Building Services III
Semester: VI (Spring)
Lecture 3:
Location and Transport
Instructors: Ar Sarmad Salahuddin, Ar Mubeen Ahmed.

Location and Transportation 15 pts
• Credit 1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts Overview:
The Location and Transportation (LT) category rewards thoughtful project team decisions about building location
and how that location affects commuting patterns. The transportation sector is responsible for about one-quarter
of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions worldwide, and these emissions increased 17.5% from 1990 to 2010.
• A significant portion of these emissions come from conventional commuting—that is, commuting in a single occupancy
vehicle that runs on conventional fossil fuel. Transportation infrastructure and commuting patterns are
often intertwined with land-use patterns, and decentralized, disjointed transportation infrastructure can contribute
to sprawling, inefficient land development. Thus, alternative transportation is an important part of a project’s overall
environmental performance.
• Understanding the transportation patterns of tenants and providing transportation demand management tools
are important first steps, but tracking building occupants’ behavior is essential to determining whether projects are
achieving results. Building operators and owners who are well informed about their occupants’ travel patterns will be
able to develop policies and incentives that can encourage changes in transportation habits.

Location and Transportation 15 pts

Location and Transportation 15 pts

Location and Transportation 15 pts
• Credit 1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• Intent/Requirement: Reduce pollution from automobile use for
transportation
• Option 1 Transportation Survey (1pt): Conduct a transportation survey for
building occupants and visitors (if peak/daily avg> occupants) on
transportation patterns. Once every 5 years
• School students with driving age = regular occupants
• Inpatients not need to be surveyed.
• Sampling for population > (greater than) 100
• Documentation: Building occupants and visitors survey (if applicable).
Results showing alternative transportation including absentees and
vacation.

Location and Transportation 15 pts
CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• Survey Attributes:
• List all alternative transportation modes.
• Collect info for complete week (for regular occupants).
• Avoid holidays, events or extreme weather conditions.
• Separate survey for visitors.
• If different modes are used, calculate for largest distance travelled.
• Incentives for higher response rates.
• Survey nature not to be disclosed.
• Response rate should be 5% Minimum

Location and Transportation 15 pts
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• LEED AP O+M
• Option 2 Alternative Transportation Rate (3-15 pts): Fulfil
option1.
• Alternative Transport includes
• Walking
• Bicycle
• Public Transit
• Telecommuting
• Carpool
• Green Vehicle
• Rideshare
• SHUTTLES (Bus) EXCLUDED

Location and Transportation 15 pts
CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• Compare to baseline where all occupants travel alone in *Conventional
vehicle * 2 trips per day
• Calculate ATR by using the formulas
• Raw transportation rate *
• Survey Response Rate
• Total AT etc.

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• AT Trips by occupants =
• Carpool Trips (Weighted Factor) =
• Raw AT trips by occupants=

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• Survey Response Rate =
• Total Alternative Transportation Trips =

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• Alternative Transportation Rate ATR =
• Points Earned for Alternative
Transportation Rate

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• AT Trips by occupants =
• Raw Transportation rate by visitors =

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• MEET Option 2 : 01 documentation + demonstrate percentage reduction in
conventional commuting trips and corresponding points by using previous
Table
• OR
• Meet Option 3 Transportation Resources (2 pts): Meet 01 requirements.
LEED Implement comprehensive AT program by 1 of the following
• Education Strategies: New hire orientation, Newsletter, memos
• Basic Support: Carpool events, ride matching (website), Preferential
parking
• Direct Strategies: Telecommuting, compressed workweek, bicycle program

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
• MEET Option 2 : 01 documentation + demonstrate percentage reduction in
conventional commuting trips and corresponding points by using previous
Table
• OR
• Meet Option 3 Transportation Resources (2 pts): Meet 01 requirements.
LEED Implement comprehensive AT program by 1 of the following
• Education Strategies: New hire orientation, Newsletter, memos
• Basic Support: Carpool events, ride matching (website), Preferential
parking
• Direct Strategies: Telecommuting, compressed workweek, bicycle program

Location and Transportation
• CR1: Alternative Transportation 1-15 pts
Documentation: 01 documentation. Narrative description of
comprehensive AT program with documentation of each element implemented.
End Goal:
Exemplary Performance (1pt): 80% Reduction from
conventional commuting baseline in 02

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