Instantaneous energy consumption and emissions of road vehicles, especially of heavy duty vehicles

• Research unit: COST
• Project number: C00.0015

Key words (English)

Emission; fuel consumption; particulate matter; heavy-duty vehicles

Research programs (English)

COST-Action 346 - Emissions and fuel consumption from heavy duty vehicles

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise: Eidg. Materialprüfungs- und Forschungsanstalt EMPA Abteilung Verbrennungsmotoren/Feuerungen

Partners and International Organizations (English)

AT, BE, CZ, DK, FI, FR, DE, EL, HU, IL, IT, LT, NL, RO, ES, SE, CH, UK

Abstract (English)

The objective of this action was to develop an improved methodology for estimating emissions and fuel consumption from commercial road transport operated with heavy-duty vehicles in Europe. The goal was to estimate the enmissiong [g/km] from single vehicles as well as from vehicle fleets [tons/year], e.g. for national or regional inventories. The activities included the improvement of the amount and quality of the underlying data on emissions and transport activity, as well as the valida-tion and improvement of existing models. To achieve these objectives, the following actions were performed: - Mesurement of emission data from more than 100 heavy duty diesel engines of different manufac-turers and different emission legislation levels in test laboratories across Europe and in Israel - Evaluation and modeling of relevant driving situations for heavy duty vehicles in countries across Europe - Development of an emission model (using the experimental data )which is capable to predict emissions and fuel consumption for different vehicles in different driving situations - Validation of the model using laboratory experiments or real-world data - Development of an emission modeling tool which is capable to calculate emissions and fuel con-sumption for a given vehilcle fleet in given driving situations (e.g. for national inventories) All tasks have been successfully finalised, a detailed report is in print and will be available soon.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: COST-DB of the State Secretariat for Education and Research Hallwylstrasse 4 CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland Tel. [phone] Swiss Project-Number: C00.0015