Evaluation of eco-driving systems: a European analysis with scenarios and micro simulation

In recent years, various field operational tests (FOTs) have been carried out in the EU to measure the real-world impacts of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). A challenge arising from these FOTs is to scale up from the very localised effects measured in the tests to a much wider set of socio-economic impacts, for the purposes of policy evaluation. This can involve: projecting future take-up of the systems; scaling up to a wider geographical area - in some cases the whole EU; and estimating a range of economic, social and environmental impacts into the future. This article describes the evaluation conducted in the European project 'ecoDriver', which developed and tested a range of driver support systems for cars and commercial vehicles. The systems aimed to reduce CO2 emissions and energy consumption by encouraging the adoption of green driving behaviour. A novel approach to evaluation was adopted, which used scenario-building and micro-simulation to help scale up the results from field tests to the EU-28 level over a 20 year period, leading to a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) from both a societal and a stakeholder perspective. This article describes the method developed and used for the evaluation, and the main results for eco-driving systems, focusing on novel aspects, lessons learned and implications for policy and research.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cstp.2018.08.001
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213624X17301761
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of World Conference on Transport Research Society. Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Jonkers, Eline
  • 0000-0002-7745-1067
  • Nellthorp, John
  • Wilmink, Isabel
  • Olstam, Johan
• Publication Date: 2018

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 629-637
• Serial:
  • Case Studies on Transport Policy
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2213-624X
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/2213624X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefit cost analysis; Driver support systems; Ecodriving; Economic and social factors; Energy consumption; Greenhouse gases; Intelligent transportation systems; Microsimulation; Pollutants; Sustainable transportation
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01679962
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 2018 1:45PM