Other Links

Alternative Fuel/Technology Websites

2001 National Renewable Energy Laboratory report on hydrogen fuel cell technology.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/hydrogen/pdfs/30535bo.pdf

1997 Five Labs Report on potential for comprehensive alternative technology program to reduce U.S. carbon emissions.
http://www.ornl.gov/ORNL/Energy_Eff/labweb.htm

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Transportation Technologies, Argonne National Laboratory has developed a fuel-cycle model called GREET (Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation). It allows researchers to evaluate various engine and fuel combinations on a consistent fuel-cycle basis.
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/ttrdc/greet/index.html

The Center for Electromechanism (CEM) at the University of Texas at Austin is currently researching flywheel technology for rail applications, among other electric vehicle technologies.
http://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/

The Northeast Advanced Vehicle Consortium (NAVC) is a non-profit association of private and public sector firms and agencies working together to promote advanced vehicle technologies in the Northeast U.S.
http://www.navc.org/

Transportable Emission Testing Laboratory of the University of West Virginia
http://www.wvu.edu/~research/emission-lab.htm

The U.S. EPA's Office of Transportation and Air Quality (OTAQ) website contains information on Clean Air Act regulations pertaining to emissions from heavy duty bus engines.
http://www.epa.gov/otaq/

National Renewable Energy Laboratory
http://www.nrel.gov/

The U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center has more than 3,000 fuel and technology-related documents in its database, an interactive fuel station mapping system, listings of available alternative fuel vehicles, and links to related Web sites.
http://www.afdc.doe.gov/

The Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange - (GREENTIE) is an international directory of suppliers whose technologies help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Greentie also provides information on funding and international organizations whose research and development and information activities focus on clean energy technologies.
http://www.greentie.org/

The U.S. Energy Information Administration publishes yearly reports on the production and consumption of alternative fuels, and alternative fuel vehicles.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/

Oak Ridge National Laboratory's "Five Labs Report," on the prospects for cutting greenhouse gas emissions through alternative technologies.
http://www.ornl.gov/ORNL/Energy_Eff/labweb.htm

"Biodiesel - The Clean, Green Fuel for Diesel Engines," U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy00osti/28315.pdf

"Hydrogen Fuel Cell Bus Evaluation," National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/hydrogen/pdfs/30535bo.pdf

"Life Cycle Assessment of Hydrogen Production via Natural Gas Steam Reforming," National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/hydrogen/pdfs/27637.pdf

"Life Cycle Inventory of Biodiesel and Petroleum Diesel for Use in an Urban Bus. Final Report," National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
http://ott.doe.gov.biofuels/lifecycle_pdf.html

The Clean Cities Program, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, supports public-private partnerships that research alternative fuels, alternative fuel vehicles, and fuel infrastructure.
http://www.ccities.doe.gov/

The International Energy Agency Greenhouse Gas R&D Programme (IEA GHG) is an international collaboration which aims to evaluate technologies for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, disseminate the results of these studies, and identify targets for research, development and demonstration.
http://www.ieagreen.org.uk/

The Center for Transportation Technologies and Systems (CTTS), housed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) strives to developadvanced vehicle and fuel technologies and moving them from research and development to the marketplace.The site provides a document library about such topics as alternative fuels and transportation issues.
http://www.ctts.nrel.gov/heavy_vehicle/what/fleet.html

The Vehicle Systems and Safety (VSS) Program of the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State provides information on the Federal Transit Administration's new model bus testing program.
http://www.vss.psu.edu/fta/

The Center for Transportation Analysis (CTA) in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducts cost-effective research and development on transportation energy and environmental issues, national transportation planning and policy, transportation system engineering, and military transportation.
http://www-cta.ornl.gov

The U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) website is a helpful gateway to information on alternative fuels, energy efficient transportation technology,and renewable energy.
http://www.eren.doe.gov/EE/transportation.html

The BC Research Inc. Alternative Transportation Fuels Database providesabstracts of technical papers on alternative transportation fuels and technology.
http://catf.bcresearch.com/catf/catf.nsf/IndexB!OpenView

The National Council for Science and the Environment makes available briefs and reports produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on environmental and transportation topics
http://www.cnie.org/NLE/

Climate Change Websites

The United Nations' Intergovernmetnal Panel on Climate Change periodically publishes peer-reviewed assessments of the state of international climate change science, which are authoritative in the field.Also available are press releases on international climate talks and document references on the Kyoto Protocol.
http://www.ipcc.ch/

