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Methodology for Estimating the Effect of Traffic Flow Management on Fuel Consumption and CO2 Production: A Case Study of Celje, Slovenia

JEREB, Borut, Ondrej STOPKA and Tomáš SKRUCANY

Basic information

Original name

Methodology for Estimating the Effect of Traffic Flow Management on Fuel Consumption and CO2 Production: A Case Study of Celje, Slovenia

Authors

JEREB, Borut (guarantor), Ondrej STOPKA (703 Slovakia, belonging to the institution) and Tomáš SKRUCANY

Edition

Energies, Basel, Switzerland, MDPI, 2021, 1996-1073

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50703 Transport planning and social aspects of transport

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/75081431:_____/21:00002090

Organization unit

Institute of Technology and Business in České Budějovice

UT WoS

000634413400001

Keywords in English

urban transport; crossroads; fuel consumption; CO2 production; greenhouse gas

Tags

Links

LTC19009, research and development project.
Změněno: 24/6/2021 15:16, Mgr. Nikola Petříková

Abstract

V originále

The manuscript discusses the investigation of vehicle flow in a predesignated junction by an appropriate traffic flow management with an effort to minimize fuel consumption, the production of CO2, an essential greenhouse gas (hereinafter referred to as GHG), and related transport costs. The particular research study was undertaken in a frequented junction in the city of Celje, located in the eastern part of Slovenia. The results obtained summarize data on consumed fuel and produced CO2 amounts depending on the type of vehicle, traffic flow mixture, traffic light signal plan, and actual vehicle velocity. These values were calculated separately for three different conditions of traffic flow management. Amounts of fuel consumed were experimentally investigated in real traffic situations, whereas CO2 production was calculated by applying the actual European standard entitled EN 16258:2012 associated with a guideline for measuring emission values, as well as by examining specific traffic flow parameters. The key objective of the manuscript is to present multiple scenarios towards striving to minimize environmental impacts and improve transport operation’s economic consequences when implementing proper traffic flow management. As for crucial findings, we quantified fuel consumption and CO2 emissions based on real data on the number and type of vehicles crossing the examined intersection and traffic light switching intervals. The results show that most of the CO2 was produced while waiting and in the accelerating phase in front of traffic lights, whereby in the running phase through the intersection, significantly less fuel was used. This study represents a mosaic fragment of research addressing endeavors to reduce CO2 production in urban transport. Following the experiments conducted, we can see a notable contribution towards reducing CO2 production with known and tested interventions in the existing transport infrastructure. A procedure embracing individual research steps may be deemed as an approach methodology dealing with traffic flow management with an aim to decrease the environmental and economic impacts of traffic and transport operation; this is where the novelty of the research lies.

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