2024 Sustainable Freight Futures Workshop

Access presentations from NREL's Sustainable Freight Futures Workshop, held May 29–30, 2024.

The workshop convened thought leaders across government, academia, and industry to identify research, development, and deployment (RD&D) opportunities to accelerate multi-modal and intermodal freight sustainability across trucks, trains, ships, and the skies. Key considerations included energy, environmental, economic, and equity challenges.

May 29, 2024, Presentations

Keynote: DOE Vehicle Technologies Office Freight Highlights
Austin Brown, U.S. Department of Energy

Introductory Panel: Government Panels A

Office of Multimodal Freight Infrastructure and Policy
Allison Dane Camden, U.S. Department of Transportation

Colorado Clean Truck Strategy: Development and Implementation
Michael King, Colorado Department of Transportation

EPA SmartWay Partnership Program
Sam Waltzer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Introductory Panel: Government Panels B

Modeling the Intermodal Freight System To Ensure a Low-Carbon Resilient Future
Apoorv Agarwal, U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

Medium- and Heavy-Duty Truck Action Plan and Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Update
Greg Kleen, U.S. Department of Energy

Rail Transportation Decarbonization Research and Safety
Karina Jacobsen, U.S. Department of Transportation

Introductory Panel: Industry Panels

Sustainable Freight Futures: A Maritime Perspective
David Walker, American Bureau of Shipping

ATRI's Decarbonization Research
Jeffrey Short, American Transportation Research Institute

Advanced Energy Innovation in the Freight Rail Industry
Michael Swaney, BNSF Railway

May 30, 2024, Presentation

Keynote: A Future Where Everyone Can Ride and Drive (and Move Freight) Electric
Alex Schroeder, Joint Office of Energy and Transportation