Improving the assessment of RDE dynamics through vehicle-specific power analysis.

Vehicles are an important source of air pollutants and greenhouse gases. Their emissions have been controlled since the 1970s by laboratory tests but there are often found divergences to real-world emissions. Real driving emissions procedure is in implementation in many countries, for evaluating vehicles closer to actual operation.

Validation of a Low-Cost Pavement Monitoring Inertial-Based System for Urban Road Networks.

Road networks are monitored to evaluate their decay level and the performances regarding ride comfort, vehicle rolling noise, fuel consumption, etc. In this study, a novel inertial sensor-based system is proposed using a low-cost inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a global positioning system (GPS) module, which are connected to a Raspberry Pi Zero W board and embedded inside a vehicle to indirectly monitor the road condition. To assess the level of pavement decay, the comfort index defined by the ISO 2631 standard was used.