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Title | ||
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Let EcoDrive be your guide: development of a mobile tool to reduce carbon footprint and promote green transport |
Abstract | ||
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Personal transportation is considered as the greatest contributor of CO2 emissions in the entire world. Since transportation is a mobile activity, mobile devices are well suited to sense and provide feedback about these activities. In this paper, we explore the use of personal mobile phones to give users feedback about their carbon footprint due to different transportation choices and activates. We propose a mobile GPS application, EcoDrive, for iPhone that suggests the fuel efficient route to the user. It can inform user about alternative public transportation to the same destination. EcoDrive supports awareness of personal transportation activities, reminds users of additional reasons for being green (e.g., financial savings), and emphasize them to adopt eco-friendly behavior. The key contribution of this paper is the presentation of the design, implementation, and validation of the prototype of EcoDrive. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2012 | 10.1145/2245276.2245376 | SAC |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
personal mobile phone,mobile tool,green transport,mobile activity,personal transportation activity,carbon footprint,mobile device,personal transportation,different transportation choice,users feedback,alternative public transportation,mobile gps application,co2 emission,public transport,gps | Financial savings,Computer security,Computer science,Transport engineering,Public transport,Carbon footprint,Mobile device,Global Positioning System | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
0 | 0.34 | 5 |
Authors | ||
5 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farzana Rahman | 1 | 170 | 23.31 |
| Casey O'Brien | 2 | 37 | 3.91 |
| Kristine Manning | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Jason Cowdy | 4 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Sheikh Iqbal Ahamed | 5 | 646 | 88.67 |