Estimating young novice drivers' compliance with graduated driver licensing restrictions: A novel approach

Objectives: Current methods of estimating compliance with graduated driver licensing (GDL) restrictions among young drivers with intermediate driver's licenses—which include surveys, direct observations, and naturalistic studies—cannot sufficiently answer many critical foundational questions: What is the extent of noncompliance among the population of young intermediate drivers? How does compliance change over the course of licensure? How does compliance differ by driver subgroup and in certain driving environments? This article proposes an alternative and complementary approach to estimating population-level compliance with GDL nighttime and passenger restrictions via application of the quasi-induced exposure (QIE) method.

Methods: The article summarizes the main limitations of previous methods employed to estimate compliance. It then introduces the proposed method of borrowing the fundamental assumption of the QIE method—that young intermediate drivers who are nonresponsible in clean (i.e., one and only one responsible driver) multivehicle crashes are reasonably representative of young intermediate drivers on the road—to estimate population-based compliance. I describe formative work that has been done to ensure this method can be validly applied among young intermediate drivers and provide a practical application of this method: an estimate of compliance with New Jersey's passenger restrictions among 8,006 nonresponsible 17- to 20-year-old intermediate drivers involved in clean 2-vehicle crashes from July 2010 through June 2012.

Results: Over the study period, an estimated 8.4% (95% confidence interval, 7.8%, 9.0%) of intermediate drivers' trips were not in compliance with New Jersey's GDL passenger restriction. These findings were remarkably similar to previous estimates from more resource-intensive naturalistic studies (Goodwin et al. 2006 Goodwin AH, Wells JK, Foss RD, Williams AF. Encouraging compliance with graduated driver licensing restrictions. J Safety Res. 2006;37(4):343–351.[Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]; Klauer et al. 2011 Klauer SG, Simons-Morton B, Lee SE, Ouimet MC, Howard EH, Dingus TA. Novice drivers' exposure to known risk factors during the first 18 months of licensure: The effect of vehicle ownership. Traffic Inj Prev. 2011;12(2):159–168.[Taylor &; Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]).

Conclusion: Studies can practically apply proposed methods to estimate population-level compliance with GDL passenger and night restrictions; examine how compliance varies by relevant driver, vehicle, and environmental factors; and evaluate the implementation of a GDL provision or other intervention aimed at increasing compliance with these restrictions. Important considerations and potential limitations and challenges are discussed.     

Drinking and driving and perceptions of arrest risk among California drivers: Relationships with DUI arrests in their city of residence

Objective: Addressing drinking and driving remains a challenge in the United States. The present study aims to provide feedback on driving under the influence (DUI) in California by assessing whether drinking and driving behavior is associated with the DUI arrest rates in the city in which the driver lives; whether this is due to perceptions that one can get arrested for this behavior; and whether this differed by those drivers who would be most affected by deterrence efforts (those most likely to drink outside the home).

Methods: This study consisted of a 2012 roadside survey of 1,147 weekend nighttime drivers in California. City DUI arrest rates for 2009–2011 were used as an indicator of local enforcement efforts. Population average logistic modeling was conducted modeling the odds of perceived high arrest likelihood for DUI and drinking and driving behavior within the past year.

Results: As the DUI arrest rates for the city in which the driver lives increased, perceived high risk of DUI arrest increased. There was no significant relationship between either city DUI arrest rates or perceived high risk of DUI arrest with self-reported drinking and driving behavior in the full sample. Among a much smaller sample of those most likely to drink outside the home, self-reported drinking and driving behavior was negatively associated with DUI arrests rates in their city of residence but this was not mediated by perceptions.

Conclusion: The results of the present study suggest that perceptions are correlated with one aspect of DUI efforts in one's community. Those who were more likely to drink outside the home could be behaviorally influenced by these efforts.     

咸宁市咸安区耕地资源变化态势与对策

耕地的减少是咸宁市咸安区面临的一个主要问题.在分析1949～2000年咸安区耕地变化的基础上,应用相关分析法分析了近10年来引起该区耕地变化的原因:人口增加、经济发展及土地管理政策等,并提出了严格控制人口增长,控制城市规模,加强土地管理,切实保护耕地及建立耕地流转制度以推动适度规模经营等措施.     

长江三角洲地区耕地数量变化及保护对策——以吴江市为例

长江三角洲是我国经济最发达的地区之一 ,但在经济发展的同时 ,耕地资源却日益减少 ,这将严重影响到我国未来的粮食安全问题。吴江市位于长江三角洲中心位置 ,强大的经济基础和有利的区位条件使土地资源得以高速地开发利用 ,它是长江三角洲地区在耕地数量变化上一个较典型的地区 ,在土地整理方面也进行了成功的尝试。以吴江市为例 ,定性和定量地对耕地数量变化的人文驱动力进行分析 ,得出影响本地耕地数量变化的主要驱动因素为 :工业发展 ,固定资产投资规模扩大和农业产业结构调整。随着经济的发展 ,在这些驱动因素的影响下 ,必然会造成耕地数量的进一步减少。如何保护长江三角洲地区现有的有限的耕地资源 ,实现国家新的《土地管理法》中所要求的耕地总量动态平衡是本地区面临的一个严峻问题。在进行保护对策研究时 ,除了采用通常各地已采取的一些措施外 ,还做了进一步的思考 ,对本地区在实施耕地总量动态平衡过程中、农业产业结构调整存在的问题及本地区如何面对WTO的挑战提出建议     

