Suggested Citation:
Sanguinetti, Angela, Andrew Kwon, Yitong Li, Vishal Chakraborty, Suhaila Sikand, Otavio Tarelgo, Ying Chen, Nina Amenta (2017) GreenFLY: Adding Carbon to the Equation in Online Flight Searches. International Conference of Design, User Experience, and Usability, 87 - 103

Suggested citation: Sanguinetti, A., Kwon, A., Li, Y., Chakraborty, V., Sikand, S., Tarelho, O., Chen, Y., & Amenta, N. (2017) GreenFLY: Adding Carbon to the Equation in Online Flight Searches. In: Marcus, A., Wang, W. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability: Designing Pleasurable Experiences. DUXU 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10289. Springer, Cham

GreenFLY (greenfly.ucdavis.edu) is an airline flight search website that prominently displays greenhouse gas emissions estimates along with the other important flight information, such as price and times, for each possible flight itinerary. We describe its software components and graphic design principles. Then we present a discrete choice experiment in which we asked participants to choose between itineraries presented in the GreenFLY format. Results suggest that consumers are willing to pay a significant amount for lower-emissions flights in the context of online flight search, especially when lower emissions are combined with fewer layovers. 

Keywords: Air travel emissions, Flight carbon calculator, Flight search engine