The Vermont Clean Cities Coalition is excited to announce the release of the Sustainable Campus Transportation Toolkit! This toolkit focuses on methods that higher education institutions in Vermont, like your own, can utilize in order to improve the sustainability of their transportation systems. These recommendations include techniques related to alternative fuel vehicles, transportation demand management, fuel economy, and idle reduction. The toolkit also provides a guide for your college to establish its own sustainable transportation action plan in an effort to move away from a transportation system based on single-occupancy vehicles and petroleum fuels. These efforts will improve the health of the environment and of your campus’s students, faculty, and staff.

The Sustainable Campus Transportation Toolkit is featured on the Vermont Clean Cities website and can be viewed here. Your institution will receive a hard copy of the toolkit in the near future, but please feel free to utilize the digital version while you are waiting! The most important resource at your college to make a transportation system reform successful is a dedicated group of students, faculty, and staff, so please forward this on to anyone in your campus community that you believe will benefit from this toolkit.

Please consider us a resource for the implementation of this toolkit or for any technical assistance needed to reduce your petroleum consumption on campus.

February Toolkit Tip: Winter driving conditions can reduce your vehicle’s fuel economy by 12-22%, or 31-34% for hybrid vehicles. Has your campus fleet put our cold weather driving habit suggestions to use? You can find these recommendations in the Fuel Economy section of the Sustainable Campus Transportation Toolkit on page 17.