Development of Virtual Fuel Economy Trend Evaluation Process

PI: Levent Guvenc

In this project, a fuel efficiency simulator environment with existing simulator software such as Simulink, Vissim, Sumo, and CarSim is being created to reduce the effort involved in developing and evaluating new fuel-efficient algorithms before conducting expensive road testing. The simulation environment combines a mid-sized sedan MATLAB-Simulink model with realistic traffic simulations of urban and highway sections of actual roads simulated with different traffic densities. Other traffic elements which affect the fuel consumption, such as speed limit information, traffic stop sign and traffic light with SPaT (Signal Phase and Timing) information are also part of the developed simulation environment.