The Influence of Street Environments on Fuel Efficiency: Insights from Naturalistic Driving
The authors research applied Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) to examine how driving behaviors and fuel efficiency respond to different street environments. The authors used a rich naturalistic driving dataset that recorded detailed driving patterns of 108 drivers randomly selected from the Southeast Michigan region. The results show that, some features of compact streets such as lower speed limit, higher intersection density, higher population and employment density are associated with lower driving speed, more speed changes, and lower fuel efficiency; however, other features such as higher density of pedestrian-scale retails improve fuel efficiency. The aim of the authors study is to increase the understanding of energy and environmental outcomes of the streets engineers plan, design, and build and to better inform policy decisions concerned with sustainable transportation.
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Supplemental Notes:
- This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ADC70 Transportation Energy. Alternate title: Influence of Street Environments on Fuel Efficiency: Insights from Naturalistic Driving.
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Corporate Authors:
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Authors:
- Wang, Xiaoguang
- Liu, Chao
- Kostyniuk, Lidia
- Shen, Qing
- Bao, Shan
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Conference:
- Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
- Location: Washington DC
- Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
- Date: 2014
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Figures; Maps; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 16p
- Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automatic data collection systems; Behavior modification; Driving; Fuel consumption; Intersections; Speed limits; Structural equation modeling
- Geographic Terms: Southeast Michigan
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01506336
- Record Type: Publication
- Report/Paper Numbers: 14-3361
- Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
- Created Date: Feb 3 2014 9:17AM