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With ever rising fuel prices and number of vehicles on road there is an immediate need for fuel efficient techniques to be implemented. Also there has been an exponential increase in the number of cars on road, number of road accidents and vehicle breakdown cases recorded. Finding effective ways to achieve maximum fuel efficiency without hampering the internal structure of these vehicles along with...
India is having numerous amounts of vehicle's owner and more than that 50% of vehicles are continuously running on a road. As a contrast, most of the vehicles are meeting with an accident, it causes human fatalities and generated a large amount of toxic gases are emitted out during vehicle running as well as meet into an accident. Hence, various technologies have deployed to preserve and encourage...
Despite the recent technological improvements in vehicles and engines, and the introduction of better fuels, road transportation is still responsible for air pollution in urban areas due to the increasing number of circulating vehicles, and their relative travelled distances. We develop a methodology to calculate, in real-time, the consumption and environmental impact of spark ignition and diesel...
The convergence of physical and digital worlds is creating unprecedented opportunities to enhance the travel experience for millions of people every day. A key to the success of these systems is a good understanding of driver behaviour under the influence of travel information. This paper presents the application of a new generation of driver behaviour models, based on neural agent (neugent) techniques,...
With the increase in the number of vehicles on road, there has been a marked increase in the number of crimes involving vehicle theft. In spite of several stringent laws being in place and security measures taken by car manufacturers, thieves still find a way to remain one step ahead and vehicle theft is still among one of the most reported crimes worldwide. Due to the expensive nature of motor vehicles,...
Accurate tyre pressure is a feature that gives us the advantage of higher fuel savings, and better control of the vehicle The proposed system is designed to refill the tyre pressure even when the vehicle is in motion. In an event of a puncture the tyre pressure is still maintained at the set point until the user takes the vehicle to the repair station. The heart of the system is a combination of pistons...
Army logistical systems and databases contain massive amounts of data that require effective methods of extracting actionable information and generating knowledge. Vehicle diagnostics and prognostics can be challenging to analyze from the Command and Control (C2) perspective, making management of the fleet difficult within existing systems. Databases do not contain root causes or the case-based analyses...
The paper is about the development of a data acquisition system embedded within a vehicles equipped with OBD H interface. The system is coupled to a GPS allowing tracking both engine data and vehicle speed and position along a driving path. Several track records are achieved, among them, a urban and a suburban driving path are presented. Their data are analysed in order to show engine behaviour and...
This paper examines intelligent lane change models based on the cooperation among connected vehicles for traffic management and travel time optimization. Lane change decisions and speed controls could be coordinated and optimized to reduce the overall braking and achieve greater traffic throughput. In an effort to design a distributed cooperative lane change assistant (D-CLCA) within the European...
Under active research, technology of autonomous vehicles (AVs) is getting mature and many AVs will run on the roads in the near future. With the support of vehicular ad-hoc network, AVs become connected. The ability of high degree of control allows AVs to respond to instantaneous situations cooperatively with high efficiency and flexibility. In this paper, we propose a new public transport offering...
In this paper, we propose a learning method for eco-driving based on imitation. The system uses Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in order to calculate the driving efficiency from the point of view of the fuel consumption. The input and output parameters have been selected taking into account the Longitudinal Vehicle Dynamics Model. This technique allows us to notify the user about who is the most efficient...
Recently, V2V/V2I and connected vehicle (CV) technologies have received considerable research interest due to its potential breakthrough applications in eco-driving, road safety, surveillance, infotainment, and many more. In this paper, for the first time in literature, we address the problem of data-aware eco-driving. Specifically, we harnessed the latest V2V/V2I technologies to propose vehicle speed...
Governments, industries and last but not least customer's demand for low-pollutant, efficient and comfortable vehicles has extended the system development scope towards the combination of in-vehicle systems and environment. Whereas the information from the on-board systems is available for several functions per se, the environmental information has to be grabbed using sensors and/or communication...
Fossil fuel depletion risk forecasting and growing environmental concerns are strong impetus for developing higher efficient transportation system nowadays. Hybridization is considered as one of the most efficient short and mid-term solutions. In particular, series hydraulic hybrid configuration provides a further advantage when it provides more degree of freedom of engine control. However, low energy...
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of temporal consolidation (the intentional delay) of hospital laboratory samples / equipment for couriering to people and healthcare institutions worldwide, using a hill climbing genetic algorithm with integrated travelling salesman optimization function to determine the optimal configuration of vehicles in which to consolidate items, and the...
This paper analyses the problem about the transportation in logistics. And suggests the idea to decrease transportation cost and increase customer satisfaction by applying ITS (intelligent transportation system) technology and the other technologies.
Developing countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nigeria etc. are facing severe energy and economic crises. The use and awareness of renewable energy system is strongly recommended for economic evolution of these countries. Moreover, they are also facing the problem of dreadful shortage of natural fuel (petrol, diesel and CNG). In order to combat this, our aim is to design a vehicle that could...
Hybrid vehicle energy management can be formulated as an optimal control problem. Considering that the fuel consumption is often computed using linear interpolation over lookup table data, a rigorous analysis of the necessary conditions provided by the Pontryagin Minimum Principle is conducted. For most the co-state values, the control value is well defined and can be computed without any interpolation...
Hybrid topologies are now recognized as a good solution to reduce the fuel consumption of vehicles. The topologies and the associated energy management strategies have been long discussed in order to improve the fuel economy. However, the pollutant emission is seldom taken into account, although it can be greater with hybrid vehicles. This paper develops a method to find an optimal strategy of management...
The use of information and communication technologies (ICT) may provide additional opportunities for energy savings and avoided emissions in the transportation sector, namely by using on-board devices for large scale urban sensing on the road network. This research work presents a preliminary analysis, using an on-board device, of the mobility patterns of a five driver sample in Lisbon, Portugal....
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