Sustainability Program

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Sustainability Program
ACEC/ODOT Conference April 21, 2009

• Margi Lifsey
• ODOT Sustainability Program Manager

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• Overview of Sustainability Program
• Defining Sustainability
• Sustainability Plan Volume 1 Setting the Context
• Current Successes in Sustainability
• Plans for the next volumes of the Sustainability
  Plan
• Climate Change

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Sustainability Program
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Coordination and Partnerships

• Oregon Sustainability Council
• Interagency Sustainability Working Group
• Created by the Oregon Sustainability Act of 2001
  Legislative Session
• Lead by Secretary of State
• Assigned sustainability actions to state
  agencies
• Added sustainability to state benchmarks,
  tracked by Oregon Progress Board in Oregon

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Defining Sustainability
Sustainability is using resources in a manner
that enables people to meet their current needs
while allowing for future generations to meet
their needs.
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Oregon Transportation Plan Goal 4

• To provide a transportation system that meets
  present needs without compromising the ability of
  future generations to meet their needs from the
  joint perspective of environmental, economic and
  community objectives. This system is efficient
  and offers choices among transportation modes. It
  distributes benefits and burdens fairly and is
  operated, maintained and improved to be sensitive
  to both the natural and built environments.

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Putting Sustainability in Context of ODOTs Goals

•   ODOTs Goals 
• Improve safety
• Move people and goods efficiently
• Improve Oregon's livability and economic
  prosperity
• Goals of the Sustainability Program
• Meet ODOTs goals in a manner that does not
  compromise the needs of future generations
• Incorporate Sustainability in ODOTs day-to-day
  business and operations

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How does Sustainability relate to Climate Change?

• Sustainability, in a broad sense, is the ability
  to maintain a certain process or state.
• Mitigation for impacts of Climate Change involve
  strategies to reduce and conserve energy and
  material use.
• Sustainability balances social, economic and
  environmental needs in the on-going process of
  achieving ODOTs goals. The reduction and
  conservation of carbon-emitting energy sources
  and materials are part of that process.

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Climate Change

• International Panel on Climate Change (2007)
• Warming of the climate system is unequivocal
• Humans are responsible for most of the warming in
  the last half century
• Likely range of warming from 1.1C to 6.4C by
  2100

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Impacts of Climate Change

• Oregon is particularly vulnerable to global
  warming because much of the economy is dependent
  on freshwater, and much of that freshwater comes
  from mountain snow pack.
• Source The Economic Impact of Climate Change in
  Oregon A Preliminary Assessment

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Climate Change CO2 Emissions by Sector
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Climate Change Mode Share of Emissions
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Climate Change Fuel Share of Emissions
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Transportation Factors that Effect Climate Change

• Operational emissions
• VMT, fleet mix, speed, fuels used for vehicles
  and/or transit
• Related or indirect emissions
• Changes in travel activity on other roadways,
  mode shift
• Induced/displaced land use
• Construction and maintenance emissions
• Extent of activity and type of materials
• Upstream/downstream emissions (i.e., lifecycle
  emissions)
• Well-to-pump emissions for fuels
• Manufacture and disposal emissions for vehicles

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Climate Change in Oregon

• 2007 Oregon legislature set statewide goals
• 10 below 1990 GHG levels by 2020
• 75 below 1990 GHG levels by 2050
• 2008 Governors Climate Change Integration
  Group A Framework for Addressing Rapid Climate
  Change
• A framework for making intelligent and
  well-informed choices to lead the world to an
  environmentally sustainable and globally
  competitive state economy

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Climate Change Activities

• Oregon Global Warming Commission
• ODOT Climate Change Executive Committee
• ODOT Climate Change Technical Committee
• Member of Greenhouse Gas Interagency Team

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ODOTs Strategic Plan for Sustainability

• Volume 1 Setting the Stage, the Vision for
  ODOTs Sustainability
• Volume 2 Sustainability Management for ODOTs
  Internal Operations
• Volume 3 Sustainability Management for Oregons
  Transportation System
• Green Roads Design and Construction at the
  Project-level

