Recent Projects
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Data Sharing Platform for Freight Flow Connectivity & Visibility
Hermes Assistant: Collecting Feedback Regarding Value and Future Direction for the Data Sharing Platform
This effort confirmed Hermes Assistant’s role as a transformative solution for supply chain data-sharing and strengthened critical partnerships and helped position the platform for pilot deployment and eventual commercialization. The Hermes Assistant is a federated data-sharing platform developed through the Dock to Door Coalition to address fragmentation and inefficiencies across the supply chain. Built on prior state-funded work, Hermes Assistant has advanced from concept to functional prototype, demonstrating its ability to facilitate secure, selective, and real-time data-sharing across companies of all sizes.
Energy Efficient & Resilient Technology in Freight
Addressing Common Myths about Sustainable Freight
A key focus of the Carbon-Neutral and Sustainable Freight program area of the D2D Coalition is decarbonizing medium- and heavy-duty vehicles (MHDVs), which contribute significantly to U.S. transportation greenhouse gas emissions. A D2D working group was assembled to tackle the challenge of widespread public misperceptions around climate change and EV technology. The working group explored 15 prevalent misperceptions that are impeding sustainable freight progress. These included beliefs such as electric vehicles being less safe than diesel vehicles, electric trucks being too expensive or ineffective in cold climates, and the idea that electrification merely shifts emissions elsewhere.
Electrifying Freight: Case Studies and Strategies for Scaling Zero-Emission Trucking Ecosystems
Electrifying medium- and heavy-duty freight vehicles (MHDVs) is critical to meeting climate goals but significant challenges remain; these include high costs, complex infrastructure, and limited public charging. This project highlights real-world models and strategies supporting the transition to zero-emission freight, with a focus on charging infrastructure and enabling partnerships.
Workforce Development & Community Engagement
Defining a Process for Inventorying Workforce Development & Community Engagement Assets
In May 2024, the D2D Coalition held an in-person event where partners were asked to prioritize key challenges for the Workforce Development and Community Engagement (WDCE) program. The challenges prioritized by Coalition partners include how the perceptions and concerns people have about technologies—such as electric vehicles (EVs)—impact their acceptance of technologies, and how training is needed to prepare the workforce to fill the jobs required for future deployments. To address these challenges, the WDCE program created a research roadmap. The first step in the roadmap, and the objective of this project, was to define and pilot a process for inventorying WDCE assets that exist in regions where D2D partners support technology deployments. The project focused on inventorying key WDCE assets (organizations and programs involved in education, training, and outreach) around EVs. The assets inventory process was piloted in Pulaski, Virginia where there is a cluster of D2D partners within a 30-mile labor/commuter radius who have an EV-related focus or who were believed to have the potential to be involved in future EV-related efforts.