基于累积前景理论的动态交通流演化博弈模型

交通流演化的内在动力机制是出行者的适应性学习及其诱发的路径选择行为的持续改变,当选择行为趋于稳定时交通系统也将达到或接近均衡状态。首先基于累积前景理论建立了一个用户均衡模型及其等价的变分不等式,在一定约束条件下对模型解的性质进行了讨论;然后将累积前景理论与演化博弈论相结合,利用复制子动态来刻画出行者日常路径选择的博弈学习行为,建立了一个动态交通系统模型,结合稳定性分析证明了当满足一定条件时系统演化能够实现用户均衡;最后通过算例在不同初始状态和不同参照点更新规则下分别展示了交通流的动态演化与用户均衡的实现过程,对相关研究结论进行了验证。本文拓展了传统交通分配模型完全理性假设和均衡分析方法的局限,更加真实、全面的刻画了动态交通系统长期运行特征和规律。     

价格-数量调节网络交通流演化模型

首次运用经济学非瓦尔拉斯均衡中的价格-数量调节原理和方法,建立网络交通流动态演化模型.假设出行者在路径选择决策时,不但受路径出行时间(价格)的影响,而且还受到路径剩余通行能力(数量)的影响,并将这种路径选择行为形成的稳定交通流模式定义为价格-数量混合调节用户均衡.论文分别建立了价格调节演化模型和数量调节演化模型,进而构建了价格-数量共同调节演化模型,证明了演化模型的稳定状态等价于价格-数量调节用户均衡,且价格调节用户均衡和数量调节用户均衡均为价格-数量调节用户均衡的特例.论文最后以一个简单的测试网络为例对文中建立的演化模型进行了计算分析,结果显示三种演化模型均可较理想地模拟路径流随时间变化的过程,且模型稳定状态分别对应三种用户均衡交通流模式.     

交通流演化动力学研究的一般框架及性质分析北大核心CSSCI

针对道路网络需求时变的交通流达到均衡的条件以及均衡状态的稳定性问题,运用演化博弈理论和动力系统稳定性理论,提出了流量演化动力学研究的一般框架,建立了多群体多准则出行选择流量演化系统的动力学模型,证明了流量演化动力学模型平衡点与动态交通流量分配模型均衡解之间的等价性,讨论了模型解的存在性、唯一性和稳定性.理论分析结果表明,流量演化动力系统的演化稳定策略等价于动态交通流分配模型的均衡解,流量演化动力系统在某个局部区域总存在着唯一解,并且在出行者个体收益参数满足一定条件的前提下,流量演化动力系统在平衡点附近会表现出不同的稳定性质,通过一个简单路网的数值算例说明了本文建立模型的合理性和有效性.本文在出行者博弈行为和动态交通分配之间建立了联系,有助于加深对于城市交通流演化规律的认识和理解.     

交通流演化动力学研究的一般框架及性质分析

针对道路网络需求时变的交通流达到均衡的条件以及均衡状态的稳定性问题,运用演化博弈理论和动力系统稳定性理论,提出了流量演化动力学研究的一般框架,建立了多群体多准则出行选择流量演化系统的动力学模型,证明了流量演化动力学模型平衡点与动态交通流量分配模型均衡解之间的等价性,讨论了模型解的存在性、唯一性和稳定性． 理论分析结果表明,流量演化动力系统的演化稳定策略等价于动态交通流分配模型的均衡解,流量演化动力系统在某个局部区域总存在着唯一解,并且在出行者个体收益参数满足一定条件的前提下,流量演化动力系统在平衡点附近会表现出不同的稳定性质,通过一个简单路网的数值算例说明了本文建立模型的合理性和有效性． 本文在出行者博弈行为和动态交通分配之间建立了联系,有助于加深对于城市交通流演化规律的认识和理解．     

