Development of customer friendly method for measuring real fuel consumption of small passenger car
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Date
2017-06
Authors
Mohammad Hafeez Abdul Wahab
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Abstract
Drive cycle is a series of data points of vehicle speed against time. It represent
the real world driving conditions as it was proposed to be compared between estimated
vehicle fuel consumption with the measured results. The purpose of this research is to
suggest a simple drive cycle in certain amount of time and also to indicate the fuel
consumption used. The other purpose is to find the relationship between efficient
driving and safe driving while doing this research’s experiment. Basically, the drive
cycle experiment involves only a few steps to be done. The first step is to have a route
selection consist of urban and non-urban area. The second step is to collect the data
needed to make the drive cycle. An Android application is used to take the data needed
and a speed time graph automatically be produced. Plus, a questionnaire will be spread
online for people to fill up to find the correlation between efficient driving and safe
driving with fuel consumption. The data that will be collected is used to find the fuel
consumption of the vehicle. The parameter that will be compare is the vehicle
maximum speed, vehicle average speed and also the time duration. The reference data
can be used from the New European Drive Cycle (NEDC) data. The questionnaire will
be examine and a correlation can be made by the results taken. This method is very user
friendly and can be used for daily life method for safe vehicle driving. The fuel
consumption is in (l/100km) units. The drive cycle has its own pattern to represent the
behaviour of road test. Therefore, the drive cycle results will be coordinated with the
questionnaire respondent for safe driving and refuelling fuel method.