DallasFort Worth Clean Cities

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• Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities
• 2007 Update
• First Annual Clean Cities Coordinator Leadership
  Retreat
• Mammoth Cave National Park, KY
• September 25-27, 2007

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Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities Overview

• Designated in July 1995
• Housed in the North Central Texas Council of
• Governments (NCTCOG) in the form of a technical
  committee
• Clearinghouse for fleets and the general public
  related to technical,
• funding, and promotional guidance related to
  alternative fuel and
• advanced technologies and fuels
• DFW Clean Cities provides technical guidance,
• project recommendations, and promotion of
  several clean vehicle
• calls for projects and policy programs of NCTCOG

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Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities Overview

• Members (Stakeholders)- 207/Interested Parties
  99
• No dues collected since several entities already
  pay dues to NCTCOG
• Coordinator is part-time position since is
  responsible for
• Transportation and Air Quality
  Marketing/Outreach Team
• Other staff members also contribute time to
  Clean Cities
• Coalition funded by
• Texas State Energy Conservation Office
• US Department of Energy
• Sponsorship funds raised from workshops/events
• Awards from Ford and General Motors

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Significant/Noteworthy Vehicle Projects

• Clean Fleet Vehicle Policy/Call for Projects
• Policy covers ways public fleets can have a
  positive impact in air quality through vehicle
  acquisition, maintenance, operations, and
  compliance
• Entities that adopt the Policy and comply are
  eligible for future clean vehicle funding
• Entities that do not adopt the Policy may not be
  eligible or score well for other transportation
  funds
• 47 Heavy-duty CNG Projects approved for funding
• 53 Light-duty alternative fuel and advanced
  technology vehicle projects approved for funding
• North Texas Clean School Bus Call for Projects
• 6 CNG and 15 propane school buses approved for
  funding

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Significant/Noteworthy
Fueling Infrastructure Projects

• The North Texas Region has continued to sustain
  its natural gas (CNG
• and LNG), propane, and biodiesel refueling
  stations
• Continual growth of E85 station openings at
  Kroger Grocery Stores
• across the region since the first E85 station
  opened in summer of 2006.
• Currently 9 E85 stations in North Texas

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Significant/Noteworthy
Coalition Outreach Activities

• DFW Clean Cities and Tarrant County College
  South Campus
• partnered on the 2006 AFV Odyssey Day at the
  Alliance Airport
• Air Show in Fort Worth, Texas on September
  30-October 1, 2006
• Featured a display of hybrids and neighborhood
  electric cars
• Quarterly DFW Clean Cities Technical Coalition
  Meetings
• Planned and hosted several clean vehicle events
  such as the Texas
• Propane Road Show, workshops for clean vehicle
  call for project
• funding sources, and workshops for clean
  vehicle policies
• Created and distributed the monthly electronic
  newsletter, Clean
• Cities News Flash

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Significant/Noteworthy
Coalition Outreach Activities

• Performed outreach at over 40 community outreach
  events since
• October 2006
• Hosted the 2007 Advancing the Choice Event,
  Beyond Regulations
• Greening Regulated Fleets on August 15, 2007
• Over 115 attendees
• Presentations were given from regulated fleets
  that have
• incorporated cleaner vehicle technologies,
  regulating authorities
• who have created clean vehicle policies, state
  programs, and
• information on North Texas regulated fleet
  plans
• Recognition event for Yellow Cab Dallas/Fort
  Worth
• Great media coverage (radio, TV, and print)
• Regulated Fleets attending stressed to staff
  afterwards how they
• wanted to incorporate more clean technologies
  into their fleets

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2007 Success Story

• 2007 Advancing the Choice Workshop
• Green Taxi Program for the North Texas region
• This program will help bring hybrids and other
  clean technology
• vehicles into the taxi market, and currently
  NCTCOG has 1.6
• million to provide financial assistance
• Yellow Cab Dallas/Fort Worth is the first taxi
  fleet in the region
• to incorporate hybrid technologies into their
  fleet
• They plan on having five hybrids for a pilot
  program by the
• end of 2007, and having their whole fleet
  operate on 100
• clean technology by 2011 (this would be over
  1,000 cabs)
• Approached DFW Clean Cities about the difficulty
  in getting
• hybrids in Texas to purchase.
• Coalition held conservations with Toyota about
  this issue
• Toyota has since assisted Yellow Cab with
  finding four more hybrid
• Camrys they needed for their pilot program.

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Contact Information

• Mindy Mize
• Dallas-Fort Worth Clean Cities Coordinator
• Principal Transportation Planner
• 817-608-2346
• mmize_at_nctcog.org
• www.nctcog.org/cleancities