基于累积前景理论的出发时间选择SDUO模型

以早高峰工作出行为研究对象,基于累积前景理论建立了一个随机动态用户最优(SDUO)交通分配模型,模型可以同时选择出发时间和出行路径,给出了等价的变分不等式,设计了求解算法并通过算例进行了验证。结果显示,路径及OD对之间的动态出发流量、出发时间选择满意函数均与到达工作地点的价值函数形态相似,绝大多数出行者(96.45%)都能在"可以接受的最早到达时刻"与"工作开始时刻"之间到达。模型拓展了传统出发时间选择模型中"时间窗"的概念和出行者完全理性假设的局限,在有限理性框架下考察出行者的决策行为,模型及算法可以为出行行为分析、动态路径诱导,以及拥挤收费和错时上下班等交通管理措施的制订提供理论依据。     

多维动态用户最优出行选择的变分不等式模型

针对出行行为的出行模式,出发时间/路径选择三个方面,建立了基于路段的理想动态用户最优的变分不等式模型,该模型将用户的出行方案制定和实施作为一个整体进行考虑,表明了在满足动态用户最优选择条件下,交通流在出行模式、出发时间和出行路径上取得一致的动态均衡性,通过必要性和充分性的论证,得到了变分不等式模型和动态用户最优出行模式/出发时间/路径选择均衡条件的等价性,对模型解的存在惟一性成立需要满足的条件作了讨论,提出了求解的嵌套对角化算法,在此基础上,使用一个简单算例对模型进行了验证.     

ATIS环境下交通配流的动态演化模型

考虑交通网络中实现用户均衡态的过程,引入决策出行费用的概念,提出一个 ATIS 环境下的交通配流动态演化模型,模型中的 OD 需求是可变内生的.利用稳定性定理分析了该动态系统的稳定性,说明在一定条件下,系统的用户均衡态是稳定的.采用改进的欧拉法完成了模型的数值试验,结果表明该动态系统确实可以达到用户均衡态,同时也发现,某些模型参数的变化可能导致路径流量和 OD 费用演化轨迹的无规则摆动.     

基于累积前景理论的随机网络用户均衡模型

出行者行为假设对交通网络用户均衡建模具有重要影响,更符合人们的真实决策行为的累积前景理论,为随机交通网络中的路径选择行为研究提供了新的分析框架.基于累积前景理论,将出行者的路径选择决策与网络的随机性相结合,建立了随机网络用户均衡的等价变分不等式模型;提出了求解模型的算法,通过简单的算例对模型和算法的合理性进行验证.通过...     

交通信息条件下道路和停车选择SUE模型及算法

考虑交通信息系统(advanced traveler information system,ATIS)对出行者道路和停车选择行为的影响,并将出行者分成两类:一类出行者使用ATIS,另一类不使用ATIS.在此基础上,构造了一个基于概率的随机用户均衡模型来描述ATIS条件下的道路和停车选择问题,并给出了相应的求解算法.最后,通过一个算例分析了模型及算法的使用效果.     

基于 AＲT 及多风险规避的交通网络均衡模型

随着对交通系统不确定性认识的深入，以绝对理性为基础的“期望效用理论”在风险环境下的路径选择分析中显示出局限性，而“预期后悔理论”则为之提供了新的分析思路． 将预期后悔理论应用到风险环境下的路径选择分析中，将出行者一致风险规避的假设扩展到多风险规避，建立了基于后悔理论及多风险规避出行特征的交通网络随机用户均衡变分不等式模型，并给出了求解算法． 通过算例分析发现，后悔心理对出行者的路径选择并不总是显著的． 在非风险环境及极端风险环境中，后悔心理对出行者的路径选择影响是微弱的，但是当环境处于极端风险与非风险之间时，后悔心理对出行者路径选择有着较为显著的影响．     

Introduction to Special Section on Sensitivity Analysis and Summary of NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis

