Eco-driven signal control and eco-driving of hybrid city buses

Abstract

Several European cities need to reduce traffic related emissions in order to meet the European Directive 2008/50 on ambient air quality. In order to achieve these reductions diverse concepts to reduce traffic-related pollution do exist. The introduction of single measures in an urban region is often not sufficient. Hence, multiple concepts must be combined. The main focus of this work is to integrate emissions caused by individual and public traffic as a direct and explicit objective for a local adaptive signal-control optimization to guarantee emission-minimizing signalization. The second aim is the introduction of tactical driving for public transport using V2I communication to increase efficiency of traffic flow resulting from additional information for the drivers. The third goal is to quantify the influence of the driving style on fuel consumption and battery wear of a parallel hybrid city bus, leading to eco-driving.