Address-Specific Sustainable Accommodation Choice Through Real-World Data Integration

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Main Authors: Bentley, Peter J., Mathur, Rajat, Lim, Soo Ling, Narang, Sid
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Published: 2024
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author Bentley, Peter J.
Mathur, Rajat
Lim, Soo Ling
Narang, Sid
author_facet Bentley, Peter J.
Mathur, Rajat
Lim, Soo Ling
Narang, Sid
contents Consumers wish to choose sustainable accommodation for their travels, and in the case of corporations, may be required to do so. Yet accommodation marketplaces provide no meaningful capability for sustainable choice: typically CO2 estimates are provided that are identical for all accommodation of the same type across an entire country. We propose a decision support system that enables real choice of sustainable accommodation. We develop a data-driven address-specific metric called EcoGrade, which integrates government approved datasets and uses interpolation where data is sparse. We validate the metric on 10,000 UK addresses in 10 cities, showing the match of our interpolations to reality is statistically significant. We show how the metric has been embedded into a decision support system for a global accommodation marketplace and tested by real users over several months with positive user feedback. In the EU, forty percent of final energy consumption is from buildings. We need to encourage all building owners to make their accommodation more efficient. The rental sector is one area where change can occur rapidly, as rented accommodation is renovated frequently. We anticipate our decision support system using EcoGrade will encourage this positive change.
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spellingShingle Address-Specific Sustainable Accommodation Choice Through Real-World Data Integration
Bentley, Peter J.
Mathur, Rajat
Lim, Soo Ling
Narang, Sid
Computers and Society
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Information Retrieval
68U35
E.m; H.m
Consumers wish to choose sustainable accommodation for their travels, and in the case of corporations, may be required to do so. Yet accommodation marketplaces provide no meaningful capability for sustainable choice: typically CO2 estimates are provided that are identical for all accommodation of the same type across an entire country. We propose a decision support system that enables real choice of sustainable accommodation. We develop a data-driven address-specific metric called EcoGrade, which integrates government approved datasets and uses interpolation where data is sparse. We validate the metric on 10,000 UK addresses in 10 cities, showing the match of our interpolations to reality is statistically significant. We show how the metric has been embedded into a decision support system for a global accommodation marketplace and tested by real users over several months with positive user feedback. In the EU, forty percent of final energy consumption is from buildings. We need to encourage all building owners to make their accommodation more efficient. The rental sector is one area where change can occur rapidly, as rented accommodation is renovated frequently. We anticipate our decision support system using EcoGrade will encourage this positive change.
title Address-Specific Sustainable Accommodation Choice Through Real-World Data Integration
topic Computers and Society
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Information Retrieval
68U35
E.m; H.m
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.12934