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Furnishing transit service to smaller urban communities in a way that is workable physically and economically is the main point of discussion in this paper. ...The important issues relating to public transportation in small urban areas include financing, community service, institutional considerations, and image. Finding the best system for each respective community is the relevant problem, the systems must be planned to enable each community to grow and prosper.

When approaching new mobility solutions such as car-sharing, it soon becomes apparent that it may be necessary to develop specific vehicles for this application. In this paper, Applus IDIADA explains its experience in the development of the iShare, an electric vehicle conceived as a demonstrator of our complete vehicle development capabilities following the principle of “development led by functionalities”, with the consideration that it would be used in open car-sharing fleets running according to the MIT's (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) “mobility-on-demand” concept.

Due to the complexity of the urban traffic scene, the changeable state of dynamic targets, and the incomplete environmental information acquired by equipment, a point cloud feature extraction and classification method based on viewpoint feature histogram (VFH) and support vector machine (SVM) is proposed according to the perception requirements of objects in a complex intersection environment. ...The point cloud information of typical urban intersections is preprocessed by pass-through data filtering, and the scene point cloud data is segmented by a conditional Euclidean clustering algorithm. ...The classification and recognition experiments of point cloud data in the traffic scene are carried out with logic regression, decision tree, and neural network algorithm set of urban intersection point cloud data for real-time processing. The experimental results show that the proposed method is robust to the classification and recognition of typical objects in the urban intersection environment.

A digital simulation method of urban road traffic noise has been developed suitable for use in China. The simulation is based on local environmental standards, vehicle types and traffic conditions.

Life-cycle cost analysis can provide a solid basis to support improvements in how fleet managers use their vehicles and in how manufactures design them. The challenge to it be an established practice rests on getting quality data provided by fleet operators and on the understanding that the data is significantly influenced by both the operational environment and the quality of management (operations and maintenance). In 2012, a benchmark study was conducted using the public transportation system of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. Twelve companies participated in the study. Although the primary purpose of the study was to assess the differences in the competitiveness among the twelve companies, the data collected provide a database that was very consistent in providing critical analysis of vehicle maintainability by generating life-cycle cost analysis. The study proved to be an important tool to link vehicle design to the operational and maintenance management of company fleets.

For the 6th generation of Deep Orange, the goal was to develop an urban utility/activity vehicle for the year 2020. The objective of this paper is to explain the interior concept that offers a flexible interior utility/activity space for Generation Z (Gen Z) users. ...The paper discusses the occupant packaging, seating, personalization and customization of the interior, power supply, infotainment, color selection, and interior lighting concepts which provide novel ways to support users in urban environments.

This study evaluates the current potential of transport departments of Lahore, Pakistan toward a sustainable urban transportation system. The Benchmarking and Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) approaches have been used to analyze both primary data from the relevant stakeholders through a questionnaire survey and secondary data obtained from the reports (e.g., Barella et al. [1]) and official websites. ...The results show that the qualitative assessment of transport departments in terms of quantitative data (internal evaluation factor) is equal to 1.712 on a scale of 4.0, which means that the current potential of transport departments has not yet grasped even the minimum requirements of achieving sustainability in urban transportation. To improve the current potential, suggestions are made to reach the desired state of sustainability in transportation in terms of improved outcomes and service delivery.

Usual electromechanical horn technology doesn't allow any horn noise control and leaves disturbance vs. safety management to the civic sensibility of the drivers. Electronics, loudspeaker technology, multiplexing and psychoacoustics give the car designers as well as the public authorities new tools to control unnecessary horn noise without loosing safety or increasing costs. These technical solutions are already available, sometimes even applied for other purposes and don't require any major vehicle modification or cost increase. Furthermore, they can give car designers new sounding options and “Brand Management” opportunities without any public disturbance increase.

Yet, dense urban environments—which would benefit from automated transportation the most—present unique challenges and public sector requirements. ...Rahul Razdan examines the divergent applications and experiences of four urban cities as they engage with AV technology for their specific purposes: Jacksonville and Orlando, Florida; Tallinn; and Singapore.

There are basically two different systems in operation: Urban Traffic Control (UTC), Remote Monitoring (RM), and some other smaller systems. The principal system is the UTC which controls some 2000 traffic signals in London.

The paper assesses the effectiveness of the European approach to testing Advanced Road Transport Telematics (ATT, or IVHS in the US) systems within the urban field trials of the European “DRIVE” programme of research and development. It reviews progress in the major urban pilot projects, or “Euro-Projects”, and anticipates future achievements building on the results of the projects. ...It reviews progress in the major urban pilot projects, or “Euro-Projects”, and anticipates future achievements building on the results of the projects. ...The five largest urban field trials -known as “Euro-Projects” - were all developed from the POLIS initiative, which involves some 30 major European cities. 19 of these cities are actively participating in these five projects, known as GAUDI, LLAMD, SCOPE, CITIES and QUARTET.

Plotting the vehicle autonomy revolution Advanced vehicle-technology and future-mobility expert Larry Burns makes a compelling case for driverless, shared vehicles in urban use. It's 'do-or-die time' to plan for open platforms The auto industry needs to open its eyes to open-platform opportunities, warns a European information-systems academic-and the industry looks to respond.

The details of the technological tools, management process adopted, examples of operational data analysis, and practical results in the urban passenger transport company are presented.

A recent study using the modified equipment was to determine the effective distance of urban highway travel for supermarket shopping trips.

In the next 20 years the share of small electric vehicles (SEVs) will increase especially in urban areas. SEVs show distinctive design differences compared to traditional vehicles. Thus the consequences of impacts of SEVs with vulnerable road users (VRUs) and other vehicles will be different from traditional collisions. ...The focus of the presented work is on SEVs in L7e category, for which no specific, urban area relevant safety regulations are available. Overall occupant and VRU safety of future SEVs will increase significantly, if additionally to the standard crash tests the elaborated tests from the European Union (EU) initiative SafeEV are applied for the design of safety measures within L7e vehicle class.

The activities in general are developed in consolidated urban areas, treating very often modification of an urbane important installation. Thus, in this initial phase are executed activities of demolition, cleaning, preparing the land, foundation and piling, which are considered noisy for people, causing great discomfort to the existing community around the construction site.

The increasing rates of violence and the lack of effective public security policies, especially in large urban areas in developing countries, have reflected directly in the automotive civil armor market, making Brazil the world leader in the segment of ballistic protection type III-A level against handguns according to the NIJ 0108.01 standard [1], followed by Mexico.

Measurements are presented from a bench engine and also from road vehicles operated under controlled urban driving conditions. Substantial clean-up is demonstrated using detergent treat-rates representative of modern formulation technology, regaining the state of cleanliness that provides optimum performance of the injection equipment.

Emission Inspection and Maintenance (I/M) programs have been implemented to help meet our nation's goal of cleaning its urban air. They have been shown to be effective, working programs. They are a reality in over 30 states in this country.

One-way car-sharing services (CSSs) are believed to be a promising transportation mode for urban mobility. Due to the disparity of city functional areas and population, travel demand and vehicle supply in a CSS may inevitably tend to be imbalanced as well.