Transportation iCAP Team Meeting 12/1/2023
The Transportation iCAP Team met on 12/1/2023 to discuss EVs on campus and action items for the Sustainable Fleet Replacement Plan.
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The Transportation iCAP Team met on 12/1/2023 to discuss EVs on campus and action items for the Sustainable Fleet Replacement Plan.
Here is a list of tasks I have worked on and continue to work on:
Tasks completed
Current tasks
Here are the things I have been working on:
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Sarthak & Ethan Meeting 11/3
Campus landscape master plan
Evaluation section
Implementation
Wednesday we will organize the document
Equity and accessibility section
Existing Conditions
Crash Data
Landscape plan excel:
On 10/17/2023, Sarthak Prasad gave an overview of the iCAP and the iCAP Portal to the two new Sustainable Transportation interns, Sam Wuebbles and Tushar Kokitkar. They were also trained on how to post project updates to the iCAP Portal.
Following is the response from Dr. Ehab Kamarah from F&S on October 11, 2023:
Thank you, Dr. Fraterrigo. F&S supports the recommendations.
Regards,
Ehab
Read the iWG transmittal for Transportation 015 Fleet Replacement.
Sam Wuebbles is one of the two new Sustainable Transportation interns. He started on 10/10/23 and will be working 10 hours per week.
Prepare outline for bike audit
Re-familiarize self with stuff
Black racks are ground mounted, we want bike racks on rails (gray ones)
Only university owned bike racks and paths
On 08/10/2023, Sarthak and Hrushikesh had a weekly meeting to discuss on Weekly Progress of the current projects that we are working on. Please refer to the file attached to view the Weekly Progress.
On 08/03/2023, Sarthak and Hrushikesh had a weekly meeting to discuss on Weekly Progress of the current projects that we are working on. Please refer to the file attached to view the Weekly Progress.
On 07/24/2023, Sarthak, Nathaniel and Hrushikesh had a weekly meeting to discuss on Weekly Progress of the current projects that we are working on. Please refer to the file attached to view the Weekly Progress.
Nathaniel's Weekly Progress -
Hrushikesh's Weekly Progress -
LAS Dean Patton suggested that ISEE could develop a sustainable swag toolkit to give out to communicators and event coordinators throughout campus.
The 2015 iCAP, chapter 8, objective 1 is, "By the end of FY16, conduct a Request for Proposals process for verified carbon offsets — and undertake the first campus purchase of offsets." iSEE is developing a Request for Proposals (RFP) for purchasing carbon credits, aka carbon offsets.
iSEE is developing the technical specifications for a Request for Bids (RFB) for purchasing carbon credits, aka carbon offsets in FY17. These will be used both to replace the carbon credits sold from calendar year 2016, and as a starting inventory for the Virtual Storeroom.
During this process, iSEE will develop detailed specifications for carbon offsets to ensure that all purchased offsets are additional (in the sense that they enable reductions beyond business-as-usual), measurable, conservative (to ensure reductions are not overstated), permanent, independently verified, trackable, and transparent. The 2015 iCAP intended to have an RFP done by the end of FY16, and the current schedule will have the purchase completed by the end of FY17.
Background
Because campus sells carbon credits through the Carbon Credit Purchasing Program (C2P2) at Second Nature, we need to replace those boutique carbon credits with carbon offsets. By the end of FY17, we will buy 103,000 carbon offsets (equivalent to 103,000 tons of greenhouse gasses not being released into the atmosphere) to replace those sold from calendar year 2016.
Additionally, in the same RFB, we will purchase 10,000 additional carbon offsets which will be used to set up a new virtual storeroom to allow campus units to voluntarily offset their carbon emissions, for example from air travel to scholarly meetings.
On 07/20/2023, Sarthak, Nathaniel and Hrushikesh had a weekly meeting to discuss on Weekly Progress of the current projects that we are working on.
Meeting Notes:
- Campus Bike Plan 2024
- Abandoned Bikes Project Inventory Documentation Completion
- Bike Parking Rack Design
- Research on Permeable Pavers and Bike Shelter
- Discussion on the Next week's Tasks regarding Bike Audit
- Bike Census
F&S Policy on the purchase of paper states that, "When purchasing paper for copiers and printers, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified products with a minimum of 30 percent recycled content must be selected."
Attached is the policy document.
Sarthak met with Hrushikesh and Nathaniel on 7/13/2023 together to discuss the weekly meetings. This was the first Sustainable Transportation weekly intern meeting.
Sarthak explained the layout for these meetings in the future. Hrushikesh and Nathaniel would lead these meetings going forward. They will report on the progress made in the previous week and go over their to-do list for the current week and the week after. They will send Sarthak their weekly progress report in form of Word or Excel or some other form and share it with the Sustainable Transportation team.
These meetings will be held weekly until the semester begins.
On 07/13/2023, Sarthak had a meeting with Nathaniel and Hrushikesh to get a Weekly progress report and to set next week's tasks.
- Set a structure for Weekly Meetings
- Discussion on Bike Friendly University (BFU), Bike Racks Locations and their design Plans, Campus Bike Plan 2024, and the Abandoned Bicycles Project.
- Gave an overview of the i-Cap Portal and Bike Friendly University (BFU) to Nathaniel.
- Potential Encouragement project on Social Media: Making a Rules of the Road Video.
On Jun 26, 2023 Karen Wheeler contacted Morgan White to verify that banking information was confirmed and payments would apply to the proper account on 6/28/2023.
Sarthak met with Hrushikesh Chavan (Master of Architecture student) and Nathaniel Nevins (Bachelors in Landscape Architecture) separately to explain the Campus Bike Plan 2024 update. These students will read up the 2014 Campus Bike Plan, the progress reports, and other documents shared with them to learn more and recommend suggestions for this new Plan.
F&S has received 4 new Ford F-150 Lightnings all electric trucks, bringing the total to 6 Ford Lightnings and 1 Ford e-Transit cargo van for F&S fleet.
We have also installed another level-2 Ford dual point smart chargers on the south side of PPSB and we are working on the installation on another one. We have 2 more chargers to install. The Charging Stations installations are being done using the SSC funding.