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Transit and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Making Public Transportation Prominent on Transit and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Making Public Transportation Prominent on Transit and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Making Public Transportation Prominent on Transit and Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Making Public Transportation Prominent on
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APTA Standards Leading the WayAPTA Standards Leading the WayAPTA Standards Leading the WayAPTA Standards Leading the WayAPTA Standards Leading the WayAPTA Standards Leading the WayAPTA Standards Leading the WayAPTA Standards Leading the Way
APTA Sustainability Workshop
Los Angeles, CA
August 2, 2011
Eric HesseChair, APTA Standards Climate Change Working Group
Strategic Planning Analyst, TriMet
Guidance and Tools for Measuring and Managing
Your Carbon Footprint
www.apta.com/sustainability
Why measure and manage GHG emissions?
• Communicating the benefits of transit
• Ensuring eligibility for new funding sources
• Reporting to carbon accounting and trading organizations
• Fulfilling APTA Sustainability Commitment reporting
• Setting emissions targets in local/regional climate action • Setting emissions targets in local/regional climate action plans
• Supporting internal efforts to reduce emissions
Transit’s GHG Paradox
Mass Transit Mass Transit
Other
Transportation
Other
Transportation
More TransitLess Transit
Regional Transportation GHG Emissions
APTA Recommended Practice Document
Quantifying Greenhouse Gases from Transit
APTA Recommended Practice Document
Guidelines for Climate Action Planning
APTA Recommended Practice Document
Guidelines for Climate Action Planning
Why engage in climate action planning?
• Supporting internal sustainability
efforts
• Improving cost-effectiveness,
including new revenuesincluding new revenues
• Preparing for the effects of climate
change
• Demonstrating the environmental
benefits of transit
• Demonstrating leadership
APTA Recommended Practice Document
Guidelines for Climate Action Planning
APTA Recommended Practice Document
Guidelines for Climate Action Planning
Acknowledging differences
with flexibility to consider:
Scope: Recognize agency
authority in considering CAP
objectives and actionsobjectives and actions
Scale: Considering agency role
in reducing it’s own
emissions output (debit), vs.
how an agency can impact
regional transportation and
land use policies (credit)
Industry Participation
• Barbara Thomson, First Environment
• Betsy Delaney, First Environment
• Brian Laverty, PB
• Craig Bilderback, Veolia
Transportation
• Cris Liban, Los Angeles MTA
• Cynthia Hoyle, Champaign-Urbana
• Joan LeLacheur, WMATA
• Joe Speaks, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Justin Antos, AECOM Transportation
• Karl Peet, Chicago Transit Authority
• Liz Zelasko, FTA
• Mark Minor, Regional Transportation
Authority (Chicago)• Cynthia Hoyle, Champaign-Urbana
MTD
• Dan Locke, Utah Transit Authority
• Dave Gillespie, New Jersey Transit
• David Erne, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Ed Buchanan, Utah Transit Authority
• Eric Hesse,TriMet
• Erik Johanson, SEPTA
• Gary Prince, King County Metro
Authority (Chicago)
• Marty Mellera, San Francisco MTA
• Monica Hale, SAIC
• Projjal Dutta, New York MTA
• Tim Papandreou, San Francisco MTA
• Tina Hodges, FTA
• Trish Webb, TransLink
• Val Menotti, BART
