Hi,
My project is an office tower near Paris in France. The building is located in the business area of the town, it have its own underground parking and it's close to public transportation.
Is it possible to achieve this credit with counting the number of cars entering the building every day for a week, and compare it with the number of people entering the building?
To achieve the calculation, we assume that people who are entering the building without accessing the parking are using public transportation system.
Thank you in advance.
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Trista Brown
Project DirectorWSP USA
449 thumbs up
March 9, 2016 - 8:09 pm
Hi Matthieu, sorry for the late response to your post! Unfortunately this approach wont work for LEED purposes. The credit requirements and approved strategies for assessing commuting habits are pretty specific and rigorous. While the counting cars approach could give a general idea of the level of single occupant car commuting, it doesn't drill down far enough into the different transportation modes like LEED requires, and many of the nuances included in the standard survey approach couldn't be assessed (e.g. telecommuting, out of office, carpooling, fuel-efficient vehicle trips, taxi trips, etc).