Optimum design of speed control humps for vehicles

This paper deals with optimum design problems of humps for controlling vehicle speeds. Optimum humps are obtained for a segment of a circle in section using a method with a SUMT optimizing a hump for a vehicle. The objective of the design is to minimize the maximum acceleration of the driver occurring during a vehicle crossing a hump at a design speed for the hump. The design is subject to constraints on the maximum acceleration of the driver at a speed over the design speed so that the driver may be alert to the speeding and the vehicle may not be in danger in crossing the hump. In addition, the optimum humps are compared numerically with an existing hump on the effects of controlling speeds of vehicles with different wheel base.