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The project will demonstrate how strategically located infrastructure can leverage existing real estate assets of the goods movement network to increase the range of medium- and heavy-duty trucks and provideaccess to fleets at each stage of the supply chain. The project will also prepare cities to plan for infrastructure deployments and ensure community-wide benefits from incentive packages.

The project will 1) accelerate new service grid interconnections across the utility, fleet, fast charging plaza operator, and Multiple Dwelling Unit (MDU) landscape, and 2) increase visibility into near, mid, and long-term fleet electrification and charging infrastructure planning to inform and accelerate required grid upgrade investments. To ensure stakeholders living and operating in disadvantaged communities benefit from this national project, special priority has been placed on deploying and facilitating the use of the processes and tools developed in this project across stakeholder groups in Justice 40 communities.

The objective of the project is to build agent-based models and acquire relevant vehicle, fueling infrastructure, and operational data to establish a hydrogen fueling and heavy-duty freight truck network leveraging this fueling infrastructure in the Texas Triangle and I-10 corridor from Houston to Los Angeles, CA. The models will be refined for the regional specific analysis and results from earlier efforts by considering the scalability challenges associated with the deployment of a hydrogen freight transport eco-system. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts will be performed throughout to positively affect the local communities and provide critical inputs to the models. The project will combine the theoretical model results with practical experience in partnership with local community input to provide realistic, equitable, investable, and useable plans for the development of hydrogen infrastructure needed to support commercial heavy-duty (HD) truck freight mobility.

The recipient and its partners will engage communities across Colorado that face higher obstacles to zero-emission mobility to develop community-driven plans for multimodal, zero-emission mobility with a path toward their implementation.

The objective of the project is to develop a community, state and industry supported action plan that will improve air quality in the underserved communities most impacted by high density medium and heavy duty (MD/HD) traffic in the greater Salt Lake City region.

This project has multiple objectives, as follows:

• Eliminate barriers to tribal Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) access: Foster community-directed engagement identifying concerns, needs, and opportunities. Facilitate active participation and direction from Native communities, ZEV and utility experts, and our Clean Cities partners.
• Generate greater ZEV awareness: Generate greater awareness broadly at many popular, tribal-sponsored events. Foster awareness at more technical energy and climate events and support tribal participation in green transportation programs.
• Build ZEV technical capacity Support creation of community-directed ZEV transition plans and site-specific TA and workforce training, building tribal and utility capacity for future progress.
• Support long-term pollution reduction by ZEV market expansion: Reduce greenhouse gases (GHG) and air pollution through greater adoption of ZEVs and the infrastructure to support them throughout Indian Country and generally in rural areas.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is working to reduce freight energy use by pairing efficient supply-side technologies and operations with freight demand management techniques in the Albany-New York City corridor. The project aims to demonstrate the mutually reinforcing effects of demand-side and supply-side efficiencies through the adoption of Energy Efficient Logistics (EELs) and to better understand which freight management strategies are most likely to be used by consumers.

As of 2019, the team has evaluated and selected an initial list of EEL initiatives. Based on feedback from stakeholders, the team is currently working to model the impact of the following EEL initiatives: receiver-led consolidation, parking loading zones and parking reservation, off-hour deliveries, parking pricing, and pickup & delivery at alternative locations. In order to assess the effectiveness of these initiatives, the team has conducted an online consumer survey about home deliveries with future plans to conduct surveys for delivery carriers and receivers. The team has also worked to update and integrate four existing models and simulation tools into one Integrated Transport-Energy Model (ITEM). This includes the Behavioral Micro-Simulation (BMS), SVTrip, Polaris, and Autonomie. Significant work has been done to acquire and manage high resolution Global Positioning System (GPS) data from fleets that can be used as inputs for SVTrip. Once completed, ITEM can be used to estimate the impact of various EEL initiatives.

The objective of this project, Logistics Decarbonization in Strategic Environmental Justice Areas (LODESTAR), seeks to demonstrate and document the innovative use case for independent contractors to adopt electric delivery vans that serve urban, suburban and rural environmental justice (EJ) areas and provide a holistic solution to distribution center electrification that incorporates electrification of both the freight and distribution activity. LODESTAR will uplift EJ and disadvantaged communities through the Last Mile Leadership (LML) scholarship program that will invest in students and businesses who wish to study or deploy clean transportation.

The objective of this project is to create a roadmap for truck charging in the Bay Area that meets the needs of three key stakeholder groups: (1) the needs of truck fleets to maintain operational efficiency as they transition to electric trucks by ensuring that charging infrastructure fits their current operations; (2) the needs of utilities to invest in necessary upstream infrastructure to provide power to chargers by projecting how truck charging will impact their existing assets; and (3) the needs of communities to improve public health and create inbound investment and jobs from the transition to electric trucks by integrating their voices into the planning and investment processes for truck charging network planning.

The project will establish a replicable framework for developing, supporting, and advancing community-owned clean transportation implementation plans. The project will support a cohort of communities to develop community-led clean transportation audits, undertake a program of community engagement, knowledge-building, training, and technical assistance, and develop implementation plans for community-identified clean transportation projects. The project will include rural and urban communities and use a community of practice model to share cross-community knowledge and provide widely accessible education and training. It is intended to produce actionable, community-owned implementation plans for the cohort communities and replicable tools and models for other communities. The project is lead by Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnership and involves two Clean Cities Coalitions: Vermont Clean Cities and Connecticut Southwest Area Clean Cities.