Acceptable Planning: Influencing Individual Behavior to Reduce Transportation Energy Expenditure of a City

Abstract

Our research aims at developing intelligent systems to reduce the transportation-related energy expenditure of a large city by influencing individual behavior. We introduce Copter - an intelligent travel assistant that evaluates multi-modal travel alternatives to find a plan that is acceptable to a person given their context and preferences. We propose a formulation for acceptable planning that brings together ideas from AI, machine learning, and economics. This formulation has been incorporated in Copter that produces acceptable plans in real-time. We adopt a novel empirical evaluation framework that combines human decision data with a high fidelity multi-modal transportation simulation to demonstrate a 4% energy reduction and 20% delay reduction in a realistic deployment scenario in Los Angeles, California, USA.   This article is part of the special track on AI and Society.

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Text

Mohan et al. "Acceptable Planning: Influencing Individual Behavior to Reduce Transportation Energy Expenditure of a City." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2019. doi:10.1613/JAIR.1.11352

Markdown

[Mohan et al. "Acceptable Planning: Influencing Individual Behavior to Reduce Transportation Energy Expenditure of a City." Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/jair/2019/mohan2019jair-acceptable/) doi:10.1613/JAIR.1.11352

BibTeX

@article{mohan2019jair-acceptable,
  title     = {{Acceptable Planning: Influencing Individual Behavior to Reduce Transportation Energy Expenditure of a City}},
  author    = {Mohan, Shiwali and Rakha, Hesham and Klenk, Matthew},
  journal   = {Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research},
  year      = {2019},
  pages     = {555-587},
  doi       = {10.1613/JAIR.1.11352},
  volume    = {66},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/jair/2019/mohan2019jair-acceptable/}
}