California issues draft plan for more efficient, less polluting freight system

. . . The Draft Action Plan puts forward a single shared vision to improve the efficiency of California’s freight system while reducing its pollution, while continuing to bolster the competitiveness of California’s goods movement system nationally and internationally. Key components of the Action Plan include:

• The Draft Action Plan puts forward a single shared vision to improve the efficiency of California’s freight system while reducing its pollution, while continuing to bolster the competitiveness of California’s goods movement system nationally and internationally. Key components of the Action Plan include:
  
  A long-term 2050 vision and guiding principles for California’s future freight transport system.
  
  Improve freight system efficiency 25% by 2030.
  
  Deploy more than 100,000 zero-emission vehicles/equipment and maximize near-zero by 2020.
  
  Foster future economic growth within the freight and goods movement industry. . . .

Click to expand...

California releases Sustainable Freight Action Plan to transform freight system; 25% more efficient by 2030

Click to expand...

In response to an Executive Order issued last year by California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., state agency leaders on Friday released the California Sustainable Freight Action Plan, a comprehensive document that serves as a blueprint for transforming the state’s multi-billion dollar freight transport system into one that is environmentally cleaner, more efficient, and more economically competitive than it is today.

The revised document is similar to the draft version issued in May 2016, but reflects new input provided by industry, labor, regional and local government, and community and environmental group stakeholders, who submitted more than 85 comments on the draft plan. . . .

The Action Plan includes a long term-2050 vision and guiding principles for California’s future freight transport system along with these targets for 2030:

• Improve freight system efficiency 25% by 2030.
  
  Deploy more than 100,000 zero-emission vehicles/equipment and maximize near-zero by 2020.
  
  Foster future economic growth within the freight and goods movement industry. . . .

Click to expand...