The transportation department plays an important role in fuel consumption and emission. The direct way to mitigate the situation is to improve the internal combustion engine, or develop the public transportation. Nevertheless both ways are long-term solutions and not easy to get immediate effects. This project had holded a demonstration program and Focus Group Interview, then had introduced the concept of eco-driving, and finally had proposed the system of eco-driving label. According to the experience from advanced countries, the eco-driving skills such as shifting gears properly, maintaining the speed, and decelerating/accelerating smoothly bring both safety and energy conservation benefits. Since we know that the commercial vehicles’ mileage per day is much more than private vehicles’, the driving behavior improvement for those professional drivers would bring more reduction in fuel consumption. Thus, if we can teach the professional drivers right driving skills and right attitude, we can achieve the goal of energy conservation and emission reduction. As a result, the project had choosed several commercial vehicle fleets as the demonstration fleets, including Kerry TJ Logistics Company, CitiAir Bus, Kamalan Bus, MiaoLi MOTOR TRANSPORTATION, and Taiwan Car Rental & Travel Group. In this project, we had hosted 3 workshops in Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung and 2 forums in Taipei and Taiwan. Besides, we had designed and print 2 thousand handouts. We still had designed a set of training course for eco-driving and had trained over 7 hundred professional drivers driving bus, truck or taxi. The purpose of above and establishing the eco-driving label is to exhort the transportation companies to put eco-driving in their management system, and finally promote the concept of eco-driving.

Eco-driving;Education and Training;Energy saving & Carbon reduction