I. Goal and background of commissioned plan
The Environmental Protection Bureau of New Taipei City has
continued to intensify nonperiodic inspection of diesel vehicles and
notification to receive testing within its area of jurisdiction, and has
implemented various survey and testing tasks under survey plans, as well
as bearing responsibility for statutory motor vehicle testing tasks under this
plan. This Bureau seeks to effectively ensure that the owners of diesel
vehicles perform proper vehicle service and maintenance work, and thereby
reduce instances of severe polluting exhaust due to improper vehicle use or
failure to perform service. This plan was implemented between February
19, 2016 and February 18, 2017, for a total of 12 months, and had the
following content:
II. Plan implementation focal points and results
(I) Establishment and maintenance of a smoke testing and management
system
All testing tasks were computerized; the software used had the
Environmental Protection Administration's certification and approval,
and was used for testing in accordance with announced testing
methods and procedures.
(II) Quality control tasks
Quality assurance, testing, maintenance, service, and calibration
method and frequency plans were drafted on the basis of the original
factory operating manuals and user instructions; after equipment had
been sent to a certified unit for calibration in accordance with
ISO/IEC 17025 standards, it was reconfirmed that the equipment met
permissible standards.
(III) Quality assurance tasks
(1) Data quality assurance
Quality control of quality assurance testing was performed in
accordance with ISO/IEC 17025 and quality handbook
requirements:
1. Quality control diagrams: In conjunction with quality assurance
testing, vehicles were subjected to quality control testing in
accordance with contractual requirements, and the test values
obtained from the first 15 tests was used to calculate and draw
average curves and control limits.
2. Stability testing: As a rule, testing frequency was at least once
each month, and at least 15 times each year. The results of each
test were recorded in the foregoing quality control diagrams,
which allowed confirmation of whether the data points were
within the standard deviation range.
3. Laboratory comparison: During the plan period, apart from
regular implementation of quality assurance testing, a
performance comparison with ARTC and peer laboratories was
performed during August 2016.
(2) Nonperiodic checking
Apart from the plan manager's monthly internal audits and
quarterly external checking by the SIP, a first external committee
audit performed by invited experts and scholars was conducted in
May 2016, and had the topic of "testing quality and annual
evaluation improvement recommendations."
(IV) Maintenance of cleanliness
This Bureau drafted test station cleaning tasks and frequencies in
order to maintain the overall cleanliness of the test station
environment.
(V)Improvement of equipment
Upgrading of electric gates at entrances and in testing areas,
drainage ditches repair/track raising, cleaning of outer walls, painting
of marking lines, replacement of storage lockers, replacement of all
lamps, and purchase of new dehumidifiers was completed during July
2016.
(VI) Personnel training
Education, training, and examination of plan personnel was
performed at the Linkou station on March 16, 2016, and 40 test station
testing task training sessions were performed during the year in
accordance with the plan. All test station testing personnel have
received certification of passing diesel vehicle training, and personnel
continue to be sent to receive external training.
(VII) Inspection of oil products
Screening of oil products was performed for all dynamometer
test vehicles. One sample from each vehicle was sent to an approved
laboratory during the first and last parts of each month; all 24 samples
subjected to analysis passed and contained no illegal oil products.
(VIII) Testing results
Testing was performed 7, 965 vehicle-times (self-management
41.2%, visual inspection 33%, voluntary testing 17.9%, and citizen
reporting 6.3%); vehicles were disqualified 1,016 vehicle-times, for a
disqualification rate of 11.3%, and 101 vehicles failed testing.
(IX) Assistance results
This Bureau promoted joint self-management signing assistance
aimed at bus operators, waste disposal enterprises, and the Nanya
Group.
(X) Interregional integration
Inspections were 118 vehicle-times in the Taipei Harbor area; of
the inspected vehicles, phase 1 vehicles accounted for 20.3%, phase 2
vehicles for 32.2%, phase 3 vehicles for 33.9%, and phase 4 vehicles
for 11.0%.
All Department of Transportation bus evaluation buses were
brought in for testing, and follow-up photographs were taken of 150
buses. Of these buses, 26 were judged to have concern of pollution;
notification was given to have these buses receive compulsory
re-testing, and the Department of Transportation notified to reduce the
scores of the buses at issue.
III. Follow-up recommendations
With regard to the plan's current results and the state of
implementation of relevant projects, the following are recommendations
concerning the key points of subsequent short-/mid-/long-term work:
I. Clean areas for empty products
(I) Self-management targets
1. Bus operators
i. Continued implementation regular inspection of all
vehicles and provision of low pollution mark
ii. Provision of assistance to self-owned service shops for
establishment of a unified insurance system, random
bilateral comparative inspections, and gradual
reduction in the ratio of low-pollution vehicles required
to receive testing as test stations
2. Nanya Group control model
i. All vehicles must pass testing when receiving exhaust
inspections, and failing vehicles may not enter the plant
ii. Continued implementation of voluntary vehicle testing,
random exhaust inspections
iii. Phase 1 and 2 old vehicles may not enter; proposal of a
program providing subsidies for the prioritized
replacement of old vehicles
3. Waste removal operators
i. Continued implementation of vehicle self-management
contract signing and testing as stations
ii. Formulation of tightening of standards extended from
the plan to the A3 mark
iii. Proposal of a program providing subsidies for the
prioritized replacement of old vehicles
(II) Clean area controls
1. Taipei Harbor controls
i. All vehicles in area receive exhaust inspections,
issuance of assistance notices to noncompliant vehicles
ii. Nonperiodic quick on-site screening inspections,
compulsory re-testing of noncompliant vehicles
2. Tourism clean areas
i. Nonperiodic investigations, with coordinated awareness
activities
II. Subsidies for replacement of old vehicles
(I) Administrative tasks connected with subsidies for replacement of
old vehicles, random inspection tasks
(II) Old vehicle replacement subsidy awareness activities
III. Retrofitting with particulate filters
(I) Results of trial particulate filter program
(II) Subsidy administrative tasks, random inspection tasks
(III) Use of parameters in power station assistance to facilitate results analysis
