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SmartWay Program Highlights for 2018
Learn more about the SmartWay and find out how your company can benefit.
SMARTWAY DATA DRIVES PARTNERSHIPS
SmartWay enables companies across the supply chain to exchange
performance data in ways that help businesses contribute to stronger and
more competitive economy and healthier air for Americans.
With consistent, quality-checked information and tools, SmartWay lets
companies spend less time figuring out their freight supply chain footprints,
and more time getting down to business.
By listening to and working with partners, SmartWay delivers more of what
businesses need.
SMARTWAY SAVES MONEY AND CONTRIBUTES TO
AMERICAN PROSPERITY
Trucking and freight transportation are vital to U.S. prosperity.
•	Logistics and transportation contributed $1.41 trillion to our economy
in 2016, representing 8 percent of annual G.D.P.
•	Trucks moved 70.9% of all U.S. freight tonnage and trucking revenues
represent over 80% of the nation's freight bill.
•	Over 7.4 million people are employed in trucking-related jobs, many
in small businesses, supporting hardworking families in communities
across America.
•	Working with SmartWay, U.S. trucking companies have saved
$33.4 billion on fuel costs, contributing to lower prices while helping
American truckers.
SMARTWAY SAVES OIL AND SUPPORTS
US ENERGY INDEPENDENCE
•	Since 2004, SmartWay has helped its partners
save 248.8 million barrels of oil - equivalent
to eliminating annual energy use in over
16 million homes.
•	By helping America's freight industry reduce
its dependence on foreign fuel, we can invest
more dollars at home and reduce our national
trade deficit.
•	Tractor, trailer and equipment suppliers to the
freight industry also rely upon SmartWay to
verify the benefits of fuel-saving vehicles
and equipment.
SmartWay helped
partners save
248.8m
barrels of oil
Eliminating annual
energy use in over
16m
homes
EPA-420-F-18-024 | December 2018 | SmartWay Transport Partnership | epa.gov/smartway
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SmartWay Program Highlights for 2018 (continued)
THOUSANDS OF BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS RELY
UPON SMARTWAY
More than 3,700 companies and organizations use SmartWay to improve
freight sustainability and efficiency.
Over 3,500 companies representing a broad cross-section of industries —
trucking, rail, barge, and airfreight, and their customers — rely upon
SmartWay for:
•	Information on clean and efficient technologies, operational strategies
and other business practices that leverage transportation spend,
reduce costs and contribute to healthier air for our families and com-
munities;
•	A no-cost comprehensive and well-recognized system to track,
document and share information about fuel use and freight emissions
across supply chains;
•	Data to help companies identify and select more efficient carriers and
modes;
•	Opportunities to share best practices, access training and information
that improve performance, and gain recognition for achievements;
•	Metrics to use in sustainability reports, procurements and KSA
processes.
Over 200 major industry associations, non-governmental organizations,
states and localities, and professional trade groups also participate as
SmartWay Affiliates.
SMARTWAY DEMONSTRATES
AMERICAN LEADERSHIP IN GREEN
FREIGHT
•	Recognizing our inextricably linked
U.S.-Canada commerce, energy and
environmental cooperation, SmartWay,
in coordination with Natural Resources
Canada, offers N.American businesses a
single, seamless bi-national program.
•	As part of a Global Green Freight Action
Plan, which aims to develop green freight
programs in other regions, SmartWay serves
as a global role model.
SMARTWAY HELPS TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF AMERICANS
•	Since 2004, SmartWay has helped partners avoid emitting 119 million
tons of air pollution (NOx, PM, and CO2), which helps protect the
environment and keep Americans healthy.
•	Emissions reductions benefit communities near ports, borders, and
truck stops, protecting the health and well-being of citizens in these
areas.
SmartWay helped partners
avoid emitting
119m
tons of air pollution
ABOUT U.S. EPA SMARTWAY
SmartWay is a market-driven initiative that empowers businesses to
move freight in the cleanest, most energy-efficient way possible. It
provides shippers and carriers with the tools and support they need
to track, document, and share information about transport modes,
equipment, and operational strategies that can reduce fuel use and
emissions across the supply chain.

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