Environmental Management System in Japan Railway

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Environmental Management System in Japan Railway

• Naoto Mifune
• Railway Technical Research Institute
• Japan

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Energy Consumption in Japan
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Energy Consumption on Transportation in Japan
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CO2 Emission from Passenger Transport in Japan
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Modal Shifts In order to Decrease Energy and CO2
Road Traffic
Railways
Aviation
Is this supported by consumer?
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Questionnaire on Consumers Evaluation
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Consumers Evaluation(Nikkei newspaper,560compani
es, 2004)

• ? Good for Environment
• (Best 120 companies)
• 1st Car (Toyota)
• 3rd Car (Honda)
• 9th Car (Nissan)
• 37th Railway (JR)
• 79th Physical Distributor
• 80th Railway (JR)

• ? Bad for Environment
• (Worst 40 companies)
• 1st Steel
• 2nd Fast Food
• 3rd Aviation
• 17th Railway (JR)
• 19th Railway (JR)
• 26th Railway (JR)
• No car company!!

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Consumers Evaluation Viewpoints

• 1.Railway is environment-friendly,
• this is by nature
• 2.Railways efforts can not be seen in
• public
• 3.Consumers evaluation is based on total
• efforts toward not only environmental
  performances but also management (philosophy,
  concept)

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Total Environmental Load based on Consumers
Evaluation
Environmental Load/unit
Car
Railway
19?? 20?? 20??
20??
Year
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Totally Environment-Friendly Company

• 1. Environmental performances, of course!!
• 2. Legality
• 3. Volunteer works for environment and ecology
• 4. Public investment, Mecenat and so on
• 5. Transparent and visible
• 6. Refined sense of mission
• 7. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

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To be Visible from Consumers Viewpoint
EMS
Transparent
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Environmental Management System-ISO14001-

• Total Environmental
• Management system
• 2. Visible
• 3. Universal

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Development of Railway supported by quality
(safety) and environment (mission)
Development of Railway
Environment
Quality
Needs
Public opinion
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Selection by environment
Shift to higher level of green markets and
increase in green consumer concerns
Communication by environmental information
Green purchase
Green investment
etc.
Quality of environmental management
Reaction in financial markets
Environmental efficiency
Practical use of economical skill for a
environmental policy
Environmental report
Initial EMS
Environmental strategy
Recognition of environmental issues
TIME
1990
Trend toward Sustainable Railway
20??
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Next Step - Beyond ISO14001

• Enforced requirements are
• 1.Communication
• 2.Cost Saving, Efficiency
• 3.CSR
• And ultimately aiming
• 4. To Increase in Railways Share
• in Transportation
• 5. To make sure the Sustainable Railway

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Conclusions

• 1.EMS is indispensable in order to acquire high
  level of evaluations by consumer.
• 2. Many railway companies have got ISO14001
  certifications in Japan.
• 3. A New type of EMS is being discussed in some
  railway companies in Japan.
• 4. The Ultimate aim to get ISO14001
  certifications is to meet with consumers green
  concerns and
• to make sure the sustainable railway.

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• Thank you for your kind attention

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Fields of ISO Certifications()
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Conceit in Railway Company

• 1.High level of environment-friendly performances
  of railway is well-known in public
• 2.Consumer can not see data
• 3.Consumer does not concern about data
• 4. Consumer are watching extent of effort

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Target

• Totally environmental friendly company
• Good performances are just results