EcoMobility World Festival got underway Oct. 1 in southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung City
Taiwan News
Date: 2017/10/03
By: Taiwan Today,Agencies
The EcoMobility World Festival got underway Oct. 1 in southern Taiwan’s Kaohsiung
Premier Lai Ching-te (second right) and Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu (right) take a ride Oct. 1 in an e-shuttle tricycle designed for use during EcoMobili
City, gathering around 900 academics, experts and officials from home and abroad to discuss the latest trends in sustainable urban mobility and green city development.
At the opening of the festival, Premier Lai Ching-te said the event is an outstanding opportunity to showcase the government’s commitment to promoting ecomobility for sustainable urban development. Concrete measures have been adopted in this regard, he added, citing approval of NT$300 billion (US$9.9 billion) to NT$400 billion in funding for railway development under the Forward-looking Infrastructure Development Program.
According to Lai, two other headline initiatives are a five-year, NT$7.2 billion project promoting e-motorcycles, and a four-year, NT$3 billion program reducing urban traffic congestion through big data analysis and other smart technologies. [FULL STORY]
