01 A Cooperative Map Matching Algorithm Applied in Intelligent and Connected Vehicle Positioning
02 Indoor Sign-based Visual Localization Method
03 Intelligent Vehicles Localization Based on Semantic Map Representation from 3D Point Clouds
04 Companion Relationship Discovering Algorithm for Passengers in the Cruise Based on UWB Positioning
05 An Overview of Traffic Management in "Automatic+Manual" Driving Environment
06 An Image Generation Method for Automated Driving Based on Improved GAN
07 An Analysis of Injury Severities in School Bus Accidents Based on Random Parameter Logit Models
The NSFC-Civil Aviation Joint Research Fund serves national strategic needs, focuses on fundamental research for civil aviation applications, promotes scientific and technological innovation, and supports industry development through its research outcomes. To systematically understand the topic evolution of the NSFC-Civil Aviation Joint Research Fund projects, a text mining method combining word frequency analysis and latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling is applied to analyze the topic selection guidelines and project approvals from 2004 to 2023. The study reveals the keyword characteristics of the guidelines, analyzes research hotspots and their evolutionary trends, and provides the research prospects of civil aviation. The results indicate that: ①The NSFC-Civil Aviation Joint Research Fund exhibits distinct phases and attracts diversified research forces. ②The guidelines are highly consistent with national policies and strategic development directions. Keywords such as civil aviation, airport, aircraft, safety, emergencies, and NextGen have frequently appeared in the guidelines over the past 20 years, while low-altitude operation may emerge as a new hotspot in future. ③The fund mainly focuses on 11 research topics, including aircraft airworthiness, airport construction and operation, air traffic management and optimization, aviation safety and risk management, emergencies and emergency management, green aviation, and so on. ④Four topics including aircraft airworthiness, airport construction and operation, air traffic management and optimization, and aviation safety and risk management have remained hot in the past 20 years. The research hotspots in civil aviation are shifting from traditional infrastructure construction and safety technology fields to emerging fields such as informatization, intelligence, and green development. The trend is also moving from single-discipline dominance to multidisciplinary integration. Looking ahead, the future NSFC-Civil Aviation Joint Research Fund is expected to focus on constructing a digital intelligence ecology, enhancing system-wide safety, and promoting green development. By fostering multifaceted synergistic cross-fertilization and developimg an autonomous knowledge system, it aims to drive the high-quality development of civil aviation.
Traditional research on water transportation accidents mainly focuses on exploring the causative factors and corresponding complex relationship with various accidents, which is insufficient in reflecting the evolution of traffic accidents and the complicated interactions between elements including people, vessels, cargo, environment, administration, and information in the maritime system. To fill the gap, this paper proposes a methodology for developing a water transportation knowledge graph based on multi-source heterogeneous information and applies it to the accident prevention and control strategies development. A framework for ship collision knowledge is designed, considering the components of accidents, e.g., event, spatiotemporal ship behavior, maritime accidents causative factors, accidents consequences, corresponding responsibility roles, and disposal decision-making. A knowledge extraction model is employed to extract the maritime safety knowledge, which is based on Chinese Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers Whole Word Masking and is named as Chinese-bert-wwm model. Thirdly, the SCPCKG (ship collision prevention and control knowledge graph) is developed based on the Neo4j database, which contains 35 784 entities from 15 entity types and 325 097 relationships from 39 relationship types. The scale of the SCPCKG is significantly larger than that of existing knowledge graphs in the field of water transportation, and the accuracy of automated knowledge extraction based on the proposed SCPCKG reaches 85%, which is higher than the existing models, such as Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Conditional Random Fields (CRFs). Specifically, the F1 -score value for identifying"ship", "person characteristics", "time", "person", and"laws"entities reaches 95%, 91%, 98%, 88%, and 88%, respectively; the F1 -score value of relationship extraction reaches 94%. The results show that the proposed Chinese-bert-wwm model can enhance the generalized capability of the knowledge extraction model by extracting the semantic features of ship collision accidents from the accident reports, and the proposed SCPCKG can be used for the knowledge representation of ship collision accidents and inversion of accidents for maritime administrators, improving the effectiveness of the water transportation management.
