Title: Development of a driving cycle for city bus in Harbin of China

Authors: Xiaogang Wu; Chen Hu; Jiuyu Du

Addresses: College of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China ' College of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, China ' State Key Laboratory of Automotive Safety and Energy, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Abstract: The bus line types of Harbin are regular, bus rapid transit (BRT) and suburban. The actual driving data is collected by GPS devices and divided into kinematics sequences. Eleven characteristic parameters of the kinematics sequences are calculated. The representative driving cycles are constructed by principal component analysis and cluster analysis. The Harbin driving cycle is compared with the common driving cycles of Zhuzhou city and Chinese typical city. The energy consumption simulations of an electric vehicle model are conducted through MATLAB with different common driving cycles. The simulation results show the difference between Harbin driving cycles and common driving cycles and verify the construction significance of Harbin driving cycles.

Keywords: hybrid electric vehicles; HEVs; hybrid vehicles; driving cycles; principal component analysis; PCA; cluster analysis; city buses; Harbin; China; kinematic sequences; public transport; urban buses; energy consumption; simulation; modelling.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEHV.2015.071063

International Journal of Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, 2015 Vol.7 No.2, pp.104 - 119

Received: 05 Mar 2015
Accepted: 26 Mar 2015

Published online: 10 Aug 2015 *

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