Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation (THSRC) and Hitachi Toshiba Supreme Consortium (HTSC) signed a new-generation high-speed rolling stock procurement contract in Tokyo, Japan, on 18 May 2023. The contract price for the 144 cars is circa ¥124.091 billion.
The THSRC represents the first authority to use Japan Shinkansen technology exported to a foreign country. The impeccable safety record, steadily growing ridership before the COVID-19 pandemic, and revenue surplus already made the Taiwan high-speed rail system a successful reference for Japan’s Shinkansen system to be exported abroad.
Full Article: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2023 |