Collisions at rail level crossings (RLXs) represent a major challenge for both road safety and rail safety professionals. RLX collisions are typically high-severity and high-cost, often involving multiple injuries and/or fatalities as well as major disruptions to the transportation network. Most research examining road users’ behaviour at RLXs has focused exclusively on drivers and consequently...

Traditionally, transportation road networks are designed for minimal congestion. Unfortunately, such approaches do not guarantee minimal vehicle emissions. To fill this apparent gap in network design research, an emissions network design problem and solution method is proposed in this article for the purposes of comparing to the traditional network design results. Three air pollutants are consi...

the suspension system of a vehicle is one of the most important parts which is involved in the process of vehicle designing. when a vehicle suspension system is designed, the evaluation of its performance against the road disturbances such as shocks and bumps are very important. the most commonly used systems consist of four hydraulic jacks with mobility in vertical line with low speed and low ...

Nearest Neighbor Search plays a vital role in building road-maps in Motion Planning. These are implemented in any Road-map building method such as PRM, OBPRM, Gauss PRM, etc. Motion Planning is the science of designing a successfully implementable plan in any Configuration Space (often called C-space) in order to move the Robot from a given Start Configuration to a Goal Configuration by avoidin...

The Monash Research Center of Automated and Resilient Road Systems (MARRS) develops interdisciplinary approaches for traffic engineering applications, in particular: modeling flow mobility patterns multimodal automated road networks, designing efficient planning, operation, management strategies. Our unique focus is to increase the resilience urban systems toward excessive demand, congestion, o...

There are a variety of factors affecting steering performance on off-road vehicles, including vehicle dynamics and soil stiffness. It is essential to understand the steering dynamics for designing a reasonable electrohydraulic (E/H) steering control system for wheel-type tractor. A computer-controlled E/H steering simulator, consisting of a steering actuator and a steering load simulator, is an...

Moving car on rough road suddenly gets out of its way for some reason and moves to the edge of the road at the same speed. Since the most important factor in car overturning is vertical acceleration in the wheels and car speed and road conditions determine the vertical instantaneous acceleration, brake system according to change of the spring length is designed in such a way that by monitoring ...