Abstract
Driving style changes, e.g., improving driver efficiency and motivating driver behavior changes, could deliver significant petroleum savings. This project examines eliminating stop-and-go driving and unnecessary idling, and also adjusting acceleration rates and cruising speeds to ideal levels to quantify fuel savings. Such extreme adjustments can result in dramatic fuel savings of over 30%, butwould in reality only be achievable through automated control of vehicles and traffic flow. In real-world driving, efficient driving behaviors could reduce fuel use by 20% on aggressively driven cycles and by 5-10% on more moderately driven trips. A literature survey was conducted of driver behavior influences, and pertinent factors from on-road experiments with different driving styles wereobserved. This effort highlighted important driver influences such as surrounding vehicle behavior, anxiety over trying to get somewhere quickly, and the power/torque available from the vehicle. Existing feedback approaches often deliver efficiency information and instruction. Three recommendations for maximizing fuel savings from potential drive cycle improvement are: 1) leveraging applicationswith enhanced incentives, 2) using an approach that is easy and widely deployable to motivate drivers, and 3) utilizing connected vehicle and automation technologies to achieve large and widespread efficiency improvements.
Original language | American English |
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Number of pages | 13 |
State | Published - 2012 |
Event | 2012 SAE World Congress and Exhibition - Detroit, Michigan Duration: 24 Apr 2012 → 26 Apr 2012 |
Conference
Conference | 2012 SAE World Congress and Exhibition |
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City | Detroit, Michigan |
Period | 24/04/12 → 26/04/12 |
Bibliographical note
Posted with permissionNREL Publication Number
- NREL/CP-5400-53864
Keywords
- aggressive driving
- behavior changes
- driver efficiency
- efficient driving
- petroleum saving