Cleaner Fleet Management Training
for Central and Eastern Europe
Szentendre, Hungary, September 18-19, 2008

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in cooperation with the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) held a training session on cleaner fleet management at the newly refurbished, energy efficient REC Conference Center in September 2008. The event was sponsored by TNT, and the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM).

On the first day of the event public and private fleet managers were trained to apply the UNEP/TNT Cleaner Fleet Management Toolkit. On Day 2 staff from the REC country offices went through a training of trainers with the aim of promoting the toolkit’s adoption in further workshops throughout the REC’s beneficiary region.

The toolkit contains a number of tools that, when used together, function to prepare both public and private vehicle fleet managers to (1) evaluate the impacts of their fleets on the environment and human health and (2) then develop a practical strategy for corrective and cost-effective action through a number of options (from eco driving and improved maintenance through to advanced fuels and technologies). The toolkit is available online at http://www.unep.org/tnt-unep/toolkit.

Mr. Turgut Yildiz, Country General Manager of TNT Express Turkey, in the training gave an example of the Toolkit's successful application by the TNT fleet in Turkey.

Various documentations related to the event can be found bellow.

Downloads:

Day 1: Cleaner Vehicle Fleets in Central and Eastern Europe Technical Training for Fleet Managers

• Agenda
• List of participants

Presentations:

Sustainable transport and the importance of cleaner fleet management:

• Clean up your fleet for lower emissions, better air quality – Introducing a practical approach to cleaner, more efficient fleet operation (part I)
  Elisa Dumitrescu, UNEP
• Clean up your fleet for lower emissions, better air quality – Introducing a practical approach to cleaner, more efficient fleet operation (part II)
  Elisa Dumitrescu, UNEP

Presentation of the cleaner fleet management toolkit:

• Cleaner vehicle fleets in Central and Eastern Europe – Technical Training
  Rogier Jacobs, UNEP
• Cleaner fleet management in practice: Clean Vehicle project TNT Turkey
  Turgut Yildiz, TNT Turkey

Day 2: Cleaner Vehicle Fleets in Central and Eastern Europe Training for REC Country Offices

• Agenda
• List of participants

Presentations:

Sustainable transport and the importance of cleaner fleet management:

• Clean up your fleet for lower emissions, better air quality – Introducing a practical approach to cleaner, more efficient fleet operation (part I)
  Elisa Dumitrescu, UNEP
• Clean up your fleet for lower emissions, better air quality – Introducing a practical approach to cleaner, more efficient fleet operation (part II)
  Elisa Dumitrescu, UNEP

Presentation of the cleaner fleet management toolkit:

• Cleaner vehicle fleets in Central and Eastern Europe – Technical Training
  Rogier Jacobs, UNEP

Cleaner fleet management in practice:

• Clean Vehicle project TNT Turkey
  Turgut Yildiz, TNT Turkey

Tool 18 of the Toolkit:

• Tool 18: Inventory & Options Tool (Emissions and fuel savings calculator)

For download of country fuel and vehicle surveys go to Countries

Other links:

PCFV publications

USEPA Publications