1. Reward and Recognition Schemes for Energy Conserving Driving, Vehicle procurement and maintenance RECODRIVE
Contract: EIE/07/204/SI
Duration
Slides created July 2008
Rewarding and Recognition Schemes for Driving, Procurement and Maintenance

2. Project Summary EU-Sponsored STEER Project – Contact EACI
RECODRIVE “Reward and Recognition Schemes for Energy COnserving DRIving, VEhicle procurement and maintenance”
Aims
Taking up existing Ecodriving initiatives and merging them with good fleet management practice and logistics optimization practice to push fuel saving in fleets beyond 10%
Use demonstrators with high mileage and/or high specific consumption fleets to disseminate best practice
Duration 30 months, started Oct. 2007
10 Partners from all over Europe, active in 9 countries
Budget 1.2 Mio. €
Led by FGM-AMOR
Rewarding and Recognition Schemes for Driving, Procurement and Maintenance

3. Objectives and Main Steps
WP3 Materials and set up of the demonstrations will produce audit schemes for energy related processes like procurement, driver training and fuel management
WP4 Demonstrators will validate measures in approximately 20 demonstrators
WP5 Evaluation and policy formulation will specify and implement the evaluation
WP6 Networking and dissemination will ensure targets awareness raising for the project and networking
Objectives
Fleet internal and outbound actions to reduce the energy intensity in transport.
Focus on operation, maintenance of vehicles and planning of the same.
Demonstrate reward and recognition measures for staff to raise Ecodriving savings and stabilise them on high level
Penetrate knowledge on sustainable fleet management amongst stakeholders
Establish an audit system for energy efficient fleet operation in fleet management business, taking up elements from the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme, EMAS
Main Steps
WP2 Framework analysis will prepare the ground for a knowledgeable specification of the measures
Rewarding and Recognition Schemes for Driving, Procurement and Maintenance

4. Expected Results Energy conservation experts will be trained
Assisting procurement departments in specifying vehicles,
Drivers applying ECODRIVING
Workshop employees servicing vehicles (tire pressure, air and fuel filter etc.).
Energy Controlling will be introduced in approx. 20 fleets
Validating the savings
Target to stay above -10% on a long term basis

5. Partners & Contact Partners Fleet Consulting Germany BEMAG Austria
TRT Italy
BESEL Spain
URTP Romania
University of Maribor Slovenija
WNRI Norway
IVECOL Bulgaria
IDEC Greece
Contact
Gerfried Cebrat, Dipl. Ing.
Forschungsgesellschaft Mobilität – Austrian Mobility Research
A 8010 Graz, Tel