20.500.12556/DKUM-89928 Methodology for estimating the effect of traffic flow management on fuel consumption and CO2 production a case study of Celje, Slovenia The manuscript discusses the investigation of vehicle flow in a predesignated junction byan appropriate traffic flow management with an effort to minimize fuel consumption, the productionof CO2, an essential greenhouse gas (hereinafter referred to as GHG), and related transport costs.The particular research study was undertaken in a frequented junction in the city of Celje, located in the eastern part of Slovenia. The results obtained summarize data on consumed fuel and produced CO2 amounts depending on the type of vehicle, traffic flow mixture, traffic light signal plan, andactual vehicle velocity. These values were calculated separately for three different conditions of traffic flow management. Amounts of fuel consumed were experimentally investigated in real traffic situations, whereas CO2 production was calculated by applying the actual European standardentitled EN 16258:2012 associated with a guideline for measuring emission values, as well as by examining specific traffic flow parameters. The key objective of the manuscript is to present multiple scenarios towards striving to minimize environmental impacts and improve transport operation's economic consequences when implementing proper traffic flow management. As for crucial findings, we quantified fuel consumption and CO2 emissions based on real data on the number and type of vehicles crossing the examined intersection and traffic light switching intervals. The results show that most of the CO2 was produced while waiting and in the accelerating phase in front of traffic lights, whereby in the running phase through the intersection, significantly less fuel was used. This study represents a mosaic fragment of research addressing endeavors to reduce CO2 production in urban transport. Following the experiments conducted, we can see a notable contribution towards reducing CO2 production with known and tested interventions in the existing transport infrastructure. A procedure embracing individual research steps may be deemed as an approach methodology dealing with traffic flow management with an aim to decrease the environmental and economic impacts oftraffic and transport operation; this is where the novelty of the research lies. traffic flow management urban transport CO2 production greenhouse gas fuel consumption methodology logistics crossroads upravljanje pretoka prometa mestni promet proizvodnja CO2 toplogredni plini poraba goriva metodologija logistika križišča true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2024-08-19 12:44:49 2024-08-19 12:56:10 2024-08-20 03:22:04 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2021 0 0 Str. 1-18 Št. 6, št. članka 1673 Letn. 14 2021 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2021-02-08 2021-03-15 2021-03-17 005.5 56430851 10.3390/en14061673 1996-1073 Jereb-2021-Methodology_for_Estimating_the_Effe.pdf Jereb-2021-Methodology_for_Estimating_the_Effe.pdf 1 63865F8E3D885E96212197AA71039DEA cd435666e4a4269e5510fb67aff2d040d9d50457125b104051448f92c10b08b5 598f1886-5e19-11ef-9891-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=182634 https://doi.org/10.3390/en14061673 1 18a76853-5e18-11ef-9891-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=182631 Fakulteta za logistiko 0 0 0