# Presentation: 096016

##        SmartWay Transport Partnership

**       ****SmartWay Transport Partnership**
**FHWA Talking Freight Seminar – April 20, 2005**

## SAVE FUEL

**Why Do Companies Join the SmartWay Transport Partnership?**

_**SAVE FUEL**_
_**SAVE MONEY**_
_**CLEAN THE AIR**_

## What Partners are Saying

**What Partners are Saying**

**“****By designing this program, it shows me and other carriers**
** ****that EPA is concerned about our business as well as**
**clean air.”**
**-- Rick Coomes, President, Coomes, Inc.**
**“****The very worst thing that'll happen to you is you'll save fuel, which means you'll make more money.”**** **
**-- Dave Berry, Vice Pres., Swift Transportation**
**“****SmartWay Transport offers opportunities to learn and lead the way toward a clean transportation future”**
**-- Charles Butt, Chairman and CEO, H-E-B Grocery Co.**

## What Partners are Saying

**What Partners are Saying**

**“****As a responsible member of the communities in which we operate and as a desirable employer, we view the SmartWay Transport Partnership as an integral part of our operations.”**
**-- Dennis Damman, Dir. of Engineering, Schneider National Inc.**
**“****SmartWay provides another way to push ourselves to meet, and exceed . . . company goals.”**
**-- Mike Herr, Vice President of Environmental Affairs, UPS**
**“****We believe that cooperative initiatives, such as SmartWay Transport, are an important step toward measuring and reducing our environmental ground transportation footprint.”**
**-- Michael Bertolucci, Senior Vice President, Interface, Inc.**

## What is the SmartWay Transport Partnership?

**Launched February 9, 2004**
**3 Major SmartWay Transport Components:**
**Corporate Partnerships – carriers and shippers working to reduce fuel consumption and emissions.**
**National Transportation Idle-Free Corridors – goal to eliminate unnecessary idling along major transportation routes.**
**Rail/Intermodal (still developing) – promote greater use of appropriate intermodal strategies.**

**What is the SmartWay Transport Partnership?**

## What is the SmartWay Transport Partnership?

**Voluntary partnership between EPA and the freight industry:**
**Developed jointly by EPA and several carriers and shippers, including Schneider, Swift, Yellow Roadway, UPS, Fedex, Coca Cola, Home Depot, and IKEA.**
**Freight industry interests:  reduce fuel consumption, public recognition, improved public image.**
**EPA interests:  reduced emissions (****CO****2****, NOx, PM) and ****improved energy security.**
**Work closely with State Trucking Associations to get the word out to trucking companies.**

**What is the SmartWay Transport Partnership?**

## The Charter Partners

**The Charter Partners**

**Norm **
**Thompson**
**Outfitters**

## Partial List of SmartWay Transport Partners

**Partial List of SmartWay Transport Partners**

**Notes:**
Here are some of our Partners.  We currently have 126 Partners, including our Charters.

**SmartWay Transport Partners **(as of April 4, 2005)

- Headquarters locations of 126 SmartWay Transport Partners by EPA Region

## How Does the Partnership  Work?

**Carriers:**
**Join the Partnership and agree to work toward improved efficiency and reduced fuel consumption over a 3 year period.**
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**Shippers:**
**Join the Partnership and agree to work toward shipping more of their product with SmartWay Carrier Partners, as well as improving their operations over a 3 year period.**

**How Does the Partnership  Work?**

## Idle Reduction

**How Can Carriers Achieve Savings and Meet Goals?**

**Idle Reduction**

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## Slide 13

## Idle-Reduction StrategiesDirect-Fired Heaters and APUs

**Idle-Reduction Strategies****Direct-Fired Heaters and APUs**

**Notes:**
Another option is the use of direct-fired bunk heaters, which allow for the driver to turn the engine off and still have much needed heat in the cab.

## Idle Reduction

**How Can Carriers Achieve Savings and Meet Goals?**

**Idle Reduction**
**Single Wide Tires**

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## Slide 17

## Idle Reduction

**How Can Carriers Achieve Savings and Meet Goals?**

**Idle Reduction**
**Single Wide Tires**
**Improved Aerodynamics**

## Trailer Aerodynamics

**Trailer Aerodynamics**

## Trailer Aerodynamics

**Trailer Aerodynamics**

## Gap Fairing

- Rear Fairing

- Belly Fairing

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## Slide 23

## Idle Reduction

**How Can Carriers Achieve Savings and Meet Goals?**

**Idle Reduction**
**Single Wide Tires**
**Improved Aerodynamics**
**Driver Training**
**Improved Freight Logistics**
**Automatic Tire Inflation Systems**
**Reducing Highway Speed**
**Low Viscosity Lubricants**
**Intermodal Shipping**

## How Do Carriers Evaluate Options and  Measure Progress?

_**F**_**reight **_**L**_**ogistics **_**E**_**nvironmental and **_**E**_**nergy **_**T**_**racking Performance Model – **_**Carrier**_** Module:**
**Measures the environmental performance of any fleet:**
**Tons of CO2, NOx, and PM.**
**Effectiveness of strategies used in the fleet (e.g., aerodynamics, idling reduction).**
**Projects the effectiveness of strategies a fleet could add in the future.**
**Estimates cost savings and return-on-investment for strategies. **

