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Study: natural gas heavy-duty trucking fleet could benefit economy, but has mixed environmental effects

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Switching from diesel fuel to natural gas may hold advantages for the US heavy-duty trucking fleet, but more needs to be done to reach the full environmental benefits, according to a new white paper released by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, and Rice University.

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Taking another look at methanol as an alternative transportation fuel for the US

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A recent white paper by Leslie Bromberg of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and Wai K. option towards transition to renewable methanol for sustainable transportation. The optimal approaches are different in different countries and in different markets. use could be developed.

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SMART: working for a systems-based approach to sustainable mobility; Alcoa Foundation support for practical solutions in Beijing and Detroit

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In other words, while vehicle and fuel technologies clearly play a major role, so does demand reduction and the development of smarter, sustainable transportation systems. Of 9 reports from the TEF project, four deal with reducing transportation demand.

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