Regional passenger transport is a rapidly growing market in Europe, as a result of the need to minimise pollution in cities by reducing the demand for personal transport. Persistent requirements for mass transport include: Reduction in investment cost; Minimisation of emissions; Reduction of maintenance costs; and Improvements in energy efficiency. As the cost of electrification is often unacceptably high, diesel-powered vehicles are still the only remaining alternative. However, the maintenance costs associated with the diesel engine are very high, while frequent stop/start cycling on suburban routes results in high levels of noxious emissions and reduced energy efficiency. This paper describes a hybrid power train simulation model, in which an electric vehicle's operational performance has been set up to generate input data to a hybrid and a diesel vehicle model. Those models behave as independent vehicles predicting fuel consumption and emissions to be compared to each other running in identical traffic conditions. For the covering abstract see ITRD E128239.
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