Universities
From electric shuttle buses to battery-powered maintenance and security vehicles, zero-emission university fleets offer an opportunity to reduce emissions, lower long-term costs, and demonstrate climate leadership to students, staff, and the broader community.
Fleet electrification on campus comes with both promise and complexity. Institutions must balance vehicle and route performance with infrastructure planning, utility coordination, capital costs, and workforce training. At the same time, university fleets often fall outside traditional public transit frameworks, making it more difficult to access federal funding and navigate regulatory requirements.
CTE works closely with higher education institutions to overcome these hurdles—providing expert planning, modeling, and deployment support. Whether a university is building its first electric shuttle program or scaling a fully electric fleet, CTE helps align zero-emission investments with operational realities and long-term goals.
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Georgia Institute of Technology
As Georgia Tech reimagines its core campus to improve walkability and micromobility, the university has partnered with CTE to develop a comprehensive Transit Master Plan to guide transportation decisions over the next decade. The plan supports Georgia Tech’s broader Campus Comprehensive Plan and Climate Action Plan, with a focus on delivering a flexible, zero-emission-ready transit system that evolves with student needs and campus growth.
CTE is leading the planning effort in partnership with Nelson\Nygaard, which produced a detailed State of the System report based on extensive user surveys and listening sessions with students and staff. Insights from this engagement shaped a series of alternative transit scenarios—including revised routes, improved on-demand services, and expanded micromobility and microtransit options.
As part of the project, CTE contracted Wendel to conduct an infrastructure evaluation to support future electrification of Georgia Tech’s fleet. This work includes siting recommendations for EV chargers, power grid assessments, and high-level design concepts for future charging facilities. CTE is also developing a dedicated Zero-Emission Bus Transition Plan, which models route performance and capital investment needs, estimates operational impacts, and presents multiple transition pathways for Georgia Tech’s fleet.
The final Transit Master Plan will integrate these elements—network redesign options, electrification strategies, and a feasibility study for a potential Transportation Management Association (TMA)—into a roadmap that aligns mobility improvements with sustainability, equity, and student experience.
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