This guest editorial is a summary of the NCSU/USDA Workshop on Sensitivity Analysis held June 11–12, 2001 at North Carolina State University and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Office of Risk Assessment and Cost Benefit Analysis. The objective of the workshop was to learn across disciplines in identifying, evaluating, and recommending sensitivity analysis methods and practices for application to food‐safety process risk models. The workshop included presentations regarding the Hazard Assessment and Critical Control Points (HACCP) framework used in food‐safety risk assessment, a survey of sensitivity analysis methods, invited white papers on sensitivity analysis, and invited case studies regarding risk assessment of microbial pathogens in food. Based on the sharing of interdisciplinary information represented by the presentations, the workshop participants, divided into breakout sessions, responded to three trigger questions: What are the key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods applied to food‐safety risk assessment? What sensitivity analysis methods are most promising for application to food safety and risk assessment? and What are the key needs for implementation and demonstration of such methods? The workshop produced agreement regarding key criteria for sensitivity analysis methods and the need to use two or more methods to try to obtain robust insights. Recommendations were made regarding a guideline document to assist practitioners in selecting, applying, interpreting, and reporting the results of sensitivity analysis.     

Distinguishing traumatic, vicarious and routine operational stressor exposure and attendant adverse consequences in a sample of police officers

Problems in studying occupational stress within the police service are identified and the paucity of work on operational duties as potential stressors are discussed. The present study reports the results of a factor analysis of operational stressors (N = 601 serving British police officers) that revealed three factors: exposure to death and disaster; violence and injury; sexual crime. These were demonstrated to be reliable scales and were included in logistic regression models together with a range of demographic and psychological variables. Models were applied to men and women separately, which showed there to be different predictors of the likelihood of suffering distress (measured by the General Health Questionnaire, GHQ) in terms of the officer's gender and operational role. Overall the model for women officers was better at predicting psychological distress than that for men. These findings are related to aspects of the police occupational culture. Further discussion is offered that conceptualizes police operational stressors as traumatic, routine and vicarious. Finally, some implications are drawn for the provision of stress intervention in the light of this differentiation.     

Power,authority and legitimacy

Management, human resources, organization, control, leadership, etc., all seem to be just so many euphemisms for power, and this suggests a discourse of management and organization that calls things by their proper name. This paper on the contrary stresses the need to resolve the concept of ‘power’ itself into more differentiated notions, and proposes that clarification may be derived from distinctions once explicit in the vocabulary of Classical antiquity, but lost in modern European languages. It argues that nothing but confusion in thinking about organizations, management and legitimation can result from the failure to recognize that the phenomena this vocabulary identifies and distinguishes are irreducibly different.     

Criteria for selecting a production control philosophy

Logistic objectives constitute a compromise between having short leadtimes and a low volume of work in progress on the one hand and a high resource loading and due date obligation on the other. Miscellaneous production planning approaches offered today provide different combinations of logistic objectives for satisfying a manufacturing strategy. To combine the strength of the various approaches into a unified system, a new approach based on a dynamic and distributed production planning methodology is proposed. To customize the approach, various analyses and specifications have to be made and for that reason some important characteristics and criteria for analysing production control philosophies will be given.     

Employees' perceptions of organizational restructuring: the role of social support

Organizational change and restructuring is often perceived as leading to increased occupational stress, impacting negatively on the psychological well-being of employees. This pragmatic study investigates the role of social support and dispositional affect as moderators of role stress post-restructuring for employees in a public utility company. A total of 176 employees, including 37 managers, 60 graded staff and 78 industrial staff completed a self-report questionnaire, approximately 1 year postrestructuring, retrospectively assessing role conflict, ambiguity, overload and positive and negative feedback pre- and post-restructuring. Results suggested that overall role stress increased for managers/ senior officers and graded staff, but not for industrial staff. Social support was linked with lower role stress, more positive feedback and less negative feedback at post-restructuring. For certain role stressors this impact was moderated by dispositional affect, but the effect was not consistent across occupational groups. Positive affect enhanced the effect of manager support in reducing role conflict for graded staff, and the effect of co-worker support in increasing positive feedback and reducing negative feedback for industrial staff. Findings suggest that managers should pay particular attention to support and feedback for employees during periods of chronic occupational stress following organizational restructuring.     

