This program started implementation on April 18, 2012, with period for 1 year. The program implementation outcomes are listed below:
1) Printing of promotional materials: Two versions of promotional fans were designed, with 2,500 of each version made, totaling 5,000 fans. There are 3000 promotion leaflets printed, with 7,500 stickers reminding drivers made that are posted with priorities on the 2,027 official cars. In addition, purchases 3,500 copies of electrically powered fans and printing of promotional slogans for passengers provided to taxis.
2) Inventory of notice boards: Completed the inventory checking work in the 37 districts of Tainan City, checking a total of 1,356 public and private locations. Set up a total of 1,181, with 591 general notice boards, 509 school notice boards, and 81 tourist notice boards.
3) Leasing infrared Thermal imagers: After signing contract of the program, started leasing 4 units of infrared thermal imagers for use by the Inspection and Air Noise Pollution Section. Also, training started on April 30, 2012 for the inspectors in the East and Sinying District, and inspection equipment was given to the Inspection Section of the East, Yunkang, and Singying.
4) Setting up exclusive website: Have set up an exclusive website promoting the ignition off during parking and idling within the Environmental Protection Bureau website. Information includes the latest updates, promotion of the ignition off during idling regulations, activities, etc. Updates of the content happen either regularly or irregularly every month.
5) Conducting Large Promotional Events: Have completed 2 promotional seminars. The hope is to use additional promotion in public sector units and school units, and to work top-down from school using educational methods. The first seminar was held on June 1, 2012 at the Performance Hall at the Southern Taiwan Science Park (STSP) Administration Office, inviting passenger and freight industry / Association, official authorities, and hospitals. The second seminar was held on June 11, 2012 at the Music Hall of Tree Valley Park, inviting senior high schools, junior high schools, and elementary schools.
6) Conducting Small Promotional Events: Have completed 5 small promotional events, which are: “Guanmiao pineapple bamboo shoots season Activities Anti-Idling Promotions”, “Checking of Vehicle Idling to start on June 1 Press Conference”, “Creating an high quality environmental protection demonstration site Anti-Idling Promotion”, “Low carbon Tainan – Happy Home Story Anti-Idling Promotion”, and “Responding to Ignitions Off when Car is stopped, Jointly Creating Low Carbon Tainan Press Conference”.
7) Promotion in printed and electronic media: There are 6 press releases that are published in news regarding the Environmental Protection Bureau implementing of Ignitions off When Vehicles are Parked or Idling.
8) Questionnaire Surveys Regarding Ignitions off When Vehicles are Parked Management Policies: through large and small promotional activities, questionnaire surveys were given to public to fill out. During periods when there are no activities, questionnaires are given out in public locations where there are many people. A total of 2,123 effective questionnaires have been completed and have been analyzed by Taiwan Indicators Survey Research Company. The detailed report the detialed report has four directions,"First,the management requirements of parking idling-stop according to the respondents'cognition;Second,behavior and cognition of roadside parking idling-stop;Third,the purchase of the new motor vehicles' willingness situation that equipped with automatic flame failure device;Four,the opinions of parking idling-stop management's regulations and implementation method."
9) Ignition Off During Idling Checkup and Promotion Statistics: A total 6,379 vehicles have been persuaded and checked during the period from March 2012 to March 2013. Among the persuaded vehicles, there were a total of 524 large vehicles, 4,425 other small vehicles, 1,161 motorcycles, and 269 taxis. The main idling locations included general roads, locations providing vehicles to stop, pickup, and transit, and around schools, with percentage of each respectively at 33.81%, 22.43% and 14.74%.
10) To Support Other Promotion Work: Helping the EPB, to implement ignition off while idling policy promotions included checking of official vehicles and compiling list, helping develop LED ticker content, making promotion short video for the public to take, creating promotion audio CD to provide garbage cars to broadcast. These are done to help with promotion of policies.
11) The following is the survey analysis of location that easy to idle：the idling situation at the school and cram’s parents pick, idling always happened when students on class, most of them concentrated in the class time, 7:00 to 8:00 am, 11:00 am to 12:00 pm and 3:00 to 4:00 pm; Hyper-markets or the others markets' idling vehicles are concentrated at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm and 3:00 to 4:00 pm, the reason of people idling due to waited people shopping or hot weather effects; business hours also maked an impact; Taiwan HighSpeedRail Tainan Station and Taiwan Railway Tainan station’s idling vehicles on the whole still gathered in the noon and afternoon sessions, hot weather and the amount of the Shuttle number of vehicles may also caused idling vehicle effects, the vehicles for pick-ups at the front exit of Tainan station is more than rear exit's.
12) Promoting taxis to have ignition off when stopping, will communicate with all taxi associations, taxi companies, and driver unions within Tainan City and collection opinions from all sources. Through printing of passenger promotional slogans and reminding drivers to put on stickers within the taxis, and to support the issuance of electric powered fans. Of the total 3,015 taxis within the city, over 90% are willing to support the policies.
13) Planning and promoting of zero idling self management districts, using established promotional slogans, to support the idling watch teams, to let zero idling self management policies to be known by all public, and to effectively establish the concept of ignitions off during idling with school children and the public.
14) Regarding the recommendations formed during the implementation of this program and related recommendations, there are six listed below, divided into two parts policy and execution.
Four execution recommendations below：
1. Recommend the EPA to reconsider the Temperature Elimination Item.
2. Concentration of idling checking and auditing at locations where idling frequently occur.
3. Idle inspectors and advise parallel.
4. Ways to expand idling propaganda.
Two policy recommendations below：
1. Promotion of Zero Idling Management Demonstration Site.
2. The promotion of electric vehicle or automatic flame failure device.
