Smart Freight Centre

About

Smart Freight Centre was established in 2013 as a global non-profit organization with the aim to make the global freight sector more environmentally sustainable and competitive.

Smart Freight Centre works with industry and other stakeholders to remove market barriers to catalyze the uptake of solutions throughout industry that improve fuel efficiency, reduce emissions and lower operating costs.

CCAC activities

Workstream | Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Ongoing

Green Freight

The freight sector— which includes trucks, trains, marine vessels, airplanes, and other modes — provides a vital service delivering foods, goods, and resources. But, the movement of freight also...

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Other activities

Harmonized logistics emissions methodologies. Develop and drive the adoption of a universal and transparent way of calculating freight/logistics emissions across the global supply chain that companies can use to compare and select more fuel efficient modes and carriers
Regional workshop in Europe. Bring together existing programs/initiatives and stakeholders from government, private sector and civil society (from both countries with programs and those interested in developing programs) to increase collaboration,harmonization and expand programs in countries across a given region
Regional programs cooperation and replication. Explore the feasibility of increased cooperation between existing programs in a given region and the potential to expand programs across the region. This action will focus initially on Europe due to the fact there are a number of existing programs.
Promote technologies and strategies. Promote and inform the freight sector on new and existing technologies and operational strategies that can be implemented by the freight industry to improve efficiency and reduce emissions. The first market is road freight in China.
Black carbon calculation methodology. Develop a calculation methodology for black carbon, particulate matter another air pollutants for each mode of freight.
Harmonized black carbon methodology. Incorporate a black carbon and other air pollutant calculation methodology intoreporting tools and methodologies and integrate them into green freight programs
Smart Freight Leadership Roundtables. Organize annual events for leading businesses involved in green freight and with multistakeholder participation for the purpose of information exchange and collaboration on how to improve and accelerate freight efficiency and the reduction of CO2, black carbon and other emissions. These meetings will be focused on specific, focused topics relevant to green freight programs.

Resources

2017 | Guidelines & Tools

International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) , Smart Freight Centre

, Smart Freight Centre; Global Emissions Logistics Council; Climate and Clean Air Coalition; The International Council on Clean Transportation; SmartWay

Black carbon methodology for the logistics sector

This document is meant to provide guidance to the logistics sector for the voluntary measurement and reporting of black carbon emissions. This report provides guidelines for calculating black...

2016 | Awareness Materials

Canada , United States of America , Clean Air Asia , International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) , Smart Freight Centre , United Nations Environment Programme , Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)

Factsheet: Green Freight (CCAC Heavy-duty Vehicles Initiative)

Facsheet prepared by the CCAC on the Coalition's efforts to reduce emissions of black carbon, other pollutants and greenhouse gases from the freight sector.

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