This paper addresses intricate diagnosis situations in modern cars. It employs a rather new and little known diagnosis paradigm, which is a mixture of model-based and heuristic diagnosis and which is called model compilation [5, 25, 26]. The basic idea is to simulate a model of the system under study in various fault modes and over its typical input range to compile a simulation database C. A s...

Shared space is an innovative streetscape design which seeks minimum separation between vehicle traffic and pedestrians. Urban design is moving towards space sharing as a means of increasing the community texture of street surroundings. Its unique features aim to balance priorities and allow cars and pedestrians to co-exist harmoniously without the need to dictate behaviour. There is, however, ...

This paper derives a model of maintenance and repair expenses from an analytical framework based on rational economic behavior in which maintenance, utilization and service life are appropriately integrated and estimates it with the help of data from 433 automobiles imported into Greece from various countries. On the theoretical plain it is shown that the model allows endogenously for most of t...

We study completely asymmetric two-channel exclusion processes in one dimension. It describes a two-way traffic flow with cars moving in opposite directions. The interchannel interaction makes cars slow down in the vicinity of approaching cars in the other lane. Particularly, we consider in detail the system with a finite density of cars on one lane and a single car on the other. When the inter...