Intro; Abstract; Acknowledgements; TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; NOMENCLATURE; INTRODUCTION; VEHICLE DYNAMICS AND MODELING; METHODS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FUNDAMENTALS FOR CHOOSING RELEVANTLATERAL DYNAMICS CRITERIA; DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; OBJECTIFICATION OF WEIGHTING FACTORS; OPTIMIZATION RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORKS; REFERENCE; APPENDIX