Driver attitude and its influence on the energy waste of electric buses

The objective of this paper is to analyze the influence of different driver behaviors on the energy consumption of electric buses. It shows that risk-taking attitudes on traffic are not only dangerous to the driver, to the bus users and to the surroundings, but also promotes a poorer performance of the vehicle itself, increasing its energy consumption and reducing the amount of energy that can be recovered on regenerative braking.This work is financially supported by FEDER Funds, through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness Factors – COMPETE under the project grant 13844. Authors acknowledge FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) support to Deborah Perrotta through PhD scholarship (SFRH/BD/51256/2010) under the scope of the MIT Portugal Program in Engineering Design and Advanced Manufacturing – Leaders for Technical Industries focus area, and to Zafeiris Kokkinogenis through PhD scholarship (SFRH/BD/67202/2009) in the Informatics Engineering doctoral programme at FEUP