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\*Address all correspondence to: mansour.qubeissi@coventry.ac.uk

1 Centre for Mobility and Transport, Faculty of Engineering, Environment and Computing, Coventry University, Coventry, United Kingdom

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2 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Zhytomyr State Technological University, Zhytomyr, Ukraine
