In the automotive industry, mass reduction and lightweight design is a continuing trend that does not show signs of declining. When looking at where to reduce weight in a vehicle, the body is a preferential subsystem due to its large contribution to overall mass and the stability of body composition over a specific model range. The automotive industry of today moves toward a greater differentia...

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Software update systems for automobiles can deliver significant benefits, but, if not implemented carefully, they could potentially incur serious security vulnerabilities. Previous solutions for securing software updates consider standard attacks and deploy widely understood security mechanisms, such as digital signatures for the software updates, and hardware security modules (HSM) to sign sof...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review literature relating to vehicle utilisation, transport optimisation and the implementation of 'green' transport management measures within the freight industry with a view to minimise the negative impact of road freight transport on the environment. Design/Methodology/Approach This report first reviews the key constraints on vehicle utilisation, bef...

Purpose – To provide a social-theoretic framework which explains how e-commerce affects social conditions, such as availability of information and equality of access to information, influences actors’ behavior, shapes e-commerce business models, and in turn impacts industry structure. Design/methodology/approach – Empirical investigation based on one-hour interviews with owners/managers of nine...

The rapid development of the new energy vehicle industry is an essential part reducing CO2 emissions in transportation sector and achieving carbon peaking neutrality goals. This vigorous has generated many end-of-life power batteries that cannot be recycled reused, which brought serious consequences for environment. In order to solve negative externality problem by EoL batteries, how government...