What are the goals of the SmartWay Transport Partnership?
The goals of the Partnership are to reduce: • fuel consumption from trucks and rail delivering freight; • operating costs associated with the delivery of freight; • emissions of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas; and • NOx emissions and particulate matter, and air toxics that adversely affect air quality and contribute to health problems, especially in densely populated urban areas. By 2012, the SmartWay Transport Partnership aims to save between 3.3 and 6.6 billion gallons of diesel fuel per year, which translates to eliminating at least 33 million metric tons of CO2 emissions and up to 200,000 tons of NOx emissions per year.
