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Audi Working on Intelligent Vehicle Network to Reduce CO2 Emissions

16 November 2007

Audi is working with three California universities on six multi-year research projects designed to reduce CO2 emissions through more intelligent interactions between driver and car, cars on the road, and in the collection and distribution of real-time traffic patterns.

The name of the project is “Clean Air, a Viable Planet.” Audi researchers are working with the University of California at Berkeley, the University of California at Riverside, and Stanford University.

Daniel Rosario, Audi manager of Connected Vehicles, in explaining the research said that the shortest route to a destination is not necessarily the optimized CO2 route.

The path between two points can be measured in distance, but it can also be measured in the amount of carbon dioxide that our vehicles emit. Through this research we believe that information provided by connected vehicles will allow a driver to decide the best route to achieve the lowest CO2 emissions.

The goal is sustainable transportation. Driving behavior can improve fuel efficiency by 20 percent. This initiative could improve that by another 20 percent.

—Daniel Rosario

The technology exists today to connect vehicles, now researches and engineers need to integrate these technologies into what Rosario calls an “Intelligent Vehicle Network”.

November 16, 2007 in Brief | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

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Nice idea. But until the congestion problems are significantly reduced - traffic routing via any kind of network will have little to marginal effect. And most vehicle navigation and aftermarket GPS systems already integrate traffic patterns with routing.

Posted by: gr | November 16, 2007 at 12:40 PM

I think this goes way beyond what is being done today. I don't know why more effort isn't going into the low hanging fruit of intelligent intersections. All it would take is a few sensors and a little bit of processing power and typical suburban traffic flows could be significantly improved. I'm thinking of the case where I sit at a red light forever while there's no cross traffic. Then the light changes right when some cross traffic shows up, so they have to wait. With a smart intersection, no one would have stopped.

Posted by: George | November 16, 2007 at 09:34 PM

need detailed project report on diesel to gas conversion
in chennai or south india

Posted by: e.jaishanker | November 16, 2007 at 11:41 PM

I can think of a lot of places around here where the sensors used for traffic lights create more problems than they solve. IE: A series of traffic lights close enough to each other that end up changing to red even when there are no cars on the cross streets... just as you reach the next intersection from the previous light. Lights that close together should all turn green at the same time.

Posted by: Cervus | November 17, 2007 at 10:09 PM

Cervus, those sound like dumb short range sensors, if they are even that. (Maybe just timers) The kind of thing I'm thinking of would sense cars from farther away, maybe even have knowledge of all traffic within some distance (say a quarter mile) and would have enough intelligence to keep traffic moving better than today's signals would.

Posted by: George | November 21, 2007 at 09:22 PM

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