The enviroCar platform offers a broad range of data about traffic that can be used by different stakeholder groups. Fuel consumption is of special interest, e.g. when trying to understand the environmental impact of traffic or when trying to minimize fuel consumption by individual drivers. In enviroCar, there are currently two models to calculate fuel consumption: 1) using motor data from the on-board diagnostics (OBD) and 2) using GPS data from mobile phones running the enviroCar app.
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Improving the provision of information for traffic management and environmentally conscious driving
The CITRAM project aims to improve traffic quality in cities with the help of floating car data provided by citizens. In the course of the project, the partners develop a set of coordinated tools addressing the aim of CITRAM. The citizen science platform enviroCar is used for the collection of floating car data (FCD) in three German cities. This FCD is used in newly developed postprocessing services that derive traffic quality characteristics as valuable input for traffic planers. To support citizens in an eco-friendly driving manner, the consortium also developed a traffic light assistant app ([ui!] ECOMAT). This enables a foresighted driving style in urban traffic. In order to collect a variety of trajectories, citizens are encouraged to collect data in designated campaigns while driving their day-to-day routes with combustion and electric cars. These collected trajectories are anonymized, stored and published under an open data policy in a central server.
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Estimating fuel consumption of cars based on movement data and its sensitivity to car and movement specific properties
The transportation sector is responsible for approximately 20 percent of global CO2 emissions, most of which are produced by road traffic. Moreover, emissions are rising and are rising faster than in other sectors. Reducing these emissions is crucial to reaching the goals of the 2016 Paris agreement. Efficient reduction strategies and their monitoring rely on broad and exact data about passenger car fuel consumption and emissions.