Optimization of Vehicles Fuel Efficiency through Route’s Digital Management

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to determine the impact on the proper use of vehicular traffic applications, to reduce fuel consumption, due to the relationship between its performance and traffic level on a given route, which affects the travel average speed. In this study, it has been determined that for higher average speed in the travel of the vehicle, there will be a greater performance of gasoline, diesel or other automotive fuels, and therefore, lower consumption of these. This study was made using traffic data in Lima city, which has the highest traffic density in Peru. For this, it was used an experimental methodology; fuel efficiency was established as a dependent variable, determining that there is an inverse relationship between this and the accumulated time, which occurs in vehicles stopped due to dense traffic or excessive traffic lights. It has been concluded that there is a direct impact of traffic level with higher fuel consumption of vehicles. It was established that every minute of traffic delay represents the reduction of fuel efficiency by 66 meters of travel per liter of consumed fuel; this is by taking as a reference a period in which traffic level on a given route is the lowest registered. It is important to highlight that use of applications that allow selecting and using routes with lower traffic density, generates vehicle operations with lower fuel consumption costs, which has an impact on the lower wear of engines, as well as on lower emission of pollutants gases whose reduction is set at 13 %.