A Study on the Choice Behavior of Passengers in Rural Subsidy Bus Route for Paratransit / 偏遠地區服務補貼路線乘客對引進副大眾運輸選擇行為之研究

碩士 / 國立交通大學 / 交通運輸研究所 / 93 / Rural area is an area of low population density and low travel demand. It is hard to maintain a conventional bus service in rural area. Much fund was put to subsidy the bus services for rural area in our country, but the effects were not recognized. This study is aimed at exploring the socio-economic and travel characteristics of bus passengers in rural area and their choice preference for paratransit services.

Owing to the limited resources, only 5 subsidized bus routes around Taipei metropolitan area were selected as studying targets, representing 5 corridors of different land use. This research conducts the survey of the questionnaire about passengers' preference choice behavior of taking bus in Rural Subsidy Bus Route, and establishes the stated preference model, via discrete choice model to analyze the passengers' choice behavior.

The result , cross analysis, and choice model estimation, this research classifies the Taipei metropolitan rural subsidy bus route into two broad categories :One is low land use, low population density and trip generation scatters; the other is high land use, high population density and trip generation centralizes.

The estimation results of the multinomial logit model indicate that in-vehicle travel time, travel cost, age, and ownership of private vehicles are significant factors to influence the passenger choice in the Taipei Zoo - Jinlong temple bus route;in-vehicle travel time and disposable income per month are significant factors to influence the passenger choice in the Rueifang - Lioudu bus route ;out-of-vehicle travel time, age, disposable income per month, ownership of private vehicles, and trip purpose are significant factors to influence the passenger choice in the Danshuei - Jhongtai bus route ;travel cost, sex, and disposable income per month are significant factors to influence the passenger choice in the Rueifang - Bitou Cape bus route.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/093NCTU5118007
Date January 2005
CreatorsBing-Yuan Cheng, 鄭秉元
ContributorsTai-Sheng Huang, 黃台生
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format145

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