This is the twelfth year since the regular motorcycle inspection system was in place in 1996. This annual plan is dedicated to the expansion of hardware and software functions of the system and further improvement of overall service and performance. The primary routines of the plan consist of the management and training of inspection station auditing, addition and revision of legal requirements related to inspection stations, review and appropriation of subsidies for regular inspections, operations and maintenance of vehicle registration and inspection database, calculation and analysis of inspection data, and the evaluation of performance on the works carried out for motorcycle control plans entrusted to each of the counties and cities. During the implementation of the plan, 2,470 inspection stations around the countries have gone the screening and auditing for stations of poor practice, and enhancement training programs were given in northern, central and southern Taiwan for improvement of in-job training capacity of inspection station personnel. For the current rules for establishment and management of regular inspection stations, correction announcements were made as required for upload of inspection data and subsidy review data in response to the improvement of the entire system at EPA and station ends. The washout percentage after review of data submitted was approximately 1%, mainly due to insufficient information provided in paperwork and duplicated inspections. As for works related to system data, the real-time transmission of inspection data from the stations around the country was complete, and data is now backed up simultaneously to the system mainframe of EPA. Also with the annual software certification, the inspection software producers were required to enhance the information transmission security, while establishing the electronic review of subsidies. For the needs of motorcycle control for environmental protection authorities, the integrated management platform for auditing data was developed and introduced, in addition to continuous provision of batch comparison of inspection records, correction of inspection data, PDA system for outdoor auditing, electronic applications for outdoor inspections, second notification and control list for reporting and punishment data, to help county and city governments share auditing data and effectively reduce unnecessary waste of administrational resource. The information about “dead” motorcycles reported by the counties was sorted out precisely according to the vehicle registration and inspection database, and effective control of daily data upload percentage of the stations allowed 99.90% of the overall upload percentage in the entire country in 2008. With the practical functions provided in the system, the number of inspections performed and the percentage of inspection check-in (76.65%) in 2008 reached the highest in recent years. For more details of the implementation results of the plan, please refer to the main body of the report.

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