This paper introduces a dynamic multi-period vehicle routing problem with touting as demand management technique, where customers that have not yet placed an order can be actively encouraged to service sooner. Touting the right customers, such those located nearby who already orders, allows for more efficient routes over time. However, it also increases frequency of visits at touted they are se...

Abstract Multi-physical contact behaviour is important in multiple disciplines related to the automotive industry. Nowadays battery-electric vehicles' (BEV) thermal management systems deal with between bodies where mechanical, electric, and interaction occurs. The battery itself crucial for cell life, safety, everyday vehicle performance. Thus, comprehensive accurate simulation of multi-physica...

agility is perceived as the dominant competitive vehicle for all organizations in an uncertain and ever-changing business environment. many of the enterprises in present competitive environment need to have strategic plan for achieving agility. for this purpose, they should identify strategies in order to centralize on the agility capabilities and providers. indeed, each enterprise for achievin...

Inter-vehicle communications, in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems, will probably bring a significant improvement in both traffic safety and efficiency. In order to evaluate in what measure this is true, traffic simulations that take into account the communications between vehicles are needed. Several approaches are being pursued to this end, many of them working on the integrat...

Past research has found a non-linear relationship between traffic intensity or level of service (LOS) and highway crash rates. This paper investigates this relationship further by including the effects of site characteristics and estimating Poisson regression models for predicting single and multi-vehicle crashes separately. Analysis focuses on rural two-lane highways, with hourly LOS, traffic ...

In this paper we present a novel solution to the Multi-Vehicle SLAM (MVSLAM) problem by extending the random finite set (RFS) based SLAM filter framework using two recently developed multi-sensor information fusion approaches in finite set statistics (FISST). Our solution is based on the modeling of the measurements and the landmark map as RFSs and factorizing the MVSLAM posterior into a produc...

The high pace rise in vehicle counts, traffic density, and security concerns, a potential system for traffic surveillance, vehicle monitoring and control has become an inevitable need to facilitate intelligent transportation system (ITS). Although, numerous approaches have been proposed for moving vehicle detection and tracking, still the optimization needs can’t be ignored. In this paper, a ro...

This paper deals with formation control strategies based on Virtual Structure (VS) for multi-vehicle systems. We propose several control laws for networked multi-nonholonomic vehicle systems in order to achieve VS consensus, VS Flocking and VS Flocking with collision avoidance. First, Virtual Vehicle for the feedback linearization is considered, and we propose VS consensus and Flocking control ...

435 Abstract— In this paper, a simple system has been proposed to identify the type and distance of a moving vehicle using multi-classifier system (MCS). One-third octave filter bank approach has been used for extracting the significant feature from the noise emanated by the moving vehicle. The extracted features were associated with the type and distance of the moving vehicle and the heterogen...