In automotive systems almost all steps concerning the calibration of several control systems, e.g., low idle governor or boost pressure governor, are made with the vehicle because the timeto-production and cost requirements on the projects do not allow for the vehicle analysis necessary to build reliable models. Here is presented a procedure using parametric and NN (neural network) models that ...

collection of municipal solid waste (msw) accounts for a significant proportion of most municipal budgets, and has drawn some degree of researchers‟ interest. this study was conducted in ota, southwest nigeria, to explore the use of visual basic program as an innovative tool to select the most economic haulage system among three systems found in literature (conventional-, modified- and stationa...

In turn, Co-operative Systems are the most promising technology within the ITS framework. The word “co-operative” indicates that vehicles are collaborating with each other and with the infrastructure, exploiting wireless communications, in order to increase their awareness about the road environment. There are two types of communication in co-operative systems, namely vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) a...

Cooperative vehicle-highway systems offer the potential to enhance the effectiveness of active vehicle safety systems which have entered the marketplace for light vehicles and heavy commercial vehicles. Cooperative intelligent vehicle-highway systems (CIVHS) offer an improved level of overall functionality. These systems are cooperative in that the vehicles can receive information from the road...

Vehicle detection and tracking applications play an important role for civilian and military applications such as in highway traffic surveillance control, management and urban traffic planning. Vehicle detection process on road are used for vehicle tracking, counts, average speed of each individual vehicle, traffic analysis and vehicle categorizing objectives and may be implemented under differ...

Vehicle detection and tracking applications play an important role for civilian and military applications such as in highway traffic surveillance control, management and urban traffic planning. Vehicle detection process on road are used for vehicle tracking, counts, average speed of each individual vehicle, traffic analysis and vehicle categorizing objectives and may be implemented under differ...

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1. Introduction The development of intelligent vehicle safety systems is rapidly moving from autonomous systems relying on vehicle's own sensors towards cooperative systems utilising communications between vehicles or between infrastructure and vehicles. The paper discusses the results of two recent European studies assessing the socio economic impacts of intelligent vehicle systems, including ...