The main content of this project included: Parking idling-flameout advocacy and auditing operations, low-carbon community and low-pollution vehicles advocacy implementation operations, diesel vehicles illegal gas inspection operations, and diesel vehicles maintenance factory insurance and inspection two-in-one system implementation and promoting all the administrative operations correspond to Environmental Protection Bureau. Final report preliminary statistics period is from March 29, 2013 to December 31, 2013. The results of the work are summarized as follows :
I. Parking, idling, flameout advocacy and inspection operations
Promotional brochures were designed to be easily accepted by the public. There were 5,000 propaganda leaflets in total; 2,000 propaganda posters and 1,000 promotion items. Propaganda leaflets and promotional products were delivered in the promotional activities and roadside inspection operations; propaganda posters were delivered by personnels or mailed to the county public service offices, factories, passenger transportation business operators, schools at all levels and scenic areas and so on. In order to promoting parking-idling-flameout throughout various levels, we have made propaganda broadcast video tapes on parking and flameout, and 120 times of intensive playing of the propaganda videos have been done since May 25; besides, on KISS CLUB Monthly Design posted parking-idling-flameout information with a total of distribution of 30,000 copies.
Till the end of December, the vehicle idling inspection and promotion have reached a total of 5,110 motor vehicles. The vehicles under persuasion are mainly small-sized vehicles, accounting for 94.3 percent of all the motorcycles. The planned inspection and promotion location are mainly the road with heavy traffic and campus peripheral areas with the executive proportion of about 71%; as to public agencies, station areas and tourist area about 19 %; urban remote and rural areas about 10%. During the project period, corresponding to every office in the county government, communities, schools, there are 20 propaganda actives on parking-idling-flameout; one time of training seminar of insurance combined with examination on diesel vehicles and a large-scale promotional activities, mainly for factory representative in the county, diesel maintenance factory representatives, and in town or township offices, the orientation of insurance combined with examination on diesel vehicles and the environmental protection measurements on parking-idling-flameout; in schools and communities, the promotion activity of low pollution transportation means and parking-idling-flameout are held to interact with the public by talking to them directly to improve the willingness of the public toward parking with flameout.
II. Promotion operations of low-carbon community and low-pollution vehicles
To cope with the EPA policy to promote low-carbon sustainable homes, 10 action items of green transportation can be concluded with the help of relevant bureaus and units for compiling related information; besides, information about green transportation and low-carbon island from Europe, Asia and cities in Taiwan is also complied. The direction of promoting country’s green transport and applying to the local development can provide the reference of local green transport policy.
In accordance with the assessment of low-pollution transport, our county can be divided into five major parts: urban, mixed(urban and suburban), suburban, mountainous and special sightseeing types and it has been summarised which low-pollution transport should be promoted in this area. In the case of urban areas, due to the relatively dense population and no rugged terrain, electric buses are suggested as low-pollution transport with the proposal to use as a daily shuttle bus; in addition, in urban areas, people use it for going to school, work, shopping and eating out in short distance with battery exchange stations built to promote people to buy electric vehicles or motor assisted bicycles as green transport; in the case of suburban-areas, due to more dilute population distribution and villages as their population gathering point, when it comes to implementation, it is similar to that of the mixed type; as for the promotion of electric buses, they are recommended as periodical shuttle busses; as for the low-pollution transport such as electric motor vehicles and assisted bicycles, in consideration of people’s driving habits, people can use the vehicles between villages because those vehicles are not suitable for long-distance driving. Therefore, as for the suburban types, the promotion of electric scooters and assisted bicycles is feared to be under expectation.
For now, the sustainability of electric scooters and electric-assisted bicycles are effective to the urban living habits. As for heavy load and long-distance regular routes, electric busses can be used as shuttle buses; as for commuter transportation or navigation, short-distance cargo transportation or hotel shuttle buses, because the number of users is small, it is suitable to use golf vehicles or small/medium-sized buses; however, the applicability of electric vehicles and motor-assisted bicycles is wider, so they can be used for short-distance urban commuting. If for leasing in the tourist areas, it is recommended that battery exchange stations or charging station and related measures should be used.
III. Illegal gas investigation operations
The project, correspondent with diesel vehicles plan, when at the roadside checkup points and inside the power stations, every vehicle is under the gas inspection, according to its colour and odour of the gas samples. This year till December 31st, there is a total of 2,089 vehicles under checkup: 831 vehicles checked at the roadsides; 1195 vehicles checked at the power stations; 37 vehicles checked at the factories and 1 vehicle checked with the cooperation with the homeland group respectively. Among all the 125 gas samples, after checkup, there were no gas disqualified.
IV. The promotion of the two-in-one policy of the insurance and maintenance at diesel vehicles factories
According to county executive and Industry branches and collection of the vehicle maintenance factory list from the vehicles examined at diesel vehicle power inspection stations, there are 328 vehicle maintenance factories. After telephone interviews, (unanswered calls, wrong numbers, and non-diesel maintenance factories excluded), there were only 76 diesel vehicle maintenance factories. After preliminary screening and on-site visits, there were four vehicle maintenance factories on the second stage of evaluation. On October 7th, 2013, experts, scholars and executives in the bureau completed the evaluation job. According to the results of evaluation, two diesel vehicle maintenance factories came on top: Yu Yi Motor Company Limited Pingtung branch and Pingtung Bus Group. Education trainings are arranged for the staff in those two companies on November 7th. The courses included diesel vehicle emissions testing principles and equipment introduction. Other courses also included orientation for diesel vehicle exhaust emissions testing methods and procedures and existing regulations for emission standards and personnels were arranged to do practical exercises and on-side evaluation tests to assure the technicians in the authorised maintenance factories are qualified with the ability to do checkups.
