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RailEdit · Taiwan Railways Administration: 1,097 km of 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge · Taiwan High Speed Rail: 354 km of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) gauge · Kaohsiung ... TransportationinTaiwan FromWikipedia,thefreeencyclopedia Jumptonavigation Jumptosearch MinistryofTransportationandCommunication TheMinistryofTransportationandCommunicationsgovernstransportationinTaiwan. Contents 1Landtransport 1.1Roads 1.2Rail 1.2.1High-speedrail 1.2.2Conventionalrail 1.2.3Urbantransit 2Airtransport 2.1Airports 2.2Airlines 2.3Heliports 3Seatransport 3.1Ports 4Pipelines 5References Landtransport[edit] NationalHighway ProvincialHighway Roads[edit] Mainarticle:HighwaysysteminTaiwan Totallength:41,475 km(2009) Nationalhighway:901 km Provincialhighway:4,680 km Highways:20,947 km(including872 kmoffreeways) Urbanroads:16,395,km Rail[edit] Mainarticle:RailtransportinTaiwan RailwaymapofTaiwan Total:1,580 km(2009)(allontheislandofTaiwan) TaiwanRailwaysAdministration:1,097 kmof1,067 mm(3 ft 6 in)gauge TaiwanHighSpeedRail:354 kmof1,435 mm(4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)gauge KaohsiungMassRapidTransit:51.8 kmof1,435 mm(4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)gauge TaipeiMetro:131.1 kmof1,435 mm(4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)gauge TaoyuanMetro:51.03 kmof1,435 mm(4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)gauge TaiwanSugarCorporation:240 kmof762 mm(2 ft 6 in)gauge ForestryBureau:86 kmof762 mm(2 ft 6 in)gauge High-speedrail[edit] TaiwanHighSpeedRail(THSR)700TSeriesShinkansentraininKaohsiung. Mainarticle:TaiwanHighSpeedRail TheTaiwanHighSpeedRail(THSR)commencedoperationson5January2007,aftersomedelaysin2006.TheTHSRconnectsTaipeiCityinthenortheastoftheislandofTaiwantoKaohsiungCityinthesouthwest.Thejourneytimeisabout90minutescomparedto4hoursbyconventionalrail.30ShinkansenClass700Tsetsarerunningonthe345 kmHSL,withstationstopsatTaipeiMainstation,Panchiao,Taoyuan,Hsinchu,Taichung,Chiayi,TainanandTsuoyingnearKaohsiung.Fouradditionalstationshavebeenopened:NankangineasternTaipei,Miaoli,ChanghuaandYunlin.In2008THSRincreasedthenumberoftrainsto88perday,eachway. TheShinkansen700TissimilartotheJapanese700Nozomi.Itoperatesin12carsets(9powered,3trailers)ataspeedlimitof300 km/hoverstandardgauge1,435 mm(4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)track.OCSpoweris25kVAC60 Hz. Conventionalrail[edit] Mainarticle:TaiwanRailwaysAdministration Urbantransit[edit] Mainarticle:RailtransportinTaiwan§ Urbantransit TherearefiveurbantransitsystemsinTaiwan:TaipeiMetro,NewTaipeiMetro,TaichungMetro,TaoyuanMetro,andKaohsiungRapidTransit. TaipeiMetroopenedin1996andrunsonanextensivenetworkofbothMultipleUnitforthehigh-capacitysystemaswellasVALforthemedium-capacitysystemthroughoutthemetropolitanareaofTaipei.Themetrosystemoperates6linesconsistingof131stations.[1] KaohsiungRapidTransitopenedin2008andrunsametronetworkthroughoutthemetropolitanareaofKaohsiung.TheRedandOrangelinesopenedon9Marchand14September,2008respectively.FuturelinesareplannedinordertopartsofGreaterKaohsiungaswellasPingtungCounty. TheTaoyuanMetroisametrosystemwithoneoperationalline,andfourinplanning.(AirportMRT,red,green,orange,brown).[2]TheAirportMRTservesTaoyuan,TaipeiandNewTaipeiafteritopenedinMarch2017. TaichungMetroofficiallybeganoperationonApril25,2021withitsGreenLineopening.InadditiontoTaichung,thenetworkwillalsoservetheChanghuaandNantoucounties.Themetrowillstartoffwith3mainlines(green,blue,andred),withfourotherlinesplanned.[3] TheTainanMassRapidTransitSystem(台南捷運)waspostponedbytheMinistryofTransportationandCommunicationsinJanuary2010duetofearofinsufficientridersandconstructioncosts.Thegovernmenthasinsteadchosentoupgradecurrentrailsystemsandbuses. TheHsinchuMassRapidTransitSystem(新竹捷運)waspostponedbytheMinistryofTransportationandCommunicationsinJanuary2010duetodoubtsaboutwhetherthetransitsystemwouldbebeneficialintheshortterm. Airtransport[edit] TaoyuanInternationalAirport Airports[edit] Seealso:ListofairportsinTaiwan DuringtheglobalCOVID-19pandemictrafficatTaiwan’slargeinternationalairportsfellsharplywhiletraffictosmallerdomesticairportsincreasedasaresultofasurgeindomestictourism.[4] Total:40 Lengthofrunways: Over3,047m:6(TaipeiTaoyuan,Taichung,Kaohsiung,Tainan,Chiayi,Pingtung) 2,438to3,047m:5(Kinmen,Magong,Hualien,TaipeiSongshan,Taitung) 1,524to2,437m:2(Hengchun,Nangan) 914to1,523m:4(Beigan,Lanyu,Lyudao,Wang-an) Under914m:1(Qimei) Airlines[edit] Seealso:ListofairlinesofTaiwan Total:7 ChinaAirlines DailyAir EVAAir MandarinAirlines TigerairTaiwan UniAir StarluxAirlines Heliports[edit] Total:31(2013)[5] Seatransport[edit] PortofKaohsiung. Ports[edit] Majorports:Kaohsiung,Keelung,Taichung,Hualien Otherports:Anping,Su'ao,Taipei Interiorports:Budai,Magong Merchantmarine: 112ships(1,000GTorover)totaling3,827,173GT/6,121,877 tonnesdeadweight(DWT)(2010) shipsbytype: Bulk35 Cargo20 Chemicaltanker1 Container31 Petroleumtanker12 Passenger/cargo4 Refrigeratedcargo7 Rollon/rolloff2 Pipelines[edit] Thisarticleneedsadditionalcitationsforverification.Pleasehelpimprovethisarticlebyaddingcitationstoreliablesources.Unsourcedmaterialmaybechallengedandremoved.Findsources: "TransportationinTaiwan" – news ·newspapers ·books ·scholar ·JSTOR(May2013)(Learnhowandwhentoremovethistemplatemessage) Asof2013,Taiwanmaintainsthefollowingpipelines[6] Condensate25 km Gas802 km Oil241 km Portals: Taiwan Transport References[edit] ^"TaipeiMetroNetworksandSystems".TaipeiCityGovernment.Archivedfromtheoriginalon2013-10-21.Retrieved2014-01-01. ^"IntroductiontoAirportMRT".OfficeofRapidTransitSystems,Taoyuan.Retrieved2016-12-28. ^"TaichungMassRapidTransitSystem".TaichungCityGovernment.Retrieved2014-01-01. ^Strong,Matthew."AirportsonsmallTaiwaneseislandsshowgrowthfor2020".www.taiwannews.com.tw.Retrieved2February2021. ^"CIAWorldFactbook". ^"TheWorldFactbook".CentralIntelligenceAgency.Retrieved1January2014. 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