Track critical locations with respect to the railway vehicle safety are the passages through the turnouts. The purpose of this investigation is to evaluate the safety of a railway vehicle crossing a turnout. In this study, ...

Vehicular traffic re-routing is key to provide better vehicular mobility. However, considering just traffic-related information to recommend better routes for each vehicle is far from achieving the desired requirements of ...

This work explores the role of asymmetrical damping and geometrical nonlinearities in the suspension system of a simplified vehicle model in order to improve comfort. Improving comfort for passengers is a constant challenge ...

The Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) systems in vehicles is one of the technologies suggested by NHTSA to be included in vehicles by default. This article presents the dynamic model of the vehicle that should be ...

A semi-autonomous unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), named LAURS, is being developed at the Laboratory of Sensors and Actuators at the University of Sao Paulo. The vehicle has been designed to provide inspection and ...

The growing penetration of low-carbon technologies in residential networks such as photovoltaic generation (PV) units and electric vehicles (EVs) may cause technical issues on the grid. Thus, operation planning of electrical ...

Air pollution and greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels in the transport sector are responsible for around 25% of global CO2 emissions. To reduce these emissions, the electrification of urban mobility is an emerging ...

This paper proposes a methodology to obtain a synthetic driving cycle by using GPS data as input. The aim is to obtain a driving cycle that is representative of a given condition when used for energy consumption studies. ...