Human-Electric Hybrid Drives in Medium-Sized Cities by Daily Traffic

Abstract

There are several researches that examine the traffic of European cities. The congestion level of cities cannot be ignored neither in logistical planning. The congestion of vehicles has a number of harmful public health and economic impacts. Most of the researches examine only the metropolises and their environment, but under certain conditions in smaller towns, like Miskolc, congestions can be formed and the access times rise in critical traffic periods. At the University of Miskolc at the Institute of Machine and Product Design researches on the design and the use of human-electric hybrid vehicles started in 2011. In the last few years the University is getting overcrowded. Consequently the access times rise also among the University and the parts of the town. This is why we feel that the examination of such vehicles should be linked to the measurement of access times. The price of the human-electric hybrid vehicles, like all the electric vehicles, is relatively high in their category. It goes with that such vehicles are not prevalent. So we would like to perform an experimental series. In this series we would like to analyze the limits, advantages and disadvantages of the real use of human-electric hybrid vehicle. The first part of the series was an experiment in May 2017. In this research students and professors of the University of Miskolc were participate. Relevant part of the examination was to collect user experiences. In this research the measuring of the access time was just for curiosity. The main purpose was how to collect and how to use the measured parameters.