Dear Team:

Strategies 2 and 3 revised and attached.

After some research I find very little room for revision of the Spring revisions. Really just a minor bit of word smithing. 

We may want to explore more radical revisions but I didn’t attempt write those without group a discussion first.

~Rick Langlois

see file

Dear Colleagues

Thanks for a very productive meeting last week.

As per our discussion last week, please send me the revised versions of our iCAP report by Wednesday October 8 in the morning.

I am at home and I do not have my notes here but I believe to the best of my recollection, we agreed that we would work on the following sections

• Bumsoo Lee, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning (SECTIONS 1-2; PGS. 2-3)
• Peter Varney, Director of Transportation and Automotive Services, Facilities & Services (STRATEGY ONE – PG. 4)
• Richard Langlois, Senior eLearning Professional, CITES (STRATEGIES TWO AND THREE – PG. 5-6)
• Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko, (STRATEGY FOUR – PG. 7)
• Justin Licke, Student Member (NEW STRATEGY FIVE – HIRE A SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION COORDINATOR)

If I got the assignments wrong, please let me know.

Wojtek

Hi all, 

Unfortunately, I will not have time to review and offer detailed feedback as things have caught up with me trying to do preliminary work for being out of town for the rest of the week.

Some things I would like us to consider though for our future is:

• To work closer with parking and thinking of how we can create incentive programs. I thought it’d be a good discussion to have with the Director of Parking or someone else who could help make decisions on this behalf 
• I believe in order for the Campus Bike Plan to be implemented then there needs to be a Campus Bicycle Coordinator
• However, if we do want to push for a Campus Bicycle Coordinator then I was thinking we could push for something larger which would encompass this role but instead push for Sustainable Transportation Coordinator. I believe a sustainable transportation coordinator would be beneficial for our university because this will connect all forms of transportation and there is large room for growth in this area of sustainability. I believe this person would be the bridge between transportation and the university in aiding in the completion of our iCAP goals. In addition, be able to push for the Campus Bike Plan, creating better walkability plans, working with MTD, and so forth 
• I believe for bike sharing program the university should work with community partners like MTD, City of Urbana, City of Champaign, and CUPHD to pull together funding together to fund a community wide bike sharing feasibility study in order to help us implement our campus bike sharing program. In addition, I think it should be discussed if its best to have a bike rental program for students instead of bike sharing and how to best create a departmental bike sharing program

Those are some initial thoughts. I look forward to hearing how the meeting goes. Please let me know if I should clarify anything. I will limited access to email prior to our meeting. 

Thanks,

Grace

Dear Colleagues:

I have asked Tina Candler to schedule a meeting of our group for as soon as possible.

I have attached the our Fall 2014 report….

In preparation for our next meeting, please read the report and think about the following

1. Should the transportation iCAP targets be modified?

2. For each of the iCAP targets how should we modify the previous year’s report?  Are there new strategies or action steps that we should be proposing?

3. Are there additional strategies to reduce transpiration emissions we have no thought of?

4. Can we make proposals about additional data collection that would help to advance the interests of ICAP in the area of transportation.

Please come to our next meeting prepared to discuss the above.  If you would like to edit our Fall 2014 report prior to the meeting, feell free to do so.

Best wishes

Wojtek

Wojtek J. Chodzko-Zajko, PhD
Shahid and Ann Carlson Khan Professor and Head

Department of Kinesiology and Community Health

Attached here are the agenda and other relevant materials for the September 25, 2014 meeting of the iCAP Working Group.

Good morning all,

To get air travel emissions, miles must be entered into the Clean Air-Cool Planet calculator. 

Mileage data is not tracked for our campus. So, I request air travel dollar data from OBFS.  This number has become more reliable in recent years because of the T-card implementation.

Air travel dollars are converted into miles using the passenger yield (fares per mile) data from Airlines for America. 

In fy 2013, dollars spent on air travel was $9,283,105.82.  Passenger yield was $0.1514 (this is fy 12, apparently fy 13 was not yet available).

Divide the two, and you get 61,477,522

Best,

Stephanie