Sentence examples for current headway from inspiring English sources

ACC systems, on the other hand, allow a driver to set a preferred headway, and a forward mounted sensor detects traffic in front of the vehicle, calculates the current headway, and interfaces with the throttle to change the vehicle's speed to maintain a certain headway (Fancher et al. 1998; Hoedemaeker & Brookhuis 1998).

These individual messages are adjusted to a drivers current lane, headway and speed, the actual speed limit as well as the desired route.

This model is a continuous model and computes acceleration of the vehicle by knowing the current velocity and headway of the preceding vehicle.

Unlike the New York City Subway or the London Underground, individual BART lines were not designed to provide frequent local service, as evidenced by the system's current maximum achievable headway of 13.33 minutes per line through the quadruple interlined section in San Francisco.

The current 20-minute headways at these times is viewed as a psychological barrier to ridership.

The current investigation made little headway initially, the Times reported.

She was trying to get back, but failing to make any headway against the current.

Another security that finds itself unable to make headway in the current market environment is Burger King Holdings, home of the Whopper.

New research published today by Cairney and his colleagues in Current Biology has made significant headway on this issue by linking sleep spindles spontaneous bursts of brain activity to memory processing in a sleeping brain.

However the land sighted had in fact been Cape Agulhas (then known as "Cape L'Agullas") and the ship had also not made good headway against the current since this sighting.

In an attempt to investigate this fact, the current study made a comparison between headway probabilities obtained in the current study and road segments that exhibit more or less homogeneous traffic (see Table 5).