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The air pollution and global warming has become a major problem to the society. To counter this worldwide emission norms have become more stringent in recent times and shall continue to get further stringent in the next decade. From OEMs perspective with increased complexity, it has become a necessity to use simulation methods along with model based systems approach to deal with system level complexities and reduce model development time and cost to deal with the various regulatory requirements and customer needs. The simulation models must have good correlation with the actual test results and at the same time should be less complex, fast, and integrable with other vehicle function modelling. As the vehicle fuel economy is declared in cold start condition, the fuel economy simulation model of vehicle in cold start condition is required. The present paper describes a methodology to simulate the cold start fuel economy.

Automotive manufacturers are striving to improve the real-world driving experience for customers. To provide the better overall performance like fuel economy, we must have the real world driving behavior of our customers. The driving behavior of customers may change from city to city or region to region. Thus to make a real representative driving behavior of customer for each different region becomes tedious task. The present paper describes a detailed methodology to make a representative driving pattern quickly based on a Matlab script. The vehicles were driven in major Indian cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Nasik and Pune). The data was recorded with a frequency of 1 Hz. This data is segregated into different short trips. These short trips are grouped together based on maximum vehicle velocity in each short trip & velocity acceleration frequency distribution. Velocity acceleration frequency distribution of individual short trip is compared with each other quantitatively using Matlab script.