The Danish psychosocial work environment and symptoms of stress: the main, mediating and moderating role of sense of coherence

The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore the main, mediating and moderating role of sense of coherence (SOC) on stress symptoms and on the association between perceived psychosocial work environment and stress symptoms. The sample includes 2053 Danish employees from 52 workplaces. Hierarchical regression models were applied for each measure of stress. The results strongly supported the presence of a main effect for SOC. People with high levels of SOC experienced fewer stress symptoms. A mediating effect of SOC was also supported. Thus, SOC in part explained the association between work environment and stress symptoms. In addition, some support for a moderating effect of SOC was found, suggesting that people with higher SOC coped more efficiently with work environmental strain that people with lower SOC. Taken together the regression models explained 11-32% of the variance in stress symptoms. The results suggest that measures of individual factors such as SOC should be included in analyses of the effects of work environmental factors on stress and well-being.     

Control at work: a generalized resource factor for the prevention of musculoskeletal symptoms?

During the last two decades two potent groups of predictors for work-related musculoskeletal problems have been identified: physical work load and poor psychosocial working conditions. However, little is known about their combined effects. In this study the buffering effect of control at work with respect to the negative effects of psychological demands and physical work load on musculoskeletal problems is examined. All study variables were sampled from 431 people working in geriatric nursing homes in Germany by means of questionnaires. Main effects and interactions were tested with multiple regression analysis. The results showed that control buffered the effects of high psychological demands, but not of high physical work load; the buffering effect of control was observed only when physical work load was low. The combined effects of demands and physical work load were over-additive. Thus, the power of different predictors for musculoskeletal symptoms depended on the level of other predictors. This suggests that the efficiency of certain strategies for the prevention of musculoskeletal problems is likely to depend on the level of risk factors, with different strategies being appropriate for different levels of risk.     

The social construction of the meaning of acute stressors: a qualitative study of the personal accounts of police officers using a stress counselling service

The police profession is one in which acute stressors are encountered more frequently than in other occupations. Using the personal accounts of 35 police officers attending an in-house stress counselling clinic, the aim of the present study was to provide a qualitative examination of how the institutional context of policing influenced the ways in which acute stressors signified to individual police officers experiencing felt distress. Using the framework of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy as an analytical tool, it is argued that beliefs contributing to the experience of felt distress are related to the way in which policing as both an identity and an activity is constructed through the police organizational culture. Not only do these constructions influence the ways in which officers perceive themselves and their environments, but they also operate at the collective level to 'normalize' some emotional responses and to 'pathologize' others which, it is argued, could impact upon the outcomes of interventions such as stress counselling.     

The moderating role of social support in Karasek's job strain model

This paper examines whether social support is a boundary-determining criterion in the job strain model of Karasek (1979). The particular focus is the extent to which different sources of social support, work overload and task control influence job satisfaction, depersonalization and supervisor assessments of work performance. Hypotheses are tested using prospective survey data from 80 clerical staff in a university setting. Results revealed 3-way interactions among levels of support (supervisor, co-worker, non-work), perceived task control and work overload on levels of work performance and employee adjustment (self-report). After controlling for levels of negative affect in all analyses, there was evidence that high levels of supervisor support mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of job satisfaction and reduced reported levels of depersonalization. Moreover, high levels of non-work support and co-worker support also mitigated against the negative effects of high strain jobs on levels of work performance. The results are discussed in terms of the importance of social support networks both at, and beyond, the work context.     

Job insecurity, coping resources and personality dispositions in occupational strain

This paper presents research on the relationships between the work-related stressor of perceived job insecurity and various indicators of occupational strain, taking into account employees' personality dispositions (trait negative and positive affectivity) and coping resources. Respondents were 222 Australian public servants surveyed during organizational restructuring that involved downsizing and threat to job certainty. The research was formulated within an adaptation of Osipow, Doty, and Spokane's (1985) framework of stress-strain-coping that included the possible direct as well as moderating effects of personality dispositions in reporting occupational strain (Parkes, 1990). Findings from hierarchical regression analyses indicate consistent significant independent effects of personality dispositions, coping resources and perceived job insecurity on various indicators of strain. There was also support for the moderating roles of negative affectivity and self-care in the relation between perceived job insecurity and physical strain. Implications for the role of dispositional factors, especially negative affectivity, and the utility of various coping resources in accounting for occupational strain in times of threatened job security are discussed.