article thumbnail

Cohda, BMW and Honda in V2V motorcycle study as part of DOT Safety Pilot Model Deployment

Green Car Congress

As part of the US Safety Pilot Model Deployment of connected vehicle technologies ( earlier post ), the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) will launch a motorcycle study to determine how cars, trucks, buses and motorcycles interact using V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle) communications technology.

article thumbnail

In 2021, the average American traveled 9 times farther by road than by air

Green Car Congress

The derivation of person miles traveled by passenger road vehicles is a bit more complex, and it involves summing up calculated person miles traveled by light-duty vehicles (cars, SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans), buses, and motorcycles. (In In other words, all vehicles except for medium and heavy trucks.)

Personal 210
article thumbnail

Honda demonstrates advanced vehicle-to-pedestrian and vehicle-to-motorcycle connected vehicle safety technologies

Green Car Congress

In Detroit, Honda demonstrated two experimental safety technologies based on Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) aimed at reducing the potential for collisions between automobiles and pedestrians and between automobiles and motorcycles. Vehicle-to-Motorcycle (V2M) technology. Earlier post.) Honda pedestrian safety technology.

article thumbnail

Flying declined substantially more than driving during the current pandemic

Green Car Congress

The raw data for the analysis came from the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (revenue passenger miles flown on all scheduled domestic flights) and the Federal Highway Administration (vehicle miles traveled). Thus, this measure also includes travel for road-based freight transport and road-based public transport.

article thumbnail

University of South Carolina Genesis 2015 Plan To Cut Fleet CO2 Emissions by 90%

Green Car Congress

Under its newly-unveiled Genesis 2015 plan, the University of South Carolina will reduce CO 2 emissions from its fleet of vehicles by 90% within five years. The university has about 400 vehicles that are used for business, maintenance and transportation of students, said Derrick Huggins, associate vice president for transportation.

article thumbnail

Ricardo and AMRC sign MoU as work starts on powertrain electrification projects

Green Car Congress

The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with global engineering company Ricardo. A primary theme of this collaboration will be powertrain electrification, which will be addressed by Ricardo and the AMRC jointly.

article thumbnail

How have our expenditures on motor vehicles changed during the pandemic?

Green Car Congress

The motor vehicle category is for all motor vehicles (including motorcycles and RVs), both new and used. Michael Sivak is the managing director of Sivak Applied Research and the former director of Sustainable Worldwide Transportation at the University of Michigan. (Because the population increased by only 0.2%

Motor 186