Title: Understanding the Effects on Tailpipe Emissions of Integrated Vehicle and Systems Technologies
Abstract: This paper acknowledges the important role that fully integrated intelligent vehicles and systems will have in managing travel demand in a sustainable way in the future and yet recognizes that underpinning models will have to be far more sophisticated. It presents details of research which is analyzing real-world tailpipe emissions data simultaneously with vehicle characteristics to inform the future development of improved relationships for modeling driver behavior and tailpipe emissions in a micro-simulation model. Observed variation in tail pipe emissions and fuel consumption over a sample of forty drivers suggests that significant benefits are achievable. In particular the in-depth analysis of tailpipe emissions of two contrasting drivers presented suggests that benefits of typically 25% reduction in carbon dioxide through the adoption of eco driving styles are achievable. Once the causal relationships, between driver behavior, vehicle operation, and tail pipe emissions, are adequately understood they can be replicated within a modeling environment. When fully developed and implemented the fundamental understanding of these relationships will facilitate the design of the next generation of integrated Intelligent Vehicle and Transport Systems technologies, with the potential to deliver significant fuel efficiency and environmental benefits.
Publication Year: 2008
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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