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This work was partially funded by FEDER Funds through the Operational Program “Factores de Competitividade COMPETE” and by National Funds through FCT within the project

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PTDC/SEN-TRA/122114/2010, the Strategic Project PEst-C/EME/UI0481/2014 and Toyota Caetano Portugal, which allowed the use of vehicles. M.C. Coelho acknowledges Luso- American Foundation (FLAD) for the travel support to attend TRB2015 (Proj.9/2015). P. Fernandes and Jorge Bandeira acknowledge the support of FCT for the Scholarships SFRH/BD/87402/2012 and SFRH/BPD/100703/2014, respectively.

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