Analyzing Vehicle Fuel Saving Opportunities through Intelligent Driver Feedback

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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 languageAmerican English
Number of pages13
StatePublished - 2012
Event2012 SAE World Congress and Exhibition - Detroit, Michigan
Duration: 24 Apr 201226 Apr 2012

Conference

Conference2012 SAE World Congress and Exhibition
CityDetroit, Michigan
Period24/04/1226/04/12

Bibliographical note

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NREL Publication Number

  • NREL/CP-5400-53864

Keywords

  • aggressive driving
  • behavior changes
  • driver efficiency
  • efficient driving
  • petroleum saving

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