Transportation / Mobility

September 21, 2011

 

Yamato Starts Using Streetcars for Low-Carbon Parcel Transport

Keywords: Non-manufacturing industry Transportation / Mobility 

JFS/Yamato Starts Using Streetcars for Low-Carbon Parcel Transport
Copyright Yamato Transport Co.


Yamato Transport Co., a major parcel-delivery company in Japan, and Keifuku Electric Railroad Co., a local railway company that operates the Randen streetcar in Kyoto City, announced on May 17, 2011, that they would start using streetcars for parcel transportation on May 18, 2011, to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the Arashiyama area of Kyoto City.

Until its announcement, Yamato Transport had been using large trucks to transport parcels from its distribution center in Miyama-cho, Kuse-gun, Kyoto Prefecture, to its service office about 25 kilometers away in the Arashiyama area, and two-ton trucks and other smaller vehicles to deliver them to their final destinations.

Under the new system, Yamato Transport charters a single streetcar from Keifuku Electric Railroad at its Saiin carbarn, loads the streetcar with container dollies bearing parcels, and delivers them to Arashiyama Station and Randen-Saga Station. In Arashiyama, sales drivers unload the dollies, reload them onto carriers pulled by electric bicycles, and then deliver the parcels to customers.

Yamato Transport had already been using railway to transport parcels between some of its service offfices; however, this is the first modal shift between one of its distribution terminals and its sales offices, where parcels are actually collected and delivered. The company will introduce this system at other Randen streetcar stations and try to collect and deliver parcels while minimizing its use of trucks. Yamato Transport hopes to reduce carbon emissions in Kyoto City, a city that, as the birthplace of the Kyoto Protocol, aims to be a model of environmental stewardship under the slogan "Walking City, Kyoto."


Yamato Transport Implements Vehicle-Free Parcel Collection and Delivery (Related JFS article)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/030961.html
Yamato Transport Delivers by Electric-powered Bicycle (Related JFS article)
http://www.japanfs.org/en/pages/027735.html

Posted: 2011/09/21 06:00:15 AM


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Reference

Yamato Holdings Co. official website
http://www.yamato-hd.co.jp/english/


 

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