Ventura Bus Lines - Achieving best practice carbon management
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Illustrating a proactive approach to renewable fuel sources, Ventura Bus Lines has released the first electric hybrid vehicle into their Australian fleet and has recently been granted the Greenhouse Environmental Award. Ventura relies on CarbonView to achieve best practice carbon management.
About Ventura
Ventura Bus Lines has grown from a one man-one vehicle operator to a significant business with 850 employees and more than 500 vehicles. Ventura has a network which covers 31% of metropolitan Melbourne, Australia via five depots, carrying more than 25 million passengers per year across the Melbourne metropolitan area. Ventura has introduced several environmental leading initiatives, including ethanol fuelled buses.
Illustrating a proactive approach to renewable fuel sources, Ventura has released the first electric hybrid vehicle into their Australian fleet. Ventura has recently been rewarded for their sustainable business approach by receiving the Greenhouse Environmental Award.
Ventura is looking forward to the bright future of public transportation and continuing to “provide dependable, friendly bus services whilst actively improving air quality”.
CarbonView at Ventura
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Ventura Bus Lines utilizes CarbonView to achieve best practice carbon management. The implementation of the best international technologies and identification of the strategic investment required to reduce their carbon emissions, has enabled Ventura to reduce their environmental impact from the company’s bus services.
Ventura Bus Lines implemented CarbonView to achieve the following business objectives:
- Comply with the National Greenhouse Energy Reporting (NGER) requirements in Australia (Stage One)
- Analysis of additional environmental emissions – water, waste and ambient air pollution (Stage Two)
Nick Lines, Company Director has this to say, “CarbonView has been instrumental in providing a solution for regulatory compliance, enhancing brand reputation, marketing of carbon management innovations to customers and streamlining the greenhouse gas emission reporting process.”
Benefits for Ventura
The implementation of CarbonView has provided significant benefits for Ventura:
- Compliance of NGER threshold 1 legislation
- Ability to track, monitor and analyse their bus line carbon emissions
- Visibility of new bus line technology, specifically air pollutant emission performance
- Ability to track and monitor fuel usage to minimize cost of carbon to the business (fuel costs from emission trading schemes are expected to increase)
CarbonView has enabled Ventura to proceed with re-engineering bus route and depot operations that will reduce fuel, energy consumption and operation costs, thereby contributing to improvements in Ventura's bottom line and overall air quality in Melbourne.
