The Euro 7 legislation and the Zero-Impact Emissions concept aim at significantly improving air quality. Technologies that reduce pollutant emissions beyond current gasoline passenger cars have already been intensively investigated, but a holistic system layout considering extended boundary conditions is missing so far. This paper therefore develops technical solutions to achieve scenario for 2...

Sport Utility Vehicles, or “SUVs”, are among the most dangerous products ever placed in the hands of American consumers.1 These vehicles have been killing their drivers and passengers in rollover crashes for years.2 However, there is a growing awareness of the lethal injuries and catastrophic damage that SUVs cause to other vehicles and their occupants.3 When an SUV crashes into a passenger car...

Multi-car elevator systems consist of shafts with two or more independent cars operating in them. Due to their special characteristics, such as the need to avoid the interference among cars in the same shaft, conventional control methods cannot be implemented on them. Therefore it is necessary to develop group control methods for multi-car elevator systems able to perform an optimal floor call ...