Simulation and its uses in the teaching of vehicle dynamics

As population and land-based transportation requirements continue to burgeon, scientists and engineers are forced to design more and more sophisticated transportation systems to meet such pressures. These systems may take the form of personal transportation media such as the private automobile, or they can be public-based, such as the recent Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system in San Francisco. In any case, the sophistication and speed of today’s transportation systems require a highly analytical, as opposed to purely experimental, approach to their synthesis.