Electric and diesel microbuses driving cycles in Firenze city center

Mobility within the city center of Firenze is not easy for two reasons: first, the city plan dates back to the Renaissance, where there was not an intensive vehicular flux and so any need for large streets, and second the city municipality decided to forbid some areas to the traditional internal combustion engines vehicles. Due for these reasons, the public mobility service provider decided to introduce microbuses, both electrical and Diesel, in order to overcome the two limitations. Main objectives of this paper are to provide a method to measure microbuses driving cycles with a GPS logger and compare the average performance of the different power trains. The definition of a set of tailored driving cycles will help to reduce the deviation from “every day” performance that could arise when standardized driving cycles are used for feasibility analysis. The data set will describe the behavior of these vehicles and possibly used to analyze also other use cases with similar characteristics.

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