Monterey-Salinas Transit (MST) System Wide Fleet Analysis Study

June 2017

The market for battery‐electric buses (BEVs) is rapidly expanding, affording MST a relatively robust selection of options. These buses are also rapidly expanding their range capabilities to the point where they can potentially serve a meaningful portion of MST’s public transit duty cycles. The purpose of this paper is to accomplish the following:

1. Use MST’s own transit data to explore MST’s current fleet of transit vehicles along a number of relevant metrics;
2. Calculate and present a complete emissions inventory for MST’s current transit vehicle fleet;
3. Present alternative propulsion vehicle options and compare their emissions impacts and total cost of ownership;
4. Introduce vehicle financing options including the possibility of battery leasing for BEV buses; and
5. Recommend to MST a plan forward for introducing BEV buses.

The analysis executed for this paper includes data from MST’s fiscal year 2016 – the latest complete year for which data is available. The data therefore corresponds with the time‐period of July 2015 through June 2016.