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  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
7,043 Views
35 Pages

18 October 2019

This paper aims at providing a multisource data analysis, including direct data collection, focussed on daily average distances covered with motorized mobility. Its results can be used as a basis for policies involving a shift towards new propulsions...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,521 Views
14 Pages

Acute and Chronic Health Risk Assessment for Automobile Users Due to Inhalation Exposure to Volatile Organic Compounds and Carbonyl Compounds

  • Jeong-In Jeon,
  • Eun-Ju Lim,
  • Young-Jun Byun,
  • Min-Kwang Kim,
  • Hyun-Woo Lee,
  • Cha-Ryung Kim,
  • In-Ji Park,
  • Ho-Hyun Kim and
  • Cheol-Min Lee

24 November 2024

Since automobiles are the primary means of transportation in modern society, the assessment of health effects from acute and chronic exposure to pollutants in automobiles is crucial. In this study, the concentration of volatile organic compounds (VOC...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution and Health)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,813 Views
25 Pages

30 December 2021

In this study, future cars are attempting self-driving around the world. However, hacking, such as ECUs in automobiles, creates problems that are directly connected to human life. Therefore, this study wrote a paper that detects anomalies in such car...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain Based Electronic Healthcare Solution and Security)
  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
11,091 Views
46 Pages

21 February 2024

With the progress of modern times, automobile technology has become integral to human society. At the same time, the need for energy has also grown. In parallel, the total amount of waste energy that is liberated from different parts of the automobil...

(This article belongs to the Section J1: Heat and Mass Transfer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,802 Views
17 Pages

25 April 2024

The advancement of an intelligent automobile sound switching system has the potential to elevate the market standing of automotive products, with the pivotal prerequisite being the selection of automobile sounds based on the driver’s subjective...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,992 Views
11 Pages

18 April 2022

In the 14th Five Year Plan, China clearly proposes to develop the automobile strategic industry, reduce the carbon emission intensity, and formulates the carbon emission peak plan by 2030. As the automobile is the most frequently used vehicle, weight...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
11,772 Views
24 Pages

Progress and Perspective of Ultra-High-Strength Martensitic Steels for Automobile

  • Hao Chen,
  • Linlin Zhao,
  • Shenghai Lu,
  • Zhangguo Lin,
  • Tong Wen and
  • Zejun Chen

19 December 2022

With the background of emission peaks and carbon neutrality, light weight has become an irreversible trend in the development of the automobile industry. It is an inevitable choice to use a large amount of ultra-high-strength steels to realize light...

(This article belongs to the Section Metal Casting, Forming and Heat Treatment)
  • Review
  • Open Access
81 Citations
17,067 Views
26 Pages

27 May 2024

The automobile industry is recognized as one of the most influential sectors shaping global economies, societies, and individual lifestyles. Therefore, fierce competition among different companies is continuously undergoing, and special attention is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing of Materials: Process and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,053 Views
15 Pages

4 June 2024

The air conditioning compressor is a critical component in automobile heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. However, compressor noise has long been a problem for automobile manufacturers. In recent years, the development and application...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Energy Performance Compressors: Advanced Technologies and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,795 Views
19 Pages

6 January 2023

Persuasive information developed by smartphone applications is a potential tool that can be utilized in order to increase the effectiveness of the impact of pricing strategies on triggering sustainable travel mode choice behavior. In order to address...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Cities: Analytical Methods for Studying Urban Mobility and Travel Behavior)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,952 Views
17 Pages

2 February 2020

Disabilities of the upper limb, such as hemiplegia or upper limb amputation, can limit automobile drivers to steering with one healthy arm. For the benefit of these drivers, recent studies have developed prototype interfaces that realized surface ele...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Sensors and Sensing Systems for Driving and Transportation)
  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
12,879 Views
43 Pages

The Use of Artificial Neural Networks for Identifying Sustainable Biodiesel Feedstocks

  • Mohammed I. Jahirul,
  • Richard J. Brown,
  • Wijitha Senadeera,
  • Ian M. O'Hara and
  • Zoran D. Ristovski

29 July 2013

Over the past few decades, biodiesel produced from oilseed crops and animal fat is receiving much attention as a renewable and sustainable alternative for automobile engine fuels, and particularly petroleum diesel. However, current biodiesel product...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,256 Views
24 Pages

25 October 2018

Emission and heat rejection from automobiles are largely responsible for urban environmental issues. Adsorption systems driven by engine waste heat exhibit huge potential to meet the demand for cabin thermal comfort while improving fuel economy. Howe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sciences in Heat Pump and Refrigeration)
  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
12,137 Views
35 Pages

