The main objectives of the project include: diesel vehicle-related control operations, parking idle extinguishment and inspection operations, green transport and transportation promotional activities and coordination with various administrative services within the bureau. The preliminary period for the final report is from March 1, 2017 to February 28, 2018. The results of the work performance are summarized as follows:
(1) Diesel vehicle control operations
Statistics till February 28, 2018, 2,459 diesel vehicles with contract were tested for exhaust emissions, 16,145 vehicles for visual inspection and license plate recognition, 600 vehicles for visual smoke inspection and 531 vehicles for roadside inspections. In order to strengthen the control of high-pollution vehicles, the project strengthened the implementation of roadside inspections. The number of inspections was as high as 145, which was the highest in the past years. The main inspection targets were mainly the first- to third-phase vehicles, and they were in line with the control of the air quality maintenance and control area. In the Kenting area, tour buses were stopped for roadside check operations. The rate of disqualification fell from 23.4% in the previous year to 8.8% except only one tour bus unqualified, and a new inspection road section was established, including the Liudui Cultural Park (403km from Taiwan Line 1). And the Aboriginal Cultural Park (24.25 km from Taiwan Line 24), of which the test rate of 16.7% for the 403-kilometer from Taiwan Line 1 was considered even higher.
(2) Inspection of illegal oil products
The project was in line with the diesel vehicle project to check on the roadside and in the power station. The oil inspection was performed on a vehicle-by-vehicle basis, testing samples for color or odor abnormalities. The statistical program ended on February 28, 2018. The number of roadside inspection vehicles was 822; the number of power station inspection vehicles was 1,766, the total number of vehicle inspections was 2,599, and the number of inspections reached the highest in the past years. There were 2 Sulphur contents in the oil that did not meet the specifications.
(3) Promotion of Diesel Vehicle Safety and Inspection
With the project, a diesel vehicle control and certification maintenance workshop was held for 1 session, and visits were arranged to the maintenance plant of the county's cleaning team at the site to select 4 large-scale companies who were willing to cooperate with the concept of vehicle maintenance. On December 18th. Experts were invited to go through the evaluation work. The assessment results showed that the maintenance factories were less capable of exhaust smoke detection. At this stage, owners were encouraged to implement the concept of maintenance and to cooperate with the central government to eliminate old subsidies. In addition, two inspection visits were conducted for the four certified maintenance factories in this county to analyze the rate of return inspections of vehicles from the station to the certified maintenance plant. It was found that Hongcheng E＆C and Changyuan Automobile (the company) had high rate of returned inspections in the past two years. However, an analysis of the rate of certification and inspection of the maintenance plant found that only 1 vehicle had been visually notified repeatedly this year, which was a significant reduction from the 5 vehicles last year.
(4) Diesel vehicle quality assurance
This year, the standard cars have been completed the update of components such as injectors and studs; the jet pump was recalibrated; in addition, engine parts, cooling systems, and transmission shafts were inspected; and diesel filters, air filters, tubing, oil, and tires were replaced to enhance the stability of the vehicle condition. Fifteen quality control charts had been redrew, and checkpoint tests had been started since August, 2017. At this stage, they all met the scope of quality control charts. And, on January 29, 2017, a correlation test was conducted with the adjacent Renwu station in Kaohsiung City, comparing the error range of the measured horsepower error by 0.9 hp to 1.3 hp, the contamination error range of 0% to 2%, and the range of the opacity measurement error. 0.1 m-1, all in line with specifications.
(5) Parking Ignition Proclamation and Auditing Operations
With the principle of easy acceptance by the public, 3,000 electrostatic stickers had been produced, 3,000 posters, and 1,500 advertisements. Dissemination electrostatic stickers and promotional materials were distributed during implementation of roadside inspection operations and various promotional activities; the dissemination of the posters were sent and dispatched by people to the county government agencies, factories, passenger transport companies, all school levels and scenic areas. The increase in the proportion of inspections for the implementation of the project's idling speeding inspection and advocacy sites in schools and air quality maintenance areas was mainly due to the fact that the idling situation in this region was more serious in the past year. The project strengthened the implementation of the inspection and advocacy work. As a result, the school quickly admitted that the rate of persuasion on school idling had dropped from 20.4% last year to 10.7% this year. The rate of idleness persuasion in the air quality maintenance zone had dropped from 14.6% last year to 13.0%. This had shown remarkable results in the idling of vehicles in the school district.
