The size of a control cabinet is naturally a major driver of cost in industrial system design. The more comprehensive the system functions, the more electronic components are required. The modular Bus Terminal system from Beckhoff offers plenty of scope for control cabinet optimization. This application example focuses on three separate aspects: increasing channel density per terminal with the ...

The automotive industry’s focus on driver-oriented issues underscores the critical importance of driver safety. This paper presents development advanced assistance system (ADAS) algorithms specifically tailored for an electric bus (e-bus) to enhance proposed approach incorporates two key components: a 360-degree surround-view and behavior recognition utilizing You Only Look Once V5 (YOLO_V5) me...

We propose to research the problem of detecting and preventing imminent collisions between buses and pedestrians. GPS and inertial sensor measurements will be fused to analyze bus motion, and other sensors, such as laser scanners, will detect pedestrians in danger. Appropriate algorithms will be developed to anticipate collisions, and warn the driver and pedestrians through various channels. On...

This review paper consolidates the key research on the occupational health of urban bus drivers since the 1950s. Several electronic databases were searched and 27 key studies were identified, which form the basis of this paper. Early findings that bus drivers are liable to suffer ill health as a result of the job remain true today. The research has, however, demonstrated a greater understanding...

The Bus Driver Rostering Problem (BRP) refers to the assignment of drivers to the daily crew duties that cover a set of schedules for buses of a company during a planning period of a given duration, e.g., a month. An assignment such as this, denoted by roster, must comply with legal and institutional rules, namely Labour Law, labour agreements and the company’s regulations. This paper presents ...

This paper presents Bus Driver Allocation Problem (BDAP) which deals with the assignment of the drivers to the scheduled duties so that operations costs are minimized while its solution meets hard constraints resulting from the safety regulations of public transportation authorities as well as from the internal company’s agreements. Another concern in this study is the overall satisfaction of t...