This study evaluates the effectiveness of state child safety seat laws in the United States. Data for all fifty states for the period 1975 to 1994 are used. Pooled time series analysis is employed to estimate a model of the rate of fatalities suffered by children ages 0-5 years as occupants in automobile crashes. The occupant fatality rate for children 6-11 years of age is used as a comparison ...

This paper presents a method for analysis of automated highway throughput for AHS designs, including those with platooning. Simulation results are presented which show that increased information leads to higher throughput, and that a platooning design will have higher throughput than any individual vehicle design.

In this paper, we establish a basic dimension theory for rigid subanalytic sets, and we prove a Smooth Stratiication Theorem for such sets, in all characteristics.

THE PROBLEM: MOTORCAR MORALITY AND AUTOMOBILE AGEING Advances in modern technology mean that cars are living longer than ever before. This raises important end-of-road-life issues, as it becomes increasingly difficult to provide leaded fuel and shelter for our hydraulically challenged, ageing automobile population. The garage is full, and off-street parking is beyond the financial scope of most...

We show that a large class of non–metric, non–symplectic affine holonomies can be realized, uniformly and without case by case considerations, by Weyl connections associated to the natural AHS–structures on certain generalized flag manifolds.

The use of a mass balance equation assists in clarifying the contribution of automotive-emitted lead to the regional and global problems of the distribution of this element, by taking into account the physicochemical transformation processes operating on the lead during its transport along the various environmental pathways. The technical factors which govern the emission of such lead from auto...

In the standards about the contour dimension of automobile in most countries, the height difference of body symmetrical points or body inclination angle of automobile was specified. To improve the vehicle performance and operation safety, a measurement method of car body inclination angle was studied. According to the camera calibration and the distance between camera and automobile, the front ...

with considering of acceleration of changes, competitive environment and uncertainty in today world make knowledge as the most strategic resource for maintain and reinforcement of competitive advantage and effective management of knowledge is the most serious challenge of organizations. knowledge management is important to achieve competitive advantage. knowledge management transforms latent pr...

With gasoline at a record $2.50 a gallon in the United States, and with the passage of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, now is a good time to see where the United States has been and where it might be heading in the near future, in regard to automobiles and government policies to regulate their efficiency. In this paper, I will first look at the recent history of American energy policy as applied...