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Farid Saemi and Moble Benedict
Minimizing electric losses is critical to the success of battery-powered small unmanned aerial systems (SUASs) that weigh less than 25 kgf (55 lb). Losses increase energy and battery weight requirements which hinder the vehicle?s range and endurance. How...
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Evandro Rostirolla Bortoloto, Francisco Carlos Parquet Bizarria and José Walter Parquet Bizarria
During the development stage of a space vehicle, instrumented tests are carried out on the ground to prove the operational capacity of each liquid-propellant rocket engine, which is installed in this type of vehicle. The task of elaborating a Test Bench ...
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Stefano Ercolessi, Giovanni Fabbrocino and Carlo Rainieri
Recent collapses and malfunctions of European bridges threatened the service conditions of road networks and pointed out the need for robust procedures to mitigate the impact of material degradation and overloading of existing bridges. Condition assessme...
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Thierry Bellet, Aurélie Banet, Marie Petiot, Bertrand Richard and Joshua Quick
This article is about the Human-Centered Design (HCD), development and evaluation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm aiming to support an adaptive management of Human-Machine Transition (HMT) between car drivers and vehicle automation. The gene...
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Jonathan Coto, W. Linwood Jones and Gerald M. Heymsfield
This paper deals with the validation of rain rate and wind speed measurements from the High-Altitude Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler (HIWRAP), which occurred in September 2013 when the NASA Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle passed over an ocean rain sq...
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Abdollah Malekjafarian, Eugene OBrien, Paraic Quirke and Cathal Bowe
This paper investigates the use of drive-by train measurements for railway track monitoring. An in-service Irish Rail train was instrumented while using accelerometers and a global positioning system. The measurements were taken over two months and the t...
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Claudio Meneguzzer, Massimiliano Gastaldi, Riccardo Rossi, Gregorio Gecchele, Maria Vittoria Prati
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The traditional approach to the comparison of alternative types of road intersection control has focused mainly on efficiency and safety. In recent years, the increasing importance of air pollution produced by vehicular traffic has suggested that environ...
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Livia Della Ragione, Meccariello Giovanni
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Transport activities contribute significantly to the air pollution and its impact on emissions is a key element in the evaluation of any transport policy or plan. Calculation of emissions has therefore gained institutional importance in the European Comm...
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Mohammed Yazan Madi
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The accuracy of the micro-simulation model's generated vehicle activity data used in the emissions modelling depends on how the dynamic behaviours of vehicles are being represented in the model. The dynamic behaviour of every single vehicle is constantly...
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Yvonne Barnard, Satu Innamaa, Sami Koskinen, Helena Gellerman, ... Haibo Chen
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Over the past decade a large number of Field Operational Tests (FOT) have been conducted to test Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in real traffic conditions with thousands of drivers. In order to ensure scientifically sound studies a FOT methodology w...
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