THE JOINT INDUSTRY-GOVERNMENT VOLUNTARY TRUCK AND BUS FUEL ECONOMY PROGRAM - AN OVERVIEW

The US Department of Transportation and Energy have combined with 330 private companies to show that free-market incentives can result in conserving truck and bus fuel. The voluntary program has worked to encourage fuel conservation through the development of measurement test procedures, dissemination of fuel-saving data and case histories, sponsorship of demonstrations, truck show programs and the distribution of literature and films on fuel-saving procedures. It is estimated that by such measures the industry has voluntary saved some 5 billion gallons of fuel between 1973-79.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • From SAE Special Publication 488, Truck and BVus Fuel Economy.
• Corporate Authors:

  Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

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• Authors:
  • Seiff, H
• Publication Date: 1981-4

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 1-5
• Serial:
  • SAE Special Publications
  • Publisher: Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Buses; Competition; Conservation; Economic efficiency; Energy conservation; Federal government; Freight transportation; Fuel consumption; Government agencies; Improvements; Incentives; Industries; Methodology; Policy; Printed publicity; Publicity; Trucks
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency
• Old TRIS Terms: Joint programs
• ITRD Terms: 1272: Bus; 5911: Efficiency; 212: Energy conservation; 232: Fuel consumption; 741: Goods traffic; 183: Government (national); 9108: Improvement; 332: Industry; 1236: Lorry; 173: Policy; 8573: Publicity
• Subject Areas: Economics; Energy; Environment; Freight Transportation; Motor Carriers; Policy; Public Transportation; Vehicles and Equipment; I96: Vehicle Operating Costs;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00451553
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• ISBN: 0-89883-259-4
• Report/Paper Numbers: SAE SP488, ANALYTIC
• Files: ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 30 1985 12:00AM