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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.
Slow Down and You’re Likely to Save
August 6th, 2009 0 CommentsTraveling at the speed of light might work for Superman, but when it comes to your car, faster isn’t always better. According to this recent AOL Autos article, the faster you travel, the more suctioned air your car has to push out of its way. This takes up more energy and thus, more gas. In fact, for every ten mph over 60 that you travel, you add approximately $0.54 onto the price of gasoline per gallon. Now that can really add up!
Typically experts say that to achieve the ultimate miles per gallon, you should travel plus or minus 55 mph. This is not a recently-learned fact though—as a result of the ‘70s energy crisis, the government enforced a nationwide 55 mph speed limit. But slowing down on the road, means adding more time to your route…which is worthier?
VPSI’s New Pilot Program Gets Funding
March 18th, 2009 0 CommentsVPSI’s Capital District Vanpool Pilot Program proposal has been awarded jointly by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). NYSDOT and NYSERDA identified commuter vanpooling as a strategy that has the potential of reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases and the consumption of petroleum products by reducing vehicle miles traveled (VMT) in New York State, without adversely affecting the State’s economy and quality of life. As an example, a 15-passenger VPSI vanpool reduces 335,500 miles traveled and 136 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in one year. By lowering VMTs and greenhouse gases, VPSI supports the goals the State of New York, established to create public-private partnerships for sustainable transportation strategies. VPSI will use project funding to reduce user fees and establish a long-term funding stream supported by an agreement with CDTA, the local transit agency.
For more information on the funding, click here.
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