Evaluation of eco-driving systems: A european analysis with scenarios and micro simulation
article
In recent years, various field operational tests (FOTs) have been carried out in the EU to measure the real-world
impacts of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). A challenge arising from these FOTs is to scale up from the very
localised effects measured in the tests to a much wider set of socio-economic impacts, for the purposes of policy
evaluation. This can involve: projecting future take-up of the systems; scaling up to a wider geographical area –
in some cases the whole EU; and estimating a range of economic, social and environmental impacts into the
future. This article describes the evaluation conducted in the European project ‘ecoDriver’, which developed and
tested a range of driver support systems for cars and commercial vehicles. The systems aimed to reduce CO2
emissions and energy consumption by encouraging the adoption of green driving behaviour. A novel approach to
evaluation was adopted, which used scenario-building and micro-simulation to help scale up the results from
field tests to the EU-28 level over a 20 year period, leading to a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) from both a societal
and a stakeholder perspective. This article describes the method developed and used for the evaluation, and the
main results for eco-driving systems, focusing on novel aspects, lessons learned and implications for policy and
research.
impacts of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS). A challenge arising from these FOTs is to scale up from the very
localised effects measured in the tests to a much wider set of socio-economic impacts, for the purposes of policy
evaluation. This can involve: projecting future take-up of the systems; scaling up to a wider geographical area –
in some cases the whole EU; and estimating a range of economic, social and environmental impacts into the
future. This article describes the evaluation conducted in the European project ‘ecoDriver’, which developed and
tested a range of driver support systems for cars and commercial vehicles. The systems aimed to reduce CO2
emissions and energy consumption by encouraging the adoption of green driving behaviour. A novel approach to
evaluation was adopted, which used scenario-building and micro-simulation to help scale up the results from
field tests to the EU-28 level over a 20 year period, leading to a cost-benefit analysis (CBA) from both a societal
and a stakeholder perspective. This article describes the method developed and used for the evaluation, and the
main results for eco-driving systems, focusing on novel aspects, lessons learned and implications for policy and
research.
TNO Identifier
866393
Source
Case Studies on Transport Policy, 6, pp. 629-637.
Pages
629-637
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