Institute of Transportation, MOTC

       The policy of “Rapid Transit Systematization” has been executing for Taiwan Railways Administration(TRA)which is a traditional railroad .The subject of policy is making TRA underground or elevated and aims to integrate railway systems into a regional transport system, most important of all,the policy is building new Commuter Rail Stations in the line. The aim of this study is to analyze the the capacity of “Taichung Project” of the policy.
       The capacity of railway transportation system is critical to the service quality and the railway capacity is not easy to analyze. Difficulties include the numerous interrelated factors about human,the complex structure of the railway and the vehicles. Therefore a tool that deals with these factors must be flexible. Thus, the method this study employed is Fuzzy Petri Nets (FPNs) which is flexible. FPNs is composed of Fuzzy Logics and Petri Nets, so it is not only flexible, but also could deal with uncertainty.This study proposed a tool named “railway capacity evaluation module” could solve the problems of the railway capacity.
       This study described that the Taichung Project would not be the same as TRA Taipei corridor because the numbers of the station tracks in the Taichung Project are lesser than TRA Taipei corridor.