The project was implemented from March 21, 2023, to December 20, 2023. The project was evaluated the inspected procedures of the motor-exhaust inspecting stations. The aims of the project include improving the service quality of the stations, enhancing the public trust, ensuring that all the stations are doing well, improving air quality of Taipei city, sending inspect notices to motorcycle owners, assisting people to inform the authorities of unlawful pollutant motors and promoting the replacement of old scooters to electric scooters or gas-powered scooters. The first draft of the final report was submitted by November 20, 2023. The following are as follows:
1. Improve service quality and public trust
This year, quality evaluations for 387 stations were completed. The failed stations had taken the corrective actions and passed the re-examination immediately or within three days (not including holidays). Staffs reviewed again the failed stations for station qualified. The recommendation was made as inspect the station in different levels of quality.
2. Assuring stations perform the inspections appropriately
(1) Auditors training
The training class was completed on April 12, 2022. The training class including project introduction, working methods and job arrangement were provided to the auditors. The auditors who completed the training are expected to execute their job with a better standard.
(2) Inspectors training
The first and second inspector training classes were completed on May 27 and September 17, 2023, respectively. The main subjects of the training not only introducing new rules of decree ‘The set up and management approach of the checkpoint for the air pollutants emission scooter.’, but explaining the added or modified items of inspection and evaluation this year, the plan of execution items for assessment evaluation, and the guide for enhancing on-site inspection rate. Furthermore, it covers the review past statistics and checkpoints. Upon the completion of the training, the inspector of the stations is expected to not only fully understand the rules, ordinances, and activities but also provide the highest quality of service.
3. Making and sending the periodic motorcycle exhaust inspection notices to Taipei motorcycle owners
There were 201,687 pieces of the periodic motorcycle exhaust inspection notices have been sent. There were 968 pieces were returned; the return rate was 0.48%, all of these were archived.
4. Publicize, promote, and start to conduct digital notices of motorcycle exhaust inspection
Taipei city has stopped to send periodic motorcycle exhaust inspection notices since July 1, 2023. The hard copies were replaced by digital notices. To enhance the prevalence of digital notices, 300,000 LINE Points, coffee vouchers, and repair coupons were provided to encourage paperless policy. Furthermore, the competitions of paperless promotion and encouragement with motor-exhaust inspection stations were used to raise the registration rate and inspection rate. There were 150,000 friends and 88,000 registrants in the digital notice system.
5. Establish on-line communication with motor-exhaust inspection stations and enhance inspection documentation
A management system, “Taipei motor-exhaust inspecting station real-time information management system” was maintained to improve the efficiency of data processing and provide information for statistical analysis. The system monitors the data flow of the inspection station and allows online register. The system also has the statistical and analyzing functions for the responsibility of monitoring and counseling.
6. The promotion of old scooters scrapped to redemption electric motorcycle or gas-powered scooters
In 2023, Department of Environmental Protection, Taipei City Government uses the allowance from the Environmental Protection Administration to apply accelerated the old scooters scrapped for low pollution electric motorcycle. In 2023, the numbers of 2,128 scooters got subsidy for redemption of electric motorcycle and 6,192 scooters got subsidy for redemption of gas-powered scooters.
7. Improve the efficiency of reducing the air pollution
According to the statistics of the Environmental Protection Administration, From January to November 2023, subsidized two-stroke engine scrapped there are 4,350 scooters, and four-stroke engine are 29,495 scooters. There are 361.71Ton/Yr of CO, 126.93 Ton/Yr of NMHC and 28.97 Tons /Yr of NOx reductions per year.
