Institute of Transportation, MOTC

Title	A Study on Transportation Development Trend in Asia and China(2/2)
Dept	Transportation Planning and Land Transport Division
Year	2013
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Summary	With the relaxation of cross-strait relationships, the development of direct cross-strait flights and the signing of the cross-strait Economic Cooperation Framework Agreement (ECFA) in recent years, the cross-strait trade relationships and the interaction between Asian countries have become even closer. Thus, it is important to analyze the travel of Taiwanese merchants to and from major cities in Asia and collect data regarding urban transportation trends in those cities, in order to provide a reference for the planning of our transportation policy. This study worked through platforms such as the Eastern Asia Society for Transportation Studies (EASTS); Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) Alumni Association; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC); the Mainland Chinese City Planning Association (UPSC) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. International seminars were also a major source of data collection on new information regarding the future vision of urban development, urban competitiveness, urban developmental trends and the distribution of international flights and shipping routes to and from important cities in Asia and China. 　　During 2012, the 2nd year of our research, we focused on major cities in Asia and obtained the following results: The ownership of motor vehicles per 1,000 people in developed countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and major cities in China, is less than that in other countries. As for automobile ownership, other than Japan, it is about 200 to 300 per 1,000 people in developed countries, with virtually flat growth in the past decade; with respect to cities in mainland China, there has a rapid growth, especially in Shenzhen, which has the highest rate of automobile ownership at 545 per 1000 people. In Singapore, due to its implementation of private transportation control measures, it has one of the lowest auto and motor vehicle ownership rate. In regard to Taiwan’s 6 major cities and Bangkok, they all have higher than average auto and motor vehicle ownership rates. In terms of usage of public transit, cities with public transportation usage ratio higher than 30% are divided into two categories: the first category is countries/cities with higher per capita GDP, which use rail as their major public transportation, such as: Japan, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul and Singapore. The second category contains cities in India with lower per capita GDP, which use bus as their main public transportation. These cities have a higher usage of non-motorized transportation mainly due to its lower per capita GDP, which makes people unable to afford motorized transportation. As for Taichung, Tainan and Kaohsiung, they all have public transport usage below 10%, which indicates room for improvement in the future. As regards the total length of urban railway routes, the top five cities in sequence are Tokyo, Mumbai, Seoul, Beijing and Osaka; all of these cities have a total length of railway routes for over 300 km. Guangzhou, New Delhi, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Pusan, Sapporo, and Fukuoka have a railroad network in the range between 100 and 300 km. As for the competitiveness of Asia’s main hub airports, Hong Kong, Incheon, Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou airports ranked top 5 in at least six of the nine indicators index. With respect to the competitiveness of Asia’s ports, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Shenzhen dominate the Asia- America and the Asia-Europe routes; Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Singapore and Ningbo are the main hub ports for Asia-Europe routes; Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Busan have more advantages in the Asia-America routes. Kaohsiung, Xiamen and Qingdao have similar routes as carriers do; and because of their close geographic locations, Xiamen is Kaohsiung’s main competitor.
Post date	2013/07/04
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