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as part of the completion of the environmental process. One complication in preparing an <br />estimate for the West Eugene project relates to the work being done at the state and national <br />level to develop a set of models that can be used consistently across regions. The Eugene <br />Springfield region is involved in that effort . <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Table 2 <br />Estimate of Annual Greenhouse Gas Emissions <br />$500,000 LTD Fixed Route Service (10,800 Service Hours) <br />Explanation <br />Annual Project Service hours-$500,000 10,800Hours in Service <br />Annual boardings 11,718,289 <br />Service hours 305,720 <br />Boardings per service hour 38.33 <br />Project Service Hours multiplied by <br />Project Boardings for 10,800 service hours 413,965 boardings per service hour <br />33 percent of boardings are transfers from <br />one bus to another bus <br />Transfer rate 1.50 <br />Project Boardings minus 30 percent <br />Linked trips for 10,800 service hours 275,977 transfers to avoid double counting <br />Based on 2007 LTD Origin-Destination <br />Survey indicating that 60% of riders have an <br />auto at home <br />% of trips that will revert to Auto Trips 0.60 <br />Trips that will revert to Auto Trips 165,586 Potential New Auto Trips without Project <br />Systemwide Passenger miles 42,347,694 <br />Systemwide Boardings 11,718,289 <br />Average Miles per boarding 3.61 <br />Person miles traveled 598,397 Potential New Auto Trip Distances (miles) <br />Conversion factor to person km traveled 1.61 <br />Potential New Auto Trip Distances <br />Person km traveled 963,420 (kilometers) <br />CO2 factor-incremental bus to sedan 135 <br />Potential New CO2 emissions (grams/km) <br />CO2 grams 130,061,664without Project <br />CO2 conversion grams to tons 0.0000011 <br />Potential New CO2 emissions tons without <br />CO2 tons 143Project <br />Source: Mikhail V Chester and Arpad Horvath - "Environmental assessment of passenger transportation should include <br /> <br />infrastructure and supply chains." Environmental Research Letters 4 (2009) 024008 (8pp) <br /> <br />5.Celina Angelo said you misled people about tree removal (including response by Mark <br /> <br />Pangborn, “they didn’t ask”) Please respond. <br />Response <br /> <br />February 28, 2011West Eugene EmX Extension 4 <br /> <br />