page_title: Taiwan Railways Administration
section_title: Ticketing
hierarchical_section_title: Taiwan Railways Administration / Ticketing
caption_attribution_description: 中文（繁體）‎: 臺灣鐵路管理局第1005車次自強號背磁式車票，從臺北站到臺南站，乘車日期為2007年（中華民國96年）11月10日。
context_page_description: Taiwan Railways Administration, is a railway operator in Taiwan. It is an agency of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, responsible for managing, maintaining, and running conventional passenger and freight railway services on 1097 km of track in Taiwan.
  Since Taiwan is heavily urbanised with a high population density, railways have played an important part in domestic transportation since the late 19th century. Passenger traffic in 2018 was 231,267,955.
  The agency's headquarters are in Zhongzheng District, Taipei.
context_section_description: TRA's tickets were printed on traditional Edmondson presses until Japan's NEC supplied a computerized ticketing and reservation system in the late 1980s. Almost all stations are divided into paid (platform) and unpaid (waiting room) areas. Normally, ticket examiners govern platform access, checking and punching tickets as passengers enter. Conductors perform onboard ticket checks near peak load points or every ~100 miles, verifying that passengers hold train-class appropriate tickets, and dispense step-up and zone extension fares from portable ticket printers. Examiners also control access to unpaid areas at destinations, ensuring all passengers paid full distance-based fares. Used tickets are collected and not returned to passengers unless cancelled by stamps (similar to postmarks). Those arriving without appropriate tickets (i.e. requiring "fare adjustments") are assessed 50% penalties, giving passengers incentives to find conductors on board to purchase step-up fares. Tickets are validated at origin, destination, and sometimes en route; evasion thus would require elaborate two-ticket schemes or exiting from paid area without going through fare control. Fare evasion rates are thought to be low. Proof-of-payment methods are not used.
caption: Larger format Taiwan Railways Administration ticket used by Tzu-Chiang express train with seat reservations (Car 6 Seat 15), issued by the AFC system.
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