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CEFA has recently concluded a study of Alternative Fuels for transit bus authorities. The report below, Energy and Environmental Performance of Existing and Emerging Public Transportation Technologies, brings to public transit planners a systematic and objective analysis of the performance of emerging fuels for transit bus systems.
The Alternative Fuels Analysis Tool (AFAT) is a Microsoft Excel workbook that allows users to compare different forms of conventional and alternative fuels. The premise of AFAT is for a transit authority interested in altering the fuel type in all or some of his/her bus fleet. Default values from the 1996 Battelle Alternative Fuels Transit Bus Evaluation Results study are embedded in the workbook and act as a base for the tool. The user also may supply their own values for any or all of the components used in the analysis. |