A Comparative Analysis for Signal Timing Strategies Under Different Weather Conditions

Author(s):  
Weiwei Qi ◽  
Huiying Wen
Author(s):  
V. Нolovan ◽  
V. Gerasimov ◽  
А. Нolovan ◽  
N. Maslich

Fighting in the Donbas, which has been going on for more than five years, shows that a skillful counter-battery fight is an important factor in achieving success in wars of this kind. Especially in conditions where for the known reasons the use of combat aviation is minimized. With the development of technical warfare, the task of servicing the counter-battery fight began to rely on radar stations (radar) to reconnaissance the positions of artillery, which in modern terms are called counter-battery radar. The principle of counter-battery radar is based on the detection of a target (artillery shell, mortar mine or rocket) in flight at an earlier stage and making several measurements of the coordinates of the current position of the ammunition. According to these data, the trajectory of the projectile's flight is calculated and, on the basis of its prolongation and extrapolation of measurements, the probable coordinates of the artillery, as well as the places of ammunition falling, are determined. In addition, the technical capabilities of radars of this class allow you to recognize the types and caliber of artillery systems, as well as to adjust the fire of your artillery. The main advantages of these radars are:  mobility (transportability);  inspection of large tracts of terrain over long distances;  the ability to obtain target's data in near real-time;  independence from time of day and weather conditions;  relatively high fighting efficiency. The purpose of the article is to determine the leading role and place of the counter-battery radar among other artillery instrumental reconnaissance tools, to compare the combat capabilities of modern counter-battery radars, armed with Ukrainian troops and some leading countries (USA, China, Russia), and are being developed and tested in Ukraine. The method of achieving this goal is a comparative analysis of the features of construction and combat capabilities of modern models of counter-battery radar in Ukraine and in other countries. As a result of the conducted analysis, the directions of further improvement of the radar armament, increasing the capabilities of existing and promising counter-battery radar samples were determined.


Author(s):  
A. M. Tahsin Emtenan ◽  
Christopher M. Day

During oversaturated conditions, common objectives of signal timing are to maximize vehicle throughput and manage queues. A common response to increases in vehicle volumes is to increase the cycle length. Because the clearance intervals are displayed less frequently with longer cycle lengths and fewer cycles, more of the total time is used for green indications, which implies that the signal timing is more efficient. However, previous studies have shown that throughput reaches a peak at a moderate cycle length and extending the cycle length beyond this actually decreases the total throughput. Part of the reason for this is that spillback caused by the turning traffic may cause starvation of the through lanes resulting in a reduction of the saturation flow rate within each lane. Gaps created by the turning traffic after a lane change may also reduce the saturation flow rate. There is a relationship between the proportions of turning traffic, the storage length of turning lanes, and the total throughput that can be achieved on an approach for a given cycle length and green time. This study seeks to explore this relationship to yield better signal timing strategies for oversaturated operations. A microsimulation model of an oversaturated left-turn movement with varying storage lengths and turning proportions is used to determine these relationships and establish a mathematical model of throughput as a function of the duration of green, storage length, and turning proportion. The model outcomes are compared against real-world data.


2011 ◽  
Vol 84-85 ◽  
pp. 410-414
Author(s):  
Wei He ◽  
Jie Xiong

Based on the RFID (Radio Frequency Identification Devices), this paper presents new research work of signal timing intersection in the aspects of the key points of design, the main parameter and timing methods. Finally, the intersection of signal timing of fuzzy control method based on RFID is proposed through comparative analysis of the intersection of several traditional signal timing methods.


2011 ◽  
Vol 139 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vladimir Gajic ◽  
Dragan Milojevic ◽  
Aleksandar Raskovic ◽  
Jasminka Smailagic ◽  
Nela Djonovic ◽  
...  

Introduction. Biometeorological circumstances have a big influence on all traffic participants, especially reflexes, moving coordination and perception ability. With a lower attention and drivers? and pedestrians? concentration, there was a larger amount of pedestrian trauma in certain biometeorological phases. Objective. The aim of this study was to establish the correlation between pedestrian trauma and biometeorological phases. Methods. The comparative analysis of everyday biometeorological phases for the city of Kragujevac determined by RHMI and the evidence of knocked-down pedestrians from the Kragujevac traffic police for the period 2003-2008. Results. There were 6,127 accidents, with 696 knocked pedestrians in 666 (10.87%) accidents. Most of them happened in 2003 (135), and the fewest in 2005 (90). Most accidents were during December (74), the fewest were in June (46). The fewest accidents were during 04-05-06 hour interval (by 2), most during 13-14 hours (61). There were 374 males and 349 females. Most of the males (by 60) were 0-10 and 11-20 years old, most of the females (74) were 11-20 years old. There were 443 pedestrians who suffered slight body injuries (112 were 11-20), 225 suffered heavy and 28 had lethal injuries (most over 70). As provokers, the pedestrians suffered because of improper crossing roads (185), while as a casualties, they suffered due to speeding of vechicles (285). Most accidents happened in biometeorological phases 4 (168) and 9 (151), the fewest in phase 10 (4). Conclussion. Statistical analysis shows a significant correlation between pedestrians? accidents and biometeorological phases, when the most accidents occurred during penetrations of cold fronts, while there was a sudden switch of weather conditions from warm-dry to cold-wet weather.


