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Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Systems

Technical Advice Service ʊ Past and Future

Cheng-Chiou Chang

Abstract

Providing Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit Systems Corporation (KRTC), a private enterprise,
with technical-advice services is an essential business and is of key significance to the Taipei City
government’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems (DORTS), a government agency. To assemble
this type of cooperation is a high-difficult technology also an art. We think it is necessary to reflect
the past and predict future trends of the industry. In this essay, we will attempt to take a look back

and summarize the successful signing of the service contract as: part of a broad and long-term
vision supported by the Taipei City government, a common aspiration of both the Kaohsiung
Mass Rapid Transit Systems Corporation and the Kaohsiung City government’s Department of

Mass Rapid Transit Systems, part of extensive internal discussions and preparation at DORTS,
an appropriately timed agreement.
Before signing the contract, we were well prepared regarding regulations, manpower and fare
structure. The service content is a special area of expertise, which we are familiar with. It is also
one of our core capabilities from the point of view of outside agencies. We developed a set of

simple-but-effective standard operation procedures to implement this service. Up to now, in
addition to earning from KRTC approximately NT$112 million by being hired as consultants, we
have also provided both the Kaohsiung and Taipei Mass Rapid Transit Systems (Taipei MRT)

projects with about 3,800 pieces of technical advice.
Looking to the future, the government has allocated about NT$200 billion to rail projects in its
five-year NT$500 billion national infrastructure plan. Besides this, there is also a lot of rail-system
construction work in mainland China and Southeast Asian countries. After acting as technical
advisers for the Kaohsiung MRT project, we have taken on six more technical-advice projects, and

two more are under discussion. We are planning to increase our team’s specialized capabilities by
working as technical advisers. Through high quality services, we can develop a broader and higher
level of marketability, and will have more space to display our abilities on the rapid transit system

platform.

Keywords Taipei City government’s Department of Rapid Transit Systems, Kaohsiung Rapid
Transit Corporation, advice-service consultant, technical-advice service, Kaohsiung
Rapid Transit Systems Project Office