Locally Driven Transportation Energy Choices
Case Studies
Find case studies and success stories that highlight ways to benefit communities historically underrepresented in clean energy development and advance local transportation energy choices.
- Fleet Forum Centers Equity in Decision Making on Alternative Fuel Vehicles
- Workforce Training Program Makes Electric School Buses in California More Sustainable
- Building Community Relationships Through Streetlight EV Charging in Kansas City
- Electric Mobility Increases Access to Transportation in New Jersey
- Electrification for Equity: A Car Share Program in Sacramento
- Affordable Ridesharing Goes Electric
- Community Engagement Guides Creation of Neighborhood Microtransit Hub
- Dallas Prioritizes Equitable Access for EV Charging in Multifamily Housing
- Electric Vehicles in Rural Communities
Find more case studies on the Alternative Fuels Data Center.
Clean Cities and Communities coalitions are helping to ensure that the benefits of new transportation technologies are available to all Americans by engaging with their local communities to co-develop projects and solutions that meet real, on-the-ground needs. Coalition activities can advance local transportation energy choices and benefit all communities in America in a variety of ways, including:
- Improving air quality
- Reducing energy and transportation costs
- Increasing access to alternative fuel vehicles, electric vehicle charging stations, and clean public transportation
- Providing job training to operate and maintain clean transportation vehicles and infrastructure
- Engaging first responders in alternative fuel vehicle safety training
- Fostering business opportunities and economic development.
Community Engagement Liaison (CEL) Cohorts
Through the Clean Cities and Communities Community Engagement Liaison (CEL) Cohorts, DOE provides funding for coalitions to hire community engagement liaisons and pursue community engagement activities. The coalitions will partner with their communities to listen to their priorities and concerns, identify opportunities, and assist in the design and implementation of transportation energy projects.
Community Engagement Liaison (CEL) Cohort 1 Coalitions
- Alabama Clean Fuels Coalition
- Centralina Clean Fuels Coalition
- Clean Cities Georgia
- Clean Transportation Coalition – Western Connecticut
- Drive Clean Colorado
- East Tennessee Clean Fuels
- Empire Clean Cities
- Greater Washington Region Clean Cities Coalition
- Kansas City Regional Clean Cities
- Land of Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition
- Long Beach Clean Cities
- Louisiana Clean Fuels
- Michigan Clean Cities
- Minnesota Clean Cities Coalition
- Virginia Clean Cities
- Western Riverside County Clean Cities Coalition
- Western Washington Clean Cities
Community Engagement Liaison (CEL) Cohort 2 Coalitions
- Central Oklahoma Clean Cities Coalition
- Clean Cities Georgia
- Drive Clean Indiana
- Eastern Pennsylvania Alliance for Clean Transportation
- Eastern Missouri Alliance for Clean Transportation
- Maine Clean Communities
- Michigan Clean Cities
- New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition
- North Dakota Clean Cities
- San Joaquin Valley Clean Cities and Communities
- San Francisco Clean Cities Coalition
- Clean Transportation Communities of Southern CT
- Valley of the Sun Clean Cities Coalition
- Wisconsin Clean Cities
- Yellowstone-Teton Clean Cities