Reducing Winter Maintenance Equipment Fuel Consumption Using Advanced Vehicle Data Analytics

The premise of this project is that by mining and analyzing in-use vehicle data, snowplow vehicle fuel use can be reduced while still providing a critical service for roadway safety and convenience. The proposed research builds from existing work in vehicle powertrain and routing co-optimization (VPRO) to harness large quantities of vehicle data to improve vehicle fuel consumption and lower operating costs.

• Record URL:
  https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14153/mndot.14656

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $212919
• Contract Numbers:

  1003325 WO#63

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155
• Performing Organizations:

  University of Minnesota

  Department of Mechanical Engineering
  111 Church Street SE
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455
• Principal Investigators:

  Northrop, William

• Start Date: 20180626
• Expected Completion Date: 20230131
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data analysis; Fuel consumption; Operating costs; Snowplows
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Energy; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01668375
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Minnesota Department of Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 1003325 WO#63
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 2 2018 2:15PM