VEHICLE OPERATING COSTS IN THE CARIBBEAN: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF VEHICLE PERFORMANCE

This report describes an experimental study of vehicle speed and fuel consumption undertaken in the eastern Caribbean island of St Lucia. The study was designed to extend the range of the empirical relationships derived in an earlier study in Kenya which relate vehicle speed and fuel consumption to the geometric characteristics and surface condition of the road. The results of this study are compared with the relationships derived in the Kenya study and recommendations are made on the use of the two sets of relationships. A methodology has been evolved to provide vehicle speed estimating relationships which are applicable to physical and environmental conditions lying between the two sets of conditions encountered in Kenya and St Lucia. (Author/TRRL)

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  Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)

  Wokingham, Berkshire  United Kingdom 
• Authors:
  • MOROSIUK, G
  • ABAYNAYAKA, S W
• Publication Date: 1982

Media Info

• Features: References; Tables;
• Pagination: 23 p.
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Transport and Road Research Laboratory
  • Publisher: Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL)
  • ISSN: 0266-7045

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Developing countries; Forecasting; Fuel consumption; Geometric design; Highway design; Layout; Mathematical models; Motor vehicles; Operating costs; Smoothness; Speed; Traffic speed; Vehicle performance; Vehicles
• Uncontrolled Terms: Low cost roads
• ITRD Terms: 150: Developing countries; 3071: Evenness; 132: Forecast; 232: Fuel consumption; 2885: Layout; 2986: Low cost road; 6473: Mathematical model; 221: Operating costs; 5408: Speed; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00368700
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: LR 1056 Monograph, HS-034 287
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 31 1983 12:00AM