Terengganu routes representation for development of Malaysia Driving Cycle: Route selection methodology

Abstract

A program to develop a harmonized light duty test cycle that will represent typical conditions for Malaysia is going to be developed, named Malaysia Driving Cycle (MDC). The development of MDC will adapt the methodology from the worldwide harmonized light duty driving test cycle (WLTC). Terengganu has been chosen as one of the regions for in-use driving data collection. In developing MDC, the route selection phase must be carried out first before proceeding to the route data collection. This paper describes briefly on the methodology used for the route selection, the selected routes and the driving conditions for route data collection in Terengganu region. Road Traffic Volume Malaysia (RTVM) version 2015 and Google Maps are used to study the route selection in Terengganu region. By adapting the methodology of WLTC, 11 routes in the Terengganu region have been selected to contribute the speed-time data for development of Malaysia Driving Cycle (MDC). The selected routes consist of urban, rural, and motorway road. For the route data collection, the driving conditions (peak, off-peak, weekend) are considered to collect the samples for each route and direction.