The road coloring problem is an interesing problem proposed over 40 years ago by Adler, Goodwyn and Weiss. Hundreds of mathematicians worked on this problem and failed to make the conjecture a theorem. Finally, in 2007, it was proved by a 60-year-old Israeli mathematician, Avraham Trahtman. It turns out the prove was quite simple after Trahtman partitioned the graph into cycles and trees. The d...

To evaluate the road safety development of a country over time, the percentage change in the number of road fatalities is traditionally the main indicator. However, simply considering the reduction in the road fatalities may not correctly reflect the real improvement in road safety because the transport circumstances of a country underlying the road fatalities also change every year. In this st...

Genetic algorithms (GAs) have been broadly studied by a huge amount of researchers and there are many variations developed based on Holland’s simple genetic algorithm (SGA). Inspired by the idea of diploid genotype and dominance mechanisms that broadly exists in nature, we propose a primal-dual genetic algorithm (PDGA). PDGA operates on a pair of chromosomes that are primal-dual to each other i...

Using data from i) a simulated road-crossing task, ii) a battery of functional performance assessments, and iii) a survey of parents, some factors that may predict poor road-crossing skill were identified. Children aged between 6 and 10 years made road-crossing decisions in a simulated road environment in which time gap and speed of approaching vehicles were manipulated. Functional performance ...

The goal of studying the vehicle suspension systems is to reduce the vehicle vibrations which are due to the irregularities of road levels and the fluctuations in the vehicle velocity. These vibrations are transferred to the body and occupants of vehicles through the suspension system. In general, the main function of an active suspension system is to support the vehicle body by reducing the in...

Driver’s lateral control on curved roads plays a significant role in reducing or avoiding the crashes. To understand and predict driver performance on curved roads, a computational model was developed in a cognitive architecture, the Queueing Network-Model Human Processor (QN-MHP), with the integration of vehicle dynamics principles (i.e., how to steer based on near and far angles) and the refe...

The estimation of road excitation profile is important for evaluation of vehicle stability and vehicle suspension performance for autonomous vehicle control systems. In this work, the nonlinear dynamics of the active automotive system that is excited by the unknown road excitation profile are considered for modeling. To address the issue of estimation of road profile, we develop an adaptive sup...

Specific environmental taxes are minor in relation to fuel excise duty, road tolls and annual taxes on the ownership or use of vehicles, in terms of their cost to transport operators and users (see the OECD environmental tax data base). Although differentiation of general transport taxes on the basis of environmental performance is quite widely used to leverage vehicle purchase decisions, this ...

Decline of alertness constitutes a normal physiological phenomenon but could be aggravated when drivers operate in monotonous environments, even in rested individuals. Driving performance is impaired and this increases crash risk due to inattention. This paper aims to show that road characteristics namely road design (road geometry) and road side variability (signage and buildings) – influence ...