Information collection for smart transportation nudges

Abstract

Global climate change is becoming of increasing concern. Transportation makes up a large part of carbon gasses, which affects climate change and air quality. As transportation is a big part of carbon emissions, everybody can contribute to reducing emissions through transportation. One way for people to contribute is to start choosing greener transportation.

Nuding is a tool that can be used to get people to choose greener transportation. It's function is to help guide people's behavior. For this project, the nudging goal is to nudge people towards healthier and greener transportation options than already in use. An example of a nudge is to provide reminders of bus departure times for a trip to an event. In order to nudge people gathering information relevant for traveling is necessary.

In this thesis, relevant information for green transportation nudges is researched. Other studies on green transportation nudges are applied to discover relevant information topics and sources. Microservices architecture is proposed as the architecture for designing nudges, where the system is divided into smaller interconnected services that work together. Demonstrators of information collection microservices are designed and implemented. The demonstrators handle data for different information topics relevant to green transportation nudges. There are demonstrators for collecting weather data, routing data, public transportation data, rental bikes and scooters data, calendar data, and location data. The thesis also discusses how the data collected can be used to form transportation nudges.