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Fault Tolerant Brake Actuator Control for Heavy Road Vehicle Active Safety Systems

open access: yesIEEE Access
Active Vehicle Safety Systems (AVSS) play a crucial role in reducing road-accident fatalities involving Heavy Commercial Road Vehicles (HCRVs), which predominantly use pneumatic brakes. The performance of these brakes is influenced by factors such as air
Mahesh Jakka   +5 more
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Effect of Different Types of Electric Drive Units on the Energy Consumption of Heavy Commercial Electric Vehicles

open access: yesWorld Electric Vehicle Journal, 2022
The increasing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) in the transportation industry, especially for efficient battery–electric trucks, has led to an increase in studies on the efficiency or energy consumption of commercial vehicles.
Metin Yildirim, Serpil Kurt
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Investigations on fuel consumption characteristics of heavy-duty commercial vehicles under different test cycle

open access: yesEnergy Reports, 2022
In order to narrow the gap between real-road and certification test fuel consumption rate of heavy-duty commercial vehicles. CHTC (China Heavy-duty vehicle Test Cycle) series test cycles have been developed, and will replace C-WTVC (China-World Transient
Hanzhengnan Yu   +5 more
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Evaluating the performance of a web-based vehicle blind zone estimation application: Validation and policy implications

open access: yesFrontiers in Future Transportation, 2023
Pedestrian fatalities have been increasing in the United States over the past decade; in 2021 they reached a 40-year high and together with an increasing number of bicyclist fatalities surged to over 8,400 vulnerable road users (VRUs) killed by motor ...
Juwon Drake   +6 more
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Real-Time Measurements of Formaldehyde Emissions from Modern Vehicles

open access: yesEnergies, 2022
Formaldehyde (HCHO), a carcinogenic carbonyl compound and precursor of tropospheric ozone, can be found in vehicle exhaust. Even though the continuous monitoring of HCHO has been recommended, the real-world emissions from the road transport sector are ...
Ricardo Suarez-Bertoa   +9 more
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Technical and Economic Analysis to Select Suitable Design Parameters of an E-Machine for Electric Commercial Vehicles

open access: yesVehicles, 2023
In the European Union (EU), road transport contributes a major proportion of the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, of which a significant amount is caused by heavy-duty commercial vehicles (CV).
Achim Kampker   +5 more
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Development of Pavement Deterioration Model for Rigid Pavement (Case Study: Cikopo-Palimanan Toll Road) [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2023
Pavement deterioration will bring disruption to traffic, and it is hoped that the pavement is always on an acceptable condition. If the pavement distresses could be predicted correctly when the repair and maintenance plan was designed, the distresses ...
Purnamasari Cynthia   +1 more
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The effect of dangerous driving behaviors on the risk of traffic accidents using structural equation modeling

open access: yesArchives of Trauma Research, 2022
Background and Objectives: Professional drivers are mostly exposed to heavy workload, like night shifts, long working hours and irregular schedules, leading to high prevalence of psychiatric disorder, including fatigue, memory loss, and insomnia leading ...
Hossein Akbari   +5 more
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Russia's black carbon emissions: focus on diesel sources [PDF]

open access: yesAtmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2016
Black carbon (BC) is a significant climate forcer with a particularly pronounced forcing effect in polar regions such as the Russian Arctic. Diesel combustion is a major global source of BC emissions, accounting for 25–30 % of all BC emissions.
N. Kholod, M. Evans, T. Kuklinski
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Vehicle Bridge Interaction Analysis on Concrete and Steel Curved Bridges [PDF]

open access: yesComputational Engineering and Physical Modeling, 2021
This study investigation is intended to research the dynamic response of horizontally curved bridges under heavy vehicle loads. Most of the main factors that affect the bridge dynamic response due to moving vehicles are considered.
Yunchao Ye, Chung C. Fu, Xinyi Huang
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