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Public
transport
The City of Malmö
has actively worked together with Skånetrafiken (the
regional public transport coordinator) and Sydgas
(the local gas company) to replace the diesel buses with gas buses in the city . Today all city buses (approx 200) run on natural gas,
CNG. This is the largest fleet of natural gas busses in northern Europe.
The building of new infrastructure for refuelling has been an important part of
the success. The three different contractors operating the city buses all have CNG available at their
garages for filling
Refuse
collection
The city’s contractors use both
heavy electric battery vehicles and natural gas vehicles.
The
municipal fleet of light vehicles
In 1997 the city council set the
target that the municipal car fleet year 2000 should consist of 25 % clean
vehicles. This goal was easily reached. In 2001 the municipal council therefore
set a new target that the municipal car fleet year 2003 should consist of 50 %
clean vehicles. In april
2004 the figure was 53 %. The definition of clean vehicles includes electric
and hybrid electric vehicles, biogas- and natural gas vehicles, ethanol
vehicles, some biodiesel (RME) vehicles and vehicles
with very low consumption of petrol and diesel. A municipal company called ViSAB owns all vehicles in the municipality and leases the
vehicles to the different municipal offices. With the target 50% clean vehicles
2003 there was a regulation set up that the offices have to have specific reasons
if they do not lease a clean vehicle. |