**How Do Carriers Evaluate Options and  Measure Progress?**

## How Do Shippers Evaluate Options and  Measure Progress?

_**F**_**reight **_**L**_**ogistics **_**E**_**nvironmental and **_**E**_**nergy **_**T**_**racking Performance Model – **_**Shipper**_** Module:**
**Tracks percentage of freight shipped with SmartWay Transport Carrier Partners – by weight, mileage, ton-mileage, $ value, or customized metric.**
**Calculates emissions from a shipper’s freight activities:**
**Truck idling at the company’s facilities.**
**Mobile sources at a company’s facilities (forklifts, loaders, cranes, generators).**
**Use of intermodal operations. **

**How Do Shippers Evaluate Options and  Measure Progress?**

## Benefits for Partners Meeting Partnership Goals

**The SmartWay Logo:**
**Carriers and shippers who meet predetermined criteria for emissions reductions are awarded the SmartWay Transport Partnership logo.**
**Logo may be used on corporate materials and advertising to indicate the company’s use of cleaner transportation. **

**Benefits for Partners Meeting Partnership Goals**

## The SmartWay Transport Partnership Logo

- _The SmartWay Transport Partnership Logo_

## SmartWay PSA Campaign

**Raise awareness of the Partnership among the carrier and shipper communities, and the public.**
**Initial efforts aimed at carriers and shippers.**
**Campaign launched in Dec. 2004**
**Placements in more than 20 publications/outlets:**
**Forbes**
**Business Week**
**Fleet Owner****	****	****	**
**Transport Topics**
**Overdrive**
**Numerous logistics and shipper publications****	**** **

**SmartWay PSA Campaign**

## SmartWay PSA Campaign

**SmartWay PSA Campaign**

## SmartWay Transport National Idle-Free Transportation Corridors

**SmartWay Transport National Idle-Free Transportation Corridors**

**52 Projects in 17 States**
**Over 1,000 new electrified parking spaces to be created at truck stops as a result of $1 Million Awarded in Grants to 9 States and Non-Profits**
**FY 2005 Congressional earmark of $5 million to promote deployment of idle reduction technologies.**
**Developing model state idling regulation.**

## SmartWay Transport – Location of Idle Reduction Projects

-       Active Projects
-       Developing Projects

**U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ! Office of Transportation & Air Quality ! EPA420-F-04-057! **_[www.epa.gov/smartway](http://www.epa.gov/smartway)_

**SmartWay Transport – Location of Idle Reduction Projects**

## SmartWay – One Year Later

**SmartWay – One Year Later**

**133 Partners – 107 Carriers, 20 Shippers, 6 Shipper/Carriers**
**9 of Transport Topics Top 20 For-Hire Carriers**
**Well over 250,000 tractors traveling over 14 billion miles per year consuming more than 2 billion gallons of fuel per year**
**Shippers incorporating SmartWay membership into hiring decisions**
**IKEA North America moving to 100% shipping with SmartWay Carriers**
**Developing plans to allow the SmartWay logo to be put on low-emission, high fuel-efficiency trucks**
**Attempting to develop guidance for States to quantify and use emission reductions from long-haul trucks.**

## SmartWay – Highlights for 2005

**SmartWay – Highlights for 2005**

**Issue Idling Control Grants and Develop Model State Idling Regulation**
**Continue development of Technology Verification Program**
**Develop and launch new Partner categories, possibly to include:**
**Rail**
**Affiliates (State Trucking Associations, NGOs, etc.)**
**Truck Parking Locations (Truck Stops, Travel Centers, Rest Stops, etc.)**
**Logistics Companies**
**Ports**

## 2005 SmartWay Idling Control Grant Program

**2005 SmartWay Idling Control Grant Program**

**The $5 million idling control grant program.**
**Program will include three components:**
**Small Trucking Company Grant Program (Mobile Technology)**
**Truck OEM/Fleet/Technology Vendor Grant Program (Mobile Technology)**
**Ports, Borders, Terminals and Truck Stop Grant Program (Stationary Technology)**
**Release of Request for Applications (RFA) planned for April 20.**

## Model State Idling Regulation Development

**Model State Idling Regulation Development**

**State Idling Regulations**
**Industry voiced concerns about state/local idling regulations**
**Inconsistent from state-to-state**
**List of states with laws is growing**
**Inhumane, impractical**
**Minimal input from trucking industry**
**Spotty enforcement**
**Possible ticketing use of APUs**
**Lack of outreach/education**

## Model State Idling Regulation Development

**Model State Idling Regulation Development**

**State Idling Regulations:  EPA’s Response**
**Develop Model State Idling Regulation for states to adopt (or re-legislate) if they wish.**
**Bring together states, trucking associations, and trucking companies for discussions**
**Attempt to reach consensus on specifics of a model regulation:  time limit, exemptions, etc.**
**5 Focus group meetings in May – July 2005**
**Issue model by late-Summer 2005**

## For More Information

*For More Information*

**www.epa.gov/smartway**
**Mike Zatz**
**Tel: 202-343-9035**
**E-mail:  zatz.michael@epa.gov**