THOUSANDS OF EUROS WE THROW – THE INFLUENCE OF DRIVING STYLE ON FUEL CONSUMPTION

At the sixth regional conference, entitled “Towards Sustainable Transport”, held on Zlatibor, our Fleetomatic device was presented to numerous domestic and foreign guests.

At the mentioned conference, his study on “The impact of driving style on the energy efficiency of vehicles in road transport” was held by Dr. Davor Vujanović, professor at the Faculty of Transportation in Belgrade. He emphasized the importance of the influence of a custom driving style, ie the problems brought by an aggressive driving style:

Based on the conducted research, it has been established that a moderate style of driving a passenger vehicle can reduce the specific fuel consumption by about 20% in relation to the aggressive style of driving on the same section and under the same traffic conditions.

The key parameters of driving that accurately show the driver’s driving style, and which affect fuel consumption are as follows:

• engine speed (in rpm),
• accelerator pedal pressure (in%),
• vehicle acceleration or deceleration (in m / s 2)

To measure the values ​​of defined parameters that indicate the style of driving, as well as reading the data of prof. dr. Davor Vujanović used the device of our company – “FLEETOMATIC“, which is connected to the vehicle via the OBDII port.

 

Fleetomatic, after connecting to the OBDII port during vehicle operation, reads the current engine speed, accelerator pedal pressure and acceleration from the ECU (Engine Control Unit). The reading of the values ​​of the stated parameters is performed with a periodicity of one second. The read parameter values ​​are transmitted via a “Bluetooth” connection to a developed application for storing data on the mobile phone in the vehicle.

The idea of ​​using Fleetomatic devices is that the employer has an easy, fast and simple way to have an insight into the driving style of its employees, and thus the ability to correct them in order to achieve significant financial savings.

REVIEW OF THE FLEET OF THE COMPANY “DELMAX” D.O.O. IN WHICH A RESEARCH WAS CARRIED OUT USING A FLEETOMATIC DEVICE

VAN NUMBER	SHARE OF VANS IN THE VEHICLE (%)	AVERAGE AGE OF VEHICLES (YEARS)	TOTAL ANNUAL ROADS OF VANS (KM)

34	72,34	5,85	2 054 448

 

PRIKAZ OČEKIVANIH UŠTEDA U POTROŠNJI GORIVA U POSMATRANOJ KOMPANIJI

SCENARIO	NUMBER OF VANS WITH PASSIVE DRIVERS	EXPECTED ANNUAL SAVINGS (LITERS)	SAVING MONEY (LITERS * PRICE OF 1L FUEL)

0% of vehicles with passive drivers	0	0	0
50% of vehicles with passive drivers	17	12 738 l	16 192 eur
70% of vehicles with passive drivers	24	17 833 l	22 670 eur
100% vehicles with passive drivers	34	25 475 l	32 383 eur

 

The average price of fuel was 1.27 eur (150 dinars) per liter of fuel.

Scientific work as well as research by prof. dr. Davor Vujanović was supported by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia.