On Vehicle Motion
Foundations of how vehicles steer, grip and remain stable
A canonical collection of papers that established the physical and mathematical language of vehicle motion. Spanning road vehicles, motorcycles, off-road mobility, and rail systems, these works define how forces are generated at the contact patch, how vehicles respond to steering and drive inputs, and how stability emerges—or fails—under dynamic conditions. Together, they form the intellectual backbone of modern vehicle dynamics: not a catalog of effects, but a coherent framework for understanding motion across surfaces, architectures, and control paradigms.
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Automobiles

  • Road Manners of the Modern Car (1946)

  • Theoretical Prediction and Experimental Substantiation of the Response of the Automobile to Steering Control

  • Improvement of Vehicle Maneuverability by Direct Yaw Moment Control

    • Tracked Vehicles

  • An Analysis of the Drawbar Pull vs. Slip Relationship For Track Laying Vehicles

  • Prediction of Rigid Wheel Performance Based on Analysis of Soil-Wheel Stresses

    • Motorbikes

  • The Stability and Control of Motorcycles

  • Linearized Dynamics Equations for the Balance and Steer of a Bicycle: Benchmark + Review

    • Rail Dynamics

  • A Comparison of Alternative Creep Force Models for Rail Vehicle Dynamic Analysis

  • A Fast Algorithm for the Simplified Theory of Rolling Contact