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An Economic Calibration Method for Fuel Consumption Model in HDM4

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HDM4 developed by Worldbank is the calculation software which is widely used in estimating various costs such as highway construction cost and vehicle operating cost (VOC). The necessary data such as weather condition, traffic volume, running speed, road curvature and road gradient should be input to calculate fuel consumption in HDM4. In conventional HDM4 calibration, calibration factors are determined by the average fuel consumption which has been measured for various vehicles for long period. The vehicles which are released after the calibration factors are determined or those with new technology could be low in terms of fuel consumption. This paper has proposed a fuel consumption testing method for quick and easy determination of the calibration factors in HDM4 VOC calculation. The calibration for the fuel consumption of HDM4 is performed by measuring fuel consumption for round trips on two flat and straight roads at several steady speeds for a short period. By this calibration method the factors for driving resistance ranged from 0.13 to 0.30. Latest cars are lower than HDM4 models in terms of tractive resistance and power loss with more efficient fuel economy. Therefore, it appears that the calibration factors would further decrease over time. In case of HDM4, however, separate calibration factors are not provided for aerodynamic resistance. Therefore, it is reasonable to regard that the difference in aerodynamic resistance has been reflected to the two calibration factors.

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  1. Division of Automotive Engineering, Ajou Motor College, Boryeong-si, Chungnam, 355-769, Korea

    Kwang-Ho Ko, Byung-Koo Moon, Tong-Won Lee & Won-Ho Lee

  2. Highway and Transportation Research Insitute, Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology, 283, Goyangdae-ro, Ilsanseo-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

    Ink-Yoon Yoo, Sooh-Yung Lee & Dae-Seok Han

  3. ECOTRUMENT, 501, Doorae Business Center, 239, Namdongdai-ro, Namdong-gu, Incheon, Korea

    Seung-Hyun Jeong

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Ko, KH., Moon, BK., Lee, TW. et al. An Economic Calibration Method for Fuel Consumption Model in HDM4. Wireless Pers Commun 89, 959–975 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3353-2

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