Eco-driving Incentive Mechanisms for Mitigating Emissions in Urban Transportation Show others and affiliations
2026 (English) In: IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, E-ISSN 2325-5870, Vol. 13, no 1, p. 166-178Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper develops incentive mechanisms for promoting eco-driving with the overarching goal of minimizing emissions in transportation networks. The system operator provides drivers with energy-efficient driving guidance throughout their trips and measures compliance through vehicle telematics that capture how closely drivers follow this guidance. Drivers optimize their behaviors based on personal trade-offs between travel times and emissions. To design effective incentives, the operator elicits driver preferences regarding trip urgency and willingness to eco-drive, while determining optimal budget allocations and eco-driving recommendations. Two distinct settings based on driver behavior are analyzed. When drivers report their preferences truthfully, an incentive mechanism ensuring obedience (drivers find it optimal to follow recommendations) is designed by implementing eco-driving recommendations as a Nash equilibrium. When drivers may report strategically, the mechanism is extended to be both obedient and truthful (drivers find it optimal to report truthfully). Unlike existing works that focus on congestion or routing decisions in transportation networks, our framework explicitly targets emissions reduction by incentivizing drivers. The proposed mechanism addresses both strategic behavior and network effects arising from driver interactions, without requiring the operator to reveal system parameters to the drivers. Numerical simulations demonstrate the effects of budget constraints, driver types, and strategic misreporting on equilibrium outcomes and emissions reduction.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) , 2026. Vol. 13, no 1, p. 166-178
Keywords [en]
eco-driving, Incentive design, Nash equilibrium, obedience, truthfulness, urban transportation
National Category
Transport Systems and Logistics Control Engineering
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-372620 DOI: 10.1109/TCNS.2025.3623943 ISI: 001719577900007 Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105019927744 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-372620 DiVA, id: diva2:2013041
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2025-11-112025-11-112026-05-29 Bibliographically approved