CONCEPTUAL AND PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT OF DRIVING CYCLE TRACKING DEVICE FOR ROUTE-TO-WORK DRIVING CYCLE IN KUALA TERENGGANU CITY, MALAYSIA

Abstract

Driving cycle is commonly known as the relationship between speed and time of a vehicle. Major application of driving cycle is to aid vehicle manufacturers, traffic engineers and environment engineers regarding pollution and emission studies. To develop an accurate driving cycle, information on realtime based driving behaviour is important. This paper concentrates on three major phases: to model a conceptual design of driving cycle tracking device (DC-TRAD) for route-to-work driving cycle in Kuala Terengganu city (RTW DC in KT city) in MATLAB/Simulink environment; to develop a prototype of DC-TRAD for RTW DC in KT city; and to analyse the obtained results of conceptual design and prototype for DC-TRAD using RTW DC in KT city. This research validates the conceptual model and prototype of DC-TRAD on RTW DC in KT city and the results obtained in this research supports the idea of importance of driving cycle.