Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is appeared to be a new technology to integrate the susceptibility of vastly employed wireless networks to vehicles. The idea is to attain the ubiquitous connectivity for vehicles either through efficient vehicle-to-vehicle or vehicle-to-infrastructure communication that enables the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In order to design a suitable and effi...

OBJECTIVE This study examined the impact of increasing automation replanning rates on operator performance and workload when supervising a decentralized network of heterogeneous unmanned vehicles. BACKGROUND Futuristic unmanned vehicles systems will invert the operator-to-vehicle ratio so that one operator can control multiple dissimilar vehicles connected through a decentralized network. Sig...

Non-asset based third-party logistics providers manage fleets of leased vehicles for their customers. Due to high leasing costs, minimizing the number of vehicles employed in daily operations is of primary concern to such firms. Consequently, routings that involve fewer vehicles and potentially longer travel times are favored over routings that involve additional vehicles. Constructing routes t...

This paper addresses the capacitated vehicle routing problem with twodimensional loading constraints (2L-CVRP). The 2L-CVRP is a combination of the two most important problems in distribution logistics, which are loading of freight into vehicles, and the successive routing of the vehicles to satisfy customer demand. The objective is to minimize the transportation cost. All vehicles must start a...

The Networks of vehicles moving on the road are considered as Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). The relative speed of the vehicles may be up to 300 km/hr and the number of nodes is very high. In Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) the nodes movement is bounded to road topology. In VANET the link breakage can be avoided with the help of the mobility pattern knowledge for neighbor nodes. In this...

---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET) is special class of the MANET that consists of vehicle to vehicle communication and vehicle to roadside communication. Vehicular Ad-hoc network (VANET) requires trusted vehicles to vehicles communication. In this pa...

This chapter discusses the development of a short range acoustic communication channel model and its properties for the design and evaluation of MAC (Medium Access Control) and routing protocols, to support network enabled Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). The growth of underwater operations has required data communication between various heterogeneous underwater and surface based communica...

in the recent decade, special attention is paid to reverse logistic due to economic benefits of recovery and recycling of used products as well as environmental legislation and social concerns. on the other hand، many researches claim that separately and sequential planning of forward and reverse logistic causes sub-optimality. effective transport activities are also one of the most important c...

In this article, we present a centralized fleet management system (CFMS) for cybernetic vehicles called cybercars. Cybercars are automatically guided vehicles for passenger transport on dedicated networks like amusement parks, shopping centres etc. The users make reservations for the vehicles through phone, internet, kiosk etc and the CFMS schedules the cybercars to pick the users at their resp...

1570-8705/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.04.009 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Universidade N de Caparica, Portugal. E-mail address: [email protected] (R. Oliveira). 1 The source code of a modified version of OLS topology control scheme, entitled Long Duration Path written for the network simulator ns-2.33 and is ava http://tele1.dee.fct.unl.pt/peopl...