On Influencing Individual Behavior for Reducing Transportation Energy Expenditure in a Large Population

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Victoria Bellotti
Matthew Klenk
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On Influencing Individual Behavior for Reducing Transportation Energy Expenditure in a Large Population

Our research aims at developing intelligent systems to reduce the transportation-related energy expenditure of a large city by influencing individual behavior. We introduce COPTER - an intelligent travel assistant that evaluates multi-modal travel alternatives to find a plan that is acceptable to a person given their context and preferences. We propose a formulation for acceptable planning that brings together ideas from AI, machine learning, and economics. This formulation has been incorporated in COPTER producing acceptable plans in real-time. We adopt a novel empirical evaluation framework that combines human decision data with high fidelity simulation to demonstrate a 4% energy reduction and 20% delay reduction in a realistic deployment scenario in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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