Let EcoDrive be your guide: Development of a mobile tool to reduce carbon footprint and promote green transport

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 519-524

  Rahman, Farzana ^a   O'Brien, Casey ^a   Manning, Kristine ^a   Cowdy, Jason ^a   Ahamed, Sheikh Iqbal ^a  

^a MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon footprint; GPS; green route; mobile device

Indexed keywords

ECO-FRIENDLY; FINANCIAL SAVINGS; GPS APPLICATIONS; GREEN ROUTE; PERSONAL TRANSPORTATION; PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOBILE DEVICES; PEOPLE MOVERS; TRANSPORTATION;

CARBON FOOTPRINT;

EID: 84863595014     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2245276.2245376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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