Kansas Department of Transportation’s enterprise energy and carbon accounting and utility research phase 1B : embodied and operational energy and carbon in buildings and vehicles.

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• Creators:
  Kwok, George ; Wade, Brigitta ; Magnuson, George ; Johnson, Jeremiah ; Chong, Oswald ; Peltier, Edward
• Corporate Creators:
  University of Kansas. Dept. of Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
• Corporate Contributors:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation. Bureau of Materials & Research ; K-TRAN (Research program)
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Environmental quality
  • Environmental impacts
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Polluting gases
  • Greenhouse gases
  • Pollution
  • Pollutants
  • Air pollution
  • Air pollution sources
  • Exhaust gases
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• Publication/ Report Number:
  K-TRAN: KU-11-2
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  Kansas
• Edition:
  Final report; July 2010-Sept. 2011.
• Corporate Publisher:
  Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
• Abstract:
  Many organizations have become concerned about the environmental impact of their facilities and ; operations. In order to lessen environmental impact, quantitative assessment of practice based on ; improvements from a baseline condition is needed. The Kansas Department of Transportation (KDOT) has ; determined that the establishment of a carbon footprint baseline for its building and vehicle fleets will aid in ; prioritizing limited renovation funds and purchasing decisions. The procedure for establishing the embodied ; and operational carbon footprint baseline for KDOT building utility use is documented. A methodology for ; estimating the energy and carbon emissions for building energy use with some unavailable data also was ; developed, and presented as tools (that are not attached to this report). ; While the Kansas State University report (K-TRAN: KSU-11-1) highlights the numbers of carbon ; emissions for buildings, this report from KU highlights three points: (1) the energy and carbon performance ; of KDOT buildings are much compared to the rest of the country (using the Energy Information ; Administration or EIA database), except for those buildings where laboratories are located; (2) the embodied ; carbon consumed by KDOT can be reduced using the table that this project develops; and (3) the energy and ; carbon performance from KDOT vehicles are generally acceptable, but the research team sees opportunities ; to correct the current trend of reliance on diesel (due to regional climate).
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• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  C1871
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/24066/dot_24066_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 3.72 MB]
• Collection(s):
  US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
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