Burbank: all charged up; Several years in negotiations, two years in the making and ahead of schedule; Burbank's Bob Hope Airport exemplifies the process of conversion from an entire diesel GSE fleet to zero-emissions vehicles.(Cover Story)

Ground Support, October, 2005 by Reinhardt, Karen

THE aviation industry has always been at the top of the list as a target by federal, state and local governments in the battle to reduce air pollution. One of the exceptional circumstances at Southern California Airports is that the negotiations between participating airlines and these agencies are based entirely upon voluntary agreements. Another is the fact that regionally, the airlines made a committment to the South Coast Air Quality Management District that the conversion of 30 percent of the ground service fleet would occur by 2010. In June 2003, the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena (BGP) Airport Authority executed an MOU (Memorandum of Understanding. In an effort to expand the scope of the project and accelerate the timetable, BGP staff negotiated an agreement with...

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