Vehicles used in our daily lives are no more considered as a luxury but a necessity. Vehicles are very helpful in our movement, logistics and transport activities. Vehicles are normally fault-prone and require efficient automobile engineering services to repair or maintain such faults. The characteristic mobility of vehicles allows them to develop faults anywhere and anytime and in some of thes...

BACKGROUND An elevated risk of lung cancer in truck drivers has been attributed to diesel exhaust exposure. Interpretation of these studies specifically implicating diesel exhaust as a carcinogen has been limited because of limited exposure measurements and lack of work records relating job title to exposure-related job duties. OBJECTIVES We established a large retrospective cohort of truckin...

Purpose: Despite the stimulating roles of market demand and green issues to green innovation and business success, the relationships among these aspects remains controversial. The lack of the consensus on these links causes a missing research gap in the extant literature. This study aims to examine the mediating effect of green innovation and environmental performance on the relationship betwee...

Participatory ergonomics projects are traditionally applied within one organisation. In this study, a participative approach was applied across the New Zealand meat processing industry, involving multiple organisations and geographical regions. The purpose was to develop interventions to reduce musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk. This paper considers the value of an industry level participator...

In recent years, the comfort and environment consciousness of automotive industry and customers has resulted in a constant reduction of vehicle noise emissions. At the same time, vehicles and pedestrians move closer and closer in urban areas thus increasing the importance of vehicle exterior noise as a warning signal for pedestrians. The present article by a working team of the Munich Technical...

Petrol powered traffic has replaced domestic heating and industry as the main causes for urban air pollution (Colvile, Hutchinson, Mindell, & Warren, 2001). Automobile combustion engines are responsible for the better part of a city’s CO2 and NOX pollutants. The amount of pollutants emitted by a vehicle largely depends on fuel consumption: the more fuel the vehicle consumes, the higher its emis...

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are classified as a subset of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs). VANETs have the potential of improving road safety and providing travelers comfort. This network rehearses moving cars as nodes in a network to create a mobile network. As a component and concrete application of an ITS inter vehicle communication gained attention from researchers, academics and ind...

1 National Key Laboratory of Vehicle Transmission, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China; [email protected] (Y.W.); [email protected] (Y.Z.) 2 Transmission System Section, Powertrain Department, Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation Motor Commercial Vehicle Technical Center, Shanghai 200432, China; [email protected] 3 The Forth Branch Company, Inner Mongolia First...

An international strategic alliance is a difficult partnership, often creating complicated issues relating to technical decisions, management, and various cultural matters. The purpose of this research is to consider the condition of a successful international strategic alliance based on the experience of a Japan-U.S. company. The auto industry is currently experiencing a period of major change...