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provided with a vehicle- specific fuel card, and users refuel prior to returning the vehicle.
Brian Golding, director of Estates and Facilities at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation, said: “Using the data the Enterprise team provides on business journeys, we’ve also been able to create a comprehensive travel policy that promotes car sharing, and further reduces mileage, by ensuring that employees only take trips that are absolutely necessary.”
Widening the benefits
The use of a third-party provider can bring investment through introducing a car fleet, as at York, which could also enable Trusts to make a step change in their use of carbon-based fuels. Transport initiatives being looked at by freight hauliers servicing London, meanwhile, are using depots on the outskirts of London to act as a transfer station from diesel-powered vehicles to ‘ultra-low’ emission vehicles. This enables them to deliver goods in the proposed Ultra-Low Emission Zones which came into effect in April 2019 for the centre of London, and which will be extended to the North and South Circular roads in October 2021 (see Fig. 1). Similar platforms are new transport hubs that are a part of a ‘smart grid’. Low carbon energy is generated on site via the use of combined cooling, heat and power
(CCHP), and this is supplemented by photovoltaic cells and battery storage, with all the energy and utilities managed by ‘smart’ systems and technologies. This arrangement means that low or zero carbon energy is available to charge the electric vehicles, and that they have time to charge. They are providing a dual benefit of improving air quality by reducing vehicle-generated emissions, and reducing carbon emissions by using sustainable techniques to power electric vehicles.
Transport hubs are potentially well suited to a hospital environment due to the number of staff that have to commute and stay for long periods of time throughout the day. The vehicles provided can charge in the transport hub while not in use. This is supported
Simon Bourke
Simon Bourke CEng, BSc (Hons), FIHEEM, FCIBSE, MIET, acts as Healthcare Sector lead for the RPS Group. He has a wide range of healthcare experience built up through his 30 years in the construction industry. His role encompasses early day concept design and planning support, helping NHS Trusts and private healthcare providers deliver their vision, through to detailed design, construction, handover, and post-occupancy. He ‘leads multidisciplinary teams to engineer successful outcomes’.
by using the large amount of energy generation that is required for an individual site. Introducing a car club to a hospital has demonstrable cost savings, and sustainability and health and safety benefits. Extending this to a transport policy that uses electric vehicles for its business travel, and is supplied by a sustainable smart grid, will enable a reduction in both operational costs and overall carbon emissions.
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References 1 Basemap, Case study: Improving Parking and Promoting Active Travel, undated.
https://www.basemap.co.uk/portfolio/ oxford_nhs
2 York NHS Trust Expands Car Club After Launch Results In Major Savings, Fleet Point, 8 Dec 2016.
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