Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers (2018) / Chapter Skim
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3 Background Alternative fuels (AFs) and efficiency practices offer strategies for reducing emissions from the transportation sector.
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4 Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers information specific to AFs, AFVs, and fuel efficiency (U.S.
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Introduction 5 technology vehicle models available, the number of AFVs in use, and the distribution of AF consumption to track national trends. The 2015 EIA survey, which provides the most recent publicly available data, shows that more than 392,000 AFVs were deployed by state and federal fleets, fuel providers, and transit agencies (U.S.
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6 Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers vehicles, and ground support equipment. Many airports now consider GHG emissions and other environmental impacts stemming from GT activities as part of their sustainability planning and reporting measures.
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Introduction 7 hotel and parking shuttle buses, limousine and taxi services, shared van rides, rental car shuttles, scheduled airport service vehicles, and TNCs. Accounting for Scope 3 emissions can be challenging and complex because airports do not directly control passenger vehicle trips.
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8 Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers Reduce Vehicle Operating Costs For many fleets, fuel cost is a major expense. The use of AFs often allows fleets to save on operating costs owing to the better fuel efficiency of AFVs, lower cost of fuel, and potentially lower maintenance costs.
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Introduction 9 Tools for Alternative Fuel Information and Evaluation Fleet managers have access to a vast pool of publicly available resources on AFVs and other advanced propulsion technologies, allowing them to evaluate the performance and costs of such technologies, assess emissions benefits, and compare life-cycle costs of AFVs with traditionally fueled vehicles.
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10 Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers accounting for criteria pollutants, GHG emissions, and toxic air pollutants. MOVES was developed and is maintained by EPA, and is available for download at https://www.epa.gov/moves.
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Introduction 11 Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicle Tax Credit In addition to the two mentioned grant programs, the Internal Revenue Code Section 30D provides a tax credit of up to $7,500 (depending on battery capacity and vehicle weight) for the purchase of a new, qualified, light-duty plug-in vehicle that draws propulsion from a battery.
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12 Clean Vehicles, Fuels, and Practices for Airport Private Ground Transportation Providers settled the case out of court for $15 billion. As part of the settlement, VW agreed to spend $10 billion on a vehicle buyback program, pay $2.9 billion to the environmental mitigation trust fund, and spend $2 billion on ZEV infrastructure (U.S.
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Introduction 13 quality as a growing concern for future operations. The survey of the airports cited in the report highlights the demand for parking and traffic congestion as being the largest issues affecting air quality.
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