With regard to reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of road transport consumers’ adoption of fuel-efficient vehicles is crucial. However, facing the ongoing trend of increasing car size and power, fuel consumption is apparently of lesser importance to most buyers. For the design of effective measures to change behavior and promote fuel-efficient cars, psychological factors should be cons...

Children's school journeys have changed vastly during recent decades: More children are being driven to school in private cars instead of walking and cycling, with many who are entitled to a free school bus service still being driven. Earlier research into travel mode choice has often investigated how urban form impacts upon mode choice regarding school journeys-in particular how urban form hin...

As a sustainable transportation system, car-sharing schemes have been attracting increasing attention. A large amount of research and practice has proved that the application promotion car sharing can help reduce number private cars purchased, increase utilization rate automobiles, effectively alleviate traffic congestion, save energy, emissions. Therefore, on is imperative. The logit model wid...

BACKGROUND Central and peripheral vision is needed for object detection. Previous research has shown that visual target detection is affected by age. In addition, light conditions also influence visual exploration. The aim of the study was to investigate the effects of age and different light conditions on visual exploration behavior and on driving performance during simulated driving. METHOD...

Driving behavior in traffic has been modeled quite successfully in simulation software using predefined car-following models rules. However, because most car-following models assume that vehicles could keep a safety distance away to avoid crash related conflicts; they are not capable to capture naturalistic driving behavior during safety-critical events. Also, vehicle detailed lateral maneuveri...

background: xylene is known as one of the most toxic of the nervous system. the purpose of this study is to estimate the concentration of xylene in the cabin of the vehicles production in iran. also the effect of ventilation, cigarette smoking, and air freshener inside the vehicle, fuel type and car decorations on the concentration of the substance being studied.   methods: 152 vehicles pride a...

This paper presents the results of a recent project of IKCo’s research center to modify Paykan 1600’s rear suspension mechanism with the purpose of improving comfort, stability and handling qualities. The car was originally equipped with a solid rear axle with leaf springs. By replacing the original mechanism with a three-link mechanism with panhard bar and coil springs, the ride comfort and ha...

T cells genetically modified to enforce expression of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) have shown considerable promise in clinical trials even in tumors refractory to all other treatment methods. In particular, the use of CAR T cells rendered specific for CD19 demonstrated significant anti-tumor effects in patients with CD19 chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and acute lymphoblastic leukemia (...