MAN Group

Politics Newsletter

Issue 4 – December 2012

1 – Transportation Policy 2 – Climate | Transportation Policy 3 – Environment | Climate 4 – Climate

Higher cost of living: European toll plans and national business games

Despite harmonization efforts on the European Union’s

part, the toll hotpotch remains — and perfidiously impacts

the consumer: a rise in the cost of living is slowly creeping

in with the continuously increasing truck tolls.

Toll rates used to be based on the route costs, i.e. the costs

of using the transportation routes, but following the entry into

force of the 2011 Eurovignette Directive, EU member states

can now charge for costs beyond this, such as for noise and

harmful emissions. The aim: to give use of the road a price tag.

Yet the European Commission wants to go one step further

and is aiming to harmonize existing national toll regulations even

more. In the long term, the European Commission wants to

make the member states levy a toll for all vehicle categories on

all roads. In the future, it will no longer be taxpayers that pay for

maintaining the roads. Instead, it will be those using the roads.

The toll rates are not just determined by the route use costs,

but also by air and noise pollution. The member states are also

to include traffic and climate damage.

Germany is still a long way away from imposing a toll on

all vehicle categories. The increase and expansion in the truck

toll alone is a subject of debate: the SPD and the Greens are

thinking aloud about extending the toll to vehicles of 3.5 tons

and up and on all B roads or even to the entire road network.

That impacts every citizen. Haulers and their customers will try

to pass the higher route costs onto the consumer, which means

that the increase in the cost of living will creep its way in.

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MAN Group – Politics Newsletter – Issue 4 – December 2012

Even when fuel is burnt it can still provide energy, which

is why MAN Diesel & Turbo has developed a system that

converts waste gas heat into electricity. It is enough to

cover the electricity needs of container ships.

As the number one means of transporting goods, shipping

is indispensable for the global economy. According to figures

Waste gases provide electricity

German parliamentary groups, the German government,

and the federal states in Germany have come to a com-

promise to amend the German Passenger Transportation

Act. This paves the way for a new range of transportation

services.

Coaches are a secure and eco-friendly means of trans-

portation all over the world – even for long routes. In Germany

however, long-distance coach travel is largely prohibited by an

Act from 1934 to protect the state railway. Regular services

within Germany are only permitted in exceptional cases – such

as to and from Berlin. By amending the German Passenger

Transportation Act, policymakers have now paved the way for

long-distance coach services.

In the future, such coach services in Germany will be able

to compete among themselves and with rail. It should no longer

be possible for operators to be refused permission for long-

distance coach services due to protection of rail – on the condi-

tion that stops are up to 50 kilometers apart or there is a travel

time of one hour between them to protect the publicly funded

rail passenger transportation system.

Germany abandons isolated solution in long-distance coach travel

Transportation Policy

In order to ensure that the new offering can also be used by

people with restricted mobility, coaches for long distances are

also to provide barrier-free access by the end of 2019. Starting

in 2016, new coaches will have to be equipped with at least

two spaces for wheelchair users and the relevant boarding aids.

MAN welcomes the liberalization of long-distance coach travel.

After all, it will create more mobility for everyone. Lower-income

passengers in particular will benefit from the additional and inex-

pensive long-distance travel offering by eco-friendly coach.

from the International Maritime Organization (IMO), 90 percent

of global goods transportation is managed by transportation

by sea – it accounts for 2.7 percent of global CO2 emissions.

Climate targets and cost pressure are leading to shippers want-

ing to make optimum use of fuel. They demand technological

measures in order to be able to further boost the efficiency of

their ships. This is the only way that they will be able to combine

sustainability and growth in goods transportation and be able to

face the challenge of increasing operating costs. Climate and

environment protection is and remains the maritime industry’s

central responsibility.

One approach to reduce fuel consumption is the use of

waste gases. While the waste heat of engine systems used

to be lost unused, state-of-the-art waste heat usage systems

enable the energy contained in the fuel to be handled in a way

that is both efficient and kind to the environment. The WHRS

(Waste Heat Recovery System) developed by MAN Diesel &

Turbo converts the heat energy contained in the waste gas into

electricity using a steam turbine generator. The energy recov-

ered covers the entire energy needs of a container ship and its

refrigerated containers without consuming any additional fuel.

As a result, fuel consumption sinks and the efficiency of

the system increases by up to 10 percent. In line with this, the

carbon footprint of ships that transport the majority of globally

traded goods has improved.

