pedestrian areas are a type of urban public space, nowadays because of the serious consequencesof car-dependency and ignoring pedestrian needs, a consensus on the importance of walking and the necessity forplanning for pedestrians movement has been formed among urban designers, planners and people. the concernsabout human health and movement in city create a new trend in contemporary urbanism, ...

To follow the dynamicity of the user’s content, researchers have recently started to model interactions between users and the ContextAware Recommender Systems (CARS) as a bandit problem where the system needs to deal with exploration and exploitation dilemma. In this sense, we propose to study the freshness of the user’s content in CARS through the bandit problem. We introduce in this paper an ...

Current developments in Car2X communication technology provide the basis for novel driver assistance systems. To assess the impact of such a system on a group of cars approaching a non moving traffic jam, the driver behavior resulting from a system which supports anticipatory driving is modeled and used in a sub-microscopic traffic simulation. By equipping various percentages of a simulated gro...

Drawing on a data set containing 371,082 observations on new and used cars from 2008, this study employs a hedonic model to estimate the determinants of prices in the primary and secondary car markets in Germany. We are specifi cally interested in identifying those vehicle attributes that are responsible for retaining the car’s value in the used car market. Beyond parameterizing the infl uence ...

We investigate a microscopical structure in a chain of cars waiting at the red signal on the signal-controlled crossroad. Presented is a one-dimensional space-continuous thermodynamical model leading to an excellent agreement with the data measured. Moreover, we demonstrate that inter-vehicle spacing distribution disclosed in relevant traffic data agrees with the thermal-balance distribution of...

We investigate a microscopical structure in a chain of cars waiting at the red signal on the signal-controlled crossroad. Presented is a one-dimensional space-continuous thermodynamical model leading to an excellent agreement with the data measured. Moreover, we demonstrate that inter-vehicle spacing distribution disclosed in relevant traffic data agrees with the thermal-balance distribution of...

The thesis analyzes the development problem of private cars’ amount in Beijing from the perspective of system dynamics. With the flow chart illustrating the relationships of relevant elements, the SD model is established by VENSIM to simulate the growth trend of private autos’ amount in the future on the background of “Public Transportation First” policy based on the original data in Beijing. T...

Nonlinear observers for estimation of lateral and longitudinal velocity of automotive vehicles are proposed. The observers are based on a sensor suite that is standard in many new cars, consisting of acceleration and yaw rate measurements in addition to wheel speed and steering angle measurements. Two approaches are considered: first, a modular approach where the estimated longitudinal velocity...

Using a numerical simulation, we study a new version of a two-lane traffic model. This version, which is an extension of the Nagatani model, takes into account more realistic conditions in order to examine some interesting aspects of a two-lane roadway. The densities of cars in the two-lanes, the mean velocity and the phase diagrams are calculated by computer simulations. We find that in this v...

Models of driving have traditionally been couched either in terms of guidance and control or in terms of human factors. There is, however, a need for more powerful models that can match the rapidly growing complexity and sophistication of modern cars. Such models must provide coherent and consistent ways of describing driver performance to help engineers develop and validate technical concepts ...