1. Railway Transportation: Major construction projects for railway transportation in 2005 include north-south high-speed railway, conversion of railway in metropolitan areas to mass-rapid transit mode, underground and elevated railway projects in metropolitan area, and mass-rapid transit systems. The total railway passenger traffic stood at 170 million person-trips in 2005, down 0.6% from 2004. Taipei's medium-capacity MRT system registered a passenger traffic of 31.47 million person-trips, while the heavy-capacity MRT system carried 329.26 million person-trips

2. Highway Transportation: Major highway construction projects in 2005 include widening engineering of Chungshan Freeway, planning for and construction of No.5 state-run highway, Nantou-section construction of No. 6 state-run highway, coastal expressway in western Taiwan, and east-west expressway in the western corridor of Taiwan. In 2005, the passenger traffic for the bus transport industry reached 1,007 million person-trips, down 0.6% from the previous year, including 750 million for bus transport in urban areas, down 0.6%, and 250 million for highway bus transport, up 0.5%.

3. Maritime transportation: In 2005, there were 212 vessels registered in Taiwan, totaling 3.39 million tons in displacement when unloaded and 5.45 million tons when loaded. These ships' total cargo transport volume hit 93.1 million metric tons or 195.4 billion ton-nautical miles, down 3.8% and down 0.1%, respectively, from the previous year. The total container loading/unloading volume of local harbors was 12.8 million TEUs (twenty-feet equivalent units) of containers, down 1.8%, while the total loading/unloading volume was 687.93 million pay tons, down 0.5%.

1. Air Transportation: The airports in Taiwan recorded a total of 480,000 takeoffs and landings in 2005, down 5% from the previous year. The passenger traffic volume inched up 0.3% to 44.27 million person-trips. Volume for loading and unloading of air cargos slipped 0.2% to 1.82 million metric tons. Domestic carriers carried a total of 26.65 million passengers, up 1.8% from the previous year; they also transported 1.78 million metric tons of cargos, up 1.7%.

2. Transportation service: Transportation service industry mainly includes travel agencies and customs brokers. In 2005, there were 2,052 travel agencies in Taiwan, 52 more than 2004. Meanwhile, the number of customs brokers inched up 0.3% to 1,502. They filed 9.14 million copies of imports declarations, up 11.9%, and 9.83 million copies of exports declarations, for a growth of 7.9%.