10 August 2024

Highly integrated information sharing among people, vehicles, roads, and cloud systems, along with the rapid development of autonomous driving technologies, has spurred the evolution of automobiles from simple “transportation tools” to in...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicular Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,817 Views
26 Pages

4 July 2024

The defining attribute of self-excited motion is its capability to extract energy from a stable environment and regulate it autonomously, making it an extremely promising innovation for microdevices, autonomous robotics, sensor technologies, and ener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematics and Its Applications in Science and Engineering, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,311 Views
15 Pages

In order to comprehend the prospect of a future automobile industry, the development path of the automobile industry is reviewed. It is found that the industry has experienced an incessant conceptual transformation, dominant design, emission control,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Second IT Revolution and Dynamic Open Innovation: From Smart City, Autonomous Car, Intelligent Robot, and Block Chain to Sharing Economy)
  • Review
  • Open Access
769 Views
16 Pages

Research Progress on Nano-TiO2 Photocatalytic Degradation of Automobile Exhaust

  • Yang Yang,
  • Sitong Bie,
  • Haiping Liu,
  • Jie Li,
  • Xiaoxue Zhang and
  • Zijun Zhang

27 April 2026

Nano-TiO2 is widely used in many industrial fields due to its unique physical and chemical properties. In recent years, it has become a core material in the research of road engineering for degrading automobile exhaust. Under ultraviolet irradiation,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Synthesis, Reaction Mechanism and Application of Photocatalysts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,287 Views
22 Pages

22 September 2020

This study presents a methodology for forecasting the medium– and long–term real revenues of the automotive post–sales service sectors, assuming the automobile industry is nowadays undergoing a deep process of transformation. There...

(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,471 Views
22 Pages

25 August 2020

Climate policy requires substantial reductions in long-term greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including in the transportation sector. As passenger cars are one of the dominant CO2 emitters in the transport sector, governments and the automobile industr...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Transportation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,899 Views
25 Pages

17 August 2023

The automobile is an important part of transportation systems. Accurate prediction of sales prospects of different power vehicles can provide an important reference for national scientific decision making, flexible operation of enterprises and ration...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Decision Making and Policy Analysis in Transportation Planning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,428 Views
22 Pages

14 April 2023

The goal of ‘Industry 4.0’ is to promote the transformation of the manufacturing industry to intelligent manufacturing. Because of its characteristics, the digital twin perfectly meets the requirements of intelligent manufacturing. In thi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Digital Twins: Trends and Applications in the Human-Centered Manufacturing Context)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
89 Citations
24,883 Views
16 Pages

Advances in Automotive Conversion Coatings during Pretreatment of the Body Structure: A Review

  • Mark Doerre,
  • Larry Hibbitts,
  • Gabriela Patrick and
  • Nelson K. Akafuah

15 November 2018

Automotive conversion coatings consist of layers of materials that are chemically applied to the body structures of vehicles before painting to improve corrosion protection and paint adhesion. These coatings are a consequence of surface-based chemica...

(This article belongs to the Collection Surface and Interface Science and Engineering for the Society of the Future)
  • Review
  • Open Access
264 Citations
105,217 Views
22 Pages

Evolution of the Automotive Body Coating Process—A Review

  • Nelson K. Akafuah,
  • Sadegh Poozesh,
  • Ahmad Salaimeh,
  • Gabriela Patrick,
  • Kevin Lawler and
  • Kozo Saito

Automotive coatings and the processes used to coat automobile surfaces exemplify the avant-garde of technologies that are capable of producing durable surfaces, exceeding customers’ expectations of appearance, maximizing efficiency, and meeting envir...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Coatings for Automotive Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,925 Views
26 Pages

Development of Patent Technology Prediction Model Based on Machine Learning

  • Chih-Wei Lee,
  • Feng Tao,
  • Yu-Yu Ma and
  • Hung-Lung Lin

26 May 2022

Intellectual property rights have a great impact on the development of the automobile industry. Issues related to the timeliness of patent applications often arise, such as the inability of firms to predict new technologies and patents developed by p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 10th Anniversary of Axioms: Mathematical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
14,609 Views
18 Pages

17 February 2016

Finding the right strategic alliance partner is a critical success factor for many enterprises. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to propose an effective approach based on grey theory and data envelopment analysis (DEA) for selecting better par...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Business Models)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,645 Views
21 Pages

8 December 2022

The main parts of automobiles are the piston rod of the shock absorber and the steering rack of the steering gear, and their quality control is critical in the product process. In the process line, these products are normally inspected through visual...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,529 Views
8 Pages

