A method for prevention of missing a target vehicle by using a vehicle timetable with fiction of vehicle departure time intervals

Author(s):  
Kyosuke Futami ◽  
Tsutomu Terada ◽  
Masahiko Tsukamoto
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Kyosuke Futami ◽  
Tsutomu Terada ◽  
Masahiko Tsukamoto

Although it is socially and ethically important not to be late for a specified arrival time, late arrivals sometimes happen to people using public transportation. Although many methods aim to smooth a user's movement by providing useful information, there are few approaches to prevent late arrivals due to psychological factors. In this research, to make a user's arrival time earlier and thus prevent late arrival, we propose a method that manipulates time allowance by presenting information based on a psychological and cognitive tendency. We apply this method to a vehicle timetable system for the purpose of preventing public transit users from arriving after a target vehicle's departure time. Our proposed timetable system manipulates the time intervals between a user's target vehicle and other vehicles by introducing fictional elements such as hidden vehicles and inserted fictional vehicles. This method uses the relationship between the time allowance and the departure time interval, and it can make a user desire and accept arriving at a station earlier. We implemented a prototype system and conducted four experiments. The evaluation results confirmed that our proposed method is effective for changing a user's time allowance and actual arrival time.


Author(s):  
Markus Friedrich ◽  
Matthias Schmaus ◽  
Jonas Sauer ◽  
Tobias Zündorf

This paper investigates existing departure time models for a schedule-based transit assignment and their parametrization. It analyzes the impact of the temporal resolution of travel demand and suggests functions for evaluating the adaptation time as part of the utility of a path. The adaptation time quantifies the time between the preferred and the scheduled departure times. The findings of the analysis suggested that travel demand should be discretized into intervals of 1 min, with interval borders right between the full minute, that is, ±0.5 min. It was shown that longer time intervals led to arbitrary run volumes, even for origin–destination pairs with just one transit line and a fixed headway. Although a linear relationship between adaptation time and adaptation disutility is a common assumption in several publications, it cannot represent certain types of passenger behavior. For some trip purposes, passengers may be insensitive to small adaptation times, but highly sensitive to large adaptations. This requires a nonlinear evaluation function.


2013 ◽  
Vol 869-870 ◽  
pp. 266-271
Author(s):  
Guang Zhi Zang ◽  
Wei Guan ◽  
Wen Yi Zhang

This paper is concerned with the day-to-day departure-time adjustment process for morning commute, which is expressed as a finite-dimensional discrete dynamical system. The total departure demand of morning commute is assigned to several time intervals. An optimum pattern is introduced to depict the process. In order to model the behavior of morning commute, the classic schedule delay concept and the cell transmission model are applied. A numerical example is given to illustrate the application of the day-to-day departure-time adjustment process by optimum pattern.


2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 424-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huibo Gong ◽  
Xumei Chen ◽  
Lei Yu ◽  
Lijuan Wu

2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 4128-4133
Author(s):  
Qian Yang ◽  
Wei Guan ◽  
Wen Yi Zhang ◽  
Guang Zhi Zang

This paper suggests a dynamic model to describe the day-to-day departure-time swapping behaviors in commuting trips. The model is formulated as a finite dimension discrete dynamic with the departure flows in different time intervals being the swapping and evolution variables. The new model can maintain solution invariance and its stationary departure flow pattern is equivalent to the departure user equilibrium. In the end, a simple numerical simulation is performed to characterize the present departure-time swapping dynamic model.


1994 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 139-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Rybák ◽  
V. Rušin ◽  
M. Rybanský

AbstractFe XIV 530.3 nm coronal emission line observations have been used for the estimation of the green solar corona rotation. A homogeneous data set, created from measurements of the world-wide coronagraphic network, has been examined with a help of correlation analysis to reveal the averaged synodic rotation period as a function of latitude and time over the epoch from 1947 to 1991.The values of the synodic rotation period obtained for this epoch for the whole range of latitudes and a latitude band ±30° are 27.52±0.12 days and 26.95±0.21 days, resp. A differential rotation of green solar corona, with local period maxima around ±60° and minimum of the rotation period at the equator, was confirmed. No clear cyclic variation of the rotation has been found for examinated epoch but some monotonic trends for some time intervals are presented.A detailed investigation of the original data and their correlation functions has shown that an existence of sufficiently reliable tracers is not evident for the whole set of examinated data. This should be taken into account in future more precise estimations of the green corona rotation period.


Author(s):  
Robert Corbett ◽  
Delbert E. Philpott ◽  
Sam Black

Observation of subtle or early signs of change in spaceflight induced alterations on living systems require precise methods of sampling. In-flight analysis would be preferable but constraints of time, equipment, personnel and cost dictate the necessity for prolonged storage before retrieval. Because of this, various tissues have been stored in fixatives and combinations of fixatives and observed at various time intervals. High pressure and the effect of buffer alone have also been tried.Of the various tissues embedded, muscle, cartilage and liver, liver has been the most extensively studied because it contains large numbers of organelles common to all tissues (Fig. 1).


Author(s):  
L. V. Leak ◽  
J. F. Burke

The vital role played by the lymphatic capillaries in the transfer of tissue fluids and particulate materials from the connective tissue area can be demonstrated by the rapid removal of injected vital dyes into the tissue areas. In order to ascertain the mechanisms involved in the transfer of substances from the connective tissue area at the ultrastructural level, we have injected colloidal particles of varying sizes which range from 80 A up to 900-mμ. These colloidal particles (colloidal ferritin 80-100A, thorium dioxide 100-200 A, biological carbon 200-300 and latex spheres 900-mμ) are injected directly into the interstitial spaces of the connective tissue with glass micro-needles mounted in a modified Chambers micromanipulator. The progress of the particles from the interstitial space into the lymphatic capillary lumen is followed by observing tissues from animals (skin of the guinea pig ear) that were injected at various time intervals ranging from 5 minutes up to 6 months.


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