Increasingly, the dependability of vehicle based programmable systems is becoming a key feature in ensuring the safety of those in and around the vehicle. The goal of those responsible for the design and manufacture of such systems must be to control adequately the associated risks so that the potential of the technology may be exploited fully. The Motor Industry Software Reliability Associatio...

background: hazardous chemicals, which give detrimental effect to the central nervous system, are widely used in the vehicle services industry. the use of vibrotactile perception threshold (vpt) as a screening tool for chemical exposure is new in developing country such as malaysia. therefore, this study determined the relationship between vpt and chemical exposure among vehicle service technic...

This paper addresses the impacts of environmental legislation and vehicle emissions on the future of alternative fuels sucl~ as methanol, compressed natural gas, propane, electricity, hydrogen, and reformulated gasoline in the transportation industry, and it discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each type of fuel in terms of fuel efficiency, fuel cost, environmental impacts, and vehicle...

In 2018, in the Dialogue, Debate, and Discussion section of MOR 14.3, an interesting series articles was published ‘Forum on Tesla Global Automotive Industry’, where researchers discussed future dynamics global automotive sector. their work, Perkins Murmann (2018) contended that, based Tesla's success, a well-funded company could develop new electric vehicle (EV) from scratch move it into produ...

Research Population-based studies have related exposure to fine particulate air pollution 2004) to cardiovascular diseases and lung cancer. We have established a large retrospective cohort study of mortality in the unionized U.S. trucking industry. Each job category in this population has distinct exposure patterns: drivers are exposed directly to traffic; dockworkers are exposed to trucks in t...

With recent economic growth in Oman there is increased use of heavy vehicles, presenting an increase in heavy vehicle crashes, associated fatalities and injuries. Vehicle defects cause a significant number of heavy vehicle crashes in Oman and increase the likelihood of fatalities. The aim of this study is to explore factors contributing to driving with vehicle defects in the Omani heavy vehicle...

This paper gives an overview of the current industry based projects in the field of vehicle modeling and simulation in the Duisburg Mechatronics Laboratory. It shows the wide range of research fields covered in Duisburg, including vehicle systems, vehicle dynamics, occupant safety, adaptive cruise control, power steering, hardware in the loop, fault tolerant real time systems and tolerance anal...

It is considered that the road condition in the winter is one of the significant issues for the safety driving by tourists or residents. However, there are many difficulties of the V2V networks such as the transmission range of wireless networks and the noises from the automobile’s bodies. Thus, this paper introduces the Adaptive Array Antenna (AAA) controls for the Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) net...

The exchange of the energy storage unit from an electric vehicle is considered as an alternative to in-vehicle battery charging or regeneration. If the exchange process is mechanically assisted or automated, the exchange can be accomplished in much less time than that required for in-vehicle charging. Many means for accomplishing battery exchange have been proposed or attempted, with various de...

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...