Rail Energy Efficiency

Goals

• Transform how we collectively evaluate and commit resources to major new technology options
• Improve the sustainability of how freight is moved
• Reduce the energy requirements of moving railcars
• A 50% reduction in overall carbon emissions by 2030.

Core Question

• How can technology developers, railroads, investors, and policymakers make the wisest energy-efficiency decisions so that North American railroads contribute to lowering the emissions and resource requirements of freight movement?

Action Questions

• General
• Biodiesel
• Internal Combustion with Compressed Natural Gas
• Fuel Cell
• Steam
• Electrification – General Questions
• Locomotives
• Power Delivery
• Electric Grid Synergy
• Implementation
• Financing
• Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles and Maintenance Equipment