SmartWay Transport Partnership

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SmartWay Transport Partnership
Idle Reduction Technology Workshop Catherine L.
Magliocchetti, US EPA July 14, 2005

• The Smart Way To Save Fuel, Money and the
  Environment

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Outline

• Two Questions
• Background
• The Partnership
• Federal Grants - 6 Million and Counting
• Technologies and Strategies
• FLEET Performance Model
• Wrap up

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How efficiently are you moving your freight?
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Survival of the Fittest
What kind of Footprint do you leave behind?

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Background
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Background

• Currently, truck and rail
• Travel over 200 billion miles
• Consume over 35 billion gallons of fuel
• Account for nearly 20 of transportation related
  energy use
• Produce approximately 350 million metric tons of
  CO2
• Will increase usage dramatically over next decade

2012
2003
45 Billion Gallons
35 Billion Gallons
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The Rules are Changing

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No-Idling Polices at Loading Facilities
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The Partnership
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How did SmartWay Transport Partnership begin?

• Freight carrier goals
• Reduced fuel consumption
• Public recognition
• Better public image
• Benefits for carriers
• Better relationship with government

• EPA goals
• Reduced CO2 emissions
• Improve energy security
• Better relationship with the trucking industry

• Freight shipper goals
• Better understanding and control of
  transportation foot print
• New ways to promote corporate citizenship and
  sustainable business practices

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SmartWay Transport Partners
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SmartWay Transport Partnership

• Voluntary Partnership w/ground freight industry
• Provides opportunities for companies to showcase
  the performance of their freight operations
• Emission Reduction Goals
• 150 million barrels of oil each year (12 million
  cars off the road)
• 33-66 million metric tons CO2 annually by 2012
• 200,000 tons NOx annually, plus PM and air toxics
  benefits
• Three major SmartWay Transport components
• Corporate Partnerships
• National Transportation Idle-Free Corridors
• Rail/Intermodal

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Idling Control

• Goal To eliminate all unnecessary diesel
  engine idling
• Truck stops, travel centers, rail yards, loading
  docks, markets, side of the road
• 2004 1 Million grant program for 9 TSE
  locations
• 2005 5 Million grant program
• Requests for proposal ended June 6th, 2005
• Received 30 proposals
• Will fund small businesses, TSE locations, and
  OEM designs
• Hosting workshops to create model idling law
• Create consistency among the various state and
  local idling laws
• Baltimore (May 6th), Atlanta (June 16th,17th) ,
  Chicago (June 28th) San Francisco (July
  14th), Region 1 2 (July 27th)
• Hosting workshops to create standardized design
  specifications for idling control systems
• Power, voltage, safety considerations, wiring,
  and plugs

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How do Shippers become Partners?

• Any shipper or receiver of goods can join the
  Partnership
• Shippers
• Sign the Partnership Agreement
• Commit to ship enough of their goods with
  SmartWay Transport Partner carriers to score 50
  on the FLEET model, within 3 years
• Assess and commit to improve facility
  transportation emissions within 3 years
• Forklifts, generators, loaders, truck idling,
  inter-modal
• Shipper Partners may use the logo when they
• Are shipping enough of their goods with SmartWay
  Transport Partner carriers to score 50 on the
  FLEET model

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How do Carriers become Partners?

• Any size or type of carrier or fleet can join
  the Partnership
• Carriers
• Sign the Partnership Agreement
• Measure current environmental performance with
  the FLEET Performance Model
• Commit to improve environmental performance
  within 3 years
• Carrier Partners can use the logo when they
• Demonstrate superior environmental performance
• Achieve a 40 CO2 efficiency rating

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What is Superior Environmental Performance?
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No environmental strategies
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What is Superior Environmental Performance?
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• Effect of adding strategies
• Speed _at_ 62 mph - Aerodynamics -
  Eliminate Idling - Double trailers -
  Intermodal use - Weight reduction - Auto
  tire inflation - Super single tires -
  Synthetic lubes - Engine upgrades

No environmental strategies
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Technologies and Strategies
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What are the Carriers doing?

• Carriers adopt fuel efficient technologies and
  strategies
• Idle reduction
• Improved aerodynamics
• Improved freight logistics
• Automatic tire inflation
• Driver training
• Advanced lubricants
• Weight Reduction
• Speed Control
• Etc.

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Advanced Truck Stop Electrification
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Direct-Fired Bunk Heaters
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Auxiliary Power Units
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Single Wide Tires
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Trailer Aerodynamics
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Trailer Aerodynamics
Rear Fairing
Gap Fairing
Belly Fairing
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What are the Shippers doing?

• Shippers implement facility and operational
  measures to improve efficiency
• Intermodal shipping
• Pick-up delivery scheduling
• Full truck loads
• Preferential docking
• Warehouse improvements
• Electric forklifts
• Driver comfort stations
• Idle-reduction at docks
• Etc.

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Public Recognition

• The SmartWay Transport logo
• The EPA SmartWay logo is a mark of cleaner
  transportation
• Like Energy Star, the SmartWay Transport Partner
  logo identifies the Partner as a responsible
  corporate citizen and environmental steward

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Public Recognition
Raises public awareness that trucks are integral
to the economy
Raises Public awareness that some trucking
companies shippers are doing more as corporate
citizens
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Using the SmartWay Transport Partner Logo
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FLEET Performance Model
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Background on FLEET Performance Model

• How do you rank a carriers environmental
  performance?
• Need a way to rate carriers environmental
  performance/efficiency
• EPA developed a computer model to rate carriers
  SmartWay Transport Partnership FLEET model
• FLEET Freight Logistics Environmental and
  Energy Tracking Performance Model
• Needed to rank fleets regardless of
• Geographical area of operation
• Operation type
• Health of the US economy
• Effects of Federal government regulation

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Wrap Up
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What are the Partners saying?

The very worst thing that'll happen to you is
you'll save fuel, which means you'll make more
money. -- Dave Berry, VP, Swift
Transportation
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