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On-road vehicle detection and rear-end crash prevention are demanding subjects in both academia and automotive industry. The paper focuses on monocular vision-based vehicle detection under challenging lighting conditions, being still an open topic in the area of driver assistance [...]

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Traffic congestion and its impacts significantly affect the nation's economic performance and the public's quality of life. In most urban areas, travel demand routinely exceeds highway capacity during peak periods. In addition, events such as crashes, vehicle breakdowns, work zones, [...]

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Aircraft hazards were evaluated to determine the total annual probability of an aircraft crash occurring at any structure located on the US Department of Energy (DOE) reservation in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This report documents the use of an accepted methodology for calculating the [...]

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The protection of children in motor vehicle crashes has improved since the introduction of child restraint systems. However, motor vehicle crashes remain one of the top leading causes of death for children. Today, computer-aided engineering is an essential part of vehicle development [...]

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In accidents involving cars with pedestrians, the impact of the head on structural parts of the vehicle takes a significant risk of injury. If the head hits the windscreen, the injury is highly influenced by glass fracture. In pedestrian protection tests, a head impactor is shot [...]

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Much of earlier work on predictive models for accidents has been focused on rural traffic or urban intersections. This work has aimed at identifying and investigating possible improvements to predictive models for accidents on urban links. A special focus has been on the accidents [...]

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The present work presents a preliminary study on the development of a tubular chassis design for automotive industry manufactured with ultraviolet (UV) 3D pultrusion. The use of straight profiles for energy absorption elements and the advantages and feasibility of using curved [...]