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Acknowledgement I would like to thank Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hirschberg for his supervision and for giving me the opportunity to do this research project as a scientific assistant at the Institute of Automotive Engineering at Graz University of Technology. I would also like to thank Prof. Dr. Bengt Jacobson from Chalmers University for his kind willingness to support my thesis as a second assessor. At the Institute of Automotive Engineering, I would like to thank current and former colleagues as well as the students for all the discussions and the support. In particular, I offer my gratitude to Assoc.Prof. Dr. Arno Eichberger. Although this project was not realised within an industry-funded research project, I hadthechance tocollaboratewithandreceive support fromthe followingpeopleoutside our university: Prof. Dr. Gundolf Haase of the Institute of Mathematics and Scientific Computing of Graz University, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Andreas Kerschbaumer of Virtual Ve- hicle Research Center, Graz, Dipl.-Ing. Friedrich Eppel of O¨AMTC, Vienna, and Dr. Hans-Ulrich Kobialka of Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems, Bonn. Finally, my deepest gratitude goes to my partner, my family and my friends for their incredible patience and encouragement.