VLI Logistics Develops Sustainable Solution Capable of Reducing Fuel Costs in the Rail Modal

VLI Logistics Avoids Emission of Over 3.57 Thousand Tons of CO2 with Its Fuelytics Tool, Which, Just Last Year, Prevented the Use of 1.2 Million Liters of Fuel in the Rail Modal

VLI Logistics, a company focused on creating logistics solutions that integrate railways, terminals, and ports, is advancing with its strategy of developing innovative technologies that generate more sustainable and efficient activities. The company recorded, over the past year, a savings of more than 1.2 million liters of fuel in the rail modal with the use of its tool called Fuelytics, which offers a reduction in fuel consumption by prioritizing operational actions indicated by mathematical modeling.

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VLI Logistics Tool Reduced Emission of 3.57 Thousand Tons of CO2

By avoiding fuel combustion, it was possible to generate a reduction of 3.57 thousand tons of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere. The tool focused on the rail modal of the company serves the logistics corridors of the North-South Railway and the Centro Atlântica, managed by VLI Logistics.

According to Loïc Hamon, General Manager of Digital & Innovation at the company, the tool consists of three essential pillars for the company’s activities: efficiency, sustainability, and innovation. The concept of logistics transformation proposed by the company is rooted in these fundamentals and this tool.

Fuelytics Contributes to the Company’s ESG Mission

Fuelytics is linked to the company’s ESG agenda strategy, which aims to reduce pollutant gas emissions by 15% by the beginning of the next decade. Freight transport via rail modal already has a strong sustainable character, considering that emissions related to it are lower than those of the road modal.

According to the Infrastructure Studies Coordination of the Institute for Applied Economic Research, the fuel consumption of trains is equivalent to only 30% of a truck’s cost per kilometer per ton transported.

The tool, created and managed by VLI Logistics’ engineering department, is still in the improvement phase, where enhancements aim to allow for better management and tracking of results, automate calculations, and also centralize information in such a way that usability and user autonomy are facilitated.

Get to Know Fuelytics

Developed to enhance energy efficiency management through an analysis that can generate more accurate and rapid responses regarding consumption indicators, the tool started to “crawl” in 2019, when it had to participate in the company’s innovation program, Inova VLI. A year later, the tool was accepted for feasibility testing and, once approved, began to be used in the company’s rail modal.

In practice, with the help of operational information, such as that from computers present in locomotives, through mathematical modeling, it is possible to achieve statistical correlations and identify the variables with the greatest potential to reduce fuel consumption, providing data that make gain viability a priority.

The tool also allows for the direction of investments, in addition to other variables considered in the equation, such as the way the train is driven and the route that was taken, as well as other components that impact consumption and performance.