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by Josef Jiru Of the 2.36 million traffic accidents recorded in Germany in 2011, traffic congestion and tailgating caused the most injuries. Because they are usually positioned at one to two kilometer...
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by Raffaele Bruno, Andrea Passarella, Leandro D’Orazio and Filippo Visintainer Map-based Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) is one of the key applications for future “Intelligent Car”...
View ArticlePaving the Way for Apps in Vehicles
by Avenir Kobetski and Jakob Axelsson What will cars talk about when they start communicating with each other? Volvo and SICS Swedish ICT have launched a collaborative project to open the computer...
View ArticleLocation Assurance and Privacy in GNSS Navigation
by Xihui Chen, Carlo Harpes, Gabriele Lenzini, Sjouke Mauw and Jun Pang The growing popularity of location-based services such as GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) navigation requires...
View ArticleCooperative Systems for Car Safety Improvement
by Zdeněk Lokaj, Tomas Zelinka and Miroslav Šrotýř Cooperative systems are playing an increasingly important role in the automotive industry, particularly in relation to improvement of safety....
View ArticleABV – A Low Speed Automation Project to Study the Technical Feasibility of...
by Evangeline Pollard, Fawzi Nashashibi and Paulo Resende The purpose of the ABV project was to demonstrate the technical feasibility of fully automated driving at speeds below 50 km/h in urban and...
View ArticleIntelligent Vehicles as an Integral Part of Intelligent Transport Systems
by Jaroslav Machan and Christian Laugier Socio-economic context The recent global economic growth and the related overall increase in volumes of transportation, along with stronger public demand for...
View ArticleCollaborative Mobility – Beyond Communicating Vehicles
by Ilja Radusch European efforts for more intelligent transport systems have a long history with the first programmes focusing on Road Transport Informatics (RTI) dating back to the 1980’s. The...
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