Count data sometimes exhibit a greater proportion of zero counts than is consistent with the data having been generated by a simple Poisson or negative binomial process. For example, a preponderance of zero counts have been observed in data that record the number of automobile accidents per driver, the number of criminal acts per person, the number of derogatory credit reports per person, the n...

The techniques and the technologies supporting Automatic Vehicle Guidance are an important issue. Automobile manufacturers view automatic driving as a very interesting product with motivating key features which allow improvement of the safety of the car, reducing emission or fuel consumption or optimizing driver comfort during long journeys. Car racing is an active research field where new adva...

The objective of this thesis is to implement a basic, yet realistic, ESC system into the VTI simulator environment. This system is then validated to assure that it is working properly and provides a realistic behavior. The implemented ESC system is used in a study, where the ESC system could be turned on and off, to evaluate the benefits of an ESC system after a side impact. This study shows th...

Although automobile is an indispensable vehicle to modern life, it also serves as a social problem with a big traffic accident. Among the reasons of traffic accidents, careless driving accounts for the largest part. So in order to avoid the careless driving, a system which can measure the posture of a driver and warns driver to drive carefully in the case of looking aside is necessary. Although...

As automobile manufacturers seek to provide customers with a growing array of in-vehicle information and functionality, information management becomes an important task for the driver. The organization of controls and information in the human/machine interface (HMI) is a major factor determining the efficiency with which users access and process information. This paper describes two studies in ...

We present a structural econometric framework of supply chain information flows. The framework analyzes supply chain black boxes by measuring how input demand signals transform into output order signals. It characterizes inventory policies with impulse response functions (IRFs). We develop an algorithm to estimate these IRFs, and the structural parameters underlying them, with single firm sales...

Several driver behaviour models have been proposed during the years, the first one in 1938 by Gibson and Crooks’ and their theoretical field-analysis of automobile driving. Since then, several authors have contributed to the understanding of driver behaviour by developing models. The most important are considered to be, chronologically: • Taylor on “Drivers’ galvanic skin responses and the risk...

Distracted driving has long been acknowledged as one of the main contributors to crashes in the US. According to past studies, driving behavior proved to be influenced by the socioeconomic characteristics of drivers. However, only few studies attempted to quantify that influence. The study proposed a Crash Risk Index to estimate the crash risk associated with the socioeconomic characteristics o...