In the vehicle development, the importance of reducing road noise is increasing because of the increasing popularity of quiet electric vehicle. The suspension plays an important role on the mechanism of the structure born road noise. As the countermeasure for reducing road noise, low stiffness suspension bush is often used from the point of view of vibration insulation. However, in general, to ...

In the field of ITS (Intelligent Transport Systems), it is important to automate the cruising and safety driving. We consider to detection the area of the cruising lane of the vehicles. The method has been presented to detect the road area uses the division line such as the white or yellow marking line. Although, when we regard to the ordinary road environment, we suppose that the division line...

When introducing commercial driving simulators a few years ago, the main interest was focused either on operating the vehicle or on the reactions of the driver in traffic and in emergency situations. A comprehensive modeling of the vehicle dynamics was not required for these tasks. However, there are driving simulator applications which make much higher demands on the modeling of the vehicle dy...

Evidence from eye-tracking experiments has provided mixed support for saliency map models of inspection, with the task set for the viewer accounting for some of the discrepancies between predictions and observations. In the present experiment viewers inspected pictures of road scenes with the task being to decide whether or not they would enter a highway from a junction. Road safety observation...

OBJECTIVES In the year 2000, as part of the process for setting New Zealand road safety targets, a projection was made for a reduction in social cost of 15.5 percent associated with improvements in crashworthiness, which is a measure of the occupant protection of the light passenger vehicle fleet. Since that document was produced, new estimates of crashworthiness have become available, allowing...

OBJECTIVE Road rage has generated public concern; however, data on the causes of this behavior have not been available. We examine the alcohol consumption correlates of road rage victimization and perpetration based on a population survey of adults. METHOD Data are based on the 2001-2002 Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Monitor, a repeated cross-sectional telephone survey of Ontario adu...

Vehicle to vehicle communication (V2VC) is one of the modern approaches for exchanging and generating traffic information with (yet to be realised) potential to improve road safety, driving comfort and traffic control. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm which is based on V2V communication, uses in-vehicle sensor information and in collaboration with the other vehicles’ sensor informati...

Sharply increasing fuel prices and significantly heightened concerns about environmental impacts of vehicles have dramatically changed the profile of new vehicle sales in Australia over the past few years. Specifically, sales of light and small vehicles have grown rapidly whilst the medium and particularly the large vehicle segments have contracted sharply. In the face of this, sales of four wh...

Verification of the serviceability limit state of vibrations due to traffic live loads can be neglected in conventional types of concrete road bridges but becomes critical in the design of slender structures like Under-Deck CableStayed bridges. The novelty of the work presented in this article is that an innovative vehicle-bridge interaction model is employed, in which realistic wheel dimension...

Research evidence suggests that annoyance, sleep disturbance and other health effects of road traffic noise exposure may be related to the level and number of noise events caused by traffic as well as to energy equivalent measures of exposure. Because measurements show that the variation in noise emission between vehicles within the same category can be considerable, it is essential that the in...