The single vehicle routing problem with multiple routes is a variant of the vehicle routing problem where the vehicle can be dispatched to several routes during its workday to serve a number of customers. In this paper we propose a goal programming model for multi-objective single vehicle routing problem with time windows and multiple routes. To solve the model, we present a heuristic method wh...

Executive Summary We develop a consumer-level model of vehicle choice to shed light on the erosion of the U.S. automobile manufacturers' market share during the past decade. We examine the influence of vehicle attributes, brand loyalty, product line characteristics, and dealerships. We find that nearly all of the loss in market share for U.S. manufacturers can be explained by changes in basic v...

Tracking multiple vehicles with multiple cameras is a challenging problem of great importance in tunnel surveillance. One of the main challenges is accurate vehicle matching across the cameras with non-overlapping fields of view. Since systems dedicated to this task can contain hundreds of cameras which observe dozens of vehicles each, for a real-time performance computational efficiency is ess...

This paper is concerned with vehicle motion estimation. The problem is formulated as a sensor fusion problem, where the vehicle motion is estimated based on the information from a far infrared camera, inertial sensors and the vehicle speed. This information is already present in premium cars. This work is concerned with the off-line situation and the approach taken is to formulate the problem a...

Vehicle model recognition from images is one of challenging fields for supporting intelligence transport system. Existing methods only deal with vehicle in fixed view. However, in video, rotation is occurred and it decreases performance of recognition. To overcome this problem, rectification method about skew though rotated view is needed. We employ the robust license plate detection method usi...

We develop a consumer-level model of vehicle choice to investigate the reasons behind the erosion of the U.S. automobile manufacturers’ market share during the past decade. Our model accounts for the influence of vehicle attributes, brand loyalty, product line characteristics, and dealerships on choice. We find that nearly all of the loss in market share for U.S. manufacturers can be explained ...

In real-time fleet management, vehicle routes are built in an on-going fashion as vehicle locations, travel times and customer requests are revealed over the planning horizon. To deal with such problems, a new generation of fast on-line algorithms capable of taking into account uncertainty is required. Although several articles on this topic have been published, the literature on real-time vehi...

High-speed trains with the maximum speed of 300 km/h, named as Korea Train Express (KTX), have started revenue services since April 2004. Because of the geomorphologic conditions of Korea a large portion of the ‘Kyung-Bu’ line is comprised of tunnels or bridges, which may cause excessive noise in a vehicle. The vibration generated by the trains propagates into the tunnel and the vehicle structu...

This report presents two different control algorithms for adaptive vehicle traction control, which includes (1) wheel slip control, (2) optimal time control, (3) anti-spin acceleration and anti-skid control, and (4) longitudinal platoon control. The two control algorithms are respectively based on adaptive fuzzy logic control and sliding mode control with on-line road condition estimation. The ...