2.3.4. Road Operation Procedure

*Test date:* During August and September 2017

*Test area:* Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China

*Step 1:* Establish the organization structure and clarify the duty of the groups.

*Step 2:* Determine the test conditions and formulate the test process. Vehicle groups A and B were tested during the same period. For both groups, the specific serial number of each brand was assigned to specific test route, though for varying dates and numbers of days, as shown in Table 3.

*Step 3:* Record data before and after operation for each day.

*Step 4:* Summarize and analyze data to determine evaluation indexes.

*Step 5*: Have the experts from the review group evaluate the buses and make a selection.

The road operation test procedure is illustrated in Figure 6.


**Table 3.** Operation Arrangement.

**Figure 6.** Flow chart of road test operation.