2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Kutyłowska ◽  
Maria Orłowska-Szostak

The paper presents a comparative analysis of water-supply network deterioration in three Polish cities. The comparison was made on the basis of operating data (from the period 2007 to 2012) received from water utilities. The comparison is necessary to determine whether and to what extent water utilities should improve the technical condition of their water-supply networks. On average in cities A, B and C, failure rates λ (fail km−1 a−1) of water mains, distribution pipes and house connections were 0.20, 0.24 and 0.53; 0.17, 0.32 and 0.50; and 0.01, 0.48 and 1.63, respectively. The failure rates of the main and distribution conduits were higher in winter than summer, due to the weather conditions and the pipes' shallow depth. Smaller diameter pipes were more vulnerable. One city is exposed to mining exploitation and most cracking observed on the main and distribution pipelines arose from this. As the literature and these investigations indicate, the technical condition of water supply systems in Poland is still improving and rates of deterioration decreasing.


2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 308-320
Author(s):  
Hooman Rahimi ◽  
Hasan Zoghi ◽  
Saeed Monajem

Dynamic signal control strategies are effective in relieving congestions during nontypical days, such as those with high demands, incidents with different attributes, and adverse weather conditions. This research recognizes the need to model the impacts of dynamic signal controls for different days representing, different demand and incident levels. Methods are identified to calibrate the utilized tools for the patterns during different days based on demands and incident conditions utilizing combinations of real-world data with different levels of details. A significant challenge addressed in this study is to ensure that the mesoscopic simulation-based dynamic traffic assignment (DTA) models produces turning movement volumes at signalized intersections with sufficient accuracy for the purpose of the analysis. A new model is developed to estimate the drop in capacity at the incident location by considering the downstream signal control queue spillback effects. The developed capacity reduction models were used to estimate delay due to an urban street incident. The delay was calculated as a combination of the delay due to queuing on the incident link and the increase in upstream intersection control delays due the reduction in maximum throughputs resulting from queue spillback to the upstream intersection The HCS-based method estimated a reduction in delay resulting from the new signal timing plan to be around 3,404 vehicle-hours, whereas the VISSIM shows that the new signal timing saving in delay is 4,008 vehicle-hours. This confirms that the developed method and VISSIM estimation of the benefits are consistent.


Author(s):  
Ж.Ч. Бозиева ◽  
Х.М. Газаев ◽  
Э.А. Агоева

Климат определенной местности нельзя рассматривать изолированно. Особенности климата отдельных регионов это преломление общих закономерностей в конкретной обстановке. Так, погодные условия высокогорных об ластей Кавказа зависят от высотной поясности, циркуляции атмосферы, географического положения, особенностей растительного покрова и других факторов. Результатами данного исследования являются обработка пятилетних дан ных (с 2011 2015 гг.) по температуре воздуха приземного слоя атмосферы и их сравнительный анализ. Данные получены с помощью автоматической метеостанции, расположенной на высоте 1700 м н. у. м. в Безенгийском ущелье. В ходе ис следований было выявлено, что среднегодовая температура приземного слоя атмосферы за 2014 г. была выше таковой в другие годы в 1,5 2,2 раза. The Climate of an area cannot be considered isolated. The climate of certain regions is the refraction of the General laws in a speci c situation. So weather conditions in high mountainous regions of the Caucasus depend on altitudinal zonation circulation of the atmosphere, geographical position, peculiarities of the vegetation cover and other factors. The results of this study are veyears treatment data on the air temperature in the atmospheric surface layer and their comparative analysis. These results obtained at the meteorological station located in Bezengi valley, Kabardino Balkar highmountain reserve.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dražen Cvitanić ◽  
Biljana Maljković

Elements of the city road network that determine its capacity are signalized intersections. Their capacity depends of many factors: traffic volume and distribution, traffic flow structure, signal timing, and number of bicyclists and pedestrians. However, the starting parameter for calculation of intersection capacity is saturation headway. This research explores the influence of weather conditions and purpose of trip on saturation headway. Saturation headways were determined on few intersections in the morning peak hour of working and weekend day, in good and bad weather conditions. The impact of different trip purposes and different weather conditions on intersection capacity is analysed, as well as the influence of using mean and median values of saturation headway when calculating the intersection capacity.


Author(s):  
О.L. Zhygailo ◽  
T.S. Zhygailo

The problem of climate change and global warming both in whole and in particular has become one of the most serious and urgent directions of scientific and technical activity at the present stage. The future food security of Ukraine depends on the effectiveness of adaptation of agriculture to new conditions dictated by the global anthropogenic warming. In order to evaluate possible impact of climate change in Ukraine on agroclimatic indicators the scenario A1B - "moderate" was used providing a balance between all energy sources. Researches of sunflower harvest formation are carried out using a dynamic model of agricultural crops productivity. For a comparative analysis of scenary meteorological variables with previous data the period from 1986 to 2005 is taken from agroclimatic directory of Ukraine. It serves as a base when performing calculations. According to calculations of A1B climate change scenario, periods of sowing and subsequent phases of development will occur earlier than at present, which will lead to reduction of the whole vegetation period at most parts of the area under study. As a result of comparative analysis of temperature and precipitation regime it was found that, subject to implementation of the climate change scenario under study, expected weather conditions will be more favourable for cultivation of sun-flower in the Western and Central forest-steppe, as well as at the Right-Bank Ukraine and in the Donetsk sub-zone of Northern steppe of Ukraine.


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