As occupant protection offered by new passenger vehicles has improved, there has been growing concern about the harm that some vehicle designs may inflict on occupants of other vehicles with which they collide. Preceding analyses of crash statistics have clearly demonstrated the incompatibility between passenger sedan cars (PS) and pick-up trucks (PU) involved in side impact crashes in British ...

wTere prepared, is devoted to the auditing of the receipts of the interurban section of the railway, both passenger and express. This division also keeps records of car mileage and calculates the expenses and receipts of operating cars in terms of car miles, passenger miles, car hours and other statistical units. The daily receipts of cash and tickets of each conductor on the interurban divisio...

Accident data shows that the vast majority of pedestrian accidents involve a passenger car. A refined method for estimating the potential effectiveness of a technology designed to support the car driver in mitigating or avoiding pedestrian accidents is presented. The basis of the benefit prediction method consists of accident scenario information for pedestrian-passenger car accidents from GIDA...

Previous work has led to the development of a crash energy management (CEM) system designed to distribute crush throughout unoccupied areas of a passenger train in a collision event. This CEM system is comprised of crush zones at the front and rear ends of passenger railcars. With a consist made up of CEM-equipped cars, the structural crush due to a collision can be distributed along the length...

An analytical investigation of a half-car model with passenger dynamics, subjected to random road disturbance, is performed. Two diierent methods of deening the performance index for optimal controller design are proposed. Nondeterministic inputs are applied to simulate the road surface conditions more realistically. Results obtained illustrate that using an optimal state-feedback controller, w...

24  ABSTRACT Cars are being upgraded continuously to pave the path for intelligent transportation. This paper utilizes data mining for automatic route prediction in a passenger car through unsupervised machine learning. The use of Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm makes this concept probabilistic. It groups different routes based on the passengers in the car and provides suggestion for the driver dur...

Present work aims at developing an active suspension for a passenger car by designing a controller using linear quadratic optimal control theory, based on two different control approaches [conventional method (CM), acceleration dependent method (ADM)]. Performance of the active suspension system of a quarter car model with 3 degrees-of-freedom with two control approaches has been compared with ...

Automobile use has greatly increased during the last few decades. The number of passenger kilometers by private car per capita increased by 90 percent in Western Europe and 13 percent in the US between 1970 and 1990. In 1990, the average number of passenger kilometers travelled by private car in the US (18,650 km) was more than double the Western European figure (8710 km; OECD, 1996). The numbe...

ion of Common Reference(AbsR) Replacement of Reference(RepR) Deletion of Abstract Class (DelA) Generalization of Reference(GenR) registered Registry Truck Car Trailer Registration Integer #Passenger #Passenger vehicle Transport Vehicle String vehID Original Class Graph 3 Addition of Concrete Class(AddC) A Transport Vehicle Person Person