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Transportation
Purchasing,
Consumption, Waste Disposal, Research/Projects,
Education
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Current Green Strides at Colgate
- Restricted student parking on campus
before 3:30pm
- The Colgate Cruiser shuttle service is
provided as a form of public transportation to members of the campus and
Hamilton community.
- The shuttle busses are equipped with
EPA-approved low-emission diesel engines.
- EPA certified, low-emissions shuttle buses
Research/Progress
Made
- Preliminary greenhouse gas inventory
completed, including preliminary analysis on driving habits of
students
Initiatives at other
Universities/Communities
- Emory University: Part of the master plan
for the environmental task force at Emory has been the creation of a pedestrian
campus. Efforts to meet this goal have been made by: 1) replacing cars and
concrete with green spaces and walkways; 2) expanding the university’s
alternative transportation program. (Source: Campus Ecology, National Wildlife
Federation).
- Georgetown – hydrogen powered bus
system on campus
Potential Green Strides at
Colgate
Individual
- Encourage car-pooling
- Enforce shuttle bus
usage
Site
Specific
- Eliminate student car drop off/pick ups on
the hill
- Biodiesel or another renewable resource
fuel for shuttle bus
- Increase shuttle usage and frequency
- More reliable shuttle schedule
- Reduce shuttles during hours when no
students ride the shuttle (raise during peak times)*
- More fuel efficient vans (B&G, motor
pool)
University
- Minimize/eliminate cars on hill during
class hours
- No student parking on upper
campus
- Additional parking fee to have cars on
campus
- Car registration fee by size of
vehicle
- Tuition incentives not to bring cars to
campus
- No first year cars/ cars by lottery for
first years
- Alternative fuel vehicles for University
Fleet (electric and/or hydrogen powered)
- Reduction in amount of vendor traffic on
campus
- More bike racks
- Pedestrian
campus
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