The activation of eco-driving mental models: Can text messages prime drivers to use their existing knowledge and skills?

Pampel, Sanna M.; Jamson, Samantha; Hibberd, Daryl; Barnard, Yvonne

doi:10.1007/s10111-017-0441-3

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“…Eco-driving is not a natural driving style and has not become a general target in current driving training courses. Therefore, even if drivers may have eco-driving knowledge in mind [ 91 ] or have received text messages about their eco-driving performance [ 96 ], they would not implement eco-driving unless they are asked to. Current eco-driving guidance mostly plays the role of “reminding” drivers by warning them of their inappropriate behaviour or providing basic suggestions, while the question of how to provide practical and instructive information is still under investigation.…”

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Effective and Acceptable Eco-Driving Guidance for Human-Driving Vehicles: A Review

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Eco-driving guidance refers to courses, warnings, or suggestions provided to human drivers to improve driving behaviour to enable less energy use and emissions. This paper reviews existing eco-driving guidance studies and identifies challenges to tackle in the future. We summarize two categories of current guidance systems, static and dynamic, distinguished by whether real-world driving records are used to generate behaviour guidance or not. We find that influencing factors, such as the content of suggestions, the display methods, and drivers’ socio-demographic characteristics, have varied effects on the guidance results across studies. Drivers are reported to have basic eco-driving knowledge, while the question of how to motivate the acceptance and practice of such behaviour, especially in the long term, is overlooked. Adaptive driving suggestions based on drivers’ individual habits can improve the effectiveness and acceptance while this field is under investigation. In-vehicle assistance presents potential safety issues, and visualized in-vehicle assistance is reported to be most distractive. Given existing studies focusing on the operational level, a common agreement on the guidance design and associated influencing factors has yet to be reached. Research on the systematic and tactical design of eco-driving guidance and in-vehicle interaction is advised.

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Effective and Acceptable Eco-Driving Guidance for Human-Driving Vehicles: A Review

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“…Consequently, encouraging eco-driving is an appropriate technique for owners of older cars and those with limited disposable income. Although eco-driving training has been demonstrated to offer significant fuel saving benefits (Wu et al 2017), it is also clear that many drivers do not engage in such behaviors, despite previous awareness of eco-driving techniques (Pampel et al 2017). Previous work (Allison and Stanton 2019;McIlroy et al 2013) has highlighted that eco-driving should be supported and encouraged regularly via the use of in-vehicle interfaces to maintain long-term effectiveness.…”

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Driving towards a greener future: an application of cognitive work analysis to promote fuel-efficient driving

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2019

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Driving is a daily encountered task for many. Unlike the majority of life's daily hassles, however, the act of driving has significant environmental repercussions. Supporting the development of environmentally conscious driving techniques and developing tools and interfaces to reduce the environmental impact of driving is warranted to minimise the negative impact of these actions. The current paper documents the development of a complete cognitive work analysis (CWA) to support environmentally conscious driving. The paper proposes that the use of the CWA approach-enabled examination of the fuelefficient driving task and consideration of the role numerous objects, agents and skills can play in facilitating fuel-efficient driving. In addition to the traditional CWA process, this paper shows how the revealed finding can be used as the basis for developing specifications that can be taken forward to allow for the development of novel in-vehicle interfaces to support fuel-efficient driving.

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“…Depending on their motivation and available time, for example, drivers may decide to apply fuel-efficient driving behaviours or focus on safety. Previous research (Pampel et al 2015(Pampel et al , 2017 has shown that people apply different behaviours, simply after being asked to drive safely or fuel-efficiently. Hence, in the face of such driving styles, it can be expected that drivers adjust their boundaries, in this example, between car-following and active braking.…”

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ACC design for safety and fuel efficiency: the acceptance of safety margins when adopting different driving styles

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For adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems to be accepted and used safely, the transitions from cruise control mode to necessary driver intervention need to be obvious to the driver. Previous research shows that drivers have natural boundaries for acceptable values for time headway and time to collision to a car in front, which define at what point they are likely to step on the brake pedal. These boundaries can define an intuitive limit for ACC engagement. However, such boundaries may not be the same for all drivers, and not even for the same driver, whose goals may vary. The present research aimed to measure mental model boundaries in the context of different goals with a motorway cut-in scenario in a driving simulator. Participants drove in three conditions, after being asked to 'drive safely, 'drive fuel-efficiently' and after no specific instructions. The results show that both the safe and eco-driving instructions led drivers to brake at longer safety margins. These findings indicate that, as drivers follow different goals, e.g. as they are reminded to drive safely or eco-friendly, their preferences for operational limits of ACCs may change. This needs to be taken into account for design decisions, e.g. using 'safe' and 'eco' modes when driving.

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The activation of eco-driving mental models: Can text messages prime drivers to use their existing knowledge and skills?

Cited by 13 publications

References 61 publications

Effective and Acceptable Eco-Driving Guidance for Human-Driving Vehicles: A Review

Effective and Acceptable Eco-Driving Guidance for Human-Driving Vehicles: A Review

Driving towards a greener future: an application of cognitive work analysis to promote fuel-efficient driving

ACC design for safety and fuel efficiency: the acceptance of safety margins when adopting different driving styles

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