This study was designed to compare estimates from two quasi-induced exposure methods of the effects of driver- and vehicle-related conditions on the risk of causing a road crash for drivers of vehicles with four or more wheels. From the Spanish register of road crashes with victims, the authors selected, for 1993-2002, all 755,329 drivers of >or=4-wheeled vehicles involved in single-vehicle cra...

The authors have developed a mobile, autonomous decentralized utility system for indoor transportation, called AMADEUS. This paper explains how we put it to practical use. AkL4DEUS is a system designed around transportation agents. We eliminated centrally managed vehicle allocation and routing plans by implementing autonomous vehicle allocation negotiations and collision avoidance between agent...

Nowadays, each newly produced car must conform to the appropriate safety standards and norms. The most direct way to observe how a car behaves during a collision and to assess its crashworthiness is to perform a crash test. This paper deals with the wavelet-based performance analysis of the safety barrier for use in a full-scale test. The test involves a vehicle, a Ford Fiesta, which strikes th...

This paper describes design, tuning and evaluation of integrated Adaptive Cruise Control with Collision Avoidance (ACC/CA). The control scheme is designed to control the vehicle so that it would feel natural to the human driver during normal safe driving situations and to completely avoid rear-end collision in vehicle following situations. Driving situations are divided into safe, warning and d...