@article {808, title = {Design and implementation of a portable electronic system for vehicle-driver-route activity measurement}, journal = {Measurement }, year = {2011}, month = {02/2011}, pages = {12}, publisher = {Elsevier}, abstract = {This paper presents the autonomous, non-intrusive and universal electronic equipment PGAMS: Portable Global Activity Measurement System, which is able to simultaneously measure and synchronously register the treble driver{\textendash}vehicle{\textendash}route activity. It allows one to evaluate the direct effect that real road traffic conditions have on environmental pollution. Among the variables to be simultaneously measured are: (a) from vehicle activity: regime engine and temperature, fuel consumption, global position, instantaneous and average speed and acceleration, frontal and lateral inclination; (b) related to route features: weather conditions, slope and camber of the road, traffic density; and (c) derived from driver activity: clutch, throttle and brake pedal actions. The designed prototype can be on boarded in conventional or industrial vehicles, working in both urban and inter-urban conditions. The paper describes the integration with pollutant emissions meters. Besides, it includes experimental results carried out in real traffic conditions relating vehicle{\textendash}driver{\textendash}route activity with gasses emissions.}, keywords = {Driver{\textendash}vehicle{\textendash}route activity; Synchronised multisensory portable system; Vehicle activity and pollutant emissions interaction; Portable measurement electronic system}, issn = {1424-8220}, doi = {10.1016/j.measurement.2010.10.006 |}, author = {Felipe Espinosa and Jose A. Jimenez and Enrique Santiso and Alfredo Gardel and Diego Perez and Jesus Casanova and Carlos Santos} }