REGIONALIZATION OF IN-USE FUEL ECONOMY EFFECTS

The capability of regional and seasonal factors to account for the variation observed in on-road fuel economy shortfall is examined. The analysis characterizes the seasonal trends in geographic regions of the US and develops a preliminary regionalization procedure. A predictive model of the regional/seasonal variations in shortfall from national annual-average conditions was developed. The regionalization procedure incorporates three major in-use fuel economy effects: vehicle-specific intensity of use (average miles per day); cyclical monthly variations for three US temperature zones; and annual differences associated with local population procedure is demonstrated using the General Motors 1980 Postcard Survey of in-use fuel economy.

• Corporate Authors:

  Energy and Environmental Analysis, Incorporated

  1111 North 19th Street
  Arlington, VA  United States  22209
• Publication Date: 1982-4

Media Info

• Pagination: 70 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Climate; Data collection; Fuel consumption; Regions; Surveys; Temperature; Variance; Vehicle miles of travel
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment; I71: Traffic Theory;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00390020
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Energy Research Abstracts
• Report/Paper Numbers: DOE/PE/70032-T6
• Contract Numbers: AC01-79PE70032
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1984 12:00AM