Institute of Transportation, MOTC

　　Transportation always plays a significant role in deciding whether a recreation system can be successfully functional. First, it is necessary to have a good transportation system to convey the visitors from their homes to the recreation sites. Furthermore, the objective of good transportation system planning is not only to satisfy tourist travel demand, but also to direct tourist traffic according to the well designed tourist guiding plan. Recently, following the increase of car ownership, the highway conditions are quickly deteriorating. Even worse is that on almost every holiday, the high volumes of tourists and returning home traffic meet together, which has led to highways becoming seriously congested and a consequential deterioration in service quality of the recreation system.

　　Since the transportation system has crucial effects on developing a good recreation system, in 1994, the Institute of Transportation (IOT) conducted the project entitled "An Overall Transportation Plan for the Recreation District in Taiwan" and paid more attention to the preliminary study of the transportation system connecting cities to the recreation sites in Taiwan. This study successed the pioneer project, a more detailed overall plan for improving the transportation system connecting cities to the recreation sites in Northern Taiwan Area was proposed. It is expected that this plan will be able to be a good reference for the local governments in the Northern Taiwan Area initiating the improvement projects of the transportation system for the recreation sites in their jurisdictions.