A tool that will both auralize and visualize exterior vehicle noise in real time has potential applications in environmental planning, virtual environments and the computer games industry. This paper describes the simulation of moving vehicle noise for implementation within a complex graphical urban simulation "Metropolis" a development platform specifically aimed at simulating real crowd behav...

On-road vehicle detection and rear-end crash prevention are demanding subjects in both academia and automotive industry. The paper focuses on monocular vision-based vehicle detection under challenging lighting conditions, being still an open topic in the area of driver assistance systems. The paper proposes an effective vehicle detection method based on multiple features analysis and Dempster-S...

Intelligent Vehicle Telematics has been a promising industry in the world. This new development of telecommunication technology has emerged with some legal concerns, especially in the liability for failure of safety devises and the protection of information privacy within Intelligent Vehicle Telematics. The purpose of this article is to gain experiences from the discussion for these concerns in...

The United States has slipped in recent decades from its role of leadership in combating road crash injuries. The early promise of the country's approach to vehicle safety regulation, adopted by law in 1966, has suffered because of decades of regulatory inertia caused by antiregulatory government policies, industry obstructionism, and failure to set meaningful goals. Meanwhile, other industrial...

The place and performance of wireless sensor networks are rapidly improving in the automotive industry, industrial and environmental monitoring. Uptake of this technology can be used in urban rail vehicle management system. Due to the difficult and time-consuming maintenance of vehicle management, a remote automatic monitoring system is needed. In this paper, it is proposed to design, develop a...

The objective of this study was to make a comparative evaluation of mainline and sub-urban rail vehicles in terms of ergonomic variables of Safety and Comfort. As an end result the objectives were also to make recommendations for the rail vehicle manufacturers industry for future vehicle design. The results of the evaluation allowed us to draw some conclusions and recommendations about future r...

The charging infrastructure plays a key role in the healthy and rapid development of the electric vehicle industry. This paper presents an energy management and control system of an electric vehicle charging station. The charging station (CS) is integrated to a grid-connected hybrid power system having a wind turbine maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controlled subsystem, photovoltaic (PV) MP...