New York City operates the largest municipal fleet in the United States, with more than 30,000 units. Citywide fleet
operations are led by DCAS Fleet through the Deputy Commissioner for Fleet Management, who serves as the City’s Chief
Fleet Officer, consistent with Executive Order 161. The Chief Fleet Officer works with the more than 50 City agencies and
offices that operate fleet units, especially the 12 major fleet agencies of NYPD, FDNY, DOC, DSNY, DPR, DOT, DEP, DOE,
DOHMH, NYCEM, TLC and DCAS, known as the Fleet Federation.
DCAS Fleet leads initiatives in safety, sustainability, transparency, and emergency management, while also providing direct
services in areas including repair, collisions management, subrogation, fuel, auction and parts. DCAS manages the City’s
central fleet management systems and FleetStat reporting.
As part of Vision Zero, the City’s fleet operations are undertaking a series of initiatives to improve safety and reporting
relating to vehicle collisions. These initiatives currently include:
Training all authorized City fleet drivers in defensive driving. DCAS Fleet is leading the initiative to train all City drivers.
Uniformed drivers at NYPD, FDNY and DOC receive separate driver training for their emergency response vehicles. In
2020, DCAS established a first online version of the training in response to COVID-19 requirements.
Assessing the safety outfitting of City vehicles and developing a Safe Fleet Transition Plan. As part of this initiative, the
City has a policy to install side-guards on all fleet units. DCAS is also implementing a safety camera project for City
trucks. The City is also working with private fleets to assess and promote best industry practices. DCAS Fleet has barred
the use of hands-free phone devices by City fleet operators.
Improving the tracking of vehicle collisions. DCAS Fleet introduced new indicators to this Vehicle Fleets and Maintenance
table of the Mayor’s Management Report (MMR) to refine reporting on fleet safety. DCAS now provides collision rates
by vehicle miles travelled (VMT), which is the standard fleet industry reporting metric. DCAS also reports on fatalities and
injuries by VMT and reports on whether these incidents were deemed preventable or not through agency evaluations.
Installing tracking devices in City fleet vehicles. Tracking devices provide data to be used to monitor driving habits
and enable DCAS to create a Safety Index to help improve safe driving of City vehicles. DCAS uses multiple telematics
providers as part of this initiative and completed an upgrade of this technology for 12,000 units in Fiscal 2019. DCAS
manages this data through a Fleet Office of Real Time Tracking (FORT).
The City is also implementing a series of sustainability initiatives as part of the OneNYC and NYC Clean Fleet plans, including
efforts to expand electric and hybrid vehicles; install additional diesel particulate filters; increase the use of fossil fuel
alternatives; and introduce anti-idling and other technologies. Fleet has committed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
by 50 percent by 2025 and to establish an ell-electric on-road fleet by 2040.
DCAS achieved the goal of 2,000 on-road electric vehicles (EV) six years earlier than the plan originally outlined in the NYC
Clean Fleet initiative. The revised goal is at least 4,000 EV units by 2025. DCAS has now put in place over 1,000 EV charging
ports including the nation’s largest portable solar carport project and a large increase in fast charging.
DCAS Fleet has also worked to increase the transparency of citywide fleet operations. The daily vehicle readiness report,
the Fleet weekly newsletter, and a wide variety of other public reporting is available online. The roll-out of fleet systems
to better track, monitor and share fleet assets, parts and fuel, and driving behaviors, will increase understanding of fleet
operations; allow for better management oversight; and facilitate further service improvements.
In addition to this report, the Local Law 75 Annual Report contains information on use-based fuel economy for nonemergency light and medium fleets. The Local Law 38 Annual Report, prepared by the Department of Environmental
Protection, contains information on City purchases of light and medium duty vehicles, the fuel economy of light duty vehicles
purchased by the City, and the fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emission of the City fleet of light and medium duty
vehicles. The Local Law 41 report provides information on citywide Car and Fleet Share efforts.