Taiwan Railway Administration - Infrastructure and Scheduling

Infrastructure and Scheduling

TRA's infrastructure might be described as making up for lower track miles with sidings. TRA operated single-track sections on busy mainlines until 1998. Double-track sections can accommodate trains at different speeds; passing movements don’t interference with opposing traffic, allowing scheduled throughputs of ~15 trains per hour per direction. Scheduling practices assume staff can respond to unforeseen delays and out-of-sequence trains by dynamically utilizing available infrastructure.

TRA has recently installed advanced signalling on the northern-most portion of the West Coast Main Line around Taipei, and has performed extensive capacity analysis to maximize train throughputs.