IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/cdl/itsdav/qt90v1336v.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Freight Movement through Eco-Driving Programs for Heavy-Duty Trucks

Author

Listed:
  • Boriboonsomsin, Kanok

Abstract

Eco-driving involves fuel efficient driving techniques and maintenance practices. Truck eco-driving may provide economic or other incentives to drivers to avoid heavy traffic, drive at moderate speeds, avoid sudden braking or acceleration, reduce idling, and maintain specified tire inflation. Truck eco-driving can reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 5-15%. Educating drivers is a crucial component of eco-driving programs. Other components include vehicle maintenance and technology support, such as speed limiters, and policy support, such as subsidies for engine retrofitting or incorporating eco-driving into the commercial driver's license process. View the NCST Project Webpage

Suggested Citation

  • Boriboonsomsin, Kanok, 2015. "Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Freight Movement through Eco-Driving Programs for Heavy-Duty Trucks," Institute of Transportation Studies, Working Paper Series qt90v1336v, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Davis.
    • Handle: RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt90v1336v
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/90v1336v.pdf;origin=repeccitec
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cdl:itsdav:qt90v1336v. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Lisa Schiff (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/itucdus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.