Driving cycles are important for vehicle performance evaluations including emissions and fuel/energy consumption estimations. The franchised bus services currently being extensively used in Hong Kong, however, no driving cycle has been developed specifically buses. Therefore, this study a set of using cost effective data collection approach. On-road speed were collected the built-in GPS functio...

Providing accurate and real-time bus travel time information is crucial for both passengers public transportation managers. However, in the traditional prediction model, due to lack of consideration influence different drivers’ driving styles on time, result not ideal. In historical data all drivers entire line are usually used training prediction. Due great differences individual styles, eigen...

Modern safety systems are transforming vehicles from human-controlled passive devices into human-centric intelligent/ active systems. There is a wide range of systems from fully autonomous vehicles to humanaugmented control devices which have emerged in this field. In current trends, co-operative active systems have the driver in the decision and control processes are favored for their ‘human-c...

This paper focuses on Hybrid Energy Storage Systems (HESS), consisting of a combination of batteries and Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC), for electric urban busses. The aim of the paper is to develop a methodology to determine the hybridization percentage that allows the electric bus to work with the highest efficiency while reducing battery aging, depending on the chosen topology, cont...

There exists very little evidence to determine whether aging school bus drivers pose an increased safety risk with advancing age since few drivers have continued to work beyond age 65 in those jurisdictions that do not have mandatory retirement policies. Consequently, there have not been opportunities where direct data are available to empirically show how safety risk might change as school bus...

OBJECTIVE To observe pupil behaviour on school buses in Israel and identify hazards as a basis for improving school bus safety. METHODS Data on student, bus driver and chaperone behaviours and on hazards associated with school buses, bus loading zones and bus stops were collected during an observational study conducted on school buses in rural communities in Israel. This report focuses on obs...