Inspection of rail transit safety includes many elements. Methods based on a single image cannot perceive the details of the entire track section quickly. Multi-image stitching is greatly affected by the turning and swinging of the inspection vehicle, and the exposure conditions of different cameras result in significant brightness deviations, which reduces the accuracy of the identification of diseases. A full section surface sensing method for track inspection based on multiple line array images is proposed to address the above issues. A checkerboard calibration board is used to establish a rigid connection relationship between each camera, and the horizontal and vertical resolutions are adjusted to be equal. An invariant feature of tracks is established based on the edges of track surface and bottom to calculate the deviation of straight, curved, and swinging sections. Improved YOLO v10 algorithm is used to automatically extract the above feature. An improved histogram matching method is used to restore the overall brightness and achieve uniform transition at the joint of images based on the statistical characteristics of the forward direction and constrained by the two sides of the tracks with little brightness difference. Data collection is conducted at a certain section of Wuhan Metro and Wuhan Railway Bureau, with inspection vehicle running at speeds of 10, 40, 60, 80, and 120 km/h. The restoration method for image offset based on improved YOLO v10 reaches an average error of 11.21 pixels, with a precision rate of 95.20%, a recall rate of 93.58%, and an average accuracy of 84.03%, in which the recall rate has an increasing of 0.51%, and a pass rate of 99.43 % for 80 km. The mean difference between the overall image and the constrained image after brightness adjustment is 0.682, and the standard deviation is only 0.344, which are improved by 61.38% and 83.38% respectively compared to existing methods. The experimental results show that the proposed surface detail perception method for track safety inspection can obtain high-resolution images of the entire track section with a position error of less than 4.5 mm and a grayscale error of less than 1.71 under high-speed condition, greatly improving the efficiency of track safety inspection.
The rapid digital and intelligent transformation of railway information systems has created an urgent demand for fine-grained, explainable safety knowledge recommendations. To address the fragmentation of cross-modal associations and insufficient alignment with operational rules exhibited by traditional approaches, a framework integrating multimodal feature fusion with generative reasoning is investigated. A hierarchical railway safety knowledge graph is constructed, and topological features under business constraints are extracted via the Node2Vec algorithm. Simultaneously, a lightweight Transformer encoder (GTE) captured deep semantic embeddings of individual safety clauses. To balance contributions from graph and text features, a tunable weighting strategy is introduced, dynamically controlling the fusion ratio of text vectors and graph embeddings and applying a dual-constraint mechanism based on cosine similarity and predefined rules to generate candidate recommendations. A three-stage progressive retrieval architecture is designed to achieve precise multimodal alignment and suppress noise. Finally, the DeepSeek-R1 large language model served as the reasoning engine, with domain-specific prompting converting retrieved candidates into executable decision plans, thereby enhancing coherence and interpretability. Experiments on 27 safety documents from a railway operator, using a similarity threshold of 0.85 and a maximum of 10 recommendations per query, demonstrated a recommendation accuracy of 95% (an 8-percentage-point improvement over traditional methods) along with significant gains in contextual relevance and explainability. This investigation confirms the synergistic benefits of multimodal retrieval and generative reasoning, providing a robust technical foundation for evolving railway safety knowledge services from precise recommendation to intelligent decision support.
Dangerous driving behaviors frequently occur at highway tunnel entrances and exits, posing a high risk of traffic accidents. To address the challenge of ineffective driving risk assessment caused by the inability to continuously monitor trajectory data at tunnel transition zones, this study designs a radar-video fusion trajectory sampling system with a monitoring range covering 250 meters inside and outside the tunnel portal. A dangerous driving behavior identification method based on feature parameter optimization is proposed. Based on trajectory data at tunnel entrances and exits, the characteristics of driving behavior in these zones are analyzed, and four types of dangerous driving behaviors including sudden acceleration or deceleration, serpentine driving, high-risk car-following, and aggressive lane-changing, are selected to construct a dangerous driving behavior spectrum. A risk quantification method is used to measure indicators of the four dangerous driving behaviors, and the interquartile range (IQR) method is applied to set threshold boundaries for the feature parameters. Based on these thresholds, driving risk points exceeding the boundary values are identified and visualized, and the spatial distribution characteristics of the four types of dangerous driving behaviors are preliminarily obtained. To balance the dataset, random oversampling (ROS), synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE), and adaptive synthetic sampling (ADASYN) are used for sample preprocessing. Three ensemble learning methods: eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), light gradient boosting machine (LGBM), and adaptive boosting (AdaBoost), are orthogonally combined with the above sampling methods to construct balanced-ensemble coupled algorithms. A total of 12 dangerous driving behavior recognition models are established, including those based on single ensemble learning algorithms and orthogonally combined balanced-ensemble algorithms. The performance differences among various models are validated through model testing to determine the optimal recognition model. Spearman correlation analysis is employed to identify key parameters and enhance model recognition performance. The research results indicate that due to the complex traffic environment and fluctuating driver behaviors, highway tunnel entrances and exits are high-risk zones for traffic accidents. Among the three single-modality ensemble models and nine balanced-ensemble coupled models evaluated, the SMOTE-LGBM coupled model based on sample optimization demonstrates superior recognition performance for dangerous driving behaviors in tunnel transition zones. Its precision, F-score, and AUC values range from 91.2% to 91.4%, 0.913 to 0.918, and 0.907 to 0.912, respectively, outperforming other algorithms and maintaining consistently high levels.
