Wireless vehicle to vehicle communication in a vehicle platoon is proposed in intelligent transportation systems to increase safety of the transportation system and assist drivers for improved decision making. However, similar to any networked system, cooperative connected vehicles in a platoon are vulnerable to malfunction due to failures in network communication. In addition to the possible d...

Pricing schemes have been proposed to address the negative externalities of freight transportation. Literature related to the following pricing strategies are reviewed: pricing programs aimed at changing shipper’s mode choice, and schemes aimed at shifting freight deliveries to off-peak hours. Evidence from empirical and theoretical studies suggests that pricing strategies may have limited effe...

A bidirectional converter (BDC) is required in areas where generated energy is stored. Some of the application areas are uninterruptible power system, transportation,, flywheel energy storage systems, etc. Bidirectional flow of power using buck mode and boost mode along with efficiency and high power density is important need of such systems. This report proposes a new topology of BDC with the ...

The purpose of Multi-modal Multi-criteria Personalized Route Planning (MMPRP) is to provide an optimal route between an origin-destination pair by considering weights of effective criteria in a way this route can be a combination of public and private modes of transportation. In this paper, the fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (fuzzy AHP) and the quantifier-guided ordered weighted averaging (...

Notice Concerning Copyright Material EV-TEC members are given permission to copy without fee all or part of this publication for internal use if appropriate attribution is given to this document as the source material. Acknowledgements This is the final report for the Electric Vehicle Transportation and Electricity Convergence (EV-TEC) research project T-40 titled " The Impact of PHEV/BEV Charg...