'Turn left to save eight per cent of your fuel'
Published: 4 January 2007 16:50 GMT
An eco-friendly sat-nav system offering routes to save fuel and minimise greenhouse gas emissions is being developed by Swedish scientists.
Their sat-nav system has reported an average fuel saving of more than eight per cent compared to journeys planned by other methods.
silicon.com Retail & Leisure
Get the latest retail and leisure news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the R&L newsletter today!
Eva Ericsson, senior lecturer and part of the green development team at Lund University, told silicon.com: "Today there are many IT devices in cars and we thought that some of those ought to be used for decreasing the environmental effect of traffic."
The sat-nav system simulated the most fuel efficient route for a set of 109 trips in Lund and compared the most eco-friendly way with the route the driver chose spontaneously.
Of the 109 trips, 46 per cent were not the most fuel-efficient and could have saved an average of 8.2 per cent on fuel. This corresponds to an overall fuel-saving of four per cent over all 109 routes.
Ericsson said it is not realistic for the greener sat-nav system to measure fuel consumption on every street in the world but added a pilot test on a more local scale is planned to see how the system could be used in daily driving.
If everything works out well with the pilot, there is the possibility of examining larger test areas, Ericsson added.
This sounds hard to believe. Surely the most fuel ...
karl jeffery
For most trips the shortest distance is never by m...
geoff munday
IT Support Engineer - Leisure/Bingo - Morley, Leeds - West Yorkshire ? k Due to increasing business demand an opportunity has arisen for an ...
Senior Operations Engineer - Reading - 35K+Market leading provider of digital convergence products to the leisure and conferencing industry seeking ...
Microsoft Dynamics + NAV - Pre Sales + Project Management. This leading provider of Microsoft Based IT solutions and consultancy services has an ...
Agenda Setters 2009
Welcome to the ninth annual Agenda Setters poll – silicon.com's list of the top 50 most influential individuals in the technology and IT industries, from techies and CIOs to entrepreneurs and business leaders. Find out more in our latest special report.
Stories from the web...
Copyright © 2008 CBS Interactive Limited. All rights reserved. Top of page
Petra Papinniemi
Legal Eye: Ecommerce held back by outdated laws
No wonder no one's buying...
Matthew Cushen
E-tailers: Be choosy overseas
Markets are not always what they seem
Tim Ferguson
'If you look at iPlayer from a distance, it's still very web 1.0'
Q&A: Erik Huggers, director, BBC's Future, Media and Technology
Kit Burden
Legal Eye: Tech could brighten retailers' gloom
Regulation and recession loom
Matthew Cushen
Retailers: Look to emerging markets
Comment: Massive opportunities if you get the IT right
Julian Goldsmith
How Zavvi lost its Virginity
IT director Tony Johnson on the retailer's changing web strategy