Alternative Fuels Data Center

The Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center provides a wide range of information and resources to enable the use of alternative fuels, in addition to other petroleum reduction options such as advanced vehicles, fuel blends, idle reduction, and fuel economy.

This tool is included in the Transportation Toolkit from the LEDS Global Partnership.

When to Use This Tool

While building a low emission strategy for your country's transportation system, this tool is most useful during these key phases of the process:

• Evaluate System - Assessing the current transportation situation

• Assess Opportunities - Identifying opportunities for low-carbon transport
• Develop Alternatives - Building and assessing alternative scenarios

Learn more about the key actions you need to take to build a successful LEDS.

How to Use This Tool

This tool is most helpful when using these strategies:

• Improve - Enhance infrastructure & policies

Learn more about the avoid, shift, improve framework for limiting air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions.

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Overview

The Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center (AFDC, formerly known as the Alternative Fuels Data Center) provides a wide range of information and resources to enable the use of alternative fuels (as defined by the Energy Policy Act of 1992), in addition to other petroleum reduction options such as advanced vehicles, fuel blends, idle reduction, and fuel economy.

This site is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy's Clean Cities initiative.

The EPA website gathers together a number of guidance documents covering various approaches to reducing emissions and energy use in the transporation sector. The site also gathers and provides guidance in the use of several tools that can be used to estimate the impacts of various approaches to transportation emissions reduction.

Highlights

Provides an overview of the the various transportation-related options available to community energy planners.