Truelite Trace, Inc.

Youri Bae

Sung Bok Kwak

A novel fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system is capable of calculating a probability of persistent future fuel waste of a particular driver based on recent driving patterns originating from real-time on-board diagnostics (OBD) information of a vehicle. The fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system is also configured to generate and transmit one or more action items and alerts to a vehicle fleet operations manager or another supervisory personnel for improving driving behaviors of the particular driver. The fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system is typically either linked to or incorporated into the fuel waste variable identification and analysis system, which is capable of analyzing the real-time on-board diagnostics (OBD) information of the vehicle from a remote monitoring station unit. Preferably, various fuel waste variables are normalized with a novel metric called 'RPG,' or 'engine rotation per minute per gallon of fuel.'

Fuel savings training needs prediction and alert system

A novel fuel waste variable identification and analysis system is capable of analyzing real-time on-board diagnostics (OBD) information of a vehicle from a remote monitoring station unit. This novel system analyzes, quantifies, and/or predicts various fuel waste variables for a particular vehicle and its driver. Preferably, various fuel waste variables are normalized with a novel metric called 'RPG,' or 'engine rotation per minute per gallon of fuel.' Utilizing the RPG as a normalizing factor for fuel waste variable measurements uniquely enables a realistic representation of a driver's fuel wasting behaviors in context of the particular vehicle's inherent, native, and average fuel consumption characteristics. Furthermore, the RPG-normalized fuel waste variables can be quantified as gallons of &#x201c;wasted fuel&#x201d; in computer-generated driving pattern analysis reports from the fuel waste variable identification and analysis system to motivate the vehicle operators and the drivers for higher operational fuel efficiencies.

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