SAE-A'S PROPOSED FURTHER STUDY OF TRUCK FUEL CONSUMPTION METHODS AND COMPUTER MODELS EVALUATION

The Society of Automotive Engineers--Australasia (SAE-A) has an ambitious program to develop and demonstrate an expanded range of truck and bus fuel consumption test procedures and to take the results directly into the point of-sale decision-making arena (truck sales rooms) via computer modelling techniques. A request for support grant funds has been made to the National Energy Research Development and Demonstration Council to supplement resources already pledged to this program. If the government funds are approved, significant new understandings of truck fuel consumption--and thus very real distillate savings--will flow to the nation from this program. (Author/TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • The paper was presented at a seminar held at the National Science Centre in Melbourne in August 1984. The number of the covering abstract for the conference is TRIS No. 392360.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (Australasia)

  Energy Policy Advisory Committee, 191 Royal Parade
  Parkville, Victoria 3052,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • Close, H
• Publication Date: 1984-8

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 13 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Conferences; Decision making; Digital computers; Evaluation and assessment; Fuel consumption; Fuels; Mathematical models; Measurement; Simulation; Test procedures; Trucks
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 8673: Digital computer; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 232: Fuel consumption; 1236: Lorry; 6473: Mathematical model; 6136: Measurement; 6288: Test method
• Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Motor Carriers; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00392365
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM