辽宁省综合交通运输体系内部分工合理性分析

综合交通运输体系分工合理性研究对促进各种运输方式合理分工、优势互补、协调发展起着重要作用。以平均里程系数为指标,运用实证分析法,得出目前辽宁省综合交通运输体系内部分工比较合理、各种运输方式之间互补性较强但竞争性不明显的结论,并指出应根据辽宁省经济发展需要在综合交通运输体系内部推行非平衡发展战略。     

义和团运动与晚清漕粮运输

义和团运动对晚清的漕粮运输产生了重大影响.首先,义和团运动爆发后,八国联军侵华,占领津京等地区,慈禧太后挟光绪帝出逃,导致漕粮海运中断,并转而将部分漕粮向山西、陕西运送.其次.义和团运动被镇压后,朝廷被迫与联军签定<辛丑条约>,偿付巨额赔款,清朝的财政体系完全崩溃.为筹措赔款,清廷不得不颁布漕粮改折诏.虽然江浙后来又恢复本色100万石,但漕运制度已经遭到致命打击.再次,为节省费用,清廷开始采纳铁路剥漕的方式,结果成为继轮船之后,漕粮运输工具史上的又一重大突破.简言之,义和团运动是晚清漕粮运输的转折点.     

贵州交通堵塞综合治理对策

目前,城市交通拥挤已成为各国政府一个棘手的问题。以最大经济效率为前提,有效解决 交通堵塞现象,对贵州城市经济发展具有积极意义。     

An Approach to Assessing the Impacts of Incident-Free Transportation of Radioactive Materials: I. Air Transportation

Annual radiation doses and risks to passengers and crew are calculated for shipments of radioactive materials in passenger aircraft under accident-free and incident-free conditions (i.e., under normal transportation conditions). The 1982 database developed by Sandia National Laboratories is used, and calculations are made using RADTRAN 4.0. This paper is one of two papers estimating radiological risk associated with incident-free transportation of radioactive materials.     

Perceived Risks of Radioactive Waste Transport Through Oregon: Results of a Statewide Survey

Transportation of hazardous materials, and particularly radioactive wastes, on public highways has become an important risk management issue. The unfavorability of public attitudes regarding hazardous and nuclear wastes signals the potential for strong public opposition to programs for transporting these materials. This paper presents the results of a survey conducted to assess public reactions to a long-term nuclear waste transport program planned to follow a route through a portion of rural Oregon. The survey assessed a number of key risk perception issues, including perceived health and safety risks of nuclear waste transport, relative risks of transport vs. storage at an existing site, trust in state officials, and satisfaction with life in communities along the transport route. The survey identified a number of attitudes and concerns that need to be understood and considered by those in charge of designing and implementing the waste-transportation program.     

Book Review

Book reviewed:
J. Scott Armstrong, Principles of Forecasting: A Handbook for Researchers and Practitioners     

“丝绸之路经济带”西北五省区交通基础设施对经济增长的空间溢出效应

基于多种经济增长理论,选取影响"丝绸之路经济带"西北五省区多变量省际面板数据,构建交通基础设施对经济增长的空间溢出效应模型,分析结果为:2000—2014年"丝绸之路经济带"交通基础设施促进了经济增长;不考虑空间溢出效应的测算结果放大了交通基础设施的贡献率;外地交通基础设施对本地经济增长存在正的空间溢出效应,2010年以来此效应不断增强;劳动力、城市化水平成为推动经济增长的重要因素。     

Summarizing Risk Using Risk Measures and Risk Indices

Our society is fascinated with risk in many different areas and disciplines. One of the main ways to describe and communicate the level of risk is through risk indices, which summarize risk using numbers or categories such as words, letters, or colors. These indices are used to communicate risks to the public, understand how risk is changing over time, compare among different risks, and support decision making. Given the different methods to construct risk indices, including flawed methods such as risk matrices, this article develops specific steps that analysts can follow to create a risk index. This article emphasizes the importance of describing risk with a probability distribution, developing a numerical risk measure that summarizes the probability distribution, and finally translating the risk measure to an index. Measuring the risk is the most difficult part and requires the analyst to summarize a probability distribution into one or possibly a few numbers. The risk measure can then be transformed to a numerical or categorical index. I apply the method outlined in this article to construct a risk index that compares the risk of fatalities in aviation and highway transportation.     

Coordinated Logistics: Joint Replenishment with Capacitated Transportation for a Supply Chain

In this study, we consider the integrated inventory replenishment and transportation operations in a supply chain where the orders placed by the downstream retailer are dispatched by the upstream warehouse via an in‐house fleet of limited size. We first consider the single‐item single‐echelon case where the retailer operates with a quantity based replenishment policy, (r,Q), and the warehouse is an ample supplier. We model the transportation operations as a queueing system and derive the operating characteristics of the system in exact terms. We extend this basic model to a two‐echelon supply chain where the warehouse employs a base‐stock policy. The departure process of the warehouse is characterized in distribution, which is then approximated by an Erlang arrival process by matching the first two moments for the analysis of the transportation queueing system. The operating characteristics and the expected cost rate are derived. An extension of this system to multiple retailers is also discussed. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the performance and the sensitivity of the models and the value of coordinating inventory and transportation operations.     

Optimal Policies for Perishable Products When Transportation to Export Market Is Disrupted

We consider a problem where a firm produces a variety of fresh products to supply two markets: an export market and a local market. A public transportation service is utilized to deliver the products to the export market, which is cheap, but its schedule is often disrupted severely. Each time this happens, the firm faces the following questions. (i) For a product that has been finished and is waiting for delivery to the export market, should it continue to wait, at an increasing risk of decay, and when should the waiting be terminated and the product be put to the local market? (ii) For a product that has not been finished, should its processing be postponed, so as to reduce the loss from decay after its completion? (iii) What is the best sequence to process the remaining products, according to the information available? We develop, in this study, a model to address these and other related questions. We find optimal policies that minimize the total expected loss in both the make‐to‐order and make‐to‐stock production systems, respectively. For each finished product, we reveal relationships among the desirable waiting time, the price at the local market, and the decaying cost. For unfinished products, we find the optimal start times and processing sequence. Numerical experiments are also conducted to evaluate the optimal policies.