Using Weather Data for Improved Analysis of Vehicle Energy Efficiency

Reno Filla ()
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Reno Filla: Scania CV AB, Research & Development, Granparksvägen 10, 15148 Södertälje, Sweden

Data, 2025, vol. 10, issue 3, 1-16

Abstract: In moving vehicles, the dominating energy losses are due to interactions with the environment: air resistance and rolling resistance. It is known that weather has a significant impact, yet there is a lack of literature showing how the wealth of openly available data from professional weather observations can be used in this context. This article will give an overview of how such data are structured and how they can be accessed in order to augment logs gained during vehicle operation or simulated trips. Two efficient algorithms for such data extraction and augmentation are discussed and several examples for use are provided, also demonstrating that some caveats do exist with respect to the source of weather data.

Keywords: environmental losses; energy losses; tire losses; rolling resistance; air resistance; air drag; weather data; meteorological observations; recorded weather (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C8 C80 C81 C82 C83 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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