Análisis metodológico para determinar ciclos de conducción para los vehículos de categoría M1, en el distrito metropolitano de Quito

Abstract

Within the analysis of the driving cycles, the existence of various variables that can limit from a methodological perspective the elaboration of driving cycles in the Metropolitan District of Quito has been determined, for this reason it has been sought to determine in a descriptive way the antecedents regarding the methodology and implementation of the driving cycles, taking into account the topographic variables of Quito, fuel consumption, geographical characteristics and the type of vehicles, in this virtue it was possible to demonstrate that the complexity of implementing this methodology arises from the constant growth of the vehicle fleet, and above all the topographic factors and the concentration of vehicular flow at the crossing of sections between valleys and between the center and the south, due to this it was determined that the analysis by weighted averages is pertinent, this technique consists of choosing the route closest to the average of all the routes comparing all the variables is previously mentioned with its average value of all the experimental curves, with which it has been possible to define the appropriate driving cycles in the three proposed sections, which are North Cycle, Center and Valleys and Combined.