Eco-driving for transit: An effective strategy to conserve fuel and emissions

Xu, Yanzhi; Li, Hanyan; Liu, Haobing; Rodgers, Michael O.; Guensler, Randall

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2016.09.101

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“…Eco-driving is also more cost-effective than fleet retrofit programs (e.g. replacing existing diesel buses with new compressed natural gas ones) [15]. Ecodriving is an initiative which has seen worldwide adoption and investigation in the past decade [16] although great efforts are needed to convert the claimed benefits of eco-driving into real-driving practice with lasting and uniform effects.…”

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Eco-driving technology for sustainable road transport: A review

Huang

Zhou

et al. 2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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Road transport consumes significant quantities of fossil fuel and accounts for a significant proportion of CO2 and pollutant emissions worldwide. The driver is a major and often overlooked factor that determines vehicle performance. Eco-driving is a relatively low-cost and immediate measure to reduce fuel consumption and emissions significantly. This paper reviews the major factors, research methods and implementation of eco-driving technology. The major factors of eco-driving are acceleration/deceleration, driving speed, route choice and idling. Eco-driving training programs and in-vehicle feedback devices are commonly used to implement eco-driving skills. After training or using in-vehicle devices, immediate and significant reductions in fuel consumption and CO2 emissions have been observed with slightly increased travel time. However, the impacts of both methods attenuate over time due to the ingrained driving habits developed over the years. These findings imply the necessity of developing quantitative eco-driving patterns that could be integrated into vehicle hardware so as to generate more constant and uniform improvements, as well as developing more effective and lasting training programs and in-vehicle devices. Current eco-driving studies mainly focus on the fuel savings and CO2 reduction of individual vehicles, but ignore the pollutant emissions and the impacts at network levels. Finally, the challenges and future research directions of eco-driving technology are elaborated.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eco-driving technology for sustainable road transport: A review

Huang

Zhou

et al. 2018

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

245

103

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“…For CMEM, the model was calibrated specifically for the test vehicle. This means that the readily available parameters, such as mass, engine displacement, the idle speed of the engine, were obtained, and the calibration parameters were derived, as described in [17].…”

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Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Potential Shortcomings of a Binned-Based Emissions Model

Oswald

Scora

Williams

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)

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“…and scheduled vehicle maintenance. Eco‐driving training strategies have demonstrated their effectiveness for transit buses [12, 13] as well as for medium to heavy duty vehicles [4, 14, 15] by reducing fuel consumption by 10% on average. Most of the aforementioned eco‐driving strategies are based on heuristic guidelines and good practices that are associated with energy‐efficient driving behaviours.…”

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“…Most of the aforementioned eco‐driving strategies are based on heuristic guidelines and good practices that are associated with energy‐efficient driving behaviours. In [13], for example, operating modes of a transit vehicle are defined for different roads (local versus freeway) and travel speed settings by minimising activities in high‐scaled tractive power (STP), which is an equivalent representation of high engine loads in the MOtor Vehicle Emission Simulator, an emission modelling system developed by US Environmental Protection Agency. Drivers are then advised to conditionally limit their acceleration based on the current vehicle velocity to keep the STP value under the set threshold limit.…”

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“…While six months of extensive training using a simulator resulted in a maximum average fuel economy improvement of 16.9% in [12], the long‐term analysis in [15] revealed that the effect of the training in fuel saving was reduced to 4% just three months after the end of the training, which suggests the need for continuous training and support to reinforce initial changes in the driver's behaviour. The works in [13, 18] suggested that real‐time feedback should be used to constantly remind the drivers of ideal eco‐driving behaviour for the current driving condition.…”

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Predictive kinetic energy management for an add‐on driver assistance eco‐driving of heavy vehicles

Yoon

Ayalew

Ivančo

et al. 2020

IET intell. transp. syst

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This study presents a radar‐based predictive kinetic energy management (PKEM) framework that is applicable as an add‐on driver assistance module for a heavy vehicle with an internal combustion engine powertrain. The proposed framework attempts to minimise fuel consumption by estimating the motion of the leading vehicle from radar information and optimising the inputs to the ego vehicle in a predictive manner. The PKEM framework consists of a driver‐pedal pre‐filter, an interacting multiple model radar‐based filter and predictor of traffic object states, and a non‐linear model predictive controller. The framework is integrated with established human‐driver car‐following models representing various driving styles and evaluated over a set of standardised driving cycles. The authors found that the energy‐saving benefits can be as much as 23% over the baseline driver‐only case with minimal compromises on travel time in urban environments, while the benefits are nearly negligible on the highway cycle. The results included also show the potential trade‐offs in accommodating driver‐desired inputs.

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Eco-driving for transit: An effective strategy to conserve fuel and emissions

Cited by 72 publications

References 27 publications

Eco-driving technology for sustainable road transport: A review

Eco-driving technology for sustainable road transport: A review

Evaluating the Environmental Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Potential Shortcomings of a Binned-Based Emissions Model

Predictive kinetic energy management for an add‐on driver assistance eco‐driving of heavy vehicles

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