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Vehicles, Volume 3, Issue 4

2021 December - 15 articles

Cover Story: Road markings are beneficial to human drivers, advanced driver assistance systems, and automated driving systems, and snow coverage on roads poses a challenge to all three groups with respect to lane detection. Yellow road markings provide a visual contrast to snow that can increase a human driver’s visibility yet are becoming increasingly rare due to the high costs of using road marking colors. In conjunction with increased reliance on automated driving, the question of whether yellow road markings are of value to automatic lane detection functions arises. To answer this question, images from snowy conditions were assessed to see how different representations of colors in images (color spaces) affect the visibility levels of white and yellow road markings. View this paper
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Articles (15)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,466 Views
18 Pages

3 December 2021

Vehicular technology has integrated many features in the system, which enhances the safety and comfort of the user. Among these features, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the only feature that maintains the set cabin air temperatu...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
26,559 Views
21 Pages

2 December 2021

The electric vehicle market is an increasingly important aspect of the automotive industry. However, as a relatively new technology, several issues remain present within the industry. An analysis is utilised to examine these issues, along with how th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4,683 Views
11 Pages

The Effects of Wearing Helmets on Reaction of Motorcycle Riders

  • Dengchuan Cai,
  • Yu-Hsuan Chen and
  • Chih-Jen Lee

1 December 2021

In Taiwan, motorcycles are the most commonly used means of transportation and also have the highest accident rate. Because motorcycles are less stable and provide less protection than cars, motorcycle riders are vulnerable in traffic accidents. Furth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,311 Views
19 Pages

Determination of Speed-Dependent Roadway Luminance for an Adequate Feeling of Safety at Nighttime Driving

  • Anil Erkan,
  • Sebastian Babilon,
  • David Hoffmann,
  • Timo Singer,
  • Tsoni Vitkov and
  • Tran Quoc Khanh

29 November 2021

The purpose of this work is to determine as a function of velocity the minimal roadway luminance that is required to be judged as being bright enough for a driver to perform a nighttime driving task with an adequate feeling of safety. In this context...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,305 Views
17 Pages

23 November 2021

With incessant increases in fuel prices worldwide and concerns for environmental pollution, the need for alternative sources of energy is becoming urgent. In this study, the potential of grape seed oil for biodiesel as an alternative fuel was evaluat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,611 Views
14 Pages

Design of Fast Charging Station with Energy Management for eBuses

  • Hossam A. Gabbar,
  • Yasser Elsayed,
  • Abu Bakar Siddique,
  • Abdalrahman Elshora and
  • Ajibola Adeleke

23 November 2021

The popularity of the eBus has been increasing rapidly in recent years due to its low greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and its low dependence on fossil fuels. This incremental use of the eBus increases the burden to the power grid for its charging. C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,739 Views
12 Pages

16 November 2021

RTOB-SLAM is a new low-computation framework for real-time onboard simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and obstacle avoidance for autonomous vehicles. A low-resolution 2D laser scanner is used and a small form-factor computer perform all com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,612 Views
14 Pages

An Integrated Model for User State Detection of Subjective Discomfort in Autonomous Vehicles

  • Dario Niermann,
  • Alexander Trende,
  • Klas Ihme,
  • Uwe Drewitz,
  • Cornelia Hollander and
  • Franziska Hartwich

10 November 2021

The quickly rising development of autonomous vehicle technology and increase of (semi-) autonomous vehicles on the road leads to an increased demand for more sophisticated human–machine-cooperation approaches to improve trust and acceptance of these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,469 Views
15 Pages

9 November 2021

This article presents a novel methodology to predict the optimal adaptive cruise control set speed profile (ACCSSP) by optimizing the engine operating conditions (EOC) considering vehicle level vectors (VLV) (body parameter, environment, driver behav...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
11,120 Views
13 Pages

Influence of Charging Losses on Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions of Battery-Electric Vehicles

  • Benedikt Reick,
  • Anja Konzept,
  • André Kaufmann,
  • Ralf Stetter and
  • Danilo Engelmann

4 November 2021

Due to increasing sales figures, the energy consumption of battery-electric vehicles is moving further into focus. In addition to efficient driving, it is also important that the energy losses during AC charging are as low as possible for a sustainab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,026 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2021

Sensor uncertainty significantly affects the performance of autonomous vehicles (AVs). Sensor uncertainty is predominantly linked to sensor specifications, and because sensor behaviors change dynamically, the machine learning approach is not suitable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
9,380 Views
30 Pages

13 October 2021

Road markings are beneficial to human drivers, advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), and automated driving systems (ADS); on the contrary, snow coverage on roads poses a challenge to all three of these groups with respect to lane detection, as w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
8,374 Views
30 Pages

13 October 2021

Low vehicle occupancy rates combined with record conventional vehicle sales justify the requirement to optimize vehicle type based on passengers and a powertrain with zero-emissions. This study compares the performance of different vehicle types base...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,180 Views
15 Pages

Edge-Based Licence-Plate Template Matching for Identifying Similar Vehicles

  • Mduduzi Manana,
  • Chunling Tu and
  • Pius Adewale Owolawi

9 October 2021

This paper presents licence-plate recognition for identifying vehicles with similar licence-plates. The method uses a modified licence-plate recognition pipeline, with licence-plate template matching replacing character segmentation and recognition....

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,083 Views
10 Pages

2 October 2021

In this paper, a motion cueing algorithm (MCA) without a frequency divider is proposed, which aims to reproduce the longitudinal reference acceleration as far as possible via tilt coordination. Using a second-order rate limit, the human perception th...

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Vehicles - ISSN 2624-8921