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Since October, an MAN semitrailer tractor that is 25.25

meters long has been providing the MAN Logistics Centers in

Dachau and Salzgitter with spare parts for trucks and buses.

MAN wants to examine the financial and ecological impact of

these vehicles over routes stretching around 600 kilometers.

Long trucks allow for a load volume of around 40 percent more

than a conventional semitrailer tractor – without exceeding the

gross vehicle weight of 40 tons. Two long trucks transport the

same volume as three conventional semitrailer tractor, which

means that fuel and CO2 can be saved accordingly. In addi-

tion to ABS and ESP, the MAN truck is equipped with adaptive

cruise control (ACC), lane guard system (LGS), and continuous

damping control (CDC). The driver was specially trained.

MAN plants use long truck

Mobility and fuel strategy per economy

As economies become more globalized, prosperity is on

the rise worldwide and, with it, the need for goods and

mobility. The challenge is in ensuring a supply of energy for

transportation while also conserving the environment. The

German government wants to include all traffic carriers in

its future mobility and fuel strategy.

In 40 years time, there will be almost four times as many

vehicles as today in transit. According to the German Federal

Ministry of Transport, air traffic and goods traffic will see the

sharpest increases. Yet greenhouse gas emissions are also

set to fall 95 percent by 2050 under international agreements.

Policymakers are calling for transportation to become more

climate-friendly.

For this reason, the German government is currently

developing a new mobility and fuel strategy for all traffic car-

riers. In road haulage, for example, EURO exhaust emission

standards have prevented commercial vehicle manufacturers

to date from immensely reducing fuel consumption and CO2

emissions. Future emission standards should be aimed at cut-

ting the emission of greenhouse gases. Alternative fuels like

natural gas or second-generation biofuels will only take hold in

long-haul transportation by road if the necessary infrastructure

is available all over – and in the world of logistics all over means

globally. By contrast, commercial vehicles with alternative dri-

ves will only find buyers if they combine eco-friendliness with

cost effectiveness.

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Published by: MAN SE

Stefan Klatt · Head of Public Affairs

E-mail: stefan.klatt@man.eu

Edited by: Dr. Kirsten Broecheler

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Aerodynamics study dominates IAA discussions about the CO2 efficiency of trucks

International trade fairs are more than just sales events.

They are primarily shows that also provide future tech-

nologies with a large forum. This year’s IAA Commercial

Vehicles centered on the issue of cost efficiency. The MAN

Concept S aerodynamics study with a Krone AeroLiner

trailer showed the fuel that trucks could save  —  if they

had the chance to do so.

MAN was able to record ten thousand visitors to the trade

fair stand, twelve world premieres including the new, clean

EURO VI engines, and high-ranking guests from the field of

politics and associations following the 64th IAA Commercial

Vehicles. The trade fair focused on boosting efficiency and sav-

ing fuel. MAN’s Concept S truck study with aerodynamic trailer

was the talk of the IAA. German Transportation Minister Peter

Ramsauer, Lower Saxony’s Minister-President David McAllister,

and numerous foreign politicians were impressed by the innova-

tive tractor-semitrailer combination that can cut CO2 by up to

25 percent.

In its Concept S study, MAN shows the potential CO2 sav-

ings that would be possible if the legal length restrictions for

trucks were eased. The long-haul total combination of the MAN

Concept S and Krone AeroLiner is based on the conviction

that significant CO2 savings can be generated by doing more

than just looking at the truck and trailer. The biggest potential

to save fuel in road haulage lies in more efficient vehicles: in the

aerodynamic design of the entire vehicle as a streamlined unit.

Political demands to move the transportation of goods

from the road to rail have not saved a single liter of diesel to

date. Yet aerodynamic optimization allows fuel to be cut by 15

percent and, as a result, CO2 as well. Another ten percent is

possible through rolling resistance optimized tires, optimized

auxiliary systems, and other measures.

Manufacturers could bring these climate-friendly vehicles

to the market at realistic costs with the next truck generation.

However, lawmakers would have to change the prescribed

dimensions and weights currently in force in Directive 96/53/

EC. Aerodynamic trucks have to be longer if the current load

volume is to remain unchanged.

The European Commission has already announced

extensions to the driver’s cabs and the rear — even in the

course of ongoing planning to regulate CO2 for heavy-duty

commercial vehicles —  for its proposed directive expected

at the start of 2013.

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