Gao, J, Chen, H orcid.org/0000-0003-0753-7735, Dave, K et al. (4 more authors) (2020) Analysis of driving behaviours of truck drivers using motorway tests. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 234 (13). pp. 3103-3111. ISSN 0954-4070
Abstract
Road transportations still play a dominant role in goods delivery, and driving behaviours significantly affect the fuel economy of heavy-duty trucks. Plenty of fossil fuel is wasted as a result of unreasonable driving behaviours even in the case of highly experienced drivers. The objective of this paper is to analyse drivers’ behaviours over two segments of motorways and estimate the potential benefits of fuel saving caused by a change in driving habits during national and international goods delivery. Drivers’ habits on motorways change depending on the road situations. In the acceleration process, the fuel consumption rates are huge even under low-speed conditions. The truck fuel consumption rates are exaggerated by positive road slopes, but still dominated by acceleration. Accelerations are generally in normal distributions, with the median value being approximately 0.5 m/s2. The speed ranges corresponding to each gear enlarge with the increase in gear number. The potentials of annual fuel saving for parts of European Union countries are nearly 2 × 106 m3 by adopting proper driving behaviours.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © IMechE 2020. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
Keywords: | Road test, driving behaviours, fuel economy, acceleration distribution, heavy-duty trucks |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > Institute for Transport Studies (Leeds) > ITS: Spatial Modelling and Dynamics (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 815189 EU - European Union 713788 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2020 13:24 |
Last Modified: | 09 Jan 2023 11:57 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0954407020925568 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:160588 |