Recent advances in fire test methods and hazard analysis techniques make it useful to reexamine passenger train fire safety requirements. The use of test methods based on heat release rate (HRR), incorporated with fire modeling and hazard analysis, could permit the assessment of potential hazards under realistic fire conditions. The results of research directed at the evaluation of passenger tr...

Goal, Scope and Background. As part of an LCA study comparing an average Dutch passenger car running on petrol with a similar car running on bio-ethanol and comparing an average Dutch passenger car running on diesel with a similar car running on biodiesel, the question raised to get more insight into the allocations made in fossil fuel chains in existing databases such as ecoinvent. Both biofue...

NHTSA has developed and conducted a vehicleto-vehicle crash test program to evaluate the statistical correlation between vehicle performance measures and the probability of driver fatality in a crash partner vehicle. The test program uncovered some concerns regarding NHTSA’s rigid barrier data collection and review methods. The vehicle-tovehicle tests did not provide clear insight into the mech...

Following the implementation of different transport policy measures, the analysis of experiences in the European cities has led to the conclusion that parking policy measures have the dominant effect on the choice of private car as a mode of transport. This effect is the greatest for the commutes to work, characterized by the longest duration of parking space occupancy. Given the aforementioned...

Driving a car can be difficult when it comes to distractions caused by operating the in-vehicle infotainment system (IVIS). In-car passengers often help with performing IVIS-related tasks. However, an IVIS is not designed focus on task collaboration. In this article, we how design in-car systems goal support collaboration between driver and front-seat passenger. Based infotainment-oriented task...

In developing countries including India, mixed traffic condition prevails on roads and highways. There is a wide variation in the static and the dynamic characteristics of different types of traffic. The only way of accounting for this non-uniformity for any traffic analysis in traffic stream is to convert all vehicles into a common unit and the most accepted unit for this purpose is passenger ...

In 2013, ZF Friedrichshafen AG was launching the world's first nine-speed automatic transmission (9HP) for passenger cars with front-transverse drive. With the two planned model ranges, the compact innovation covers a torque range between 200 and 480 Nm. Thanks to its modular concept, the basic transmission can be upgraded as required. This allows different starting elements and four-wheel driv...

A consumer’s decision to buy a product or service is the result of interplay of many forces or stimuli. Consumer choice process is a complex phenomena. Selection of the product or services get involved many process. Especially for the selection of durable products, the customer has to spend much time to evaluate and choose the best based on their requirements. After the opening up of the econom...

In this report a novel control that optimizes passenger service in an elevator group is described. Fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence are applied in the control when allocating landing calls to the elevators. Fuzzy logic is used to recognize the traffic pattern and the traffic peaks from statistical forecasts. In order to form the statistical forecasts, the passenger traffic flow in the bu...