21 December 2023

This research paper explains how, in the last twenty years, the study and research of product service systems (PSSs) in the automobile sphere has experienced high growth due to its unique approach in enriching customer value and experience, strengthe...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of Eng. Proc., 2023, RAiSE-2023)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,381 Views
15 Pages

2 February 2024

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles have gained more attention as future automobiles due to their environmental benefits and extended driving ranges. Concurrently, the global hydrogen sensor market is also experiencing substantial growth. These sensors are i...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,327 Views
21 Pages

Influence of Material Selection and Product Design on Automotive Vehicle Recyclability

  • Xiaohui He,
  • Dongmei Su,
  • Wenchao Cai,
  • Alexandra Pehlken,
  • Guofang Zhang,
  • Aimin Wang and
  • Jinsheng Xiao

19 March 2021

From 2008 to 2020, Chinese automobile production and sales have ranked first in the world. The huge production, sales, and ownership of automobiles will inevitably lead to a rapid increase of end-of-life vehicles in the future and a corresponding iss...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability and Circularity: New Material Scenarios for Product Design)
  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
13,343 Views
17 Pages

Analysis of Electric Vehicles with an Economic Perspective for the Future Electric Market

  • Sofana Reka S,
  • Prakash Venugopal,
  • Ravi V,
  • Hassan Haes Alhelou,
  • Amer Al-Hinai and
  • Pierluigi Siano

The automotive industry is marching towards cleaner energy in the impending future. The need for cleaner energy is promoted by the government to a large degree in the global market in order to reduce pollution. Automobiles contribute to an upper scal...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analytics, Privacy and Visualization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
9,005 Views
21 Pages

8 June 2015

An implicit assumption underlying government strategies to achieve a more sustainable urban transportation system is that all automobile users will be encouraged or persuaded to use more “green” transportation: public transportation, walking and cycl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Transportation and Sustainability)
  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
17,028 Views
20 Pages

A Review of Recovery of Palladium from the Spent Automobile Catalysts

  • Bin Xu,
  • Yufeng Chen,
  • Yujuan Zhou,
  • Bangsheng Zhang,
  • Guiqing Liu,
  • Qian Li,
  • Yongbin Yang and
  • Tao Jiang

22 March 2022

The spent automobile catalysts (SAC) is the major secondary source of palladium and the production of SAC is increasing rapidly over years. The price of palladium keeps rising over the years, which demonstrates its preciousness and urgent industrial...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
7,690 Views
36 Pages

Titanium in Cast Cu-Sn Alloys—A Review

  • Karthik Manu,
  • Jan Jezierski,
  • Madikkamadom Radhakrishnan Sai Ganesh,
  • Karthik Venkitaraman Shankar and
  • Sudarsanan Aswath Narayanan

16 August 2021

The article reviews the progress made on bronze alloys processed through various casting techniques, and focuses on enhancements in the microstructural characteristics, hardness, tensile properties, and tribological behaviour of Cu-Sn and Cu-Sn-Ti al...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in High-Performance Non-ferrous Materials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
12,025 Views
39 Pages

7 November 2022

In recent years, global automotive industries are going through a significant revolution from traditional internal combustion engine vehicles (ICEVs) to electric vehicles (EVs) for CO2 emission reduction. Very similarly, the aviation industry is deve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Thermal Management and Cooling Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,894 Views
16 Pages

A Machine Learning Model for Predicting Noise Limits of Motor Vehicles in UNECE R51 Regulations

  • Gangping Tan,
  • Qingshuang Chen,
  • Changyin Li and
  • Richard (Chunhui) Yang

15 November 2020

It is vital to greatly reduce traffic noises emitted by motor vehicles during accelerating through determining limit values of noises and further improve technical specifications and comforts of these automobiles for automotive manufacturers. The Uni...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
14,185 Views
31 Pages

8 June 2024

The procedures used to create modern cars require extensive thought in various relevant scientific domains. Arguably, the most challenging obstacle facing the automobile sector is the management of production facilities by integrating software produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,185 Views
24 Pages

Automobile-Demand Forecasting Based on Trend Extrapolation and Causality Analysis

  • Zhengzhu Zhang,
  • Haining Chai,
  • Liyan Wu,
  • Ning Zhang and
  • Fenghe Wu

19 August 2024

Accurate automobile-demand forecasting can provide effective guidance for automobile-manufacturing enterprises in terms of production planning and supply planning. However, automobile sales volume is affected by historical sales volume and other exte...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
18,364 Views
20 Pages

