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bus-act -- SAVE THE DATE: ARB is holding an Advanced Clean Transit Technology Symposium on February 8, 2016

Posted: 21 Jan 2016 15:53:56
The Air Resources Board (ARB) would like to invite you to
participate in the Advanced Clean Transit Technology Symposium
(Symposium).  The purpose of this Symposium is to provide transit
agencies and other interested stakeholders with updated
information on the advanced clean transit bus technologies,
associated infrastructure, and fuels.  The location and time for
this symposium is as follows:

Advanced Clean Transit Technology Symposium 
10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., Monday, 02/08/2015
Byron Sher Auditorium, CalEPA Headquarters Building 
1001 “I” Street, Sacramento

The Symposium will cover topics including transit agency
experience operating zero emission buses, advanced technology
availability and near-term outlook, low carbon fuel costs and
supply, and on-site infrastructure for clean technologies.
Subject experts will be invited to be on the panels for
presentations and discussion.  

A tentative agenda is posted at: 
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/bus/techsympagendatent.pdf  
.  All final materials, including agenda, presentations, etc.
will be posted on the Advanced Clean Transit website at:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/bus/bus.htm.  The Symposium will
also be webcast and can be watched at
http://www.calepa.ca.gov/broadcast/?BDO=1.  If you have any
questions regarding the Symposium, please contact Yachun Chow,
Manager, Zero Emission Truck and Bus Section, at
yachun.chow@arb.ca.gov or at (916) 322-7450.  

Background

The Fleet Rule for Transit Agencies was initially adopted in 2000
and requires reductions in diesel particulate matter and oxides
of nitrogen emissions from urban buses and transit fleet
vehicles.  It also requires zero emission bus purchases for
transit agencies with 200 or more urban buses.  In July 2009,
through Resolution 09-49, the Board directed the Executive
Officer to delay the zero-emission bus purchase requirement due
to technology readiness concerns, and to conduct a technology
assessment on the readiness of zero emission bus technologies
before reinstating purchase requirements.  In January 2010, ARB
issued an advisory (Mail-out #10-04) with the postponement of the
purchase requirement for zero-emission buses.

In November 2015, staff presented the technology assessment
results of fuel cell electric vehicles, battery electric
vehicles, hybrid vehicles, natural gas vehicles, and low NOx
engines to the Board with the commercialization stage of each
technology highlighted.  Staff concluded that low-NOx engines
will become commercially available soon and that zero emission
buses have similar performance and reliability as conventional
buses and are in the early commercialization phase.  Therefore,
staff is currently in the process of working with stakeholders to
develop an Advanced Clean Transit proposal that will incorporate
these advanced clean technologies while transitioning public
transportation to zero emission technologies.



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