As the railway domain progresses towards autonomy, maintaining safety at levels
comparable to human-operated systems is a crucial challenge. Autonomous trains require …

The development of autonomous transportation has emerged as a great opportunity and big
challenge for both researchers and manufacturers. When it comes to the autonomous train …

Autonomous vehicles promise to play an important role aiming at increased efficiency and
safety in road transportation. Although we have seen several examples of autonomous …

Autonomous driving tends to increase use of perception as a tool for analyzing the
environment before making a decision that could impact driving. However, recent …

The substitution of traditional occupancy detecting sensors with an Autonomous Positioning
System (APS) is a promising solution to contain costs and improve performance of current …

Several emerging telematics technologies allow a new definition of the risk caused by the
transport on road of hazardous material (hazmat), which can be more related to space and …

The article provides a new Markovian–Bayesian network model to evaluate the probability of
accident associated with the circulation of trains along a given high speed or conventional …

This paper presents a risk assessment algorithm that can be integrated within advanced
safety monitoring systems of urban road networks. The research conducted is part of the …

Two of the most known sources of danger for automated mobile platforms such as robots or
automated vehicles arise from objects in the environment that they cannot perceive …

The level of automation in transportation systems is steadily on the rise, particularly in
railways. However, this increase in automation implies a review of the previously …