Study On The Theory And Technology Of Operation Management For The Regional Expressway Rest Area

Expressway, served as a basic infrastructure for the further economic and socialdevelopment, is an important manifestation in improving transportation services for nationaleconomic and social development, as well as the public safe and convenient travel. As aservice facility, the expressway rest area is a carrier for the patron flow, freight flow andtraffic flow, and directly services to the public and receives their supervision and evaluation. Ithas a strong social effect, especially, with the rapid economic and social development, and therequirements on the travel services for the safer, more convenient, more efficient and morefeatures, and then the operations management, the service level, as well as their sustainabledevelopment ability of the rest areas are becoming increasingly important.Henan province is located in the “center zone” of China’s highway network, whose thelevel of operation management of the highway is critical. This paper focused on thespecialization, characteristics and standardized operation management of the expressway restarea, and carried out the research from four aspects, including the predication of thepercentage of the mainline traffic entering, the social and economic adaptability assessment ofthe rest area, the layout of the rest area and the site selection if it will be extend to a logisticnode, combining with the standardization operation management of the rest area, respectively.First, based on the survey data concerning the operation conditions, the characteristics ofthe traffic flow and consumption related with28pairs of rest area in Henan province, aprediction model by using Genetic Algorithm and Wavelet Neural Network is presented forestimating the percentage of the mainline traffic entering the rest area. The model consideredfactors such as the characteristics of freeway mainline traffic flow, the space interval of therest area, the distances between the upstream and downstream from the freeway entrance, aswell as the development level of local economy. The test result shows that the model has ahigh accuracy.Second, focusing on the dual social-economic attributes of the rest area, the paperproposed a connotation denoted the social and economic adaptability of the freeway rest area,and then constructed the assessment index system for the above-mentioned adaptability, onthis basis, the operation status of25pairs of rest area in Henan province were assessed andanalyzed by applying the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The analysis results show thatthe overall status of the rest area of Henan province are in good conditions, and some rest areahave the phenomenon including the input redundancy and corresponding the output deficiency.Third, according to the principle relative to determining of the space interval of rest area,the layout planning for the future freeway rest area in Henan Province was analyzed. On thisbasis, combining with the predication model and the results of the adaptability assessment,and the indicators concerning the site selection for the rest area expanding to a logistic node,this paper analyzed the site selection for the logistic node which are associated with the restarea of Henan Province by integration the Cluster Analysis and the Entropy Method.Finally, focusing on the quality management associated with “objects”, the processcontrol with “things”, and the behavior criterion with “employee” in the operationmanagement of the freeway rest area, the paper constructed the specific standardizationoperations management standards with maneuverability for freeway rest areas in HenanProvince. Such researches carried out a in-depth analysis and exploration on the rest areamanagement from the theoretical and practical aspects for enhancing the service quality ofrest area in the “central region” of the national highway network, and thus affecting theoperation management efficiency of the national freeway rest area.