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* Australia - Sainsbury’s innovative green supermarket: wind-powered checkouts, rubbish-fuelled lorries
Melbourne,Victoria,Australia -The Australian Food, by Isobel Drake -September 3, 2008: -- Sainsbury’s has opened its flagship “green” store, built with consideration for the use of energy, water, waste, timber and land... The store is aiming to be one of the first supermarkets to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating for its commitment to sustainable construction, and has been specifically designed to reduce the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere... Sainsbury’s will be the first supermarket to make its daily food deliveries to its new environmental store using a lorry which is powered by bio-methane produced from rotting rubbish. The gas is captured from landfill and purified, and the bio-methane produced is then used to power the truck. Using bio-methane can save up to 60% in CO2 emissions compared with diesel fuel, the supermarket operator claims. The lorry uses a Dual-Fuel system which enables heavy duty diesel engines to operate on a combination of bio-methane and diesel, with a shot of diesel acting as a liquid spark plug...
* USA - Driver Monitoring: Parsing the Cost of Behavior Modification
USA -iTECH/Transport Topics, by Frederick Kiel -2 Sept 2008: -- Camera-based driver monitoring costs $400 to $1,000 per device, plus monthly monitoring fees of $20 to $40 per vehicle, according to vendor reports... DriveCam Inc., for example, provides camera, software and “flexible” service offerings, said Doron Lurie, vice president of marketing and business development... For comparison, PeopleNet, Chaska, Minn., offers safety monitoring as a part of its premium vehicle-location and wireless messaging package. It does not have a camera, but fuel-use monitoring is also part of the package. Installation costs about $1,200, and monthly service fees are $45 to $50... GreenRoad offers a hardware and software package at a list price of $1,000 per vehicle for three years, which includes cost of the equipment, monitoring data and working with safety directors to develop programs based on the collected data... Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, one of the oldest and largest suppliers of onboard telematics, formed a partnership two years ago to analyze risk factors from vehicle data... Fleet Risk Advisors, Alpharetta, Ga., combines data from Qualcomm units with “static data,” such as the driver’s experience, how many companies each driver has worked for and frequency of turnover, driving history and other demographics...
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