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Mobility — increased access to affordable transportation — is among the most important of global forces for the alleviation of poverty and the achievement of world peace. This is true in already developed nations but is even more important in the most rapidly developing areas of the world where it is the principal means for their development. The world will not be politically nor economically sustainable...
I believe the goal of sustainable transportation is to “meet the transportation needs of the present and pass on a better world to our grandchildren.” Today there are two constraints which will shape how that goal can be achieved: climate change and government debt. If I gave this talk two years ago the main challenges would have been how to change the transportation system and energy consumption...
Due to the rising ecological awareness as well as the scarcity of fuel, associated with the rising price of petrol, the demand for economically ideal working vehicles rose. Car manufacturers put a lot of effort in improving the car body, the engine, or the power train of cars. However, the driver can save fuel and money by learning a more efficient driving style, too. Assistance systems can help drivers...
This paper presents a new control scheme for a heating and ventilation (HV) unit of metro vehicles and a realistic thermal simulation of the HV-unit's power consumption during operation. The model consists of the vehicle body with HV-unit, control scheme, operational and weather conditions, respectively. An additional model for the CO2-level in the vehicle is utilized to design the proposed control...
This brief deals with the improvement of a vehicle's pass-through of predictively known urban driving situations concerning its fuel consumption. Today's technology enables the prediction of information about traffic events. This information can be used to identify efficient driving strategies. The main aim is to reduce the dynamics in the velocity profiles of driving situations and with it the corresponding...
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