Tires are perhaps the most important, but difficult to model, component of an automobile. In addition to supporting the vehicle and damping out road irregularities, the tires provide the longitudinal and lateral forces necessary to change the speed and direction of the vehicle. These forces are produced by the deformation of the tire where it contacts the road during acceleration, braking, and ...

It is well known that crashes on horizontal curves are a cause for concern in all countries due to the frequency and severity of crashes at curves compared to road tangents. A recent study of crashes in western Sweden reported a higher rate of crashes in right curves than left curves. To further understand this result, this paper reports the results of novel analyses of the responses of vehicle...

Outdoor mobile robotised vehicles currently hold the attention of many researchers because they can bring solutions to many applications related to transport of passengers in urban environments. An example of robotised vehicle is the CyCab (Bom et al., 2005). Transport applications which can combine mono or multi vehicle operating mode are most efficient. For autonomous navigation application, ...

Road safety has been internationally recognized as a primary strategic goal in many societies and involves road user, vehicle and environment elements in a systematic manner. The element of road users represents all aspects of human factors, such as user age, gender, health condition, personality, alcohol use, distraction, driving experience, etc. The vehicle element includes vehicle type, size...

Developing region road traffic has a unique characteristic of high heterogeneity in vehicle types. In this paper, we describe VividhaVahana1, a smartphone sensor based system to categorize road vehicles into four predominant categories: two-wheeler bikes, three-wheeler auto-rickshaws, four-wheeler cars and public transport like buses. Using a variety of sensor based features, our system is able...

it’s obvious that road safety is causing large problems and costs in iran with an enormous impact on the well-being of people, economy and productivity. the yearly number of fatalities and injuries is still unchanged. motor vehicle injuries lead the list of injury deaths at the all ages during childhood and adolescence, even in children under 1 yrs of age. understanding the actual of child road...

1. Introduction In general, on a snow-covered or otherwise slippery road, an abrupt steering change will cause unstable vehicle behavior, or excessive speed will make the vehicle deviate from the intended path. The vehicle stability control (VSC) system detects such conditions and stabilizes the vehicle. Although the use of VSC has begun to increase, it is not yet widely seen in inexpensive car...

applications using vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications at a carrier frequency of 5.9 GHz to increase road traffic safety and road traffic efficiency in Europe (a.k.a. connected vehicle technology in the US). This article will shed some light on the current status of C-ITS in Europe and what is left before deployment can commence in 2019 as announced by C2C-CC. Even t...

In this paper, a robust vehicle local position estimation with the help of single camera sensor and GPS is presented. A modified Inverse Perspective Mapping, illuminant Invariant techniques and object detection based approach is used to localize the vehicle in the road. Vehicles current lane, its position from road boundary and other cars are used to define its local position. For this purpose ...

VANET (Vehicular Ad-hoc Network) is an emerging new technology with some unique characteristics that makes it different from other ad hoc network. Due to rapid topology changing and frequent disconnection it is also difficult to design an efficient routing protocol for routing data among vehicles, called V2V or vehicle to vehicle communication and vehicle to road side infrastructure, called V2I...