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VPSI Promotes Safety

June 24th, 2010 0 Comments

VPSI works tirelessly to promote safety and create a safe environment for vanpool drivers, passengers and the many other commuters with whom we share the road. An integral part of VPSI’s risk management program includes ongoing safety promotion efforts. Andy Bawden, a defensive driving instructor of the National Council and VPSI’s Loss Prevention Manager, regularly conducts driver safety awareness meetings in classroom settings at employer locations across the country in support of our safety awareness efforts. He encourages interaction with all attendees and challenges them to keep the safe operation of their vehicles in the forefront of their minds. These safety training meetings are held throughout the US to demonstrate how safe a vanpool vehicle can be when operated by an experienced, alert vanpool driver.

On May 4th, Bawden held one of these training sessions with commuters working at The Aerospace Corporation in El Segundo, California. The Aerospace safety training event was one of eight such meetings conducted by VPSI in Southern California in May.

Tags: Aerospace, Andy Bawden, California, Corporate Fleet Coordinator, El Segundo, Employee Transportation Coordinator, Jean Ghianuly, Jeffrey Remington, LAAFB, Loss Prevention Manager, National Council, Steve Pederson, Support Services Manager, The Aerospace Corporation
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VPSI Launches VAvanpool.com

June 18th, 2010 0 Comments

Since VPSI’s military-focused website, MilitaryVanpool.com, continues to grow and attract a steadily increasing number of visitors, we’ve decided to launch a companion site, focusing on helping VA employees find commuter vanpools traveling to the Department of Veterans Affairs’ vast network of hospitals, clinics, regional benefits offices and veteran centers.

“VPSI presently operates over 330 vanpools with groups of VA employees traveling to 48 different VA Medical Centers and regional offices around the country,” observes Michael Norvell, VPSI’s Vice President – Business Development. “In some locations, like the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, we have over 70 vanpools commuting to the facility. We wanted to provide a website where VA employees can find existing vanpools in their area and give additional support for those who want to form new ones.” This spring, VPSI launched www.VAvanpool.com to accomplish these objectives.

VAvanpool.com features a Vanpool Listings page showing the total number of vanpools in service at a particular VA Medical Center, as well as the city or town where they originate. For those wanting more information, contact information for the local VPSI customer service office is provided for each VA location listing.

Like its companion military-focused site, VAvanpool.com will be updated as new vanpool groups are organized and placed into service at VA facilities throughout the country. VPSI can provide vanpool services to virtually any of the over 140 VA Medical Centers and 57 Regional Offices throughout the country, even in Hawaii and Alaska. Our new website is one more tool to help enlightened, cost-conscious commuters take advantage of the VA transit benefit of up to $230 per month.

The program is available to all VA employees who commute on a daily basis using qualified mass transit, including train/subway, bus, vanpool or ferry. Employees receive a direct, tax-free subsidy for their monthly, qualified transit expenses of up to $230 per month. For the majority of program participants this equates to a free commute (including fuel) to and from work. For more information, visit VAvanpool.com today.

Tags: epartment of Veterans Affairs, listings, military, Militaryvanpool.com, VA, Vanpool
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NDIA’s Environment, Energy, Security and Sustainability Conference Spotlights Vanpooling

June 18th, 2010 1 Comment

Tracy McConell and Alice Lee-Cook

The National Defense Industrial Association’s Environment, Energy, Security & Sustainability Symposium and Exhibition (E2S2) opened at the Denver Convention Center yesterday and many of the nearly 1,100 attendees flocked to VPSI’s booth to learn more about sustainable transportation solutions like vanpooling. With about 1,100 vanpools in service at 96 military installations around the country, many of the conference attendees were familiar with VPSI’s program but few realized VPSI captured and reported the environmental benefits that result from the program. Mr. Herman Varmall, Environmental Department Head at the Naval Air Systems Command in Patuxent River, Maryland, observed that collecting and reporting the environmental benefits of the carpools and vanpools commuting to “Pax River” would help support the base’s overarching sustainability goals.

Tags: Alice Lee-Cook, Dennis Tharp, Denver Convention Center, E2S2, Energy, Environment, Herman Varmall, Michael Norvell, National Defense Industrial Association, Naval, NDIA, Security & Sustainability Symposium and Exhibition, Sustainable Transportation, Tracy McConnell
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