Metro authorizes clean-fuel research contract
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By Lena H. Sun
Thursday, October 22, 2009; 6:26 PM
The Metro board authorized a $184,528 contract Thursday for the West Virginia University Research Corp. and the transit agency to conduct bus emissions testing to help the agency determine which bus type is the cleanest option.
They will perform emissions testing, collect operations data and gather vehicle performance and operating cost information for a comparison between buses operating with diesel fuel, hybrid-electric propulsion systems, compressed natural gas and clean-diesel biofuels.
The contract is for one year, with four one-year options contingent upon funding. Metro has about 1,500 buses; 460 are compressed natural gas, 117 are clean diesel and 50 are diesel-electric hybrids. The rest run on standard diesel.
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