Technical Paper
Investigation of Variation in Real World Fuel Economy of a Gasoline Car in Two Different Highway Traffic Conditions: An Indian Scenario
2014-04-01
2014-01-1617
The main objectives this paper is two-fold. First, the paper highlights the role of good road and traffic infrastructure for improving the on-road fuel economy of vehicle. Second, it investigate the dynamic driving parameters like positive tractive power level, modes of driving and velocity acceleration envelopes, affecting the on road energy demand and fuel economy. In this study, the gasoline passenger car was driven about 260 km each on two different intercity highways by same driver and at same load. The road and traffic condition of two highways was chosen entirely different, one highway as well organized and other as poorly organized. The fuel consumption and speed time trace were captured using on-board equipments in the field run. The average on road fuel economy was observed as 16.65 km/l (around 18% higher) for well organized highway as compared to 14.13 km/l for other highway.
