Most of drivers have to compensate small directional deviations from the desired driving path when disturbances such as crosswinds, overtakings, road irregularities and unintended driver inputs  are imposed. These types of deviations have a tiring effect on driver and traffic’s safety and should be minimised. To increase the understanding the influence of vehicle’s properties in crosswind and o...

Older driver safety is a complex phenomenon, extending beyond the person level to multiple system characteristics, such as epidemiologic, environment, and policy. Studying multiple factors in older driver safety requires the use of an integrated socioecological approach. In a crosssectional design, we used a public health model and the 2003 General Estimates System database to determine main ri...

Progress in understanding the driver/vehicle interface requires an improved model of driver skill in the steering control task. A possible explanation for driver steering skill involves driver usage of multiple internal models of the vehicle dynamics, where each internal model represents the actual vehicle dynamics within a limited range of the performance envelope of the vehicle. This paper pr...

in addition to increment of the vehicle sprung mass, the main physical effects of addition of cng tank to the vehicle are the longitudinal and height displacement of center of gravity, which have the most influences on the handling, braking, roll stability and spin stability of the vehicle. increment of cng tank mass to the sprung mass of the vehicle increases the vehicle under-steer gradient, ...

The commercial motor vehicle driver medical examination aims to ensure that commercial drivers can safely perform all driving and nondriving work-related tasks. In conducting the examination and completing the related certification, the medical examiner must follow mandated medical standards and consider medical advisory criteria. Examiners should consider the substantial expert guidance provid...

The driver takes leading part in the complex model of "human-vehicle-roadenvironment". The driving behavior has the characteristics of randomness, impulsivity and autonomy etc. which make it difficult to study the driver's driving behavior directly. Monitoring vehicle attitude is an important element of proactive safety management of public transport vehicles. This paper constructs a data acqui...

human driver or control the vehicle autonomously, they usually must make these decisions in real time with only incomplete information. So, human drivers still must maintain control over the vehicle. Advanced in-vehicle information systems (IVISs) endow vehicles with different types and levels of intelligence to complement the driver.2 Their introduction has allowed an almost symbiotic relation...

In recent years, ITS projects in Japan, Europe and the US have been characterized by a strong emphasis on safe driver assistance systems designed to prevent traffic accidents. As it has become clear that eradicating accidents will be impossible by means of vehicle passive safety and single-vehicle active safety efforts alone, research and development of systems for preventing accidents through ...

This paper demonstrates the use of elementary neural networks for modelling and representing driver steering behaviour in path regulation control tasks. Areas of application include uses by vehicle simulation experts who need to model and represent specific instances of driver steeringcontrol behaviour, potential on-board vehicle technologies aimed at representing and tracking driver steering c...

Road sign detection is important to a robotic vehicle that drives on roads automatically. In this paper, road signs are detected by means of rules that restrict and require signs to appear only in limited regions using wireless. They are then recognized using a PAN ID matching method. The method is fast and can easily be modified to include new classes of signs. As with any vehicle, an autonomo...