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The instantaneous fuel consumption measurements obtained from the chassis dynamometer tests using the drive cycles for light duty vehicles in Metro Manila was used in the development of speed-acceleration-fuel consumption models. The Shepard’s interpolation method was used in the development of the models. A program C# language was used to execute the interpolation method.The resulting models are represented by speed-acceleration-fuel consumption surface graphs. The surface graph of each test vehicle represents its estimated fuel consumption variation according to its combined instantaneous speed and acceleration. Actual instantaneous speeds from speed data of surveyed vehicles, defining different traffic conditions by average speed, are used to interpolate instantaneous fuel consumption. Fuel economy, in terms of distance travelled (km) per volume of fuel consumed (liter), is computed from the totaled fuel consumption and total distance traversed.

The urban drive cycles for five different light duty vehicles (LDV) are developed in this study. The study presents the methodology in the development of the drive cycles in which the speed profile of the specific type of vehicle is surveyed with an on-board instrument. The speed data is processed using a program to execute the methodology in generating candidate drive cycles. The selected drive cycles are then used in the chassis dynamometer laboratory to estimate the fuel economies of each type of light duty vehicle considered. The developed drive cycles for the different types of light duty vehicles, namely (1) private cars, (2) taxis, (3) public utility jeepneys, (4) UV express, and (5) light duty trucks have average speeds of 17.97 kph, 13.57 kph, 10.87 kph, 14.69 kph and 8.43 kph respectively. The measured fuel economies for all the light duty vehicles tested ranges from 3 to 12 km/liter.