Article ID: | iaor19982847 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Volume: | 3D |
Issue: | 1 |
Start Page Number: | 19 |
End Page Number: | 27 |
Publication Date: | Jan 1998 |
Journal: | Transportation Research. Part D, Transport and Environment |
Authors: | Tzeng Gwo-Hshiung, Chen June-Jye |
Keywords: | geography & environment |
The purposes of this study are to develop a representative driving cycle for motorcycles in metropolitan Taipei and to ascertain the emissions and fuel economy of the cycle. We collected extensive driving cycle data and proposed a methodology to develop a Taipei motorcycle driving cycle (TMDC). The characteristics of TMDC are high average acceleration and deceleration, high acceleration–deceleration changes and low average travel speed. Forty-five motorcycles were tested in a laboratory by using the ECE-40 and TMDC test procedure. The emissions of motorcycles tested by TMDC are higher than ECE, whether they are two-stroke or four-stroke engines. Furthermore, the CO and HC emissions of two-stroke engine motorcycles are higher than four-stroke engine motorcycles, and the NO