Natural Gas Vehicle Road Map and Data Collection Effort

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Natural Gas Vehicle Road Map and Data Collection Effort: This area of interest is for the development of a comprehensive roadmap for targeted development of natural gas refueling infrastructure projects (CNG, LNG and/or a combination of the two) to support successful deployments of light- and heavy-duty natural gas vehicles in niche markets. The project should involve public and private stakeholders, address the drivers and barriers to the successful deployment of natural gas vehicles, research and document the lessons learned from existing projects, and develop criteria that allow decision-makers to focus limited resources. Also to be included in the effort, is the development and implementation of a plan on the collection of natural gas (CNG and LNG) vehicle fuel sales information. There are several external efforts currently on-going that collect National and State estimates where feasible for CNG/LNG fuel use data in the transportation sector. The work addressed will not only be a check and balance of those efforts, but will add the most value by concentrating on fuel use data collection efforts for CNG/LNG niche markets (e.g., transit bus, school bus, airport taxis and shuttles, short- and long-haul freight carriers, and refuse haulers) and aggregating and reporting the collected data at the State and National levels. Both retail and wholesale sales from private and public pumps should be included.