Foresight vehicle technology : design, ITS, safety, electronics, and materials

The papers contained in this volume are all the product of the Foresight Vehicle Initiative, the UK Government's flagship programme of advanced research into future technology for road transport for the coming decades. Contents Include: Radio Technologies for Future Telematic Systems for Foresight Vehicles; The VIVID Visual Simulation Tool: A Foresight Vehicle Project to Support Driver HMI Integration; Millimetre-Wave Automotive Radar Advance Path Measurement; IVMC: Intelligent Vehicle Motion Control; Hidden Antennas for the Foresight Vehicle; Specification and Modelling of an Integrated Fleet Management System for Foresight Freight Vehicles; System Integration for the Intelligent Foresight Freight Vehicle; Intelligent Remote speed Control of Foresight Trucks with Driver Interface; Conflict Simulation and Sensor Evaluation for the Advanced Protection of Vulnerable Road Users (APVRU) - A Foresight Vehicle Project; The Foresight Vehicle: Prescient Tools to Support the Design of reliable Automotive Products; Combining FEA and KBE Techniques to Automate the Analysis Process - A Foresight Vehicle Programme; Foresight Vehicle: A Torodial, Axial Flux Generator for Hybrid IC Engine/Battery Electric Vehicle Applications; Development of a Carbon Fibre Composite Ultra Lightweight Vehicle Structure for the Aero-Stable Carbon Car - Fastframes; Foresight Vehicle: Using Accident Data to Develop Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Road Users (APVRU); Passenger Simulation to Determine Safety Limits During emergency Decelerations; Using Neural Networks to Predict Customer Evaluation of Sounds for the Foresight Vehicle; Identification of Subjective-Objective Vehicle Handling Links Using Neural Networks for the Foresight Vehicle; Foresight Vehicle: Large Area Flexible Circuits for Automotive Applications Manufacturing Technology - A Review of Process Options; Business Case Modelling of Large Area Flexible Circuits in the Foresight Vehicle Programme; Foresight Vehicle: Specification and Acceptability Criteria for Copper-Clad Dielectric Materials Used in Large Automotive Flexible Printed Circuits; Foresight Vehicle: Physical Media for Automotive Multiplex Networks Implemented on Large Area Flexible Printed Circuit Boards; Design Opportunities Given Zero Failure Electronics.