The Environmental Impact of Your Parking Solution
Insert the number vehicles that go through your parking facility daily and the average idle time to estimate your impact on the environment:
Funding Opportunities:
Environmental Protection Agency:
Numerous sources of funding for green building are available at the national, state and local levels for homeowners, industry, government organizations and nonprofits. We are providing the links on this page to help you find a variety of funding sources including grants, tax-credits, loans, or others.
http://www.epa.gov/greenbuilding/tools/funding.htm
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education:
AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, is a member organization of colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada working to create a sustainable future. Visit AASHE’s resource center for information to support campus sustainability work.
http://www.aashe.org/index.php
Statistics for transaction/idle times and vehicle throughput are based on:
Mary S Smith, 2001. Chapter 4, "Access Design", Parking Structures, Third Edition, Norwell
Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Insertion Card - 435 vehicles per hour 8.3 seconds per transaction
Proximity Card - 600 vehicles per hour 6.0 seconds per transaction
Automatic Veh ID - 800 vehicle per hour 4.5 seconds per transaction
They are averages and entry/exit during peak times can be considerably longer.
The 25% savings when implementing TransCore's AVI solution is based on Parking Structures average figures for AVI as it compares to prox cards and access control technologies that require inserting a card. TransCore's RFID Automatic Vehicle Identification technology can improve upon the estimated savings.
TransCore's installation at Eastern Virginia Medical School produced significant results. 50 vehicles/minute, through facilities between 6-9 am and 3-6 pm averaging <5 second response times - a savings of more than 50%! Results audited by Kimley-Horn.
Annual idle time is based on the number # of hours of idle time (based on inserted figures) x 5 days a week x 2 daily transactions.
Carbon dioxide production is based on satistics from www.fueleconomy.com indicating that every hour of idle time produces 20 pounds of carbon dioxide.
According to www.greenyour.com, every two minutes of car idling consumes the same amount of gas required to drive approximately one mile.
