There is considerable safety potential in ensuring that motorists respect the speed limits. High speeds increase the number and severity of accidents. Technological development over the last 20 years has enabled the d...There is considerable safety potential in ensuring that motorists respect the speed limits. High speeds increase the number and severity of accidents. Technological development over the last 20 years has enabled the development of systems that allow automatic speed control. The first generation of automatic speed control was point-based, but in recent years a potentially more effective alternative automatic speed control method has been introduced. This method is based upon records of drivers’ average travel speed over selected sections of the road and is normally called average speed control or section control. This article discusses the different methods for automatic speed control and presents an evaluation of the safety effects of average speed control, documented through changes in speed levels and accidents before and after the implementation of average speed control at selected sites in the UK. The study demonstrates that the introduction of average speed control results in statistically significant and substantial reductions both in speed and in number of accidents. The evaluation indicates that average speed control has a higher safety effect than point-based automatic speed control.展开更多
An automatic visible spectrometer based on a non-collinear acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) is constructed for high-speed spectrometry. Its spectral filtering characteristics, such as relationships between the radi...An automatic visible spectrometer based on a non-collinear acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) is constructed for high-speed spectrometry. Its spectral filtering characteristics, such as relationships between the radio-frequency (RF) driving frequency and the output central wavelength, the output bandwidth and the central wavelength, its typical spectral point spread function (PSF), and so on, are studied systematically. The preliminary measurement results of AOTF spectrometer show that it is a solid-state, high-speed, easily controllable by computer-programming, rugged and compact spectroscopic device in comparison with a conventional grating spectrometer, and has the potential for widespread spectrometric applications.展开更多
文摘There is considerable safety potential in ensuring that motorists respect the speed limits. High speeds increase the number and severity of accidents. Technological development over the last 20 years has enabled the development of systems that allow automatic speed control. The first generation of automatic speed control was point-based, but in recent years a potentially more effective alternative automatic speed control method has been introduced. This method is based upon records of drivers’ average travel speed over selected sections of the road and is normally called average speed control or section control. This article discusses the different methods for automatic speed control and presents an evaluation of the safety effects of average speed control, documented through changes in speed levels and accidents before and after the implementation of average speed control at selected sites in the UK. The study demonstrates that the introduction of average speed control results in statistically significant and substantial reductions both in speed and in number of accidents. The evaluation indicates that average speed control has a higher safety effect than point-based automatic speed control.
基金This work was supported by the National Natural Sciences Foundation of China under Grant No. 60007002.
文摘An automatic visible spectrometer based on a non-collinear acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) is constructed for high-speed spectrometry. Its spectral filtering characteristics, such as relationships between the radio-frequency (RF) driving frequency and the output central wavelength, the output bandwidth and the central wavelength, its typical spectral point spread function (PSF), and so on, are studied systematically. The preliminary measurement results of AOTF spectrometer show that it is a solid-state, high-speed, easily controllable by computer-programming, rugged and compact spectroscopic device in comparison with a conventional grating spectrometer, and has the potential for widespread spectrometric applications.
