Semi active control systems are becoming increasingly popular because they offer reliability of passive systems combined with high performance and versatility of active control systems but with low power consumptions. As Magnetorheological (MR) fluids can produce good controllable damping force under application of magnetic field, MR damper can be used as effective element in semiactive vibrati...

This article presents a new methodology for detecting road network and planning the path for vehicle motion using road map and satellite/aerial images. The method estimates road regions from based on network models, which are created from road maps and satellite images on the basis of using image-processing techniques such color filters, difference of Gaussian, and Radon transform. In the case ...

Traffic scenes in road network needs to be monitored in different dimensional perspective to address the issues generated at various time instances. One of the major challenges observed in traffic scenes in road network is to address the vehicle tracking at different dimensional perspective for various time instances. One such application that has received greater significance is the mechanism ...

Driver support system is one of the most important feature of the modern vehicles to ensure driver safety and decrease vehicle accident on roads. Apparently, the road lane detection or road boundaries detection is the complex and most challenging tasks. It is includes the localization of the road and the determination of the relative position between vehicle and road. A vision system using on-b...

This study aimed to estimate the origins of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in size-fractionated road dust in Tokyo. First, seven categories of PAHs sources were defined: diesel vehicle exhaust, gasoline vehicle exhaust, tire, pavement, asphalt or bitumen, petroleum products excluding tire and asphalt, and combustion products except for those in vehicle engines. The 189 source data of 1...

The instantaneous knowledge of road course, condition and traffic situation ahead of the vehicle is of major value for all kinds of driver assistance systems. In this paper, a method for self-generating an up-to-date road status map of the local area onboard a driving vehicle is presented. A commercial digital road map is not required, since vehicles generate the map based upon satellite based ...

car accidents are documented as a growing public health problem in iran as well as other developing countries. generally growing number of population and vehicles are not accompanied by extending road construction programs. these could be result in high death, disability, and economic loss in such country compare to develop one. this mainly affected young person who are economically more active...

The use of rumble strips on roads has proven to be an effective means of providing drivers road departure warning (RDW). However, rumble strips require an infrastructure and do not exist on a majority of roadways. Furthermore, rumble strips presents a difficult issue of where to establish the rumble-strip distance threshold. The research proposed will explore the development of an onboard elect...

Road traffic sounds are a major source of noise pollution in urban areas. But recent developments such as low noise pavements and hybrid/electric engine vehicles cast an optimistic outlook over such an environmental problem. However, it can be argued that engine, tire, and road noise could be relevant sources of information to avoid road traffic conflicts and accidents. In this paper, we analyz...