SmartWay Transport

December 2, 2008 through December 4, 2008 Press Release

On December 2-4, 2008, representatives from twelve countries gathered, along with major big box retailers, freight shippers and freight carriers, for the first ever SmartWay International Summit - Transforming the Global Supply Chain, to discuss collaborative ways to reduce greenhouse gases emissions from goods movement. The conference was hosted by U.S. EPA’s SmartWay Transport Partnership in cooperation with the University of Michigan’s Sustainable Mobility and Access Research Transformation (SMART) and Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI).

With the support of key partners like Sharp Electronics, Con-Way, YRC Worldwide, NYK Logistics Inc and American Trucking Associations, as well as from sponsors like Penske, PACCAR and Navistar, representatives from Australia, Belgium, the E.U., France, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, and the U.K. attended the Summit to share best practices and exchange ideas.

Two key themes of the Summit were how to uniformly account for greenhouse gases produced from goods movement, and how to implement sustainable freight programs like SmartWay overseas.
Keynote speaker Andrew Savitz, author of "The Triple Bottom Line," emphasized the benefits of merging business and environmental goals.  Businesses all over the world are concerned with reducing the environmental impacts of shipping their goods. Programs like SmartWay can help them reach that goal.

SmartWay technologies were on display at EPA’s National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Lab along with a state-of-the-art hydraulic hybrid delivery van being developed by EPA’s Advanced Technology Staff.

Resources

• Program for Summit (PDF) (18 pp, 10M, December, 2008)
• Workbook for Designing a SmartWay Sister Program (PDF) (198 pp, 19.5M, December 2008)
• Summit Notes (PDF) (16 pp, 75K, December 2008)

Presentations

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Opening Remarks, Chris Grundler, US EPA (PDF) (5 pp, 256M, December, 2008)

Conference Overview, Matt Payne, US EPA (PDF) (13 pp, 263K, December, 2008)

Complex Model Analysis, Dr. Edgar Blanco, MIT (PDF) (29 pp, 528K, December, 2008)

Keynote speaker, Professor Alan McKinnon, Director of the Logistics Research Centre, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK (PDF) (29 pp, 2.0M, December, 2008)

Panel discussion — Merging Business and Environmental Goals:

• Mark Servidio, Sharp Electronics (WMV) (15 min, 434M, December, 2008)
• William Boyer, NYK Logistics (PDF) (15 pp, 1.20M, December, 2008)
• Glen Kedzie, ATA (PDF) (20 pp, 425K, December, 2008)
• David Miller, Con-way Inc. (PDF) (12 pp, 66K, December, 2008)

Panel discussion — Overview of Transportation, Air Quality and Climate Change:

• Bob Smith, Canada (PDF) (22 pp, 94K, December, 2008)
• Gerald Lalevee, France (PDF) (37 pp, 788K, December, 2008)
• Tadashi Kaneko, Japan (PDF) (30 pp, 860K, December, 2008)
• Rick Barber, New Zealand (PDF) (22 pp, 500K, December, 2008)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Panel discussion — SmartWay Partner Innovations - Reducing the Freight CO2 Footprint:

• Sabina Strautman, IKEA (PDF) (19 pp, 1.42M, December, 2008)
• Sebastian Seifarth, Holcim Inc (PDF) (21 pp, 3.05M, December, 2008)
• Dave Guernsey, UPS (PDF) (15 pp, 1.38M, December, 2008)

Panel discussion — Supply Chain Accounting and Harmonization of Metrics:

• David Rich, World Resources Institute, (PDF) (22 pp, 661K, December, 2008)
• Erik van Agtmaal, Green Logistics Consultants Group, Belgium (PDF) (16 pp, 223K, December, 2008)
• Brian Nemeth, Maersk Logistics (PDF) (13 pp, 396K, December, 2008)

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Freight Best Practice Program, Richard Elviss, UK Department for Transport (PDF) (29 pp, 7.6M, December, 2008)

Exploratory Stage, Buddy Polovick (PDF) (23 pp, 589K, December, 2008)

Design and Development Stage, Buddy Polovick, US EPA (PDF) (14 pp, 433K, December, 2008)

Implementation Stage - Marketing Communications Plan, Patrice Thornton, US EPA and Robert Schultz, The Causeway Agency, (PDF) (49 pp, 2.6M, December, 2008)

Partner Management and Measuring Success, Buddy Polovick, US EPA (PDF) (18 pp, 1.3M, December, 2008)

Technology Verification, Buddy Polovick, US EPA (PDF) (4 p, 828K, December, 2008)

Financing, Ken Adler, US EPA (PDF) (10 pp, 318K, December, 2008)

Expansion of SmartWay Concept, Buddy Polovick, US EPA (PDF) (14 pp, 261K, December, 2008)