As Taiwan aims to decrease air pollution with greener transportation options, scooter-sharing companies are leveraging the power of the circular economy to maximize utilization rates while seeking to turn rider data into business insights. Scooters afford city dwellers a number of benefits – small, agile, and fast, they provide riders with a convenient means of…
Once Taiwan’s second city and a major industrial hub, Kaohsiung has seen better days. Now it hopes to make a comeback by increasing investment in innovative and eco-friendly industries and boosting tourism. Nothing better symbolizes Kaohsiung’s economic ups and downs than its harbor. Thirty years ago, the southern city ranked among the world’s top-three busiest…
Airlines Cope with COVID-19 Shocks Taiwan’s airlines have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Border controls in both Taiwan and in other countries throughout the world have stiffened, and demand for air travel has dropped sharply. As a result, local carriers EVA and China Airlines and their subsidiaries have been forced to completely cancel…
Since starting operations in March 2017 after repeated delays, the Taoyuan Airport MRT line has quickly become popular among airline passengers. Riders have commended the service as convenient, safe, and punctual. Last year, the airport MRT carried an average of 63,000 passengers daily, 12.5% more than the 56,000 in 2017. The train served 34% of…
After a decade of discussion and planning, construction began last October on an MRT system for the northern Taiwan city of Taoyuan, starting with a 27.8-kilometer Green Line. At the groundbreaking ceremony, Taoyuan Mayor Cheng Wen-tsan hailed the event as reflecting the city’s “coming of age.” The first portion of the Green Line will be…
The Taoyuan Airport is already crowded well beyond the designed capacity. If the crowded conditions at Taipei Taoyuan Airport annoy you, get used to it. The situation will likely only get worse between now and late 2023 when the airport’s third terminal is supposed to be ready for service. Repeated delays have plagued the project….
Construction continues on several extensions to Taipei’s mass rapid transit system. Residents of Danhai New Township by the mouth of the Tamsui River in New Taipei City got a Christmas present last year. On December 24, the first section of the Danhai Light Rail system went into service after four years of construction. The line…
An introduction to routes to almost all parts of the island. Taiwan has more than 41,400 kilometers of freeways, expressways, highways, and urban and local roads. Despite the popularity of cars (ownership reached 322 vehicles per 1,000 people in 2014) and especially motorcycles (676 per 1,000 residents), much of Taiwan is served by regular public…
As more Taiwanese travel internationally, competition is intensifying in the nation’s aviation market. In particular, carriers are vying for a greater share of long-haul flights to North America and Europe as well as Southeast Asia routes. Amidst these market conditions, China Airlines had added Airbus’s new A350-900 to its fleet. The A350-900 is praised for…
Does it make sense that businesses with fleets of motor vehicles are required by law to rent parking spaces they never use? Contending that the answer is clearly “no,” the Transportation & Logistics Committee of the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei has requested the authorities to eliminate a practice that serves the interest only…
