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Taipei Metro [I] (also known as Taipei Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) [3] and branded as Metro Taipei) [4] is a rapid transit system operated by the Taipei Rapid Transit Corporation serving the capital Taipei and New Taipei City in Taiwan. It was the first rapid transit system to be built on the island. [5]
The two Inter-city rail systems, Taiwan Railways and Taiwan High Speed Rail, have several overlaps in station names. See below Taiwan High Speed Rail section for their relations in detail. There are five rapid transit systems in Taiwan: Taipei Metro, opened in March 1996, serves the core of Taipei–Keelung metropolitan area.
Metro lines Metro stations Metro length Light rail lines Light rail stations Light rail length Taipei Metro: Taipei, New Taipei: 789.599 million (2019) 5 117 [a] 131.1 km (81 mi) — — — Kaohsiung Metro: Kaohsiung: 127.855 million (2018) 2 37 53.3 km (33 mi) 1 38 22.1 km (14 mi) Taoyuan Metro: Taoyuan, Taipei, New Taipei: 27.962 million ...
In 2009, the Taipei City Government held a tender for the first phase of the construction of the Circular line, and the bid was awarded to AnsaldoBreda (now Hitachi Rail Italy) for designing and manufacturing the Driverless Metro trains. [3] In August 2016, the AnsaldoBreda factory in Reggio Calabria held a delivery ceremony.
The Wenhu or Brown line (code BR) is a metro line in Taipei operated by Taipei Metro, named after the districts it connects: Wenshan and Neihu.It is an automated medium-capacity rubber-tyred metro line and is 25.1 kilometres (15.6 mi) long, serving a total of 24 stations located in 7 districts in Taipei, of which 22 are elevated and 2 underground.
New Taipei Metro (Chinese: 新北捷運; pinyin: Xīnběi Jiéyùn; Zhuyin Fuhao: ㄒㄧㄣ ㄅㄟˇ ㄐㄧㄝˊ ㄩㄣˋ) is a transit system serving New Taipei, Taiwan, operated by New Taipei Metro Corporation . The Danhai light rail, Ankeng light rail, and Circular line are currently in operation, while the Sanying line is under construction
Taipei Main Station (Chinese: 台北車站; pinyin: Táiběi chēzhàn) is a major metro and railway station in the capital Taipei, Taiwan. [13] It is served by Taipei Metro , the Taiwan High Speed Rail , and Taiwan Railway .
This list of metro systems includes electrified rapid transit train systems worldwide. In some parts of the world, metro systems are referred to as subways, undergrounds, tubes, mass rapid transit (MRT), metrô or U-Bahn. As of 22 December 2024, 204 cities in 63 countries operate 888 metro lines.