Predictive Cruise Control uses GPS technology and detailed road map information to anticipate upcoming changes in road gradient. It can then override the set cruise control speed or shift strategy in order to save fuel by reducing speed before hills and allowing higher speeds when descending. This predictive capability allows it to be more efficient than standard cruise control or downhill speed control systems alone. By anticipating road conditions ahead, it can achieve fuel savings of up to 4% on hilly roads compared to around 1.5% in normal long haul applications.
Predictive Cruise Control uses GPS technology and detailed road map information to anticipate upcoming changes in road gradient. It can then override the set cruise control speed or shift strategy in order to save fuel by reducing speed before hills and allowing higher speeds when descending. This predictive capability allows it to be more efficient than standard cruise control or downhill speed control systems alone. By anticipating road conditions ahead, it can achieve fuel savings of up to 4% on hilly roads compared to around 1.5% in normal long haul applications.
Predictive Cruise Control uses GPS technology and detailed road map information to anticipate upcoming changes in road gradient. It can then override the set cruise control speed or shift strategy in order to save fuel by reducing speed before hills and allowing higher speeds when descending. This predictive capability allows it to be more efficient than standard cruise control or downhill speed control systems alone. By anticipating road conditions ahead, it can achieve fuel savings of up to 4% on hilly roads compared to around 1.5% in normal long haul applications.
the driver maintain good average speeds on hilly roads in
Cruise Control and Downhill
Speed Control settings
an efficient and effortless manner. These systems all act
Temporarily allow higher or lower vehicle speeds to reduce
on the current road gradient and are unable to foresee
the amount of fuel used over the total distance.
changes even immediately ahead. The solution of this
reduce the vehicle speed just before the top of a hill
drawback is in the Predictive Cruise Control.
allow a vehicle speed above the cruise setting before a
Predictive Cruise Control
allow a vehicle speed above the downhill speed setting
Adaptive Cruise Control and Downhill Speed Control help
new climb begins
Predictive Cruise Control (PCC) is based on GPS
at the end of a steep descent
technology. Detailed road map information is used to
know the driving conditions the vehicle is about to meet.
AS Tronic shift strategy (Predictive shift)
Fuel savings from lower engine speeds.
Anticipating impending changes in the gradient, PCC may
overrule the set cruise control speed, change the shift strategy of AS Tronic gearboxes or induce EcoRoll actions, in order to save fuel.
shift up when acceleration in the next gear will be
sufficient to reach the hill top inhibit upshift in short descents (anticipating downshift at the next climb) inhibit unnecessary downshift just before the top
In normal long haul applications the fuel savings will be
(anticipating upshift in the descent)
about 1.5%. On hilly roads savings up to 4% are possible.
EcoRoll
How intervention by Predictive
Cruise Control saves fuel
The GPS and road map information allows better tuning
Anticipating the road that lies ahead, Predictive Cruise
road ahead and results in an enhanced EcoRoll function,
Control may intervene in the following ways:
and hence higher fuel savings.
DAF - PREDICTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
of EcoRoll to the gradients and height differences of the