C-TRAN’s Role: Today and Tomorrow
What We're Doing Today:
- C-TRAN vehicles use a mixture of ultra-low sulfur diesel and biodiesel fuels. This combination has reduced C-TRAN’s current greenhouse gas emissions by 90%
- C-TRAN uses two B-100 biodiesel buses, which are 100% free of any greenhouse gas emissions.
- C-TRAN is introducing electric-hybrid technology with the purchase of 12 new electric hybrid vehicles.
- C-TRAN buses, on average, carry over 40 passengers per vehicle; in one year that’s nearly 2,152,500 vehicle trips that are taken off Clark County roads.
What You Can Do Today:
- Choose to ride the bus one day a week.
- Use public transportation to go to work, shop, or take the kids to a fun attraction. Riding the bus saves Americans over $6,400 annually – more than the average household spends on groceries each year.
- Create a carpool or vanpool.
- Log on to CommuteMatchNW.org or MetroWorks.org to find a vanpool or a carpool partner.
- Consolidate your trips -plan ahead when you have errands to run. Buy groceries, drop off your dry cleaning, and mail that package all in one afternoon, rather than doing it in several single trips. If your friend or neighbor also has errands to run, ask them if they’d like to share the ride.
What C-TRAN Could Become by 2030:
- C-TRAN connects cities and communities in all directions with employment, commercial, entertainment, and residential areas providing congestion relief, economic development, access to social services, and transportation to those dependent on the public system.
- C-TRAN, in concert with other entities, provides safe core and specialized services through its transportation network and employs a variety of modes, each chosen to fit the particular route, its purpose and ridership. Potential options include bus rapid transit, trolley, streetcar, shuttles, connectors, light and heavy rail, and traditional fixed-route.
- C-TRAN is an industry leader in applying new technologies that maximize their effectiveness as a regional transportation provider enhancing the livability of the community through sound environmental practices.
C-TRAN Fuel Facts
2006
Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel
C-TRAN began fleet-wide use of Ultra-Low-Sulfur diesel fuel and reduced its CO² and SO² emissions by half.
2007
Exhaust After-Treatment
C-TRAN began retrofitting its entire fleet with equipment that would reduce its remaining CO² and SO² emissions another 40% by treating the exhaust emitted by each of its vehicles.
Introduction of Biodiesel
C-TRAN announced a demonstration project that allows the use of B100 biodiesel in two of its fleet vehicles; believing it to be the only transit agency on the West coast to do so. B100 is 100% renewable energy with 78% less Carbon Dioxide (CO²) and 100% less Sulfur Dioxide (SO²) emissions. C-TRAN expanded its biodiesel program to run its entire fleet on B20, a 20% biodiesel blend during warmer weather months.
2008
Retrofitting Completed—In June, 2008, C-TRAN completed its exhaust after-treatment retrofit project; total reduction in greenhouse gas emissions = 90%.
Hybrid Technology—C-TRAN introduces 12, forty-foot electric hybrid vehicles that, in combination with alternative fuels, will further reduce its carbon footprint.