Public Transport Standardized On Road Test Cycles (SORT)
UITP (Union Internationale des Transports Publics) is the International Association of Public Transport and a passionate champion of sustainable urban mobility. Established in 1885, with more than 135 vears of history, it is the only worldwide network to bring together all public transport stakeholders and all sustainable transport modes.
Currently, the energy consumption test cycles for vehicles such as NEDC or WLTP are mainly for light vehicles, while the energy consumption test cycle and procedure for buses is the SORT published by the UITP
Previously, the SORT cycle was mainly used to compare the difference in energy consumption between traditional internal combustion engine buses, the scope of application including buses use liquid or gaseous fels, or non plug-in hybrids buses. And as electric buses or plug-in hybrid buses gradually become more popular, UITP founded E-SORT in 2017, the aim of the current project “E-SORT” is to measure, in a reproducible way, the energy consumption and the zero emissions range of a bus.
The purpose of the SORT (Standardized On Road Test Cycles) published by the UITP (Union Internationale des Transports Publics) was to provide a standardized method for the public transport industry to compare the energy consumption of different buses. It is very important that bus operators get an objective information about especially the energy consumption and it doesn’t matter if we speak about classic driven or e-driven buses. Bus operators often require bus manufacturers to provide SORT test results.
THE KING ROSE can provide multi-location (test site, manufacturer’s test site) SORT or E-SORT testing and issue official test reports based on manufacturers’ requirement.