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Olympia, WA, Green Fleet Program

The Achievement

In order to address the fact that one of the City's biggest energy consumers was its vehicle fleet, the City of Olympia established a "Green Fleet Policy" that stresses optimizing the ways that the fleet's vehicles are used, purchasing energy efficient vehicles, and changing driving behavior in order to limit miles driven. This invloved reorganizing which vehicles performed what functions to ensure that that vehicles were appropriately sized to the jobs for which they are needed, reorganizing vehicle schedules and routes, and designing customized multi-purpose vehicles. Fleet Operations also developed an anti-idling program, a tire pressure program, and an employee education program. The policy also dictates that each department, which help from the Fleet Operations Supervisor, must develop an annual Green Fleets Plan detailing how it will conform with the policy through vehicle procurement, department fleet operations, fleet operations performance measures, and employee travel activities.