Polymers for Automobiles

Digital Signatures for Automobiles?!

Identifying and tracking vehicles is of major importance for today’s logistics. The common non-electronic solutions are both easy to forge and difficult to use over distances. Combining the successful technologies of digital signatures and the Global Positioning System allows the secure identification of any car and checking its location. Both types of information can improve the fleet manageme...

On Liability Insurance for Automobiles

Car owners are liable for property damage inflicted on other motorists. In most countries such liability must be insured by law. That law may favor expensive or heavy vehicles, prone to suffer or inflict large losses. This paper explores links between liability rules and vehicle choice. It presumes cooperative insurance, but non-cooperative acquisition of vehicles. Thus, the Nash equilibrium an...

Information fusion for cognitive automobiles

During the last decades, the steady increase in road transportation of people and goods has had a significant negative impact on traffic efficiency, safety, and the environment. The problems arising from the growing automobile usage have motivated researchers from all over the world to develop solutions – many of them based on information and communications technology – to reduce traffic conges...

Cooperative Automation in Automobiles

Alternative models of demand for automobiles *

This paper uses data on automobile purchases to compare two alternatives to the multinomial logit model. The results indicate that the nested logit model is likely to be superior to the more general Berry–Levinsohn–Pakes model for applications using aggregate-level data.  2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.