Heavy vehicles are significantly longer and heavier than passenger cars and consequently have quite different acceleration and braking capabilities. Heavy vehicle manoeuvres are therefore likely to influence drivers’ vehicle-following behaviour differently to cars. Heavy vehicles can also influence the behaviour of drivers of other vehicles while following a heavy vehicle. This paper used data ...

Discrete choice models are commonly used in transportation planning and modeling, but their theoretical basis and their applications have been mainly developed in a static context. We propose to develop an estimation technique for analyzing the impact of technological change on the dynamics of consumer demand. The proposed research presents a dynamic model of consumer demand that explicitly acc...

This thesis primarily describes performance and decision heuristics of human operators intervention with an autonomous formation flight (AFF) system during monitoring of a station-keeping display. Due to mental and physical workloads, automation technologies have been applied to formation flight for precise station-keeping and resultant fuel reduction, shifting control authority from humans to ...

We show that if a car stops at a stop sign, an observer, e.g., a police officer, located at a certain distance perpendicular to the car trajectory, must have an illusion that the car does not stop, if the following three conditions are satisfied: (1) the observer measures not the linear but angular speed of the car; (2) the car decelerates and subsequently accelerates relatively fast; and (3) t...

A four-layer artificial neural network (ANN) structure was set up in the models and a genetic algorithm (GA) and back-propagation methodology were utilized to customize individual driver's behavior. A number of combinations of the input variables was examined with the R2 values representing the model fitting. This paper concluded that there are significant differences in degrees of contribution...

In this work we obtain a new description of the vertical motion of the car including the active suspension. It consists of 4 completely decoupled subsystems. The first 3 ones are of order 4 each and they are analogous to standard quarter car suspension models. The 4th subsystem is of order 2 and it introduces a new abstract variable denoted by γ. One of the novelties of this modeling result is ...