The image sensor-based target identification is one of the important for vehicle identification and intelligent transportation applications. Based on neural network classification algorithms, one vehicle identification method is proposed. The main work includes: (1) designing the parameter extraction of vehicle shape based on Sobel operator and mathematical morphology; (2) introducing a vehicle...

Objective(s): Liver ischemia-reperfusion injuries (I/RI) are typically the main causes of liver dysfunction after various types of liver surgery especially liver transplantation. Radical components are the major causes of such direct injuries. We aimed to determine the beneficial effects of silibinin, a potent radical scavenger on liver I/RI.Materials...

The need for active safety, highway guidance, telematics, traffic management, cooperative driving, driver convenience and automatic toll payment will require future intelligent vehicles to communicate with other vehicles as well as with the road-side infrastructure. However, inter-vehicle and vehicle to roadside infrastructure communications will impose some security threats against vehicles’ s...

This paper studies the vehicle scheduling problem in cities for the pickup and delivery service. Considering customer point as vehicle collaboration point, we propose a two-stage algorithm based on customer point collaboration through the theory of optimization. In addition to considering the problem whether the isolated customer point is collaborative, the algorithm also takes into account the...

Advances in motor vehicle engineering will allow greater refinement of the dynamic qualities of passenger cars in the near future. This paper describes the development and initial validation of a reliable and valid multidimensional scale to assess these parameters based upon a technique previously developed to evaluate aircraft handling qualities. The scaling methodology developed emphasizes th...

Over the last several decades, the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL) has extensively tested and analyzed issues related to vehicle performance in winter. Using this knowledge and the experimental database, models were developed to capture the important elements for cold regions mobility performance. These models span a range of resolutions and fidelities and include three...

A Vehicular Ad-Hoc Network ( VANET) is a form of Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (MANET) which provides safety to vehicle drivers by communicating with nearby vehicles. A vehicle in VANET is considered to be an intelligent mobile node capable of communicating with its neighbours in the network. VANET is different from MANET due to high mobility of nodes and the large scale of networks. In this paper, we ...

Vehicular networks are sets of surface transportation systems that have the ability to communicate with each other. There are several possible network architectures to organize their in-vehicle computing systems. Potential schemes may include vehicle-to-vehicle ad-hoc networks, wired backbone with wireless last-hops, or hybrid architectures using vehicle-to-vehicle communications to augment roa...

The coming intersection between a growing electrified vehicle fleet and desired growth in renewable electricity generation presents an opportunity for synergistic value. Some types of renewable electricity generation are variable and intermittent and are rarely coincident with utility load patterns. Vehicles are typically parked 90% of the time, and the batteries are a significant capital inves...

A vehicle space where vehicles move around is structured in a space tree whose nodes are space objects. Higher-level objects denote broader area than lower level ones. Each vehicle rst decides a broad path which includes higher-level objects, and the path is made more detailed as the vehicle is approaching to the destination. Vehicles are modeled as transactions which hold objects. There are ki...