The Massachusetts Port Authority Board has voted to spend almost $35 million for a fleet of 50 new alternative fuel buses to replace Boston Logan International Airport’s aging fleet of compressed natural gas buses and the 94 diesel powered rental car company buses that currently serve the airport. The purchase includes 18 42-foot long CNG buses which will replace the existing CNG shuttle buses, which have logged millions of clean-air miles. The environmentally-friendly unified fleet is part of the $337 million Consolidated Rental Car (ConRAC) facility which will be built in the Southwest Service Area of the airport.
Massport expects the new fleet to be in operation for at least 12 years during which time it will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 1,840 tons as compared to the existing rental car company buses. The reduction is equivalent to the amount of carbon sequestered each year by 356 acres of pine forest.
The new buses will be built by Anniston, Ala.-based North American Bus Industries.
Appropriately, Boston is host city for the forthcoming 2010 National NGV Conference-Summit, NGVs: Revolutionizing America’s Transportation, on from August 12-14.
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