Road safety impacts of the motorcycle in Brazil

Brazil has had high indices of traffic injuries and deaths since the 1950s, mostly related to the increasing and irresponsible use of the automobile. Upon approval of the Brazilian Transit Code (CTB) in 1997, traffic injuries and deaths began to diminish, despite an increase in vehicle fleet size, a phenomenon that had never occurred previously. Concurrently, starting in 1991 and with a great intensity after 1996, there has been a sizeable increase in motorcycle production and use, facilitated and encouraged by public officials. Between 1995 and 2000 annual sales figures for motorcycles doubled and reached 2 million units in 2008. Traffic deaths associated with motorcycles increased exponentially, rising from 725 in 2006 to 10,143 in 2010, eliminating the advances gained by the CTB in reducing auto-related injuries. This article analyses the process and its impacts on road safety. The first part summarises the main public policy decisions related to the theme. Part two analyses changes in traffic safety after the introduction of this new technology. Part three looks at the possible political, economic and social motives that lie behind this process. The final part suggests solutions to the great prejudice caused to society and the nation.     

The evolution of a regional container port system: the Pearl River Delta

This study investigates the progress of container port system development in South China, focusing particularly on the interplay between Hong Kong and the other ports in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region. After identifying the downgrading trend of Hong Kong from a transshipment hub port for Asia and for China as a whole to a regional load center and the emergence of other deep-sea direct-service ports, the paper looks into the causes of this structural change of the port system. Four major causes are identified: the cost-base competition, the impact of the unique “one-country two-systems” policy, the impact of globalization and container standardization, and the impact of multi-modal accessibility and connectivity. The paper reveals that the interplay between different governments and between the governments and port operators are the local mechanisms that together as a whole respond to the shippers’ needs and the shipping lines’ pressure. It confirms that the interdependencies and competitive relations between terminals are being played out at a regional level. While the particular situation of the PRD is unique in many regards, the features emerging there, with its dominant hub, its network of feeder ports and its emerging direct-service non-hub terminals, are being replicated elsewhere.     

The impact of the current economic crisis on the geography of air traffic volumes: an empirical analysis

This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of air services dynamics during the recent economic crisis. Through a regression analysis, we show that at the country scale, the change in the supply of seats is highly dependent on economic growth, confirming the cyclical nature of the air sector. Hence the crisis of air services has much more affected the USA, Europe and Japan than the rest of the world. However, many countries deviate from this general trend. In a second step, using the existing literature, we explain some of these deviating figures. National specificities and airline strategies seem to influence the intensity of the crisis. We argue that the intensity of the crisis in the US is due to the structural oversupply of the air sector. Through other cases, especially the Middle East, we show that hubbing strategies might reduce the impact of the crisis, or at least make it less dependent upon local economic dynamics. In contrast with other authors, we found no positive impact of the share of low-cost carriers on the supply during the crisis, despite their success in some specific contexts like between Europe and Morocco.     

浅析我国集装箱运输物流发展现状

集装箱运输作为货物运输的主要方式之一,由于其运输和换装的便利性,近些年来在我国得到越来越多的关注和较快的发展。文中分析了我国集装箱运输物流整体状况,并着重对铁路集装箱运输物流发展进行了分析,提出了合理的发展建议。     

运输能力限制条件下的煤炭物流路径选择

针对保障电厂用煤安全这一关系生产生活用电的重大问题,从标准运输问题模型出发,结合电力企业的实际情况,将多目标运输模型应用于煤炭运输问题,并针对接近或达到饱和的线路设定运力限制约束条件,建立运力限制下的多目标运输模型。通过实例分析运用Lingo软件对模型进行求解,验证了模型在解决运输能力限制条件下煤炭物流路径选择中的应用性,可为电力企业制定或优化煤炭调运方案提供依据。     

城市公路客运枢纽布局优化与发展趋势探讨

随着城市化进程的加快和城市空间的不断拓展，城市公路客运枢纽面临着提高城市交通运输效率和交通服务水平、改善城市交通环境与交通拥堵等难题。通过总结当前广州市公路客运枢纽在布局及运营方面存在的问题，借鉴国内外先进经验，提出城市公路客运枢纽的布局与发展应符合一体化、信息化、低碳化要求，并阐述了广州市公路客运枢纽布局优化与发展措施，可为国内城市公路客运枢纽的布局优化与发展决策提供参考。     

E篇：水运的发展对铁路运输的影响

回顾水运发展历程，分析水运特点及其适用范围，探讨水运发展趋势及对铁路运输的影响。     

Government Failure in Urban Transportation

This paper assesses governmental performance in its investment, provision and regulation of urban transportation. Attention is given to public bus and rail transit and road transportation. Evidence based on urban transport in US cities reveals substantial allocative and technical inefficiencies that have led to large public transit deficits and severe highway congestion. I argue that it is futile to expect public officials to remedy the situation by pursuing more efficient policies such as congestion pricing and weighing costs and benefits when deciding transit service. The problem is that urban transportation policy is largely shaped by entrenched political forces that inhibit constructive change. The only realistic way to improve the system is to shield it from those influences and expose it to market forces by privatising it. This position is supported by empirical evidence based on simulations for the US and the UK's early experience with privatisation.     

Towards a holistic framework for road safety in Australia

Current road safety programs and thinking in Australia are constructed within a paradigm that tends to accept existing cultural arrangements. Such programs therefore, favour symptomatic solutions and technical and/or physical solutions as a way forward. Fundamental redesign of cultural arrangements is necessary in order to challenge the “culture of speed”. Our research is developing a holistic, social ecological model for reconnecting road safety with communities that value quality of life and slower ways of being. Improving road safety through reduction in the volume and speed of motorised traffic is integrally related to enhancing health and fitness, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and improving neighbourhood planning and community cohesion. In this regard, community-based travel behaviour change initiatives are deserving of much greater attention in the road safety area. As well as these changes at the personal and community scale, policy changes to urban and transport planning that address the broader issues of sustainability in an era of climate change and peak oil can also be linked to improvements in road safety.     

枢纽机场航班延误恢复模型研究

为了快速恢复枢纽机场航班积压，减少枢纽机场的大面积航班延误。在航空和高速铁路联合运输的思想上延伸，以恢复成本最小化为目标，建立枢纽机场大面积航班延误恢复模型，确定短途航班的取消、延误或航班被高速铁路运输替代，实时恢复航班。利用MATLAB对上海虹桥国际机场航班延误数据求解，结果显示高速铁路替代模式相对航班地面延迟、航班取消等方案使恢复成本降低15%，节省恢复时间30min，验证模型恢复枢纽机场大面积航班延误可行、有效。