Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail.

(Photo by reporter Chen Xinyu)

[Reporter Chen Xinyu/Taipei Report] Today (29th) is the 10-day holiday of the Lunar New Year. There is a video circulating on the Internet that is said to be a Spring Festival travel video on the Henan high-speed railway in China. "It's jaw-dropping, and some people wondered, "Trains also have load-bearing restrictions?" Experts said that Taiwan's high-speed rail restricts the flow of people mainly to focus on service quality.

Taiwan's high-speed rail also has a free-seat design. During rush hours, passengers with free-seat seats may not be able to get on the train and have to wait for the next train.

Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail pointed out that the purchase of a ticket is equivalent to the establishment of a transportation contract (a passenger transportation contract is established when the passenger submits a reservation and ticket purchase request, and the Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail provides a reservation code, delivers the ticket or related vouchers, and promises to deliver).

Unless natural disasters, accidents and other force majeure reasons lead to suspension, passengers will be allowed to ride.

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Taiwan’s high-speed rail was once hit by a strong Taiwan “Cuckoo” during the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday in 2015. At 8:00 p.m. the night before the closing holiday, it announced that all trains would be suspended at 1:00 p.m. Unreserved seat ticket" prevents too many people from pouring into the station, which was scolded by passengers back then.

In recent years, if there are a lot of people, the Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail uses the traffic personnel to control the gates and limit the number of people on the train.

Zheng Yongxiang, full-time professor and director of the Department of Transportation Management Science and Telecommunications Management Research Institute of Chenggong University, said that when Taiwan's dual railways started crowd control, it was mostly to maintain service quality, and it is unlikely that there will be insufficient train load. Taking the design as an example, the actual number of passengers that can be carried in each carriage is at least 2 to 8 times that of the 84 seats.

According to statistics from Taiwan High Speed ​​Rail, before the epidemic, the peak daily transportation was about 300,000 person-times. This year’s Spring Festival holidays due to the long days and scattered crowds, the highest single-day transportation was about 260,000 person-times.