Applying Systems Thinking to Engineering and Design

  • Jamie P. Monat and
  • Thomas F. Gannon

19 September 2018

The application of Systems Thinking principles to Systems Engineering is synergistic, resulting in superior systems, products, and designs. However, there is little practical information available in the literature that describes how this can be done...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Thinking: Concepts, Issues, and Applications in Large Complex Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
144 Citations
38,067 Views
13 Pages

Green Marketing as the Source of the Competitive Advantage of the Business

  • Dominika Moravcikova,
  • Anna Krizanova,
  • Jana Kliestikova and
  • Martina Rypakova

30 November 2017

In this work we focused on summarizing the principles of green marketing and the concepts related to it. The aim of this contribution was to prove the relationship between the implementation of green marketing principles and sustainable competitive c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability in E-Business)
  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
16,450 Views
32 Pages

Obtaining highly sensitive ferromagnetic, FM, and nonmagnetic, NM, multilayers with a large room-temperature magnetoresistance, MR, and strong magnetic anisotropy, MA, under a small externally applied magnetic field, H, remains a subject of scientifi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Magnetic Anisotropy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
30,545 Views
25 Pages

27 February 2023

The automobile industry is the pillar industry of the national economy. The good operation of the automobile supply chain is conducive to the sustainable development of the economy and social economy. In recent years, the popular research of automoti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Supply Chains in Industrial Engineering and Management)
  • Review
  • Open Access
68 Citations
21,178 Views
23 Pages

Electric vehicles (EVs) are gaining more and more traction as a viable option in the automotive sector. This mode of transportation is currently on track, according to current trends, to totally replace internal combustion engine (ICE) cars in the no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,772 Views
16 Pages

In the development of future automotive systems, safety and performance are crucial considerations. The reliable operation of Drum-type Electromechanical Brakes (D-EMBs), key components responsible for vehicle braking, is essential. Previous research...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue EVS37—International Electric Vehicle Symposium and Exhibition (Seoul, Republic of Korea))
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,291 Views
14 Pages

g-C3N4/CeO2 Binary Composite Prepared and Its Application in Automobile Exhaust Degradation

  • Shengchao Cui,
  • Baowen Xie,
  • Rui Li,
  • Jianzhong Pei,
  • Yefei Tian,
  • Jiupeng Zhang and
  • Xiangyang Xing

11 March 2020

Vehicle exhaust seriously pollutes urban air and harms human health. Photocatalytic technology can effectively degrade automobile exhaust. This work prepared g-C3N4/CeO2 photocatalytic material by constructing heterojunctions. Four kinds of g-C3N4/Ce...

(This article belongs to the Section Catalytic Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,034 Views
20 Pages

19 February 2023

With the advancement of technology and the development of intelligence, self-balancing scooters have gradually developed in the field of short-distance travel and have become a fashionable, popular and leisure means of transportation. In addition, bo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Multiple Criteria Decision Making in Sustainable Engineering)
  • Editorial
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,419 Views
6 Pages

23 May 2012

The social transformations brought about by the mobile internet are extensive. In discussing the broad range of these transformations—positioned as a shift from personal computing to pervasive computing—this editorial elaborates on the key contributi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Social Transformations from the Mobile Internet)
  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,213 Views
19 Pages

21 March 2025

Lattice structures have the characteristics of light weight, excellent heat dissipation and mechanical properties. Because of excellent properties, lattice structures have been widely used in aerospace, automobile manufacturing, biomedical and other...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Application of Additive Manufacturing: 3rd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,281 Views
19 Pages

17 February 2025

Reciprocating liquid metal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) power generation is a new MHD power generation method in which the working fluid is a single-phase liquid metal with a low melting point and high conductivity. The internal combustion stroke of aut...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,642 Views
12 Pages

1 July 2020

Suspension dampers are extremely critical for modern automobiles for absorbing vibrational energy while in operation. For years now, the viscous passive damper has been dominant. However, there is a constant need to improve and revolutionize the damp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
171 Citations
30,560 Views
25 Pages

Cycling in the Era of COVID-19: Lessons Learnt and Best Practice Policy Recommendations for a More Bike-Centric Future

  • Alexandros Nikitas,
  • Stefanos Tsigdinos,
  • Christos Karolemeas,
  • Efthymia Kourmpa and
  • Efthimios Bakogiannis

21 April 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected our cities in monumental ways with no sector likely being more severely impacted than transport. Lockdowns, physical spacing, transport restrictions and stay-at-home guidelines have transformed personal mobility and...

(This article belongs to the Collection Bicycling Today: Establishing and Learning from the State of the Art)

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