• The fifth objective of the AASHO Road Test was as follows: "To develop instrumentation, test procedures, data, graphs and formulas which will reflect the capabilities of the various test sections; and which will be helpful in future highway design in the evaluation of the loadcarrying capabilities of existing highways and determining the most promising areas of further highway research." It w...

Centre de recherche sur les transports and D epartement d'informatique et de recherche op erationnelle, Abstract: Dynamic vehicle routing and dispatching refers to a wide range of problems where information on the problem is revealed to the decision maker concurrently with the determination of the solution. These problems have recently emerged as an active area of research due to recent technol...

Vehicular traffic volume in large cities has increased recent years, causing mobility problems; therefore,the analysis of vehicle flow data becomes a relevant research topic. Intelligent Transportation Systems monitor and control vehicular movements by collecting GPS trajectories, which provides the geographic location vehicles real time. Thus information is processed using clustering technique...

This study presents experimental investigations on dynamic characteristics of bridges coupled with vehicles in order to clarify the vehicle-bridge interaction under earthquakes. Oscillator experiment is carried out at a one-box girder bridge coupled with a vehicle. Both acceleration responses of the bridge and those of the vehicle are measured in horizontal and vertical directions. The dynamic ...

Robust unsupervised learning of temporal dynamic interactions is an important problem in robotic general and automated particular. Temporal can be described by (multiple) geometric trajectories a suitable space over which techniques may applied to extract useful features from raw high-dimensional data measurements. Taking approach robust for interactions, it necessary develop metrics systematic...

This paper presents the results of a recent project of IKCo’s research center to modify Paykan 1600’s rear suspension mechanism with the purpose of improving comfort, stability and handling qualities. The car was originally equipped with a solid rear axle with leaf springs. By replacing the original mechanism with a three-link mechanism with panhard bar and coil springs, the ride comfort and ha...

One of the main vibration problems of aerospace vehicles with liquid fuel propulsion system is fuel sloshing. This phenomenon is a low frequency vibrational challenge which can affect the motion of the vehicle and degrade the stability of the main control system. In this regards, the motion of the liquid will be very critical when the frequency of the sloshing is very close to the frequencies o...

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A crucial challenge in future smart energy grids is the largescale coordination of distributed energy demand and generation. The well-known PowerMatcher is a promising approach that integrates demand and supply flexibility in the operation of the electricity system through dynamic pricing and a hierarchical bidding coordination scheme. However, as the PowerMatcher focuses on short-term coordina...