TY - JOUR T1 - Design and implementation of a portable electronic system for vehicle-driver-route activity measurement JF - Measurement Y1 - 2011 A1 - Felipe Espinosa A1 - Jose A. Jimenez A1 - Enrique Santiso A1 - Alfredo Gardel A1 - Diego Perez A1 - Jesus Casanova A1 - Carlos Santos KW - Driver–vehicle–route activity; Synchronised multisensory portable system; Vehicle activity and pollutant emissions interaction; Portable measurement electronic system AB - 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–vehicle–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–driver–route activity with gasses emissions. PB - Elsevier ER -