The success of an aerotropolis rests as much on surface transport connectivity as it does on air connectivity.
The MOTC, together with Taoyuan County transportation planners have therefore been diligent in specifying highway and light rail improvements to TTIA and throughout the region.

These include highway upgrades connecting the airport to Taiwan and other major regional commercial nodes, not to mention a series of airport circular roads efficiently connecting each of the aerotropolis functional zones. In 2014, the Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Access MRT system will connect TTIA to downtown Taipei (in approximately 30 minutes) and other key regional nodes.

The MRT will serve all three terminal locations at TTIA as well as Taiwan's high-speed rail system some seven kilometres away. Such fast and efficient airport access to the broader northern Taiwan region will bring important commercial centres from metro Taiwan to the north to the Hsinchu Industrial Park (Taiwan's Silicon Valley) to the south within the aerotropolis orbit, making a much more geographically expansive airportintegrated economic region.

The goal of the government is for this expanded aerotropolis to be Taiwan's primary infrastructure asset to compete in the globally connected, speed driven economy of the 21st century.