Neighborhood Refuse Truck Cycle
The Neighborhood Refuse Truck Cycle was developed by the US DOE National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for the US EPA Smartway program. It is a chassis test cycle (Figure 1) representing the operation of a truck with automatic side loader.
Selected parameters of the test are:
- Distance: 9.15 km = 5.69 miles
- Time: 1821 s
- Idle time: 751 s
- Average speed: 18.1 km/h = 11.2 mph
- Average driving speed (excluding stops): 30.8 km/h = 19.1 mph
- Maximum speed: 96.6 km/h = 60.0 mph
- Average acceleration: 0.68 m/s2
- Maximum acceleration: 2.08 m/s2
The cycle incorporates aggregated “stem” travel to and from collection route.
Acknowledgement: Information for this article contributed in part by NREL.