Car owners are liable for property damage inflicted on other motorists. In most countries such liability must be insured by law. That law may favor expensive or heavy vehicles, prone to suffer or inflict large losses. This paper explores links between liability rules and vehicle choice. It presumes cooperative insurance, but non-cooperative acquisition of vehicles. Thus, the Nash equilibrium an...

Radar sensors, though successful in range parameters tracking, fall short in lateral characteristics tracking. On the other hand, vision systems carry out perfect estimation for lateral motion, but range parameters estimation does not surpass the performance of radar. The exact estimation of vehicle’s motion characteristics appears to be a crucial issue in modern automobile collision avoidance ...

During the last decades, the steady increase in road transportation of people and goods has had a significant negative impact on traffic efficiency, safety, and the environment. The problems arising from the growing automobile usage have motivated researchers from all over the world to develop solutions – many of them based on information and communications technology – to reduce traffic conges...

ITE JOURNAL / JUNE 2003 ACTIVE COMMUNITIES RESULT from the interaction of many environmental, cultural, political and sociological factors. The design of a transportation system is but one of them. A balanced transportation system—with appropriate levels of investment in bicycle and pedestrian facilities and transit in addition to automobile-oriented facilities—is an indispensable requirement a...

A systematic review of literature related to the impact of modifications made to automobiles on the driving ability, performance, and safety of older adults was completed as a part of the Evidence-Based Literature Review Project of the American Occupational Therapy Association. This review evaluated research on high-tech options, such as advanced technology systems (Intelligent Transportation S...