EcoTour: Reducing the Environmental Footprint of Vehicles Using Eco-routes

Author

Andersen, Olav ; Jensen, Christian S. ; Torp, Kristian ; Bin Yang

Volume

1

fYear

2013

fDate

3-6 June 2013

Firstpage

338

Lastpage

340

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Data Management (MDM), 2013 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Milan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-6068-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MDM.2013.50

Filename

6569157