Apparently a sample group of Denver citizens have been trialling a software package that monitors their day-to-day driving habits (read Earth2Tech's Web-based Tools Can Help Cut Vehicle Emissions by 10%).
Vehicles were fitted with greenhouse gas-tracking systems to find out whether online feedback regarding how idling, sudden braking and rapid acceleration increase carbon dioxide emissions and fuel costs would change driving habits. Participating drivers cut idling by more than 35 percent and reduced emissions by 10 percent.
What if we fitted such systems to vehicles delivering materials to construction sites? Already, contractors and suppliers are being urged to adopt greener practices and to assess the carbon footprint of their activities (AMEE could help here, I'm sure). Online feedback would be a prompt to drivers to make an effort to cut down emissions, etc, and the results could also be automatically fed back to a desktop reporting tool so that their company and project managers can view and maintain an accurate record of their performance.
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