(6) Low-pollution vehicles announce and promotion operations
The project aims at promoting low-polluting vehicles and mainly assisted the EPA in promoting the planning of electric buses, the promotion and mastery of public bicycles, the current mastery of electric bus traffic, the promotion of electric vehicles, and the promotion of environmental vehicle teams. In order to promote electric buses, we had coordinated with the county-level urban-rural development office and seeking funding from the Environmental Protection Department. The newly planned Pingtung City line, which was scheduled to operate on a fuel bus, was replaced by an electric bus. The shuttle bus of Taiwan Indigenous Cultural Park was also negotiated. It was originally planned to purchase 4 general fuel feeder shuttle buses and then changed to replace 2 electric shuttle buses each year. In addition, for the part of the campus shuttle bus, the Ping Tung Passenger Transport and Pingtung University of Science and Technology signed an electric bus connection contract with the assistance of EPB. At this stage, the Pingtung passenger electric vehicle had been purchased. For the current period, the electric buses in Dapeng Bay totaled 10,924 person-times in operation in the year 2017. As for public bicycles, the 30 bicycle rental stations of the year 2017 added another 2 stations this year; the number of vehicles increased from 697 to 761 vehicles. There were 598,737 person-times in 2017, an increase of 40,505 person-times compared with 558,232 last year. The average turnover rate was 3.75. In the promotion of electric locomotives, in 2017, a total of 1,036 new electric motor vehicles and 951 electric bicycles (assistant) were purchased, 187 electric motor vehicles were replaced, and 99 electric bicycles (assistant) were replaced. In addition, in line with the EPD's old-fashioned subsidy policy, the project was based on vehicle registration information and factory information, and interviews and coaches large-scale teams and factories one by one, advising the team to replace the first- or second-phase diesel vehicles; the factories were required to take orders. The contract expressly used vehicles that meet the four- and five-phase environmental protection requirements. The four-phase and five-phase environmental protection vehicles were all used by the 14 vehicle teams under the implementation of the project.
(7) Promotion results in the air quality maintenance area
In line with the EPA's key policies and the projects of the Bureau in recent years, the project had promoted high levels of pollution in the air quality maintenance areas for the county's popular tourist attractions such as Kenting, Xiaoliuqiu, the Aboriginal Cultural Park and the Liudui Hakka Cultural Park. As for vehicle control implementation, the Kenting area was the first area to be promoted. Based on the regular inspection of air quality maintenance areas, and the seriously-implementing vehicle control measures, the inspection of large-scale diesel vehicles in the Kenting area had reduced the inspection failure rate from 23.4% in the year of 2016 to 8.8. %, where there was a clear reduction in highly polluting vehicles, and the regular inspection rate for scooter leasing companies had reached 100% this year, and another positive indicator was reached on the control of fuel vehicles. In addition, in order to promote the use of electric vehicles, Kenting National Park Headquarters also coordinated with us to increase the number of low-pollution vehicles. Currently, 330 low-pollution electric vehicles had been provided for tourists to rent in the Kenting area; with coordination of the Xiaoliuqiu area, the public diesel vehicle had been from the initial cooperation to the optimality of receiving regular inspection of exhaust smoke every year under our persuasion. In the year 2017, the vehicles were regularly tested. After testing 12 diesel vehicles, the test pass rate was 100%. Besdies, through the exchange of a two-stroke locomotive-for-electric-vehicle project promoted by China Motors, the number of electric vehicles leased had increased from 630 units in 2016 to 930 units in this year, and the rate of increase in electric vehicles had reached nearly 50%. It was confirmed that the rate of the regular inspection on scooters from leasing companies was the same as that in the Kenting area, and that this year’s 100% result was also the result of the 100% verification rate for the first time since the control operations were promoted; Taiwan Indigenous Culture Park had also held related meetings and the license plate recognition system had been set up to proceed with diesel vehicle control operations, and the park officials had indicated that they will cooperate with pollution reduction. It was expected that additional electric vehicles will be provided for tourists to connect and use in the future. After being handled through the draft of regulation and consultation and hearing conference, it had formally been implemented on January 1st, 2018. The Liudui Hakka Cultural Park had been scheduled to be included in the implementation area of the air quality maintenance area this year; for the future implementation method, the method of regulation in Kenting District will be adopted to strengthen vehicle control and the mastery of pollution discharge.
