Transportation is responsible for a substantial fraction of worldwide energy consumption and
greenhouse gas emissions and is the largest sector after energy production. However, while …

The fuel efficiency of the transportation sector has become a key factor to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption in response to the negative impacts of …

The encoding of solutions in black-box optimization is a delicate, handcrafted balance
between expressiveness and domain knowledge---between exploring a wide variety of …

This paper aims to provide a quantitative assessment of the effect of driver action and road
traffic conditions in the real implementation of eco-driving strategies. The study specifically …

Increasing the traction force is a complex problem in the design of railway vehicles;
therefore, effective traction systems and algorithms have to be developed. During the …

Evolutionary computation and genetic algorithms (GAs) in particular have been applied very
successfully to many real world application problems. However, the success or failure of …

After safe driving, eco-driving has become an economic and green driving idea, which is
adapted to the modern engine technology and typically consists of changing a person's …

Optimization plays an essential role in industrial design, but all too often it boils down to a
simple function to be minimized, such as cost or strength. More difficult considerations such …