For a quick overview of paleoclimatologic data pertaining to climate change in the earth's past, visit the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's website.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/paleodata.html

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/

Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS).An educational site providing an overview ofand references to climate change debate in the late 1990's.
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/edu/gwdebate/

Color illustrations of basic atmospheric processes (such as the greenhouse effect) can be downloaded at the United Nations Environment Program's Introduction to Climate Change site:
http://www.grida.no/climate/vital/intro.htm

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change is a non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization dedicated to providing credible information, straight answers and innovative solutions in the effort to address global climate change.
http://www.pewclimate.org/index.html

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Center for Climate Change and Environmental Forecasting offers information on the linkages between transportation and climate change.
http://climate.volpe.dot.gov/transemiss.html

Science@NASA provides an educational website with periodical summarized updates on issues of relevance to climate change science.
http://www.science.nasa.gov/headlines/

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Global Warming Site offers concise overviews of climate change basics.It draws its information from the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP). The USGCRP provides a major contribution to the research base on which the IPCC assessments rely.
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarmin

The Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the preeminent climate change data and information analysis center focusing on CO2.Fundamental time-series graphs of CO2 measurements can be found at the Laboratory's "Online Trends" page:
http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/trends/trends.htm

U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration.Source for a range of data on national greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions, by economic sector.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/oiaf/

The U.S. Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) The US Global Change Research Information Office (GCRIO) provides access to data and information on global change research, adaptation/mitigation strategies and technologies, and global change-related educational resources on behalf of the various US Federal Agencies and Organizations that are involved in the US Global Change Research Program (USGCRP).
http://www.gcrio.org

Educational Resources on Climate Change

EcoIQ Magazine
http://www.ecoiq.com/airquality

Climate Ark: Climate Change News Links
http://climateark.org/

Airhead: Greenhouse Gas Calculator and Air Pollution Primer
http://www.airhead.org/

General

Santa Barbara Electric Transportation Institute
http://www.sbeti.com

Location Efficient Mortgage
http://www.locationefficiency.com/

Energy Policy Act (EPAct)
http://www.ott.doe.gov/epact/

Arlington County, Virginia. Department of Public Works
http://www.co.arlington.va.us/dpw

Tennessee Department of Transportation
http://www.tdot.state.tn.us

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA). NOAA research drives the NOAA environmental products and services that protect life and property and promote sustainable economic growth. Research focuses on enhancing our understanding of environmental phenomena such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and climate variability.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/

Argonne National Laboratory
http://www.anl.gov

U.S. Department of Energy Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) Program
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/cmaqpgs/

Montgomery County Department of Planning and Inspections
http://208.13.158.54/departments/plan/pihome.html

Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)
http://www.tcrponline.org

URENCO Flywheel
http://www.urenco.com/htm/other_products/flywheel.htm

Organizations working for Sustainable Transportation

Maryland Governor's Office of Smart Growth
http://www.smartgrowth.state.md.us/

California Fuel Cell Partnership
http://www.fuelcellpartnership.org/

President's Council on Sustainable Development
http://www.usda.gov/sustainable/

Georgia Regional Transportation Authority
http://www.grta.org/

Center for Neighborhood Technology
http://www.cnt.org

Congress for the New Urbanism
http://www.cnu.org

I-Go Car Sharing
http://I-go-cars.org

Reconnecting America
http://www.reconnectingamerica.org

Surface Transportation Policy Project
http://www.transact.org/default.htm

Zipcar
http://www.zipcar.com

Smart Growth America.
http://www.smartgrowthamerica.com

Reports

United Nations of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report
http://www.ipcc.ch/pub/reports.htm#sprep

Kyoto Protocol Report, 1997
http://unfccc.int/resource/convkp.html

National Research Council
http://www.nrc.gov/

Brookings Institution Report, "Who Sprawls the Most ? How Growth Patterns Differ Across the U.S."
http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/fulton-pendall.htm

Brookings Institution Report, "Transit Oriented Development."
http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/es/urban/publications/belzertodexsum.htm

National Renewable Energy Laboratory Report, "Alternative Fuel Transit Buses. Final Results. "
http://www.afdc.doe.gov/pdfs/transbus.pdf

Sustainable Surface Transportation Websites

Ballard Power Systems
http://www.ballard.com/

Partnership for a New Generation of Vehicles
http://www.ta.doc.gov/pngv

Report prepared for the Arlington Greenway Core Working Group proposing a framework for pedestrian walkways in urbanized areas.
http://w1.planning.org/projects/physactiveresources.htm

