QUANTIFYING MOTOR CAR FUEL CONSERVATION STRATEGIES - A PROGRESS REPORT AND SOME INITIAL RESULTS

The object of this research project is a broad one, the projection of on- road fuel consumption and emissions from motor cars. The research program involves experimental testing and theoretical modelling of vehicle behaviour, with the eventual goal of reliable prediction of the fuel consumption and emissions of the trafficked road network and the vehicles comprising the traffic. The aim is to obtain a sufficiently versatile model, so that vehicle design changes and traffic changes can be accounted for, and the fuel consumption and emission changes evaluated. The laboratory test facility is described and its special features highlighted. The project has not progressed far beyond the major task of commissioning the vehicle energy and emissions test laboratory, but some results are reported of preliminary testing carried out during commissioning of new facilities: 1) comparison of on- road and dynamometer warm up vehicle temperatures, 2) gradient effects on fuel consumption, 3) tyre rolling resistance on dynamometer rollers. The Melbourne peak cycle driving cycle, developed from recent Melbourne traffic surveys, is presented. (TRRL)

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Motor Vehicle Fuel Conservation Workshop, Melbourne, February 1981.
• Corporate Authors:

  Australian Department of National Devel and Energy

  Hobart Place
  Canberra, A.C.T.,   Australia 
• Authors:
  • MILKINS, E E
  • WATSON, H C
  • Preston, M
  • Landsberg, A
• Publication Date: 1981-2

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 15 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobiles; Conferences; Dynamometers; Energy conservation; Exhaust gases; Force; Forecasting; Fuel consumption; Highway grades; Laboratories; Mathematical models; Measurement; Measuring instruments; Research projects; Rolling; Slopes; Temperature; Test procedures; Tires; Traffic surveys; Vehicles
• Old TRIS Terms: Resistance
• ITRD Terms: 6155: Apparatus (measuring); 1243: Car; 8525: Conference; 2442: Emission; 212: Energy conservation; 5421: Force; 132: Forecast; 232: Fuel consumption; 2806: Gradient; 6237: Laboratory (not an organization); 6473: Mathematical model; 8557: Research project; 6722: Temperature; 6288: Test method; 1381: Tyre; 1255: Vehicle
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Research; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00342987
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: ARRB
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jan 29 1982 12:00AM