A Study on Factors Affecting the Effective Eco-driving

In order to reduce CO2 emission of automobiles, promotion of eco-driving is considered being effective. As a tool of promoting the eco-driving, some driver assistance systems have been developed for improving the drivers’ techniques by providing information after having evaluated the drivers’ behaviour when driving. What can make the drivers improve their driving to be more economically and ecologically attracts us to conduct this study. In this paper, factors affecting drivers’ improvement of eco-driving are reported on the basis of our analysis of the data collected from a social experiment undertaken during October 2009 and January 2010 in Toyota City.