The 21st UTokyoIPL-CUTI Special Seminar

1) Time and day : 10:30am-12:00pm (Japan Standard Time), 17th July (Thursday), 2025

2) Place : Lecture room No. 14, Ground floor of Engineering Building No.1, Hongo Campus, UTokyo and Zoom meeting room

3) Presentation

– Presenter: Prof. Marlon G. Boarnet (University of Southern California, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the METRANS Transportation Research Consortium)

– Title: Zero-Emission Drayage Trucking: Insights from California’s Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation

– Abstract: In April of 2023, the California Air Resources Board enacted possibly the most ambitious drayage trucking regulation seen anywhere in the world – the Advanced Clean Fleets (ACF) regulation. The ACF required that the state’s drayage fleet move to 100% zero emission trucks by 2035 and that the state’s entire heavy duty truck fleet achieve zero emissions by 2045 with relatively small exceptions. We analyze the drayage portion of that regulation in the context of the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles. Combined, those two ports, which sit side-by-side, handle between 30 and 40 percent of all containers entering the U.S. In this paper, we present two analyses. First, the paper develops and presents the results of a stock-flow model of ACF implementation, with year-by-year estimates of the number of battery electric (BE) trucks that would be required to meet the ACF zero emission requirements. Second, we summarize the results of fifteen stakeholder interviews, illuminating several potential barriers to a rapid transition to a zero emission drayage fleet. We close with a discussion about the challenges of transitioning an industry – drayage trucking – to zero emission and policy recommendations that could support that transition in California and elsewhere.

– Authors: Marlon G. Boarnet, Genevieve Giuliano, Clemens Pilgram, Ruoyu Chen, and Qifan Shao

– Paper: Available at https://labusinesscouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/LABC-ACF-Report-Full-Report-5.pdf

4) Short bio of presenter

Marlon Boarnet is Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and Director of the METRANS Transportation Consortium. Boarnet was the founding chair of the Department of Urban Planning and Spatial Analysis at USC (2016-2022) and he served as the elected president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning from 2019 to 2021. Boarnet’s research focuses on land use and transportation, goods movement and sustainability, links between land use and travel behavior and associated implications for public health and greenhouse gas emissions, urban growth patterns, and the economic impacts of transportation. He is a fellow of both the Weimer School of the Homer Hoyt Institute for Real Estate and the Regional Science Association International. Boarnet is in the top two percent of most cited urban planning scholars in North America. His research includes studies of zero emission heavy duty trucking, transport sector greenhouse gas emission reduction, and transportation access as a poverty reduction tool. He has conducted research for numerous California and federal agencies, the World Bank, and several non-profit and philanthropic organizations. Boarnet’s academic web page is: https://priceschool.usc.edu/people/marlon-boarnet/

5) Charge : free

6) Language : English

7) Participation : Please contact Ms Tomoko Samukawa (samukawa@ip.civil.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp) for joining this seminar, but you can join the seminar even without pre-registration.

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