Driving pattern identification for EV range estimation

This paper presents a driving pattern recognition method based on trip segment clustering. Driving patterns categorize various driving behaviors that contain certain energy demand property in common. It can be applied to various applications including intelligent transportation, emission estimation, passive/active safety controls and energy management controls. In this paper, pattern features are first identified from high impact factors from static and quasi-static environmental and traffic information. A feature based trip/route partitioning algorithm is then developed based on data clustering methods. The driving patterns are finally recognized by synthesizing all partitioned feature zones along the trip/route where each partitioned road section is distinguished by an attribute of feature combination that will result in a distinctive drive energy demand property. The driving pattern recognition is a critical technology especially in solving problems like range estimation and energy consumption preplanning for the plug-in capable electrified vehicles.