A study of Pakistan’s private road freight Irenspofl industry was undertaken and data on freight tariffs, vehicle utilisation, revenues andoperating costs were analyzed, Over a period of four years it was found that average !afiff levels closely followed the rate of inflation with a small marked seasonal variation depending on trip direction. Using multiple regression analysis of crosssectional...

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSP.2016.2599201 Date of publication: 4 November 2016 utomotive technology rapidly advances with increasing connectivity and automation. These advancements aim to assist safe driving and improve user travel experience. Before the realization of a full automation, in-vehicle dialog systems may reduce the driver distraction from many services available through co...

Currently, in the United States there is a growing gap between domestic oil production and consumption. The Department of Energy has developed a modeling tool (known as VISION) that projects future consumption by the transportation sector through the year 2050. This paper uses the VISION model to show that an energy savings of 3.8 billion gallons per year can be achieved with a 2.5% improvement...

The automotive industry in Korea, Brazil, China and India is currently going through impressive growth. Governments have played a key role in the evolution of the industry in all these countries. The Korean industry has made the most significant progress, and is now exporting cars to developed markets. It is the only country that invested in R&D for product development, retained management cont...

Energy saving and environmental protection are still two important themes in the vehicle industry. The recent rapid transition energy markets technological advances demand-side interventions have renewed attention on driving behavior of consumers. inappropriate gearshift performance gearbox would not only increase fuel consumption, but also interfere with driver’s emotional state, so that drive...

The goal of the NASA Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) technology program is to develop and demonstrate essential, cost-effective technologies for next-generation launch systems. The XÐ33 flight vehicle presently being developed by Lockheed-Martin is an experimental Single-Stage-to-Orbit (SSTO) demonstrator that is intended to validate critical technologies for the full-scale RLV. One of the key te...

OBJECTIVE To compare the extent and characteristics of motor vehicle traffic incidents on public roads resulting in fatal occupational injuries in Australia, New Zealand (NZ), and the United States (US). DESIGN AND SETTING Information came from separate data sources in Australia (1989--92), NZ (1985--98), and the US (1989--92). METHODS Using data systems based on vital records, distribution...

Decentralised bargaining in the Australian automotive assembly industry Russell D. Lansbury, Chris Wright and Marian Baird The University of Sydney This paper examines the evolution of enterprise bargaining in the automotive assembly industry in Australia since the early 1990s. Although there has been a general trend towards greater variation between the four companies in the vehicle assembly s...

The industry-wide demand for rapid development in concert with greater process maturity has seen many software development firms adopt tightly structured iterative processes. While a number of commercial vendors offer suitable process infrastructure and tool support, the cost of licensing, configuration and staff training may be prohibitive for the Small and Medium size Enterprises (SMEs) which...