Publications related to Vehicular communication systems

Optimizing the utilization of existing vehicle flows in last-mile passenger transport and logistics systems

The new era of shared economy has raised our expectations to make mobility more sustainable through better utilization of existing resources and capacity. In this thesis, we focus on the design of transport systems that stimulate multi-purpose trips with t ...

EPFL2023

Demand-based operations of vehicle sharing systems

Selin Ataç

Vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) allow users to rent vehicles for a short period of time, in a more flexible and convenient manner compared to the traditional vehicle rental services. The long-term VSS subscription replaces the need for contract signing for ...

EPFL2023

On the Insecurity of Vehicles Against Protocol-Level Bluetooth Threats

Mathias Josef Payer, Daniele Antonioli

Cars are some of the most security-critical consumer devices. On the one hand, owners expect rich infotainment features, including audio, hands-free calls, contact management, or navigation through their connected mobile phone. On the other hand, the infot ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Vehicle sharing systems: A review and a holistic management framework

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç

Although different vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) use different vehicle types, the management challenges and optimization problems to be solved are similar or even the same. This observation led us to create a generalized and holistic VSS management framew ...

2021

A holistic decision making framework for a vehicle sharing system

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç

The vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming more and more popular due to both financial and environmental effects. On the other hand, they face many challenges, such as inventory management of the vehicles and parking spots, imbalance of the vehicles, ...

2019

A framework for a vehicle sharing system

Selin Ataç

The vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming more and more popular due to both financial and environmental effects. On the other hand, they face many challenges, such as inventory management of the vehicles and parking spots, imbalance of the vehicles, ...

2019

An optimization framework for a light electric vehicle sharing system

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç

The vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming more and more popular due to both financial and environmental effects. On the other hand, they face many challenges, such as inventory management of the vehicles and parking spots, imbalance of the vehicles, ...

2019

An optimization framework for light electric vehicle sharing systems

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç

The vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming more popular due to both financial and environmental effects. On the other hand, they face many challenges, such as inventory management of the vehicles and parking spots, vehicle imbalance, pricing strategie ...

2019

An optimization framework for a light electric vehicle sharing system

Michel Bierlaire, Nikola Obrenovic, Selin Ataç

The vehicle sharing systems (VSSs) are becoming more popular due to both financial and environmental effects. On the other hand, they face many challenges, such as inventory management of the vehicles and parking spots, vehicle imbalance, pricing strategie ...

2019

Increasing Traffic Flows with DSRC Technology: Field Trials and Performance Evaluation

Aurélien Pomini, Sami Ben Hassen, Frank Schmutz

As traffic congestion becomes a huge problem for most developing and developed countries across the world, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are becoming a hot topic that is attracting attention of researchers and the general public alike. In this p ...

IEEE2018

Cooperative Perception Algorithms for Networked Intelligent Vehicles

Milos Vasic

The degree of intelligence built-in in today's vehicles in constantly on the rise. The vehicles are being equipped with sensors, with the goal to estimate the state of the vehicle and the environment surrounding it. Intelligent algorithms that process the ...

EPFL2017

An Overtaking Decision Algorithm for Networked Intelligent Vehicles Based on Cooperative Perception

Alcherio Martinoli, Milos Vasic, Inaki Navarro Oiza, Gael Lederrey

This paper presents an overtaking decision algorithm for networked intelligent vehicles. The algorithm is based on a cooperative tracking and sensor fusion algorithm that we previously developed. The ego vehicle is equipped with lane keeping and lane chang ...

Ieee2016

Distributed Graph-based Convoy Control for Networked Intelligent Vehicles

Alcherio Martinoli, Ali Marjovi, Milos Vasic, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre

This paper presents an approach for formation control of multi-lane vehicular convoys in highways. We extend a Laplacian graph-based, distributed control law such that networked intelligent vehicles can join or leave the formation dynamically without jeopa ...

IEEE2015

Control concepts for facilitating motorway on-ramp merging using intelligent vehicles

Riccardo Scarinci

Congestion at motorway junctions is a traffic phenomenon that degrades operation of infrastructure and can lead to breakdown of traffic flow and associated reduction in capacity. Advanced communication technologies open new possibilities to prevent or at l ...

2014

Network of automated vehicles: The AutoNet2030 vision

Alcherio Martinoli, Ali Marjovi, Arnaud de La Fortelle, Jean Grégoire

AutoNet2030 – Co-operative Systems in Support of Networked Automated Driving by 2030 – is a European project connecting two domains of intensive research: cooperative systems for Intelligent Transportation Systems and Automated Driving. Given the latest de ...

2014

Factors affecting the adoption of vehicle sharing systems by young drivers

Dimitrios Efthymiou

Transportation patterns in big cities are redefined by the growing trend of car ownership and usage costs (e.g. the initial cost of buying a car, the constantly growing fuel prices, additional maintenance and insurance costs and the increased parking deman ...

2013

On the Performance of Secure Vehicular Communication Systems

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos

Vehicular communication (VC) systems are being developed primarily to enhance transportation safety and efficiency. Vehicle-to-vehicle communication, in particular, frequent cooperative awareness messages or safety beacons, has been considered over the pas ...

2011

Design and Performance of Secure Geocast for Vehicular Communication

Panagiotis Papadimitratos

The characteristics of vehicular communication environments and their networking and application requirements have led to the development of unique networking protocols. They enable vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication based on th ...

2010

A Realistic Simulator for the Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Vehicles

Alcherio Martinoli, Sven Adrian Gowal

The number of vehicles hitting the road each day is rapidly increasing, and several problems, such as traffic conges- tion or driver safety, can no longer be solved in the same fashion as before. Intelligent transportation systems could potentially solve p ...

2010

Secure and Privacy-Enhancing Vehicular Communication Demonstration of Implementation and Operation

Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Petra Ardelean

With a number of projects developing vehicular communication systems, there is rising awareness on threats and the need to introduce security and privacy-enhancing mechanisms. With recent results, in principle in agreement across different major projects, ...

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