Optimisation of Driver’s Traffic Literacy Evaluation Index from the Perspective of Information Contribution Sensitivity

The practice has proven that relying solely on large-scale transportation facilities cannot fundamentally alleviate urban transportation problems. Since the motor vehicle drivers are the main participants of transportation, they should improve their knowledge of transportation. Moreover, the drivers should equally cope with transportation problems. This paper establishes an evaluation index system for traffic literacy of urban drivers. In addition, it proposes a method of information contribution sensitivity to optimise the index system. The main results and achievement of this paper include the following: (1) A traffic literacy evaluation index system including 13 evaluation indexes such as traffic rules and general knowledge of machinery has been constructed. (2) Based on the calculation results of the sensitivity of the information contribution, the first 10 indexes that satisfy the cumulative information contribution rate’s value of greater than 90% are retained and 3 indexes with lower contribution rates are eliminated. This study provides a theoretical framework and basic methods to evaluate the traffic literacy of urban drivers.

Solving transportation problem using modified ASM method

Transportation problems are related to activities aimed at minimizing the cost of distributing goods from a source to a destination. One of the methods used to solve transportation problems is the ASM Method as a method capable of producing optimal direct solutions without having to determine the initial basic feasible solution first. Determination of the allocation of goods in the ASM Method uses a reduced cost of 0 by calculating the maximum amount in the allocation of goods. Then the ASM method is modified so that the iteration used is simpler in obtaining the optimal direct solution without calculating the maximum number of row and column elements. The method is called Modified ASM Method. This method also provides more optimal results than the ASM method. This research aimed to solve transportation problems using the Modified ASM method to produce optimal solutions directly. The research procedure identifies and forms a model of transportation problems (variable decisions, objective functions and constraint functions), identifies types of transportation problems (balanced or unbalanced), and obtains direct solutions by solving transportation problems using the Modified ASM method. This research shows that the Modified ASM method successfully solves the problem of balanced and unbalanced transportation by producing optimal solutions in a simpler way than the ASM method.