Journal of Transportation Technologies, 2015, 5, 191-203 Published Online October 2015 in SciRes. http://www.scirp.org/journal/jtts http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jtts.2015.54018 How to cite this paper: Galgamuwa, U., Perera, L. and Bandara, S. (2015) Developing a General Methodology for Driving Cycle Construction: Comparison of Various Established Driving Cycles in the World to Propose a General Approach. Journal of Transportation Technologies, 5, 191-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/jtts.2015.54018 Developing a General Methodology for Driving Cycle Construction: Comparison of Various Established Driving Cycles in the World to Propose a General Approach Uditha Galgamuwa, Loshaka Perera, Saman Bandara Transportation Engineering Division, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka Email: nandun8781@gmail.com Received 1 July 2015; accepted 27 September 2015; published 30 September 2015 Copyright © 2015 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Many models have been developed in the world to estimate emission inventories and fuel con- sumption in the past and those models can be broadly categorized as either a travel based model or a fuel based model. Driving cycles can be considered as one of the major travel based models to estimate emission inventories. It can be used for various purposes such as setting up the emission standards, for traffic management purposes and also to determine the travel time. In the past, re- searchers have tried to use readily available, well established driving cycles in their environment which is different from the origin of the driving cycle in many aspects. Thus, the attempts have failed to give good quality results. This study attempts to critically evaluate the different methods used for driving cycle construction in different parts of the world under various conditions to propose a general suitable approach to develop a representative and economical driving cycle(s) for a given geographic location for set objectives. Keywords Driving Cycle, Driving Pattern, Driving Cycle Evaluation Parameters, Emission Estimation 1. Introduction There are two major ways of estimating emission inventories and fuel consumption, namely, travel based mod- els and fuel based models [1]. There are many fuel based models around the world which are used to estimate fuel consumption and emission inventories such as traffic flow models and traffic emission models [2], instan-