Green My Fleet: Green My Fleet: An Analysis of Puget Sound An Analysis of Puget Sound Clean Air’s Evergreen Fleets Initiative of Green Fleet Clean Air’s Evergreen Fleets Initiative of Green Fleet

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David PerlmutterCommunity, Environment, and Planning (CEP)

Department of Urban Design & PlanningUniversity of Washington

May 6, 2010

http://greenmyfleet.blogspot.com/

Introduction

Why Evergreen Fleets?

1. Previous working relationship with the City of Issaquah

2. LOTS of federal stimulus funding3. Very cutting-edge research4. Lack of industry funding/staff to get a

sense of “big picture” solutions5. Reforming large fleets can have a major

impact in changing our transportation options as consumers

My Research

My Role

A. Create a series of Best Practices documents for the City of Issaquah committing the City to reducing their emissions and making investments in alternative fuels

B. Prepare an analytical report for Evergreen Fleets detailing what next steps can be taken in order to: 1. Update the range of Best Practices available to

candidate fleets to fit the “industry standard”2. Improve the process of importing quantitative data

into Evergreen Fleets’ online Evaluator Tool

Stakeholder Analysis

1. Evergreen Fleets (Puget Sound Clean Air)2. Puget Sound Clean Cities Coalition (US Dept. of Energy)3. Candidate Agencies/Cities4. Resource Conservation Offices5. City Fleet Depts.6. Vehicle Suppliers7. Carbon Exchange Markets (cap-and-trade, carbon

neutrality agreements)8. State legislatures9. Venture capitalists

Best Practices are documents that demonstrate a candidate city’s commitment to alternative fuels investment. I have worked on creating several of these official documents for the City of Issaquah, including:

1.Green Fleets Plan2.Green Vehicle Purchasing Policy3.“Right Size” Requirement for Vehicle Purchasing4.Preventive Maintenance5.Reduce, Reuse, Recover (RRR) Program for Vehicle Maintenance Products6.Green Rental Car or Car-Sharing Agreements

Best Practices: City of Issaquah

New Qualitative Methods• Interviews

– Chris Wiley, City of Seattle Green Fleets Coordinator

– Stephanie Meyn, PS Clean Air (Evergreen Fleets)

– Ivan Miller, PSRC– Jason Edens, City of

Seattle Sustainable Purchasing

• Blogging – www.greenmyfleet.blogspot.com

New Technological Partnerships

• Green Taxi Cabs– “Cab-sharing”– CNG taxi cabs

New Technological Partnerships

• Electric Vehicles– Greater availability

– Chevy Volt, Nissan Leaf

– Insufficient charging network

Where do electric cars get their energy from?

Lifecycle Emissions Analysis

•Important to look at the net effects of producing alternative fuels

•Corn-based ethanol and soy-based biodiesel may do more harm than traditional gasoline

New Technological Partnerships – Bicycles as a Fleet Component

New Best Practices: Encouraging Density, Walkability as a Means of Emissions Reduction

•Evergreen Fleets already encourages cities to use “green” car-sharing services – why not discourage the need for cars altogether?

Recommendations/Conclusion:

1. Improved data management mechanisms2. Improved inter-agency communication – social

networking tool to create a community of Green Fleets managers

3. Commute Trip Reduction4. Better analysis of “the Industry Standard” of

Best Practices5. New technological partnerships

Thank you for your time. Questions?