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CO2 Reduction Measures in Freight Sector in Japan

• by
• Shinji NAKAGAWA
• Ministry of Transport
• Japan

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Trends outlooks of CO2 emissions (unit Mt-C)
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Measures in transport sector
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CO2 emissions from individual modes of transport
in Japan (FY1995)
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Mode share in freight sector(in ton-km base)
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Mode share in freight sector(in energy
consumption base)
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CO2 emission units(g-C/ton-km)
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Characteristics of freight transport in Japan

• Large share of coastal shipping
• Concentration of international container freight
  at 3 area (Tokyo, Ise and Osaka Bays)
• Large number of private trucks ( 87 of 1
  million units)
• shorter transport distance, lower load factor
• Large number of small-sized trucking company
  (70 of 50,000 )

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Basic concept in CO2 reduction from freight
transport

• modal shift from trucks to rail and shipping
• improvement of energy intensity in each mode of
  freight transport
• improvement in technical efficiency
• reduction of inland transport distance of
  international container freight
• improvement of loading factor of each truck
• increase the use of trailer and larger trucks

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Promotion of modal shift

• Increase the share of rail and shipping freight
  for medium-to-ling distance (longer than 500 km)
  general cargo transport from 40 to 50
• support to upgrade facilities for major rail
  trunk lines
• support to construct coastal container ships and
  roll-on/roll-off ships
• construction of domestic trade terminal with
  sufficient freight yard and parking spaces for
  complex integral transport and access roads

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Reduction of inland transport distance of int.
container freight

• Only 10 of container freight produced and
  consumed in regional districts ( 40 of national
  total) is handled nearby ports long-distance
  transport by trucks from 3 major ports in Tokyo,
  Ise and Osaka
• construction of 8
• subsidiary gate-way ports
• with high-standard
• container terminals

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Increase in truck load factor

• Improvement of truck load factor from current 47
  to 50
• switching to trucking company vehicles
• privately owned trucks have low load factor,
  empty load in their return trip
• joint delivery and joint transport
• truck terminals
• joint delivery centers
• utilization of Intelligent
• Transport System (ITS)

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Increase the use of trailer and larger trucks

• Increase loading of each truck
• deregulation of gross vehicle weight
• heavy duty trucks 20t ? 25t
• semi-trailers 20t ? 28t
• ISO-standard 40-ft or
• 20-ft trailers
• construction of chassis pools
• upgrading of bridges and roads

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Future actions

• development of methods to monitor and quantify
  the progress of each measure
• support for the improvement of infrastructure,
  especially to facilitate the use of
  state-of-the-art information system
• consideration of other optional measures to
  achieve the current and future, possibly
  stricter, reduction targets