University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Beyond RFS and MPG: Promoting Cleaner Trucking Services

Lavey, Warren

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/106831

Description

Title
Beyond RFS and MPG: Promoting Cleaner Trucking Services
Author(s)
Lavey, Warren
Issue Date
2014-02-21
Keyword(s)
  • ground transportation
  • shipping
  • railroad
  • trucking
  • sustainability
Abstract
Warren Lavey - Adjunct Professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences as well as the School of Earth, Society, and Environment, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Technologies to cut truck emissions are available and cost-effective, and should be encouraged by a range of government and private actions. In 2013, Chicago approved the expansion of a railroad terminal contingent on retrofitting dozens of trucks with clean diesel filters. Illinois agencies are reforming freight and package delivery purchasing programs to implement the Transportation Sustainability Procurement Program Act of 2013. Similarly, the U.S. General Services Administration is applying new environmental preferences in selecting transportation vendors and tracking their performance.
Series/Report Name or Number
Sustainable Seminar Series
Type of Resource
  • text
  • still image
Language
en
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  • https://youtu.be/t9m7oncDzL8
  • http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106831

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ISTC Sustainability Seminar Series PRIMARY