Eco-driving Support System to Encourage Spontaneous Fuel-efficient Driving Behavior
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This paper addresses the challenge of sustaining eco-driving behaviors, which require complex maneuvers and rely heavily on driver motivation. While previous systems provided fuel economy feedback, they often failed to motivate drivers with lower skills or led to frustration. The authors propose a novel Eco-Driving Support System (EDSS) grounded in psychological theories of motivation, specifically outcome/efficacy expectations, percentile schedules, achievement motivation theory, and knowledge of results. The system aims to encourage spontaneous, fuel-efficient driving by providing personalized, achievable goals and adaptive feedback. The proposed EDSS features four key components: (1) one-minute interval fuel economy evaluations to maintain high efficacy expectations; (2) dynamic target calculation using a percentile schedule based on recent driving history, ensuring goals match the driver’s current skill level; (3) adjustable difficulty settings allowing drivers to set the probability of achieving the target; and (4) switchable display modes between detailed quantitative feedback (fuel bars) and qualitative feedback (achievement lamps). Effectiveness was verified through two driving simulator experiments involving 24 participants. Experiment 1 compared normal driving, standard fuel meter display, and EDSS with fixed difficulty levels (75% and 50% achievement probability). Experiment 2 allowed drivers to adjust difficulty and display modes across three consecutive EDSS sessions, followed by a post-intervention normal driving session to assess behavior sustainability. Results from Experiment 1 indicated that while average fuel economy did not significantly differ across conditions due to strict car-following constraints, the ratio of coasting (a proxy for eco-driving) significantly increased in EDSS conditions compared to normal driving. Crucially, drivers who failed to improve fuel economy with standard meters succeeded with the EDSS, suggesting the system effectively motivated those previously unresponsive to simple feedback. In Experiment 2, drivers who could adjust difficulty tended to select higher difficulty levels than the default, indicating increased self-determination and motivation. Furthermore, drivers who adapted their display mode from quantitative bars to qualitative lamps as they mastered the skill maintained improved eco-driving behaviors even after the system was removed. Conversely, drivers who remained dependent on the detailed quantitative display reverted to previous habits once the system was withdrawn. The study concludes that an EDSS incorporating psychological principles of motivation—specifically personalized, achievable goals and adaptive feedback—can successfully encourage spontaneous eco-driving. It highlights that allowing drivers to control system parameters enhances self-determination and facilitates the internalization of eco-driving habits. The findings suggest that for long-term behavioral change, systems should support skill acquisition through detailed feedback initially, then transition to simpler feedback to reduce cognitive load and prevent dependency, thereby ensuring the sustainability of fuel-efficient driving behaviors.
Key finding
The proposed Eco-Driving Support System effectively encouraged spontaneous fuel-efficient driving behaviors, including increased coasting rates, by providing personalized targets and adjustable difficulty levels, even for drivers who failed to improve with standard fuel meter displays.
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Sample size: 24
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