Vehicle fuel consumption and emission estimation in environment-adaptive driving with or without inter-vehicle communications

Author

Widodo, Ari ; Hasegawa, Takaaki ; Tsugawa, Sadayuki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Syst. Eng., Saitama Univ., Urawa, Japan

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

382

Lastpage

386

Abstract

In this paper, the vehicle fuel consumption and emission rates of environment-adaptive driving with or without inter-vehicle communications are estimated using an autonomous running traffic flow simulator. In this study, a microscopic fuel consumption and emission model is used. Simulation results show that environment-adaptive driving can reduce both of the average fuel consumption and vehicle emission. It also shows that inter-vehicle communications can improve these impacts under high vehicle densities and long traffic light cycle times

Keywords

air pollution; automated highways; environmental factors; mobile communication; road vehicles; autonomous running traffic flow simulator; environment-adaptive driving; high vehicle densities; inter-vehicle communications; long traffic light cycle times; microscopic model; vehicle emission estimation; vehicle fuel consumption estimation; Fuels; Human factors; Laboratories; Mechanical engineering; Microscopy; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Road safety; Traffic control; Vehicle driving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, 2000. IV 2000. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Dearborn, MI

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6363-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IVS.2000.898373

Filename

898373