Taiwan, which has the world's highest number of motorbikes per capita, plans to curb the annual increase in the number of vehicles to reduce air pollution, an industry official said yesterday.
"We are studying various countries' ways of controlling the number of motorbikes. The methods under consideration are setting a quota for the increase of motorbikes each year, more frequent renewal of motorbike licenses and tougher control of motorbike exhaust fumes," Chen Yi-chang from the Institute of Transportation told reporters.
Taiwan is mulling controlling the number of motorbikes to meet the requirement for cutting greenhouses gases set by the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty designed to limit global greenhouse gas emission.
Taiwan has the world's highest per capita number of motorbikes, with an average of 1.2 motorbikes for every two people.
By the end of last year, Taiwan had 12.34 million motorbikes, averaging 547 motorbikes for every 1,000 people, which is the international standard for counting a country's per capita number of vehicles.
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