A Study on Passengers' Choice Behavior of Railway Carriage for High Speed Railway

Autor: Hsin-Lan Huang, 黃歆嵐
Rok vydání: 2001
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 89
The operation train of High Speed Railway（HSR）will include first-class coach and deluxe class coach. The purpose of first-class coach is to meet the needs of passengers who ask high service quality while the deluxe-class is to meet the needs of passengers who highlight economic aspect. Therefore, it is necessary to take passengers’ demand into account for the design of the coach with a view of catching the trend of “customer-oriented”. In order to make the operation of HSR meet the needs of passengers as well as no relative study on coach choice behavior, this research is going to realize the coach choice behavior of passengers by the questionnaire of stated-preference and focus on targets of train, airplane, bus and automobile travelers. A Logit model is build up to calibrate the coach choice behavior and explore the significant factors which influence travelers’ coach choice. The sensitivity analysis and strategy planning are also undertaken in this research. A two-stage approach of stated preference method is employed to acquire the requested data in this research. In the first stage, questionnaire is designed to collect the related attributes affecting the coach choice behaviors of travelers and set up the values of these attributes. In the second stage, two alternatives are generated by the levels of randomly sampled attribute values and the travelers are asked to select their preferred alternatives between two different coaches. The study results showed the fare difference, seat availability, trip distance are the most significant factors affecting the coach choice behavior of travelers. The findings of this research can not only help the HSR Company to develop marketing strategies, but also provide the valuable information for them in the design of HSR coach.
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