Desarrollo de ciclos de conducción en la ciudad de Quito-Ecuador para un vehículo categoría M1

Abstract

In the given work a series of driving cycles will be performed in the city of Quito-Ecuador in three specific routes: urban, highway and combined, which will allow to find the grade of mobility at peak hours and their fuel consumption. The reason why this practice will be taken into account resides in sources of the “Secretaría del Ambiente” which, according them, the Air Quality Index in the city of Quito had thrown worrying data and, if not for the COVID-19 pandemic, those values could’ve continued to increase as for the constant growth of vehicle sales that, according to the “Asociación de Empresas Automotrices del Ecuador”, ascended to 49 718 units in the Pichincha province as of 2019 adding up to a sum of 825 763 total vehicles (the majority of them in Quito). Across the study, things such as the general behavior of the vehicle in the city and its highly worrying fuel consumption will be known as this last criteria will directly affect the AQI. In order to be accomplished, instrumentation such as an OBD2 ELM327 module and its respective Car Scanner ELM OBD2 app will be implemented in order to register, store and export to the PC the real time data read according to variables such as: vehicle speed, fuel consumption, travel distance, travel time, etc. By using that information, graphs of the vehicle speed vs travel time will be achieved from the driving cycles where the lower mobility and highest fuel consumption in terms of kilometers traveled is predicted to happen in the urban area instead of the highway and combined ones.