Title :
EcoTour: Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Vehicles Using Eco-routes
Author :
Andersen, Olav ; Jensen, Christian S. ; Torp, Kristian ; Bin Yang
Abstract :
Reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from transportation is essential in combating global warming and climate change. Eco-routing enables drivers to use the most eco-friendly routes and is effective in reducing vehicle emissions. The EcoTour system assigns eco-weights to a road network based on GPS and fuel consumption data collected from vehicles to enable ecorouting. Given an arbitrary source-destination pair in Denmark, EcoTour returns the shortest route, the fastest route, and the eco-route, along with statistics for the three routes. EcoTour also serves as a testbed for exploring advanced solutions to a range of challenges related to eco-routing.
Keywords :
Global Positioning System; air pollution control; climate mitigation; driver information systems; Denmark; EcoTour; GPS; climate change; eco-friendly routes; environmental footprint; fuel consumption data; global warming; greenhouse gas emissions; source-destination pair; vehicle emission reduction; Educational institutions; Fuels; Global Positioning System; Global warming; Roads; Routing; Vehicles;
Conference_Titel :
Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Milan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6068-5
DOI :
10.1109/MDM.2013.50
