Publications related to Automotive safety

Artificial intelligence of things for smart cities: advanced solutions for enhancing transportation safety

In the context of smart cities, ensuring road safety is crucial due to increasing urbanization and the interconnected nature of contemporary urban environments. Leveraging innovative technologies is essential to mitigate risks and create safer communities. ...

Springernature2024

On the possibility of extending the service life of winter roads using renewable energy sources

Elizaveta Sharaborova

It is hard to overestimate the role of winter roads in the land logistics of the northern regions. In recent years, climate change has not only significantly reduced the service life of winter roads, but also made them less predictable. This forces transpo ...

2023

Tensile response of Ultra High Performance PE Fiber Reinforced Concretes (PE-UHPFRC) under imposed shrinkage deformations

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz, Amir Hajiesmaeili

PE-UHPFRC is a new Ultra High-Performance Fiber Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC), which is developed to reduce the environmental impact of conventional UHPFRC by replacing the steel fibers with synthetic ones and reducing the clinker content in the mix. The de ...

2021

Detecting 32 Pedestrian Attributes for Autonomous Vehicles

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Taylor Ferdinand Mordan

Pedestrians are arguably one of the most safety-critical road users to consider for autonomous vehicles in urban areas. In this paper, we address the problem of jointly detecting pedestrians and recognizing 32 pedestrian attributes from a single image. The ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Human-friendly solutions for last-centimeter drone delivery

Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

The popularity of delivery drones is constantly increasing due to their ability to deliver packages more rapidly and economically than current transportation methods. Consequently, drones have been employed by logistics companies for delivering payloads to ...

EPFL2020

Detecting 32 Pedestrian Attributes for Autonomous Vehicles

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Taylor Ferdinand Mordan

Pedestrians are arguably one of the most safety-critical road users to consider for autonomous vehicles in urban areas. In this paper, we address the problem of jointly detecting pedestrians and recognizing 32 pedestrian attributes. These encompass visual ...

IEEE2020

Measuring the Safety Climate of Academic Laboratories to Improve Safety Behaviours

Thierry Meyer, Damien Stricker, Nadia Gerweck

In 2005, two major accidents occurred at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Although there were no injuries, the material damages resulted in high financial losses. The management of safety was restructured as a consequence. One of the ma ...

2019

Tensile response of low clinker UHPFRC subjected to fully restrained shrinkage

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz, Amir Hajiesmaeili

This paper addresses the tensile response of Strain Hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (SH-UHPFRC) subjected to restrained autogenous shrinkage deformations under full and partial restraint conditions, right after casting and until ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Tensile response of Strain-Hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes under low loading rates and low temperatures

Mohamed Abdul Hafiz

Strain Hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (SH-UHPFRC) are cementitious materials with exceptional mechanical properties and outstanding durability making them ideal materials for rehabilitation, for the improvement of load carrying ...

EPFL2019

Cyclic Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for Azidation: Safer Reagents and Photoredox-Catalyzed Ring Expansion

Thierry Meyer, Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai, Annik Nanchen, Raphaël Michel Henri Simonet-Davin, Sébastien Pierre Louis Alazet, Johannes Preindl

Azides are building blocks of increasing importance in synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, and materials science. Azidobenziodoxolone (ABX, Zhdankin reagent) is a valuable azide source, but its safety profile has not been thoroughly established. Herein, ...

2018

Tensile viscous response of Strain Hardening UHPFRC under high restraint and isothermal conditions

Emmanuel Denarié, Mohamed Abdul Hafiz

Strain Hardening Ultra High Performance Fiber Reinforced Concretes (SH-UHPFRC) have a high elastic limit (around 10 MPa) and high tensile strength (upto 20 MPa) and exhibit significant strain hardening (1 to 4 %) under tensile loads. These appealing featur ...

CRC PRESS-BALKEMA2018

Updated braking forces for the assessment of road bridges

João Miguel De Oliveira Durães Alves Martins

Safety assessments of road bridges to braking events combine the braking force, acting along the longitudinal axis of the deck, with a vertical load that accounts for the vertical component of the traffic action. In modern design standards the vertical loa ...

EPFL2016

Modeling work zone crash frequency by quantifying measurement errors in work zone length

Mehmet Yildirimoglu

Work zones are temporary traffic control zones that can potentially cause safety problems. Maintaining safety, while implementing necessary changes on roadways, is an important challenge traffic engineers and researchers have to confront. In this study, th ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

On the issues related to compliance of LF pulsed exposures with safety standards and guidelines

Valerio De Santis

In this paper, procedures to determine compliance of low-frequency pulsed exposures are investigated. Current methods specified by international standards or guidelines (e.g., from the ICNIRP or IEEE) are recognized to be conservative in order to account f ...

Institute of Physics2013

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

Impact of Vehicular Communications Security on Transportation Safety

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos

Transportation safety, one of the main driving forces of the development of vehicular communication (VC) systems, relies on high-rate safety messaging (beaconing). At the same time, there is consensus among authorities, industry, and academia on the need t ...

2008

Can safety indicators assess and monitor road traffic risk in real-time? Investigation of two safety indicators on Swiss motorways

Edward Chung, Minh Hai Pham

Road safety has become a major concern and many strategies have been introduced to reduce road risk and mitigate severe consequences of unavoidable crashes. This paper presents an innovative methodology which aims at monitoring in real time and even antici ...

2008

Fast exclusion of errant devices from vehicular networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Maxime Raya

Vehicular networks, in which cars communicate wirelessly to exchange information on traffic conditions, offer a promising way to improve road safety. Yet ensuring the correct functioning of such a system is essential: malicious or faulty devices transmitti ...

2008

Sensitivity of road safety indicators in normal and crash cases

Edward Chung, Minh Hai Pham

Road traffic safety is receiving increasing attention. Different real-time safety indicators relying on traffic sensor data can be found in the literature. Some are based on the posterior analysis of crash and traffic data; while others are based on real t ...

2008

Secure Position-Based Routing for VANETs

Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Charles Harsch

Vehicular communication (VC) systems have the potential to improve road safety and driving comfort. Nevertheless, securing the operation is a prerequisite for deployment. So far, the security of VC applications has mostly drawn the attention of research ef ...

2007