Heavy vehicles are significantly longer and heavier than passenger cars and consequently have quite different acceleration and braking capabilities. Heavy vehicle manoeuvres are therefore likely to influence drivers’ vehicle-following behaviour differently to cars. Heavy vehicles can also influence the behaviour of drivers of other vehicles while following a heavy vehicle. This paper used data ...

Vehicle platoon is one of important techniques both for improving the traffic safety and for increasing the traffic network capacity. Vehicle platoon system allows vehicles to drive at the same velocity and to accelerate or brake simultaneously. In this study, we will present the velocity control algorithm of the vehicles in the vehicle platoon and then, apply it to the velocity control of the ...

objective: following traumatic brain injury, disruption of blood-brain-barrier and consequent brain edema are critical events which might lead to increasing intracranial pressure (icp), and nerve damage. the current study assessed the effects of aqueous date fruit extract (adfe) on the aforementioned parameters. materials and methods: in this experimental study, diffused traumatic brain injury ...

in recent research on modelling road collisions very little attention has been paid  to rear-end chain reaction collisions, which is characterized by more than two vehicles involved in a collision at the same time. the core aim of the present research is to develop a methodology to estimate such potential collision probabilities based on a proactive perspective, where deceleration rate to avoid...

We present a new approach to digital forensic evidence acquisition and disk imaging called sifting collectors that images only those regions of a disk with expected forensic value. Sifting collectors produce a sector-by-sector, bit-identical AFF v3 image of selected disk regions that can be mounted and is fully compatible with existing forensic tools and methods. In our test cases, they have ac...

Through the use of a virtual tractor-trailer link model, vehicle following capabilities have been implemented without the need of communications links between the two vehicles or the installation of special road infrastructure. The principle is based on the modeling of an off-hooked trailer system as a software link between the lead and led vehicles. The leader vehicle is modeled as the tractor...