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Commute <br />788,618 Miles <br />336.47 Metric Tonnes <br />Travel - Car <br />10,399 Miles <br />4.03 Metric Tonnes <br />Travel - Air <br />24,539 Miles <br />6.72 Metric Tonnes <br />Elk River GHG Baseline Inventory <br />7 <br />Opportunities for Reduction <br />Business Travel Optimization by encouraging trip bundling, video conferencing, <br />carpooling, vehicle sharing and incentives/technology. <br />Explore Partnership with Nice Ride Minnesota for installation of bike sharing locations <br />convenient to city staff as well as community members as strategy to increase commute <br />via public transit and bike. <br />Implement Public Transit Commuter Campaign by building awareness through <br />communicating public transit routes, establish carpool groups, and communicate <br />reimbursement potentials available under December 2015 US Consolidated <br />Appropriations Act (HR 2029) <br />http://www.nctr.usf.edu/programs/clearinghouse/commutebenefits/ <br />How does City Employee Transportation contribute to Greenhouse Gas Emissions? <br />The City’s operational travel and transport emissions come from three primary sources: <br />employee commute to and from work, auto-oriented business travel within region, and business <br />air travel regionally/nationally. <br />As with the City Vehicle sector of City Operations GHG emissions, employee travel to and from <br />work and required business travel regionally and out of state require fossil fuel use. The amount <br />of GHG produced by common transportation fuels ranges from 19.4 pounds per gallon for <br />gasoline to 21.5 pounds for jet fuel and 22.5 pounds for diesel. <br />City Operations <br />Employee Transportation <br />Annual Greenhouse Gas equal to: <br />6,812,715 <br />Cubic Feet of <br />Man-Made <br />Atmosphere <br />347.21 <br />Metric Tonnes <br />Summary of Findings* <br />According to the City’s 2015 employee commuter survey, the average round-trip employee <br />commute distance is 26.07 compared with the US Census estimated community-wide average <br />of 38 miles. City employee work commutes surveyed are entirely in single occupant vehicle. <br />Total annual vehicle miles traveled for City employee commute is calculated at 788,618 miles. <br />Total City employee commuter emissions for the 2015 Baseline year equal 336.47 Metric Tonnes <br />(741,788 pounds) CO2e. <br />Business travel through the Baseline 2015 year totaled 10,399 miles for road transportation and <br />24,530 miles for air transportation. Annual emissions associated with this business travel equal <br />4.03 Metric Tonnes for auto, and 6.72 Metric Tonnes for air for a total of 10.75 Metric Tonnes <br />(23,670 pounds) CO2e. <br />The 347.11 Metric Tonnes associated with these three City Operations travel and transportation <br />equal 0.28% of Community Wide travel and transportation emissions.** <br />* Sources: City of Elk River data, emission factors based on US EPA and EIA. Calculations for car business travel were calculated <br />based on current reimbursement rates. Calculations for air business travel were calculated based on national average cost-per- <br />mile data http://airlines.org/data/annual-round-trip-fares-and-fees-domestic/ <br />** Community-wide total travel and transportation GHG emissions total 124,096 Metric Tonnes. Source Regional Indicators Initiative. <br />Emissions associated with employee commute <br />And business travel total <br />56,303 <br />Cubic Feet of man-made <br />atmosphere per City <br />employee (Figure to scale) <br />5.86% <br />City Operations <br />Total