and selective attack of complex networks, and the corresponding performances are presented. The results show that the vulnerability of a selective attack is far stronger than that of random failure because of the special features of the valley terrain in Lanzhou. Finally, combined with the vulnerability of public transport network, the key station selection strategy is studied. It shows that the selection strategy based on the degree is more suitable for Lanzhou. These results provide a theoretical basis to support decision making on transportation planning and urban traffic network optimization for Lanzhou.

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    Passenger Choice Behavior of High-speed Rail and Airline between Beijing and Shanghai
    ZHANG Rui,MAYu,ZHAO Bing-ru,LUANWei-xin
    2016, 16(1): 223-228. 
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    With the rapid construction of high-speed railway, it has constituted the main body of the highspeed passenger transportation with airline in China. It is causing the supply structure of the transportation mode changes greatly. Through the SP and RP survey on the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail and the civil aviation passenger, this paper analyzes the composition of passenger flow and their characteristics of travel mode choice behavior. Based on the disaggregate theory, a Binary Logit model for Beijing- Shanghai passenger choice behavior is developed. The impact of each factor on passenger choice behavior is quantified. The accuracy rate of the model is 88%. Based on the survey result and parameters calibrated in the model, the influence of gender, age, monthly income, ticket price, companion number, ingress time and departure time on the passenger choice behavior is analyzed thoroughly. The result is beneficial for grasping the condition of actual travel demand and designing the integrated transport passenger transportation product reasonably between Beijing and Shanghai.

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    Multi-type Crane Deployment Problem for Resource Limited Container Terminals
    TAN Cai-maoa, HUANG You-fanga, HE Jun-liangb, YANWeib, YU Hangc
    2016, 16(1): 229-236. 
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    This paper researches on the yard crane deployment problem in most Asian container ports. A mixed integer programming is built by using linear programming method. This model can solve the multitype yard crane deployment problem well. In numerical experiments, a simper case is designed to test the model reliability and accuracy, and analyzes a set of scenarios such as initial yard crane allocation, yard crane performance and yard crane number. It points out many management meanings in container terminal practical operation. Experiments results show that the proposed model can deal with multi-type yard cranes deployment problem in Asian port terminals and can provide decision support for terminal manager.

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