Virginia Tech Comprehensive Power-Based Fuel Consumption Model: Model development and testing

Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 492-503

  Rakha, Hesham A ^a,b   Ahn, Kyoungho ^b   Moran, Kevin ^c   Saerens, Bart ^d   Bulck, Eric Van den ^d  

^a State University   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA TECH TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Transportation carbon footprint modeling; Vehicle emission modeling; Vehicle fuel consumption modeling

Indexed keywords

BANG BANG CONTROL SYSTEMS; CALIBRATION; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; FUEL CONSUMPTION; FUELS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; MOBILE DEVICES; VEHICLES;

BANG-BANG CONTROL; CONSUMPTION MODELING; FIELD DATA COLLECTION; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOOTPRINT MODELING; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; US ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY; VEHICLE EMISSION MODELS;

FUEL ECONOMY;

CALIBRATION; CARBON EMISSION; FIELD METHOD; FUEL CONSUMPTION; MODELING; TESTING METHOD; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

EID: 79960848385     PISSN: 13619209     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trd.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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