Campus buses

For my news package, I am planning on detailing the new upgrades to the campus buses. There are over nine buses that run daily on campus from as early as 5:30 a.m. to as late as 11:45 p.m. There are ten routes throughout campus, including the outer loop, inner loop, hospital and express routes. The buses currently run on Biodiesel. “Biodiesel is a domestic, renewable fuel for diesel engines derived from natural oils like soybean oil,” according to biodiesel.org. The university is planning on improving the air emissions even more in the next few years and I plan on finding out exactly what they will be doing. I will be interviewing James O’Connor, Director of transportation and parking services, the Stony Brook chapter of NYPIRG, Michelle Pizer, the President of the Environmental Club, and Daniel Knopf, a professor in the atmospheric sciences department specializing in atmospheric chemistry, microphysics and chemistry of atmospheric aerosols, heterogeneous atmospheric chemistry and kinetics.