Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Hung-Chang Jane, 2001.06
Institute of Traffic and Transportation, National Chiao Tung University

　　Facing the competition of road transportation and in accordance with the change of internal enterprise structure, the operating volume & transport distance of railroad freight service have been obviously decreasing. Most of TRA station and warehouses are located at the prosperous business and densely populated area, It is not beneficial to the development of large distribution center due to the small scale of warehouses, concentration of population, restraint of parking space, and the station design only provided the stop for passenger trains. Referring to the development experience of foreign railroad, it should be feasible to use the rest space of passenger train and the additional car coupled to develop spaceless and quick loading/unloading passenger train Courier & Parcel service which is going to be in cooperation with the owner of freight service in order to establish strategy union to provide door-to-door service.

　　Though still maintaining conventional manual operating way, the timing effect of railway luggage & parcel transportation is easy to control because of the its own right-of-way. The fixed ratio occupied has been maintained in internal market even though without door-to-door service. This feasibility study, referring to the involved documentations and the information of market operation including internal and foreign courier service, has been analyzed and concluded in order to realize the requirement specialty of internal courier service, the element expected by customer of courier service, service net & enterprise-structure. Further analysis concerning the feasibility has already been carried out by way of investigating the success advantage of internal courier service management, the Benchmarking competition positioning of developing TRA courier and the operation network of TRA courier. The conclusion and recommendations are shown as followings：

1. TRA has the advantage of entering courier service market because it has its own right-of-way, fixed schedule and high density trains, fixed passenger volume.
2. The courier service network of TRA must cooperate the private owner of courier service to provide door-to-door service in order to reinforce the ability of market competition.
3. The involved regulations of railway transportation should be updated accordingly which are of much benefit to the operation of automation & information.
4. The courier service of TRA , except the physical distribution, must cooperate Business logistics , cash flow and outsourcing to enlarge the scale of undertakings.
5. Partnership, basic equipment, information technique and government Policy must be realized and investigated further by TRA, It’s highly anticipated to develop involved courier undertakings successfully.