Drive Less , Save More !

After discuss with the group members, we find out the effect of the 'Drive Less , Save More'.

Firstly, Drive Less can save our environment by reducing the flow out of carbon monoxide came out for the car and prevent ozone layer become thin and effect the green house. Next is carpooling. Carpooling saves money and reduces congestion on our roads and highways. It also gives you the opportunity to develop new friendships with co-workers or other commuters. There are a number of benefits when two or more people share a ride in one vehicle.

 Benefits of carpooling:

• Carpooling can save you hundreds and even thousands of dollars a year as it reduces the costs involved in repetitive or long-distance driving.

• It reduces the stress of your commute and allows you to read, relax, or even work while commuting.

• Carpooling enables some families to cut back to one car or to do without a car at all.

• If you don’t have a car or don’t drive, carpooling allows you to consider jobs throughout the area.

• Carpooling can provide you with new friendships and company for your commute.

• Carpooling reduces air pollution and traffic congestion, something that benefits all of us!

• Carpooling helps to combat rising traffic congestion, by filling the extra seats in your car, there are fewer drivers, and therefore fewer cars crowding the roads.

  If you want to help reduce global warming, let alone air pollution, one of the best things you can do is to get out of your car.Walk or ride a bicycle for short trips, or take public transportation for longer ones. Either way, you will significantly reduce the amount of pollution and greenhouse gas emissions you generate each day. 


Added Benefits of Public Transportation
Consider these other benefits of public transportation:

• Energy independence—According to Treehugger.com, if just one in 10 Americans used public transportation daily, U.S. reliance on foreign oil would decrease 40 percent.
• Safety—Riding a bus is 79 times safer than riding in an automobile, and riding a train or subway is even safer.
• Health—Studies have shown that people who use public transportation regularly tend to be healthier than people who don’t, because of the exercise they get walking to and from bus stops, subway stations and their homes and offices.
• Cost savings—According to an APTA study, families that use public transportation can reduce their household expenses by RM6,200 annually, more than the average Malaysia. household spends on food every year. 

Next is ECO-DRIVING. It can improves road safety as well as the quality of the local and global environment and saves fuel and costs. All three benefits are important for furthering ECO-DRIVING. Different benefits facilitate bringing ECO-DRIVING to different stakeholders and policy fields and their activities.

Additionally ECO-DRIVING provides direct benefits to the drivers and the passengers: More comfort and a relaxed atmosphere.
ECO-DRIVING trainings lead to consumption reduction up to 20% directly after training and about 5% in the long run. The European Climate Change Programme calculated a reduction potential of ECO-DRIVING of at least 50 million tons of CO2-emissions in Europe by 2010, saving about 20 billion EUROS.

In the year 2000, ECO-DRIVING trainings in the Austrian bus company NIGGBUS reduced fuel consumption by 5% in day-to-day driving. The effect increased up to 7% in the year 2001.

ECO-DRIVING reduces noise pollution as well as local air pollution. The engine noise of one car driving with 4000 rpm (revolutions per minute) equals the engine noise of 32 cars at 2000 rpm. Thus, ECO-DRIVING reduces one of the main problems of traffic in urban areas.



One vehicle travelling with 4000 rpm produces the same amount of noise as 32 vehicles travelling at the same speed with only 2000 rpm.


ECO-DRIVING reduces not only fuel costs, but also costs for maintenance and costs for repairing cars after accidents. The safer driving behavior results from:

• An anticipating driving style
• Maintaining a steady speed
• Less speeding
• Less overtaking
• Less stress/aggressiveness

Eleven month after ECO-DRIVING trainings, the German company HAMBURGER WASSERWERKE effected fuel consumption reductions of more than 6%, accidents and related costs could be deminished by more than 25%.
ECO-DRIVING programmes prove to be very cost-effective. The Dutch ECO-DRIVING programme results in a cost-effectiveness of about 5 EURO per avoided ton of CO2-emissions over a period of 10 years.
CANON COMPANY in Switzerland trained the ECO-DRIVING style with 350 service car drivers in VSZ VELTHEIM. The drivers reduced fuel consumption by 6.1%, had 22% more km per accident and 35% less accidents in total.