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How can I cut down on the number of trips I take each day?

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David Rizzo
Dr. Road Map, Dr. Road Map
www.drroadmap.com  
(714) 879-8521

David, DR. ROADMAP, Rizzo burst upon the traffic scene in late 1987 as the first person in Los Angeles to offer alternate routes to motorists who were sick and tired of being stuck in traffic. In 1990 he released to the world the most comprehensive guide ever written of off-freeway commuting in Southern California. Two years later he became the first traffic reporter to offer daily alternate routes in real time over the air on one of the most popular morning radio shows in Los Angeles. Dr. Roadmap continues to provide COMMUTE MANAGEMENT solutions with the 2006 release of his book, "Survive the Drive! How to Beat Freeway Traffic in Southern California."

How can I cut down on the number of trips I take each day?

David Rizzo, fuel economy expert, explains how to drive your car to improve gas mileage.

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Host:How can I cut down on the number of trips I take each day?

David Rizzo: It's called Trip-Chaining and this is how you can cut down on your trips. Plan ahead, plan to combine as many trips as possible. It affects gas mileage in more ways than you think, first of all you don't have to backtrack when you plan your trips but secondly cold starts are the worst things for gas mileage. When your car is cold and you fire it up it takes a lot of gasoline to get it up to speed, up to temperature. For one thing Catalytic Converters only operate at high temperature. So you are using a lot of gas. So you want to combine trips and the best way to do it is to plan ahead, thing about where you are going, look at a map and I am big believer about this, look in at a map, a GPS device won't plan trips for you, you have to do it in head, but it's not that hard, just think about where you are going, doing it in a nice circle as opposed to back and forth and back and forth. Trip-Chaining.

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