New and exciting possibilities in vehicle control are revealed by the consideration of topography through the combination GPS and three dimensional road maps. This thesis explores how information about future road slopes can be utilized in a heavy truck with the aim at reducing the fuel consumption over a route without increasing the total travel time. A model predictive control (MPC) scheme is...

OBJECTIVE This study presents data from a large-scale anthropometric study of U.S. truck drivers and the multivariate anthropometric models developed for the design of next-generation truck cabs. BACKGROUND Up-to-date anthropometric information of the U.S. truck driver population is needed for the design of safe and ergonomically efficient truck cabs. METHOD We collected 35 anthropometric d...

Diesel is the main fuel choice for commercial vehicles (Freight Transport Association, 2011a, Hill et al., 2011) and its combustion produces CO2 which is considered the main contributor to global warming (Barreto et al., 2003, Lee et al., 2011). For this reason, the government has targeted road transport to reduce its carbon footprint and it has developed different policy instruments to achieve...

Analytical target cascading (ATC) is a methodology that can be used during the early development phase of large and complex systems for propagating desirable overall product targets to appropriate individual specifications for the various subsystems and components. The ATC process is applied to the design of an advanced technology heavy truck. A series hybrid-electric propulsion system, in-hub ...

The use of new vehicle technologies such as fuel cell hybrid electric and fully powertrains for biomass feedstock supply is an unexplored solution to reducing biofuel production cost, greenhouse gas emissions, health impacts. These have found success in light-duty applications are development heavy-duty trucks. This study presents the first detailed stochastic techno-economic analysis life-cycl...

To examine the relationship of ramp design to truck accident rates, this paper presents an analysis of truck accidents in Washington State, plus a comparison to limited data from Colorado and California. We group freeway truck accidents by ramp type, accident type, and by four conflict areas of each merge or diverge ramp. We then compare these groups on the basis of truck accidents per location...

Nobody denies that the input plays an important role in language acquisition, but the issue as to whether the input is sufficient to drive language learning is still a matter of debate. In this paper we examine children’s acquisition of synthetic compounds in English and Dutch. Despite having necessarily different input, Dutchand English-speaking children produce the same set of non-adult forms...

Port–hinterland container logistics transportation systems (PHCLTSs) are significant to economic and social development. However, various kinds of unconventional emergency events (UEEs), such as natural or human-caused disasters, threaten PHCLTSs. This study aims measure improve the resilience Bi-level programming models with two different lower level established help PHCLTSs recover their capa...

LLE Review, Volume 74 113 Laser–plasma instabilities1 are important in the field of inertial confinement fusion2 because they scatter laser light away from the target, which reduces the laser energy available to drive the compression of the nuclear fuel, or generate energetic electrons that preheat the fuel, which makes the fuel harder to compress. In stimulated Raman scattering an incident, or...