Using 3D road geometry to optimize heavy truck fuel efficiency

IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Proceedings, ITSC

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 334-339

  Huang, Wei ^a   Bevly, David M ^a   Schnick, Steve ^b   Li, Xiaopeng ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Intermap Technologies Corp   (Canada)

^c Intermap Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; FUEL EFFICIENCIES; GEAR SHIFTING; HEAVY TRUCKS; ROAD GEOMETRIES; ROAD MAPS; SIMULATION RESULTS; SYSTEM BEHAVIORS; TRAVEL TIME; TRUCK MODELS; VELOCITY TRAJECTORIES;

AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CONTROL SYSTEM ANALYSIS; FUEL ECONOMY; FUELS; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; MAPS; OPTIMIZATION; ROADS AND STREETS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STEEL METALLURGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRUCKS; VEHICLE LOCATING SYSTEMS;

OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 60749098435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITSC.2008.4732656     Document Type: Conference Paper

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