The National Academy of Science's Transportation Research Board provides access to a wide-range of online published documents of current information and research on transportation policy.
http://www.nas.edu/trb/

The American Public Transportation Association, the national professional organization of the transit industry.Links from the home page lead to comprehensive transit statistics.
http://www.apta.com/

The California Air Resources Board (CARB), part of the California EPA, works to improve the state's air quality.The link below leads to CARB's "Public Transit Buses" page, containing government updates on regulatory information affecting urban bus emissions, and emissions standards.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/bus/bus.htm

Airhead, a project of the Community Energy Division of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, provides a personal emissions calculator that can gauge and track the volume of greenhouse gas emitted by individuals during their daily activities.
http://www.airhead.org/Calculator/

ICLEI (the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives) is a worldwide movement of local governments organizing to achieve tangible improvements in global environmental and sustainable development conditions through cumulative local actions.
http://www.iclei.org/

FTA Report, "The Impact of Various Land Use Strategies on Suburban Mobility," (1992).
http://ntl.bts.gov/DOCS/470.html

The Arlington County, Virginia official website, including a presentation on the role of transit, and transit oriented development, in Arlington.
http://www.co.arlington.va.us/dpw/planning/images/abc.pdf

The Nationwide Personal Transportation Survey (NPTS) serves as the nation's inventory of daily personal travel. It is the only authoritative source of national data on daily trips including purpose of the trip, means of transportation, how long the trip took, day of week and month, number of people on trip, etc.
http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohim/nptspage.htm

The Transportation Energy Data Book.The Data Book represents an assembly and display of statistics and information that characterize transportation activity, and presents data on other factors that influence transportation energy use.
http://www-cta.ornl.gov/data/Index.html

Transit Agencies - General

Federal Transit Administration
http://www.fta.dot.gov

Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority
http://www.mta.net/

Santa Monica Big Blue Bus
http://www.bigbluebus.com/home/index.asp

San Francisco, Claifornia. Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)
http://www.bart.gov/index.asp

Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
http://www.wmata.com/

Chicago, Illinois Metra
http://www.metrarail.com

San Francisco, California. Municipal Railway (MUNI)
http://www.sfmuni.com/home/home50.htm

Transit Agencies with AFV Experience

Biodiesel: Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City Areat Transit Autority.
http://www.kcata.org/default.htm; Cincinnati, Ohio. Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority
http://www.sorta.com/; Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Five Seasons Transportation & Parking.
http://www.crbus-parking.org/fSTPmain.htm

CNG: Los Angeles, California. Metropolitan Transit Authority
http://www.mta.net/; New York, New York. MTA New York City Transit
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/; Washington, D.C. Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
http://www.wmata.com/default.cfm

Electric Battery-Powered Buses: Santa Barbara, California. Santa Barbara Metropolitan Transit District.
http://www.sbmtd.gov/index.html; Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Five Seasons Transportation & Parking.
http://www.crbus-parking.org/fSTPmain.htm; Chattanooga, Tennessee. Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, (CARTA).
http://www.carta-bus.org

Ethanol: Los Angeles, California. Metropolitan Transit Authority
http://www.mta.net/; Peoria, Illinois. Greater Peoria Mass Transit
http://www.gptransit.org/

Funding Opportunities for Alternative Fuel Vehicles: Alternative Fuels Data Center.
http://www.afdc.doe.gov/afv/funding.shtml; Clean Cities Program.
http://www.ccities.doe.gov/support.shtml

Hybrid-Electric Powered Buses: Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Five Seasons Transportation & Parking.
http://www.crbus-parking.org/fSTPmain.htm; Los Angeles, California. Metropolitan Transit Authority
http://www.mta.net/; New York, New York. MTA New York City Transit
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/; Denver, Colorado. Regional Transportation District.
http://www.rtd-denver.com/

Hydrogen Fuel Cells: Thousand Palms, California. SunLine Transit Agency.
http://www.sunline.org/home/home.html; Chicago, Illinois. Chicago Transit Authority.
http://www.transitchicago.com/; Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Coast Mountain Bus Company.
http://www.coastmountainbus.com/; Georgetown Univeristy. Advanced Vehicle Development.
http://fuelcellbus.georgetown.edu/index.cfm

Lightweight Materials: Houston, Texas. Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas.
http://www.hou-metro.harris.tx.us/homepage.asp; Los Angeles, California. Metropolitan Transit Authority
http://www.mta.net/

Methanol: New York, New York. MTA New York City Transit
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/; Miami, Florida. Miami-Dade Transit
http://www.co.miami-dade.fl.us/transit/