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THE PROBLEM - Due to our modern technologies and societal desires, we have created a comfortable low density lifestyle that is the envy of the world. However, the population has increased to a point where certain areas such as the major cities in the US and the world are congested with private vehicles moving from low density living areas to high density working areas using an enormous amount of ever more scarce fuel and polluting the atmosphere. People in these places loose valuable productive time in their lives. The commuting time has increased from minutes to hours. The solution used to solve congestion and poor societal conditions in the past was to use Cost Effective Mass Transportation.

Test methods and data acquisition system specifications are described for measurements of the energy consumption of the control system of a servo-pump continuously variable transmission (CVT). Dynamic measurements of the power consumption of the servo-pump CVT control system show that the control system draws approximately 18.9 W-hrs of electrical energy over the HWFET cycle and 13.6 W-hrs over the 505 cycle. Sample results are presented of the dynamic power consumption of the servo-pump system under drive cycle conditions. Steady state measurements of the control power draw of the servo-pump CVT show a peak power consumption of 271 W, including lubrication power. The drive-cycle averaged and steady state energy consumption of the servo-pump CVT are compared to conventional CVT pump technologies.

The design and evaluation of a control system for a continuously variable transmission (CVT) vehicle is presented in this paper. Studied and simulated are the following three topics: design and evaluation of the control system with a CVT vehicle in acceleration, deceleration and to the sensitivity of the system with respect to changing characteristics of the engine (hot, cold, age). It is shown that the control system proposed here could insure good stability and controllability not only for acceleration of the system but also for deceleration operation, provided that a pulse width modulated (PWM) fuel control scheme for the engine is employed in the system. It seems that the control system designed in this paper is not complicated and does not have large sensitivity with respect to variation of the characteristics of the components of the system and provides the best possible fuel efficiency.