The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), utilizing more battery power, has become the next-generation HEV with great promise of higher fuel economy. Global optimization charge-depletion power management would be desirable. However, this has so far been hampered due the a priori nature of the trip information and the almost prohibitive computational cost of global optimization techniques such...

Problem statement: As vehicle population increases, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) become more significant and mandatory in today’s overpopulated world. Vital problems in transportation such as mobility and safety of transportation are considered more, especially in metropolitans and highways. The main road traffic monitoring aims are: the acquisition and analysis of traffic figures, ...

Intelligent braking system has a lot of potential applications especially in developed countries where research on smart vehicle and intelligent highway are receiving ample attention. The system when integrated with other subsystems like automatic traction control system, intelligent throttle system, and auto cruise system, etc will result in smart vehicle maneuver. The driver at the end of the...

Automatic track guiding of vehicles is of increasing interest for Intelligent Vehicle/ Highway Systems 1{3]. Track guided vehicles are used in automated production facilities, ship docks, and for city busses which drive in special narrow lanes. The primary task of such a system is to follow a path as well as possible. Track guiding systems have been designed for various controller structures 4{...

8 1094-7167/03/$17.00 © 2003 IEEE IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS believe is the first on-road demonstration of autonomous passenger vehicles performing cooperative passing and traversal of unsignalized intersections. (Unsignalized intersections have no traffic lights, stop signs, or yield signs to control traffic flow.) This demonstration mated ICSL’s communication and collaborative decision-making s...

Due to its large size, this document has been segmented into multiple files. All files separate from this main document file are accessible from links (blue type) in the table of contents or the body of the document. Executive Summary Introduction One of the most compelling reasons for investment in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) services is to realize a reduction in traffic congestion...

Intelligent Vehicles, as a main part of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), will have great impact on transportation in near future. They would be able to understand their immediate environment and also communicate with other traffic participants such as other vehicles, infrastructures and traffic management centres. Intelligent vehicles could navigate autonomously in highway and urban sc...

With the increasing speeds of modern microprocessors it has become ever more common for computer vision algorithms to nd application in real-time control tasks. In this paper we present an analysis of the problem of steering an autonomous vehicle along a highway based on the images obtained from a CCD camera mounted in the vehicle. We explore the e ects of changing various important system para...

The intelligent transport systems, which aim at providing smarter transport infrastructures and sustainable mobility, are deeply grounded on the Information and Communication Technologies. Current trends in the development of integrated complex systems, such as integrated road/highway concessions management, require new strategies to match business processes to the underlying technology. New ro...

In recent years, vehicle recognition has become an important application in intelligent traffic monitoring and management. Vehicle analysis is an essential component in many intelligent applications, such as automatic toll collection, driver assistance systems, self-guided vehicles, intelligent parking systems, and traffic statistics (vehicle count, speed, and flow). The main goal of our study ...