In this paper, we study the impact of using a new intelligent vehicle technology on the performance and total cost of a European port, in comparison with existing vehicle systems like trucks. Intelligent autonomous vehicles (IAVs) are a new type of automated guided vehicles (AGVs) with better maneuverability and a special ability to pick up/drop off containers by themselves. To identify the mos...

RATIONALE Allogeneic bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) have each entered clinical trials, but a direct comparison of these cell types has not been performed in a large animal model of hibernating myocardium. OBJECTIVE Using completely blinded methodology, we compared the efficacy of global intracoronary allogeneic MSCs (icMSCs, ≈35×10(6)) ...

Vehicle occupants comprise a considerable proportion of traffic crash victims in Iran. This paper has focused on vehicleoccupants’ injury severity and employed the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) technique in order toidentify the most important variables affecting the injury severity of these road users in crashes occurred on rural freewaysand multilane highways in I...

Mathematical modeling of supply chain operations has proven to be one of the most complex tasks in the field of operations management and operations research. Despite the abundance of several modeling proposals in the literature; for vast majority of them, no effective universal application is conceived. This issue renders the proposed mathematical models inapplicable due largely to the fact th...

Slope rounding is discussed in the Roadside Design Guide as a practice that breaks the sharp edge in a highway cross section and the side slope. There have been past studies aimed at understanding the influence of slope rounding on vehicle trajectories for various slope conditions. These studies were conducted about twenty years ago and only looked at a small subset of vehicle types despite the...

A vehicle hitting a traffic barrier creates a major threat to traffic safety as a result of displacement of components of the barrier by the forces transferred from the vehicle. We built a theoretical model of the dynamics of such processes and behaviour of concrete barriers set on various types of surfaces. We calculated the displacement as a function of vehicle impact energy and barrier base....

with the aim of reducing cost of electricity consumption and peak load reduction, tools requirement for better managing electricity consumption have become inevitable in recent years. smart home has some equipment which are controllable and this ability is used for increasing comfort and minimizing electricity cost for residence. as a key component of smart home , electric vehicle(ev) ,increase...

nowadays, the use of small vehicles is spreading among urban areas and one sort of these vehicles are three-wheeled vehicles (twvs) which can be competitive with four-wheeled urban vehicles (fwvs) in aspects such as smallness, simple manufacturing, and low tire rolling resistance, fuel consumption and so on. the most critical instability associated with twvs is the roll over. in this paper a ti...

Vehicle classification is the process of vehicle type recognition based on given vehicle characteristics. Accurate vehicle classification has many important applications in transportation. One example is road maintenance, which is highly related to the monitoring of heavy vehicle traffic. Because trucks and oversized vehicles exhibit distinctly different performance characteristics from passeng...

In this paper, we attempt to estimate the additional tolls that can be charged to drivers at the New Jersey Turnpike using the full marginal cost functions. The available data set used in this study consists of individual vehicle records in 2005 at the NJTPK. Vehicle-by-vehicle entry/exit times, entry/exit locations, vehicle types, payment type of each vehicle are available in the data set. Fro...