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Introduction to Focus Areas

• (1) Health And Safety
• (2) Social Responsibility
• (3) Environmental Stewardship
• (4) Land Use And Infrastructure
• (5) Energy And Climate Change
• (6) Material Resource Flows
• (7) Economy

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Sustainability Lens
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Current Success Greening the Fleet

• Anti-idling Technology and Energy Savings
• Anti-idling technology in all new and some older
  10-yard, 5-yard and 1 ton trucks
• Truck and message board lights using LED lights
• LED arrow board signs
• Alternative Fuels
• In fiscal year 2007, 13 of diesel fuels ODOT
  purchased were B20
• Wide-range of biofuels in different temperatures
  to meet different types of machinery
• On track to meet governors goal of 25
  alternative fuels by July 2010
• Alternative Vehicles
• Replacing light fleet with hybrids or cars that
  use bio-diesel
• Pursing funding for electric cars and electric
  trucks

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Current Success Facilities

• All new major facilities are built to Leadership
  in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
  Standards
• The new Maintenance Yard in Baker City, District
  13, Region 5 is currently being built (in
  background picture).
• Solar panels
• LEED equivalence rating
• Exterior colors selected for heat
  rejection/retention
• Premium quality electric motors for greatest
  efficiency
• R30 insulation and R17 insulated overhead doors
• Motion sensor lighting
• High efficiency water well pumps
• Commercial sand filter sewage treatment
• Biofilter site drainage treatment

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Current Success Economics

• ODOT Region 1 retrofitted over 95 of its signals
  and flashers with power-saving LED lights
• Energy Savings equivalent to the power need for
  over 140 homes annually
• Prior to the retrofit, ODOTs Region 1 had an
  annual electric bill of over 1.2 million dollars
• 50 of the costs were from energy used for signal
  and flashers
• Cost Savings 110,000 per year

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Green Construction and Design

• Construction is both internal and external to
  ODOT
• Currently, ODOT is practicing sustainability in
• OTIA III Bridge Delivery
• Recycling and reuse of materials
• More work to be done in 2009-2010
• Green Roads Research Partnership
• Internal subcommittee on green construction

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Volume 3 A Sustainable Transportation System

• Accessibility - the ability to reach desired
  goods, services, activities and destinations
• Efficient Mobility physical movement of persons
  or goods in a way that optimizes the
  transportation system

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Sustainable Transportation

• We have three challenges before us.
• First, we must identify the needs of a
  transportation system that meets the demands of a
  21st century economy.
• Second, we must do so in a way that complements
  our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint.
• Third, as we turn more and more to alternate
  modes of transportation and less on fuel-run
  vehicles we must also explore alternative ways
  to fund our transportation system in a way that
  is sustainable for the long-term.
• Governor Ted Kulongoski, August 30, 2007

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Energy Alternatives
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Cleaner, Smaller, More Efficient Vehicles
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Use of More Efficient Modes
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Reinvigorate Rail
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Emissions per mode
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System Optimization
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Existing ODOT Programs

• Office of Innovative Partnerships and Alternative
  Funding
• Public Transit Division
• Transportation Options
• Drive Less, Save More
• Rail Division
• Transportation and Growth Management Program
• Bicycle and Pedestrian Program

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2009 Bills related to Sustainability and Climate
Change

• Carbon (cap and trade) bills SB 80, SB 603
• Low-carbon fuel standard - HB 2186
• Invest in clean energy HB 2121, HB 2180, SB 168
• Promote energy efficiency SB 79, SB 201, HB
  2180, HB 2181
• Plus, economic stimulus money directed to energy
  efficiency, renewable energy and diesel-reduction
  emission projects

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Status of State Legislative Proposals
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Questions?

• Margi Lifsey
• Sustainability Program Manager
• Oregon Department of Transportation
• Director's Office
• 355 Capitol Street NE
• Salem, OR 97301
• Phone [phone]
• Email Marjorie.C.Lifsey_at_odot.state.or.us