To address traffic congestion at merging zones in urban tunnels of considerable length, an optimization method for joint control that integrates variable speed limits in mainlines and signal control at ramps is proposed. A four-level control strategy is developed based on the combination of different traffic states in merging bottleneck area and downstream section. The traditional meta network (METANET) model is modified by comprehensively considering ramp inflow, speed differences among sections, and driver compliance. Meanwhile, the classical ALINEA algorithm is extended by introducing a control mechanism for queue capacity at ramps, enabling the integration of variable speed limits and ramp signal control. On this basis, a model predictive control approach is employed to optimize speed limits and ramp signal timings under different traffic states. Using the VISSIM simulation platform, the scenario of Lianghu Tunnel in Wuhan is developed, which allows to acquire and control the traffic parameters in real-time through the COM interface and secondary development with Python. Various control strategies are compared, including dynamic variable speed limits, ramp signal control, and joint control. Simulation results show that: ①Compared to the situation with no control, the proposed joint control strategy reduces travel time in the bottleneck area by 17.7% and decreases the average delay time per vehicle by 62.96%. ②Compared to single control strategy, the joint control strategy significantly improves average speed and stability of traffic flow, with especially notable effects under heavy congestion conditions. ③Under the joint control strategy, the minimum average speed at road sections increases by 20.38%, the duration of slow traffic in the bottleneck area and at the downstream section decreases by 22.2%, and both the spatial scope and duration of low-speed regions are significantly reduced with a substantial decrease in speed fluctuations. When facing various complex traffic flow conditions, the joint control strategy demonstrates good dynamic adaptability, automatically adjusting the control strength of the mainline and ramp according to the flow structure, thus achieving a rational distribution of traffic load in the bottleneck area.
To investigate the influence of tunnel sidewalls on drivers' visual characteristics and driving behavior across different lanes in a three-lane urban tunnel, a field driving experiment was conducted involving 25 drivers. Both visual and driving behavior indicators were collected. Visual indicators included gaze distribution ratios and gaze entropy values, reflecting drivers' attention allocation strategies. Driving behavior indicators, such as lateral offset and lateral acceleration, were used to evaluate drivers' lateral vehicle control ability. The results showed significant differences in attention allocation strategies and lateral control capabilities among drivers in different lanes. Compared with the middle lane, drivers in the left and right lanes allocated more attention to the sidewall on their respective sides. Specifically, drivers in the right lane allocated approximately 12% of their attention to the right tunnel wall, while drivers in the left lane allocated nearly 15% to the left wall. In contrast, drivers in the middle lane only allocated about 5% of their attention to either sidewall. Drivers' behavioral responses to the tunnel sidewalls also varied significantly across lanes. Vehicles in the left lane typically deviated from 0.25 to 0.34 meters to the right of the lane centerline, with lateral acceleration ranging from 0.17 to 0.21 m/s2. In the middle lane, vehicles tended to shift slightly to the left, with lateral offsets of 0.12 to 0.19 meters and lateral acceleration between 0.08 and 0.13 m/s2.Similarly, vehicles in the right lane also exhibited leftward deviation, with offsets ranging from 0.17 to 0.24 meters and lateral acceleration between 0.14 and 0.20 m/s2. Overall, the tunnel sidewalls had the greatest impact on the visual search efficiency and lateral control ability of drivers in the left lane, making it the lane with the highest driving risk, followed by the right lane, while the middle lane posed the lowest risk.
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