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SmartWay Program Highlights for 2023

Learn more about 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 $1.85 trillion to our economy
in 2021, representing 8 percent of annual G.D.P.

Trucks moved 72.2% of all U.S. freight tonnage and trucking revenues
represent 80.8% of the nation's freight bill.

Over 7.99 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 $52.3
billion on fuel costs, contributing to lower prices while helping
American truckers

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SMARTWAY SAVES OIL AND SUPPORTS U.S.
ENERGY INDEPENDENCE

Since 2004, SmartWay has helped its Partners
save 379 million barrels of oil - equivalent
to liminating annual energy use in over
25 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

379m

barrels of oil

Eliminating annual
energy use in over

25m

homes

EPA-420-F-23-028 | December 2023 | SmartWay Transport Partnership | epa.gov/smartway

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Smartway Program Highlights for 2023 (continued)

THOUSANDS OF BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS RELY
UPON SMARTWAY

Roughly 4,000 companies and organizations use SmartWay to improve
freight sustainability and efficiency.

These Partners rely upon SmartWay for:





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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
communities;

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 HELPS TO PROTECT THE HEALTH OF AMERICANS



Since 2004, SmartWay has helped partners avoid emitting 162.2
million metric tons of CO2, 2.8 million short tons of NOx, and 114,000
short tons of PM, 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

162m

metric tons of carbon dioxide

SMARTWAY DEMONSTRATES AMERICAN
LEADERSHIP IN GREEN FREIGHT

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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.

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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