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Chapter: Appendix B: Presentations and Committee Meetings

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations and Committee Meetings." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2010. Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12845.
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Presentations and Committee Meetings

COMMITTEE MEETING, WASHINGTON, DC

DECEMBER 4-5, 2008


Opening Remarks

David Strickland, Senate Commerce Committee


Overview of the NHTSA Program, Including Sponsor’s Expectations for the Study

Stephen Kratzke, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


SmartWay Partnership and Heavy Vehicles

Mitchell Greenberg, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


U.S. Department of Energy Truck Technology

Kenneth Howden, U.S. Department of Energy


Engine Manufacturers Association

Timothy Blubaugh, Engine Manufacturers Association


Reducing Emissions in Heavy Vehicles

Anthony Greszler, Volvo Powertrain


Freightliner

David Kayes, Daimler Trucks North America


Heavy-Duty Vehicle Fuel Economy and Emissions Improvement Project of the Northeast States Coalition for a Clean Air Future and the International Council for Clean Transportation

Coralie Cooper, The Clean Air Association of the Northeast States (NESCAUM)


Southwest Research Institute Studies to Support the NESCCAF Heavy-Duty Vehicle Project

Thomas Reinhart, Southwest Research Institute


EPA SmartWay Truck Emissions Test Protocol

Mitchell Greenberg, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


Commercializing Hybrid and High-Efficiency Trucks: Hybrid Truck Users Forum: Program Status, Update, and Next Steps

Bill Van Amburg, CALSTART


Fuel-Efficiency Technologies for Heavy Vehicles

Gurpreet Singh, U.S. Department of Energy


Heavy-Duty Hybrid Technology

Willam A. Batten, Eaton Corporation


Heavy-Duty Trucks Fuel Economy Technology

K.G. Duleep, Energy and Environmental Analysis


COMMITTEE MEETING, WASHINGTON, DC

FEBRUARY 4-5, 2009


Hybrid Status

Mike Roeth, Navistar


Heavy-Duty Trucks

Terry Penney, National Renewable Energy Laboratory


Truck Tires and Rolling Resistance

Calvin Bradley, Michelin Tire North America


Medium-Duty and Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicle Business

Mike Roeth, Navistar


Fuel Efficiency Study

Jeff Seger, Cummins, Inc.


Heavy-Duty Fuel Economy Computer Models and Simulation

Daniel Kieffer, Kenworth Truck Company

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations and Committee Meetings." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2010. Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12845.
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Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Models: State-of-the-Art and Challenges

Aymeric Rousseau, Argonne National Laboratory


A Modular Approach to Fuel Efficiency

Stefan Larsson, European Auto Manufacturers


Japanese Fuel Efficiency Regulation

Akihiko Hoshi, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism


Simulation Method

Akihiko Hoshi, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism


Final Results Summary

Tom Reinhart, Southwest Research Institute


Cost Effectiveness of Heavy-Duty Vehicle Technologies

Bob Wilson, TIAX LLC


SmartWay-Certified Tractor and Trailers

Mitchell Greenberg, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


COMMITTEE MEETING, DEARBORN, MI

APRIL 6-7, 2009


Fuel Consumption as a Metric

John Johnson, Michigan Technological University


International Council on Clean Transportation Research

Drew Kodjak, International Council on Clean Transportation Research


Modeling and Simulation Issues

Ron Graves, Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Vehicle Classification and Mapping

John Woodrooffe, University of Michigan Transportation Institute


Technology Matrix

Dave Merrion, Detroit Diesel (retired)


Indirect Costs

James Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology


Industrial Perspectives of the 21st Century Truck Partnership

Vinod Duggal, Cummins, Inc.


Army Ground Vehicles

Paul Skalny, U.S. Army


EPA Hybrid Technology

John Kargul, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency


Report on Results

Michael Jackson, TIAX LLC


COMMITTEE MEETING, ANN ARBOR, MI

JUNE 18-19, 2009


LTL Carrier’s View of Past and Current Technologies

Duke Drinkard, Southeastern Freight Lines (retired)


Effective Practices and Programs for Improving FE

Dave Miller, Con-Way Freight, Inc.


Passenger Car and Light Truck CAFE Analysis and Tech Inputs

Ryan Harrington, NHTSA


EPA Vehicle Standards and GHG Reductions

Byron Bunker, EPA


Measuring and Modeling Traffic Congestion Impacts on Heavy-Duty Trucks

Matthew Barth, UC Riverside


Safety and Productivity Issues Long Combination Vehicles

John Woodrooffe, UMTRI


The Potential of Intermodalism for Meeting Energy and Environmental Goals

James Winebrake, Rochester Institute of Technology


Assessment of FE Technologies for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Joe Morris, NAS


ArvinMeritor’s Advanced Safety Technologies for Commercial Vehicles

Brad Hicks and Alan Korn, ArvinMeritor


Vehicle Integration Team, NRC

Ron Graves, Andrew Brown, Jr., Aymeric Rousseau, Garrick Hu, NRC


The Aluminum Advantage: Exploring Commercial Vehicle Applications

Randall Scheps, Alcoa


Truck Aerodynamics

Charles Salter, Consultant

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations and Committee Meetings." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2010. Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12845.
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COMMITTEE MEETING, SAN ANTONIO, TX

AUGUST 6-7, 2009


Intelligent Vehicle Applications

Chelsea White, Georgia Tech


Framework for the Regulation of Greenhouse Gases from Commercial Vehicles

John Wall, Cummins, Inc.


Wind Tunnel Studies of the Aerodynamics of Heavy Vehicles

Fritz Marinko and Mitch Camosy, Auto Research Center, LLC


SWRI Overview

Walt Downing, SwRI


Medium-Duty HEDGE

Chris Chadwell, SwRI


Fuel-Saving Opportunities with Intelligent Highway Systems

Ryan Lamm, SwRI


NOx/BSFC Trade-offs in Modern Diesel Engines

Tom Ryan, SwRI


SmartWay Testing

Cheryl Bynum, EPA


COMMITTEE MEETING, WASHINGTON, DC

SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2009


Modeling Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions from Heavy-Duty Vehicles

Stefan Larsson, ACEA


Reducing Heavy-Duty Long-Haul Combination Truck Fuel Consumption and CO2 Emissions

Tom Reinhart, SwRI

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations and Committee Meetings." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2010. Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12845.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Presentations and Committee Meetings." Transportation Research Board and National Research Council. 2010. Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12845.
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Technologies and Approaches to Reducing the Fuel Consumption of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicles evaluates various technologies and methods that could improve the fuel economy of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, such as tractor-trailers, transit buses, and work trucks. The book also recommends approaches that federal agencies could use to regulate these vehicles' fuel consumption. Currently there are no fuel consumption standards for such vehicles, which account for about 26 percent of the transportation fuel used in the U.S.

The miles-per-gallon measure used to regulate the fuel economy of passenger cars. is not appropriate for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, which are designed above all to carry loads efficiently. Instead, any regulation of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles should use a metric that reflects the efficiency with which a vehicle moves goods or passengers, such as gallons per ton-mile, a unit that reflects the amount of fuel a vehicle would use to carry a ton of goods one mile. This is called load-specific fuel consumption (LSFC).

The book estimates the improvements that various technologies could achieve over the next decade in seven vehicle types. For example, using advanced diesel engines in tractor-trailers could lower their fuel consumption by up to 20 percent by 2020, and improved aerodynamics could yield an 11 percent reduction. Hybrid powertrains could lower the fuel consumption of vehicles that stop frequently, such as garbage trucks and transit buses, by as much 35 percent in the same time frame.

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