深圳市土地利用变化驱动力系统分析

以深圳市土地利用变化的驱动力系统为例，用灰色关联方法确定影响土地利用变化的驱动因子并判别其最大驱动力，结果表明：深圳城市建设用地面积变化与外资利用额的关联系数最大，达到0.8491，其次为基础建设投资颧、第三产业产值、工业总产值及总人口数量；耕地、林地、荒地、水域面积变化则与城市化率的关联系数最大。以1991-1999年间的建设用地面积作为灰色系统特征数据序列，选取与其关联系数最大的五个驱动因子序列数据作为相关因素数据系列，建立CM（1，6）模型，结果表明：该模型的计算值和实际值的相对误差最大为11.11％，最小为-0.25％，平均相对误差也只有3.41％；检验结果表明，2000-2004年的模拟值与检验值的平均相对误差仅为3.74％，模拟精度较高，因而可以利用该模型预测深圳市建设用地的增长规模。     

江苏省耕地资源动态变化及驱动力研究

根据江苏省不同来源耕地数据差异，适当修正得到1949~2006年耕地数据序列，引入耕地变化率、耕地分布重心等指标，研究江苏省近60年来耕地资源动态变化的基本过程及其空间差异，然后运用相关分析和因子分析初步探讨了耕地数量变化的主要驱动力，并建立耕地数量变化的多元回归模型。研究表明，江苏省耕地面积经历了由增加→急剧减少→缓慢减少→快速减少的变化过程；苏北滨海平原区、中部里下河浅洼平原区及宁镇扬低山丘岗区耕地有所增加，而苏南长江三角洲平原区耕地则急剧减少，耕地重心呈现向后备资源丰富、人地矛盾较为缓和的地区移动的趋势；人口增长与农业科技进步、经济发展和农业结构调整是耕地面积变化的主要驱动因子；预测2020年江苏省耕地总量45449×104 hm2，人均耕地0053 hm2；要保护有限的耕地资源，江苏省必须转变土地利用方式，并实行严格的耕地保护政策。     

安徽省土地利用变化及其驱动力分析

利用GIS技术，基于20世纪，80、90年代中期和2000年三期土地利用数据，分析了安徽省的土地利用变化，土地利用变化在空间上表现为：变化范围广，几乎遍及全省各个角落；西部和南部山区其土地利用变化的幅度相对较小，中部，东部和北部地区变化幅度较大；在合理－巢湖－芜湖－马鞍山一片其变化幅度最大，土地利用变化在数量及时间上表现为：耕地（含水田和旱地）大幅减少，其次为草地和林地，代之以城镇用地，农村建设用地和水域的迅速增加，1987－1995年变化的幅度明显小于1995－2000年的变化幅度，随后运用典型相关分析方法对安徽省90年代中期和2000年之间的土地利用变化的驱动因子进行了统计分析，定量诊断出各驱动因子对安徽省土地利用变化的贡献作用大小，对1987－1995年安徽省土地变更数据进行统计分析，揭示了期间土地利用变化的驱动力。     

A Spatiotemporal Analysis of Urban Growth:A Case Study for Jinan Municipality,China

China is experiencing a process of rapid industrialization and urbanization at the cost of agricultural land and environment,particularly in the costal areas. This study takes Jinan as a case presenting a time-series analysis of urban land expansion from 313 to 2003. The results show that the urban expansion of Jinan city mainly took place in the last 100 years, especially after the economic reform in 1978. Social development and economic growth,urban population growth and migration policies were factors driving the urban land expansion. Urban sprawl resulted in a disappearance of wetlands and a great loss of agricultural land, and over-pumping of ground water that led to disappearance of the city‘s feature,namely “the city of springs“.     

纯电动汽车驱动电机全生命周期评价

基于生命周期评价(LCA)理论,运用Ga Bi 6软件建模,对荣威E50纯电动汽车驱动电机全生命周期环境排放和资源消耗进行了评价,对比分析在中国不同区域使用下驱动电机生命周期过程资源环境影响,并对驱动电机生命周期过程中的生产制造能耗、使用能耗和原材料回收率做敏感性分析.结果表明,驱动电机全生命周期过程各环境影响类型指数排序为APGWPPOCPEPODP,且对环境的影响主要发生在使用阶段,其次是原材料获取和制造阶段.各大区域电网下驱动电机全生命周期过程环境排放影响从大到小为华东电网东北电网西北电网华北电网南方电网华中电网.从敏感性分析结果可知,使用能耗对驱动电机生命周期环境排放影响的敏感度大于生产制造能耗;铜的回收率对矿产资源消耗影响的敏感度远大于钢和铝的回收率.     

黑土区小流域土壤氮素空间分布及主控因素研究

在经典统计学和地统计学的基础上,结合"3S"技术,对黑土区海沟河小流域土壤表层(0~20 cm)中全氮(TN)、碱解氮(AN)的空间变异、分布特征及主控因素进行深入探讨.结果表明:海沟河小流域土壤TN含量处于较高水平,AN含量为中等水平;TN和AN的变程分别为900 m和1282 m,其空间变异均受地形、成土母质等结构性要素影响较大,在东-西(E-W)方向的空间变异相对剧烈;TN含量与坡度等地形指标显著性相关,AN含量与高程等地形要素显著性相关;回归协同克里格插值结果显示,TN自东向西呈现"高-低"交替的带状格局,与土地利用方式在东西方向上的演替相近,AN的高值在东部山区,低值在中部旱地分布集中的区域,呈现"两边高,中间低"的特征;水系、居民点等环境要素对TN和AN的空间分布存在明显的作用距离,土地利用方式及坡位对TN和AN含量分布影响显著,且存在较大差异.