Research Article

Motorcycle On-Road Driving Parameters Influencing Fuel Consumption and Emissions on Congested Signalized Urban Corridor

Table 1

Results of descriptive statistics analysis on on-road driving data.

NumberDriving parametersMeanSD

1: driving time (s)1,279176
2: driving distance (km)7.140.07
3: total weight (kg)161.76.5
(Motorcycle weight = 98.8 kg, fuel weight = 2.6 kg, and mean weight of drivers = 60.4 kg)
4: average running speed (km/h)25.42.4
5ACC: average acceleration (m/s2)0.590.09
6DEC: average deceleration (m/s2)−0.620.09
7Pi: time spent at idle (%)19.86.1
8Pa: time spent in acceleration (%)32.23.6
9Pd: time spent in deceleration (%)29.53.3
10: average momentum (kg⋅m/s)1,140121
11FC: fuel consumption (ml/kg⋅km)0.15800.0171
12CO2: CO2 emission (g/kg⋅km)0.23520.0403
13CO: CO emission (g/kg⋅km)0.00700.0012