DRIVER BEHAVIOR EFFECTS ON FUEL CONSUMPTION IN URBAN DRIVING

Data are examined from two published experimental studies in which drivers were instructed to drive other than normally, with the traffic: for example, to minimize fuel consumption or to minimize trip time. It is found that, in general, for each 1% increase (decrease) in trip time compared to driving normally with the traffic, the fuel consumption increases (decreases) by approximately 1.1%. However, expert drivers can save fuel without increasing trip time by skillfully adjusting their speed to avoid stops at traffic signals. It is shown that the formal problem to be solved to minimize fuel consumption on an urban trip is so complicated that even a "perfect" fuel economy meter would not enable a driver to achieve this minimum.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Human Factors Society

  Johns Hopkins University Press
  Baltimore, MD  United States  21218
• Authors:
  • Evans, Leonard
• Publication Date: 1979-8

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 389-398
• Serial:
  • Human Factors
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
  • ISSN: 0018-7208
  • EISSN: 1547-8181
  • Serial URL: http://hfs.sagepub.com/

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Ability tests; Automobile drivers; Automobiles; Behavior; Drivers; Driving; Fuel conservation; Fuel consumption; Human factors engineering; Human factors engineering; Motor vehicles; Research; Speed; Traffic signals; Traffic speed; Travel time; Urban areas
• Old TRIS Terms: Urban driving
• Subject Areas: Design; Energy; Highways; Research; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00311147
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-026 713
• Files: HSL, TRIS
• Created Date: Jun 26 1983 12:00AM