Transportation

Alternative Fuels Data Center
Developer: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Phone: (303) 275-4491
Website: http://www.afdc.doe.gov/
Email: cynthia_riley@nrel.gov
Description: Comprehensive information on alternative fuels. The AFDC collects operating information from vehicles running on alternative fuels, analyzes those data, and makes them available to the public. This web site is currently being redesigned to better meet the needs of the public.

The site will provide detailed specific information on alternative fuel vehicles, fuel types, refueling infrastructure, legislative updates, etc. It will also be the resource for alternative fuel documents, newsletters, databases, events, and more.

Alternative Fuel Vehicle Fleet Buyer's Guide
Website: http://www.fleets.doe.gov/
Description: This site provides state and alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) fleet managers with information on obtaining AFVs, fuel providers, and links to state and federal incentives for AFVs.

Clean Cities Web Site
Developer: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Phone: (303) 275-4440
Website: http://www.ccities.doe.gov/
Email: debbie_brodt@nrel.gov
Description: Newly developed web site to provide on-line information to Clean Cities stakeholders. Information includes:

• Clean Cities contacts
• Advancing the AFV Choice Events
• How to become a Clean City
• Funding information
• Alternative fuel vehicle information
• Conference information
• Clean Cities Coalition profiles
• Clean Cities stories, documents, news, events and latest issue of the Alternative Fuel News.

EMISS 1.00 Manual
Phone: (800) 363-3732
Website: http://www.eere.energy.gov/femp/resources.html
Description: A special-purpose computer program for use in generating data files with location specific emissions factors for CO2, SO2, and NOX-related energy use in buildings. Emission factors are generated for electricity, distillate, and residual fuel oils, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, and coal.

The resulting data files can be accessed by BLCC to calculate reductions in air pollution emissions attributable to energy conservation investments on buildings and building systems

Fuel Provider and State Government Fleet Alternative Fuel Vehicle Buyer's Guide
Developer: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Phone: (303) 275-4491
Website: http://www.fleets.doe.gov/
Email: cynthia_riley@nrel.gov
Description: A web-based interactive tool that allows fleet managers to find valuable alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) information, determine if laws, rules or incentives apply to them, and then walks the fleet manager through a step by step process to make informed AFV purchase decisions.

The web site includes original manufacturer's product listings and costs of AFVs, incentives that are applicable to fleet managers, a cost analysis of an AFV compared to a conventionally fueled vehicle and dealerships and refueling/recharging sites nearest to the fleet manager.

INDEX
Developer: Criterion Planners/Engineers Inc.
Phone: (503) 224-8606
Website: http://www.crit.com/
Email: eliot@crit.com
Description: INDEX is GIS-based software for measuring community indicators. It can be customized according to indicators and functions selected by local stakeholders. Main functions include data management, public information, scenario analysis, and indicator tracking.

Indicator measurements normally include land-use, housing, employment, transportation, infrastructure, and the natural environment. Customizations utilize either ArcView or MapObjects.

Measure (Transportation/Air Quality Model)
Developer: Georgia Tech
Phone: (404) 385-0903
Email: william.bachman@arch.gatech.edu
Description: MEASURE (Mobile Emission Assessment System for Urban and Regional Evaluation) is a GIS-based mobile emissions model under development that will be available in 1999.

PLACE3S
Developer: California Energy Commission. State Energy Office in OR and WA. Dept. of Energy
Phone: (303) 275-4819
Description: PLACE3S and acronym for (PLAnning for Community Energy, Economic and Environmental Sustainability) is an urban design and land use planning process created to help communities understand how growth and development decisions can contribute to improved sustainability.

Rebuild America Web Site
Developer: U.S. Dept. of Energy
Phone: (252) 459-4664
Website: http://www.rebuild.org
Email: rebuildorders@rebuild.org
Description: Rebuild America works with community partnerships around the country to develop and execute large scale programs devoted to investing money to complete energy efficient renovations in multiple buildings. These community partnerships create approaches designed to meet the community's unique needs in their commercial buildings, multifamily buildings, and publicly assisted housing. Rebuild America helps bring together public organizations and private companies to work together on this community-based building retrofit program, providing technical assistance, workshops on financing, and building-energy screening software tools.

SCALDS
Developer: The Federal Highway Administration and Parsons Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas Inc.
Phone: (503) 417-1362
Website: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/scalds/scalds.html
Email: conradl@pbworld.com
Description: A prototyping model that estimates the full cost of alternative land use patterns. The EXCEL-based spreadsheet is called the Social Cost of Alternative Land Development Scenarios (SCALDS) model. The model estimates monetary and non-monetary costs associated with urban land development. It builds on three areas of research - least cost planning which has been used by utilities for a number of years, full cost of travel studies, and cost of service/cost of sprawl research.

SmartPlaces
Developer: Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Phone: (650) 855-2720
Website: http://www.epri.com/
Email: pradclif@epri.com
Description: Smart Places is a tool for geographic decision making. SmartPlaces enhances decision-making insight in target marketing, economic development, land use planning, transportation systems, facilities management, environmental remediation and protection, energy forecasting, water allocation and resource control.

Smart Places is used to evaluate the implications and opportunities of alternative plans. It offers innovation in the planning process through interactive design, evaluation, and illustration of proposed activities.

The system runs on a PC using ESRI's ArcView software. Smart Places provides a user approachable set of tools for the exploration, design, modification, illustration and evaluation of alternative planning scenarios.

Town Builder/Kit of Parts
Developer: The Environmental Simulation Center
Phone: (212) 279-2851
Website: http://www.simcenter.org
Email: kwartler@simcenter.org
Description: Using sophisticated computer graphics and simulation technologies, the Environmental Simulation Center can simulate realistic images and experiences of hypothetical situations and projects, such as alterations to historic districts, proposed skyscrapers, new parklands, neighborhood plans, zoning amendments, and proposed transportation schemes.

An interactive three-dimensional "kit of parts" aids large cities and small townships, alike, in visualizing their communities and making informed assessments of regulatory approaches. Viewers can "walk" or even "drive" through simulated cities and towns and experience projects as if it they were built, allowing a close assessment of the project's merits and failings.

All of the findings are made available to the public. This allows all parties to participate equally in the decision-making process, and enhances the level of public debate in the planning and design of the built environment.