We want to satisfy this credit, but our project site (Cebu, Philippines) doesn't have any streetcar and our buses just pass along the highway which is far away from the site. We only have the small tricycles and single transporters (motorcycles) as the main mode of transportation. Does LEED provides any alternative way to satisfy this credit? or it automatically tells us not to comply in this credit?
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Emily Purcell
Sustainable Design LeadCannonDesign
LEEDuser Expert
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June 13, 2018 - 10:48 am
Hi Kim, informal transit stops can count towards your total. The definition of informal transit in the LEED reference guide is:
"informal transit
a transit service in which individuals travel together in a passenger car or small van that seats at least four people. It can include human-powered conveyances, which must accommodate at least two people. It must include an enclosed passenger seating area, fixed route service, fixed fare structure, regular operation, and the ability to pick up multiple riders."
You are also able to manually count trips to document routes without formally published schedules.
Kim Estrella
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June 21, 2018 - 3:20 am
Thank you so much Emily. But I really don't know what are the documents to be submitted to support this credit and I don't know how many trips we are targeting for there are no alternative reference guide to projects outside U.S. We want to satisfy and get this credit somehow and I already got the average trips and interviewed people.
Emily Purcell
Sustainable Design LeadCannonDesign
LEEDuser Expert
318 thumbs up
June 21, 2018 - 1:21 pm
I would prepare a map highlighting the project location and the pickup point(s) for these vehicles. Then, a narrative that states your average trip count plus a sentence or two addressing each of the requirements in the definition, maybe with a photo of the vehicles if that will help make it clear how they meet the definition:
-enclosed passenger seating area
-fixed route service
-fixed fare structure
-regular operation
-and the ability to pick up multiple riders.
It's understood that there won't be formal schedules or published fares as backup documentation, but the reviewer would want to see that you're counting these trips in good faith.
I hope that's a good start and that USGBC/GBCI can help out with other questions - it is a difficult credit to apply in many places without formal transit and I hope that more questions about how to demonstrate high transit service in cities like this one will push for some international alternative guidance to be published.
Kim Estrella
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June 22, 2018 - 2:17 am
This would be a great help Emily. Thank you so much and God Bless you.
Prakash Sekar
May 15, 2019 - 3:24 am
Hi Kim,
What about the credit status, did USGBC/GBCI is anticipated this credit or not.