By Yong Bai, Wei-Chou Virgil Ping, Xiaohu Chen, L. David Shen
This assortment includes eighty one papers describing recommendations within the improvement of sustainable transportation structures. within the face of ongoing demanding situations resembling traffic jam, environmental degradation, and emerging strength expenses, transportation pros search for new suggestions, equipment, and applied sciences to deal with problems with investment, making plans, building, and upkeep of transportation amenities of all kinds. those papers show off either new ways constructed for China's huge, immense transportation infrastructure industry and the newest advances in administration and upkeep from researchers within the usa and different constructed international locations. themes comprise: sustainable transportation improvement; low carbon emissions and effort saving in transportation; multimodal transportation structures; clever transportation platforms; developments in site visitors keep an eye on applied sciences; transportation and paintings region protection; layout and development of bridges and tunnels; pavement fabrics, layout, and development; and geotechnical layout and building. This assortment deals suggestion and useful options for engineers, planners, and executives engaged on transportation structures world wide
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6% of workers in Jinhexincheng commute across districts. Top three commuting destinations are Putuo, Changning and Jing’an District. The logistic regression model shows that the most important factor that causes cross-district commuting is education. Of those who cross districts to commute, 50% are workers who are relocated here from Shanghai central city but their workplaces are still in downtown (because of the urban houses demolition and relocation) and the other 50% live here because of the acceptable housing price.
It means that a reduct is the minimal subset of attributes that enables the same classification of elements of the universe as the whole set of attributes. In other words, attributes that do not belong to a reduct are superfluous with regard to classification of elements of the universe. There are usually many reduts. e. Core( B ) Re d ( B ) ,Where Re d ( B) is the set of all reducts of B . , each element of the core belongs to some reduct. Thus, the core is the most important subset of attributes, for none of its elements can be removed without affecting the classification power of attributes.