Background When the T aiwan High Speed Rail was being constructed (for what was the world’s fastest train at the time), planners knew that it would run approximately 345 km from Taipei to Kaohsiung, passing 14 major cities and counties and 77 townships and regions. One area of concern was its proximity to the Tainan Science-Based Industrial Park (TSIP), located in Tainan County, southern Taiwan. The TSIP was a new location for many vibration-sensitive high-tech factories. Challenge As a high-speed and high-capacity rail line, the THSR causes induced vibration as it passes next to infrastructures, buildings and residential areas. GeoTech Engineering Consultant Co., Ltd., a company who focuses on automated, remote and integrated geotechnical instrumentation monitoring systems as w

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