Showcase: MiddlewareOracle Environmental Accounting and Reporting through JD EdwardsNorth County Transit District San Diego, CAAngela Miller, former Chief Technology Officer/Chief Sustainability Officerfounder, ecology.IT

The North County Transit District:Public Transit for San Diego County• North San Diego County, operating bus, commuter rail, light rail, and

paratransit systems• 12.5 million riders; 107 million annual Passenger Miles Traveled• 9 million annual Vehicle Miles over 550k annual Revenue Vehicle Hours

Public Transit – The Green Transit Optioncomparison of emissions for transportation options

The North County Transit District:Building Sustainable Public Transit• Sustainability and public transit have a natural synergy – economic,

social, and environmental issues all inherently relevant business model• Plan focused first on cost reductions, then capitalizing on opportunity,

then building the cleanest, most scalable transportation. Sustainability took on a much different meaning under dire financial circumstances

History of the NCTD Sustainability Programbuilding one step at a time

Investments in Renewable Powerfive different installation types and locations

Measuring and Benchmarking:The Climate Registry, APTA, and NTD• Wanted to measure using Industry-Standard Methodologies• Became a member of The Climate Registry and filed first baseline year;

Became a signatory to the APTA Sustainability Commitment and filed first annual report; also federally-mandated National KPIs

• In order to complete these goals, NCTD contracted with external partners like Trust Element and Cathy Moran – significant consulting

Our Oracle JD Edwards Footprint• We historically were a heavy maintenance operation. Owned JD

Edwards for Financials, Purchasing, and Inventory Management• In 2011 upgraded successfully to 9.0 blue stack• In 2011 replaced our 22-year old Prime system with HR/Payroll• Added complexity: outsourced operations and maintenance

Implementing Accounting and Reporting:Leveraging Existing Tools and Process• Manual effort too expensive and not repeatable; issues with audit• NCTD wanted to build on their 10-year JD Edwards Investment• Needed a solution that included extensive data transformation• Oracle Solution Seemed to fit the need

Environmental Reporting and AccountingSystem Design

Environmental Reporting and Accountingcollect environmental information right in standard AP processes

Power for EA&R Comes in the Middleware

Integrating all liquid dispensing data – diesel, gas, CNG, oil, lubricants Integrating all power data through downloads from utilities – over 175

meters, and now smart meters Integrating power data from multiple solar installations in 15-minute

intervals Integrating mileage data from two different systems, including a

CAD/AVL system that gives location data for every vehicle every minute of every day

ability to integrate data from non-ERP systems, suppliers

Planned Next Phase

Operational supplier environmental data Integration with automated data from diesel generators Creating the KPI dashboard for environmental data (the one that

comes with EA&R is facility-based, not mode-based)

Building more middleware-dependent data feeds

Environmental Accounting and Reporting: Results• OBIEE allowed for easier transformation of data• Automation of data collection allowed for more frequent and cost

effective analytics; payback period for NCTD < 2 years

For further information:

Fred Knapp, Program ManagerNorth County Transit Districtfknapp@nctd.org

Angela Miller, founderecology.ITangela.miller@ecologyit.net t: @ecologyit www.ecologyit.net