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SmartWay High Performer Lists

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EPA is committed to recognizing those SmartWay Transport Partners that lead the freight industry in producing more efficient and sustainable supply chain transportation solutions. 

About the SmartWay High Performers

Partner Achievement Lists
  • SmartWay Excellence Awardees
  • Truck Carriers: all metrics 
  • Truck Carriers: carbon metrics
  • Dray Truck Carriers: particulate matter and nitrogen oxides metrics
  • Truck Carriers: equally-weighted metrics
  • Shippers

Among the thousands of companies partnering with EPA through SmartWay, there are those that are a step ahead in meeting the challenges of sustainable goods movement. These leaders represent all types of SmartWay Partners, including shippers, and truck carriers.

Based on SmartWay’s annual emissions reports for partners, these High Performers have achieved significant shipping and freight efficiencies that merit special attention. Learn more about SmartWay High Performers and the criteria that sets them apart!

Selection Criteria for SmartWay High Performers

SmartWay Partners submit efficiency and air quality performance data to EPA annually.  EPA aggregates and divides the data into five ranked performance ranges.  SmartWay High Performers are Partners whose efficiency and/or air quality performance falls within the top-ranked performance range.

See the table below for detailed 2024 SmartWay High Performers criteria: 


SmartWay High Performer Category

SmartWay High Performer Criteria

Truck carrier fleets, All Metrics

Top-ranked performance range for all metrics (CO2, NOx, PM), grams per mile and grams per ton-mile

Truck carrier fleets, Carbon Metric

Top-ranked performance range for efficiency metric (CO2 ), grams per mile and grams per ton-mile

Dray carrier fleets, PM and NOx Metrics

Top-ranked performance range for air quality metrics (NOx, PM), grams per mile and grams per ton-mile

Truck Carriers: equally-weighted metrics Top-ranked environmental performance based on ⅙ CO2 g/ton-mi + ⅙ NOx g/ton-mi + ⅙ PM g/ton-mi + ⅙ CO2 g/mi + ⅙ NOx g/mi + ⅙ PM g/mi

Shippers

Top-ranked performance where 98 percent of miles or ton-miles are SmartWay shipped and environmental performance based on 50% CO2+ 25% NOx + 25% PM g/ton-mile

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Last updated on August 27, 2024
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