Department of Civil Servant Development

On November 26th, 2019 at the Department of Civil Servant Development, Taipei City Government, both, the Taipei City and New Taipei City governments jointly organized the “FORUM ON PUBLIC POLICY AND URBAN GOVERNANCE OF TAIPEI AND NEW TAIPEI CITIES" with "Cutting across city boundaries for a Greater Taipei Tour" as the theme. Huang, Shan-Shan, the Deputy Mayor of Taipei City and Lin, Chieh-Yu, the Deputy Secretary-General of New Taipei City were invited to deliver the Guests' Remarks and Hsueh, Chun-Ming, the Secretary-General of Taipei City acted as the forum's moderator. More special was the invitation extended to the recipient of the 2019 Smart City Outstanding Contribution Award in the field of Smart Transportation and to Wang, Mu-Heng, Head of the Science and Technology Advisors Office, Ministry of Transportation and Communications who delivered a keynote speech on "People-Oriented Future Smart Transportation Service". All the participants were able to deepen the learning effect from actual experience through the sharing of case studies via the demonstration of intelligent parking lot management, driverless bus-driving, intelligent bus stop, joint transport management platform and other results.

In his speech, Deputy Mayor Huang stated that in the face of rapid changes in globalization, there is a growing interdependence between cities. In particular, the transportation issue which is closely related to the daily lives of the people and cooperation is the only way out of the predicament. Therefore, apart from participating colleagues from the Taipei and New Taipei governments, the forum also extended the invitation to the central authorities, to colleagues from Keelung City, Yilan County, Taoyuan City, and Hsinchu City
to co-participate in the forum. Through city-to-city cooperation, we will jointly build a more intelligent and convenient transport network for the people in the Northern Taiwan area and provide urban intelligent traffic solutions.