Eco-Drive: Leveraging Gamification and Community Engagement for Carbon Footprint Reduction through Smart Mobility Solutions

This research is based on the Eco-Drive app application that integrates automatic travel detection, gamification, and social engagement as a mobile platform to reduce individual and community-level carbon footprints. The application encourages sustainable commuting behaviours. An engaging interface with advanced analytics aligns with global sustainability goals through vehicular emission reduction. Preliminary results indicate that the app can contribute considerably toward increasing environmental awareness and action. This is just one of the major challenge’s environmental experts face: vehicle emissions and air quality, and this is what the Eco-Drive project is for. It’s an automated carbon footprint tracking within a gamified incentive program with community involvement to empower the users to make responsible decisions that lead to commuting sustainably. Using smartphone sensors and frameworks, it identifies the mode of travel and travel time to show live information with a nudge to carpool, bicycle, or travel by public transport. Gamification supports behaviour change through friendly competitions and virtual rewards. This awareness and sense of community responsibility make Eco Drive work for the global sustainability goal through a scalable and user-centered approach to reducing emissions in the urban environment.