The running safety of the high-speed train under cross winds is affected by many factors, e.g., the running speed, wind characteristic, car body shape, etc.
The requirements for each pattern were used to define a characteristic car and a driving pattern consisting of a speed profile, the yearly driven distance, and occupancy rate.
Road user characteristics: car occupants, motorcyclists, pedal cyclists, pedestrians and other road users.
Socio-economic and demographic questions: gender, age, marital status, household characteristics, car ownership, and working hours per week.
Then relationships were developed for estimating the arrival rates at car parks based on driver characteristics, car park attributes as well as the car park availability information displayed on PGI signs.
The questionnaire included 46 items organized in several sections as follows: Socio-economic and demographic questions: gender, age, marital status, household characteristics, car ownership, and working hours per week.
For the 50th running of the Daytona 500 this Sunday — billed with characteristic stock car understatement as "the Most Anticipated Event in Racing History" — nobody would dream of sending a driver out there with just his intuition.
Auditory scenes can be described with different level descriptors to represent the general context (street) and the characteristic sound events (car, car horn, and footsteps).
Air-flow turbulence characteristics and car interior sound were recorded and analysed.
IDM-LC is a time-continuous car-following model with the characteristics of car overtaking and intersection management.
Participants were asked to complete postal questionnaires, repeated before and after the opening of the new infrastructure, which collected data on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics, travel, car fuel purchasing and physical activity, and potential psychosocial and environmental correlates and mediators of those behaviours.
