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Insert Organization Name and Date

What is SmartWay? A partnership with the freight

industry

Provides a framework to assess the environmental and energy efficiency of goods movement supply chains

Launched in 2004, with ATA and Business for Social Responsibility

Program Overview SmartWay delivers a consistent,

integrated, national approach for clean, sustainable supply chains

Partners rely upon SmartWay tools and approaches to track and reduce emissions and fuel use from goods movement

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Program Aims Cleaner, healthier air, improved

energy security, and a stronger, more sustainable freight industry – which helps protect US jobs

Assist the freight sector (trucking companies and their freight shipping customers) to cut fuel costs and save money, while reducing harmful air emissions

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How SmartWay Works Partners assess and track freight

operation fuel use and environmental performance using SmartWay tools

Carriers quantify the efficiency of their fleet operations and track improvement

Shippers identify cleaner shipping options, assess environment footprints, and track improvement

Affiliates educate their members and others about SmartWay

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EPA’s Role in SmartWay• Establish participation and recognition criteria

• Develop tools to assess and track performance

• Verify technology through testing and analysis• Retrofits for legacy fleet vehicles• New vehicle and equipment designs

Identify operational strategies

• Accelerate deployment of cleaner options with technical information and support

• Increase access to financing for cleaner trucks and equipment

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SmartWay Assessment Tools The SmartWay Tools assess and tracks

emissions• Each partner type has their own tool

Developed using physics-based vehicle simulation models, EPA test data, technical papers and input from industry, universities and other federal agencies

SmartWay is enhancing its tools to improve usability

SmartWay Partners 15 “Charter” Partners

• Including Home Depot, FedEx, UPS, Swift, Schneider, Coca-Cola

Now 3000 partners, from large multinationals to small mom-and-pop companies, rely on SmartWay• Most of the largest US trucking firms Global retailers like Wal-Mart, IKEA,

Pepsi, Kraft, Lowe’s, and Target

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SmartWay Program Results SmartWay Partners have saved 120.7

million barrels of oil and cut carbon pollution by over 51 million metric tons.

To achieve these fuel savings, Partners need SmartWay’s tools, approaches and assessment methods, and SmartWay’s technical assistance and information

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Technology Program

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SmartWay Stakeholders Truck and rail carriers, railroads, ATA, OOIDA,

National Private Truck Council, AAR, insert your organization name

Retail, industrial and manufacturing companies

Business for Social Responsibility, Retail Industry Leaders Assn, Council for Supply Chain Mgmt, Intermodal Assn of N. America

MIT, U. of W. VA, Texas A&M, SAE, TMC, 21st Century Truck Partnership

EDF, ACEEE, NRDC, NESCAUM

• DOT, DOE, DoD, Clean Cities, Clean Diesel Collaboratives, states, regions

• World Bank, EnviroCanada, NRCan, SEMARNAT, Inter-American Devp. Bank, Clean Air Asia

• Vehicle and equipment manufacturers