Browsing by Subject "Air pollution"
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Environmental evaluation of Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) vehicles
(2000)During the last decade considerable research and development efforts have been devoted to automating vehicles in an effort to improve safety and efficiency of vehicle following. Several designs for automatic vehicle following ...
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Evaluation of ACC vehicles in mixed traffic: Lane change effects and sensitivity analysis
(2005)Almost every automobile company is producing vehicles with adaptive cruise control (ACC) system onboard that enables a vehicle to do automatic vehicle following in the longitudinal direction. The ACC system is designed for ...
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Evaluation of the environmental effects of intelligent cruise control vehicles
(2001)Intelligent cruise control (ICC) vehicles are already commercially available in Japan and should be ready for the North American market by next year. Although the controllers are local and string stable, it is not clear ...
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Heat related mortality in Cyprus under the A1B emissions scenario: Is additional air-conditioning an appropriate mitigation strategy?
(Affiliation: Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus; Affiliation: Department of Environmental Science, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, 2016)While climate change is expected to increase average temperatures around the globe as well as the number of atypically hot days and nights, several studies had identified an increase in heat-related mortality during hot ...
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Longitudinal control of heavy trucks in mixed traffic: Environmental and fuel economy considerations
(2006)In this paper, longitudinal vehicle-following controllers for heavy trucks with different spacing policies are designed, analyzed, simulated, and experimentally tested, and their performance in mixed traffic with passenger ...
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A model for estimating pollution emissions for individual economic activities
(1998)To be effective, environmental policies must be informed by reliable assessments of the impact of economic activities. In turn, such impact assessments require comprehensive information on the pollution profiles of particular ...
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Prevalence of asthma and respiratory symptoms in 15-17 year-old Greek-Cypriots by proximity of their community of residence to power plants: Cyprus 2006-07
(2014)Objectives: Numerous studies have reported adverse effects of traffic pollution on respiratory health. Exposure to power plants emissions has not been as comprehensively studied. The prevalence of asthma and respiratory ...
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The rise of low-cost sensing for managing air pollution in cities
(2015)Abstract Ever growing populations in cities are associated with a major increase in road vehicles and air pollution. The overall high levels of urban air pollution have been shown to be of a significant risk to city dwellers. ...