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Letter <strong>Report</strong><br />

Phase 1 - <strong>Heavy</strong> Vehicle <strong>Duty</strong> <strong>Cycle</strong> (HVDC) <strong>Project</strong><br />

1.0 BACKGROUND<br />

Prepared by: H. E. (Bill) Knee and Gary J. Capps<br />

Oak Ridge National Laboratory<br />

February 28, 2006<br />

This <strong>Project</strong> involves ef<strong>for</strong>ts to collect, analyze and archive data and in<strong>for</strong>mation related to heavy<br />

truck operation in real-world highway environments. Such data and in<strong>for</strong>mation will be usable to:<br />

• provide input to the Department of Energy (DOE) regarding technology investment<br />

decisions,<br />

• support the development and evaluation of the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)<br />

developed class-8 module <strong>for</strong> the Powertrain System Analysis Toolkit (PSAT),<br />

• provide a real-world-based data archive capable of supporting heavy truck research, and<br />

• provide a means of accounting <strong>for</strong> real-world driving per<strong>for</strong>mance within heavy truck<br />

research and analyses.<br />

The <strong>Project</strong> is being led by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and involves two industry<br />

partners (Dana Corporation [Dana] of Kalamazoo, MI, and Michelin Americas Research and<br />

Development Corp. [Michelin] of Greenville, SC) and will have support from ANL. Participation<br />

by the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has been actively sought, but with little success.<br />

This lack of success is strongly linked to the unavailability of funding due to a USDOT continuing<br />

budget resolution during FY2004 and FY2005. Additionally, although a FY2006 USDOT budget<br />

has been agreed to, funding of earmarks amounted to the budget being about 25% over-subscribed<br />

to. As of the end of February, 2006, this budget issue had not been resolved. As a result, new<br />

USDOT research has not been <strong>for</strong>thcoming.<br />

2.0 PROJECT OVERVIEW<br />

This project involves ef<strong>for</strong>ts to collect, analyze and archive data and in<strong>for</strong>mation related to heavy truck<br />

operation in real-world driving environments. One of the primary deliverables of this project is a set of<br />

heavy truck duty cycles based on typical heavy vehicle driving per<strong>for</strong>mance generated from a working<br />

fleet(s). The project will be conducted in two phases.<br />

Phase 1: Design, Testing and Evaluation of a <strong>Duty</strong> <strong>Cycle</strong> Data Collection System.<br />

Phase 2: Fleet Instrumentation, Data Collection, Analyses, and Archiving.<br />

Phase 1 is a 15-month ef<strong>for</strong>t that will be completed in March, 2006. Within Phase 1, Pilot Testing to<br />

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