碩士 / 國立臺灣大學 / 土木工程學研究所 / 102 / The government has devoted to develop public transport system, which not only can decrease usage of motorized vehicle, but also achieve the goal of green mobility. The usage of motorized vehicle in Taiwan is comparatively high in both urban and the rural areas. The conventional bus, due to its fixed route and fixed schedule characteristics, would not be able to meet the needs in either off-peak hours inside the cities or in the rural area in which operators tend to provide service with limited runs with consideration of cost and available subsidy. Therefore, if there is flexible transport service in terms of route and schedule for passengers, such as the Demand Responsive Transit System (DRTS), then it may overcome those problems and is thought as a good solution comparing with conventional bus system.
There were many studies related to DRTS focusing on cost and social benefits; however, there is a lack of considering passenger preferences in the studies. Hence, this research aims to explore passenger preferences to DRTS. Taiwan Railway Xin-Yin Station and Nan-Ke Station are selected as the study area to identify what factors would have influence on passenger preferences when using DRTS as feeder services for Taiwan Railway. The study uses stated preference to design scenario with consideration of local trip characteristics. Finally, Probit models are developed to analyze those factors that may have influence on passenger preferences.
It is shown that passengers in Xin-Yin Station with characteristics of lower fare, higher subsidy, and trip distance above 7 km would prefer to DRTS. It is also shown that DRTS passengers would highly be male with more motorized vehicles, non-frequent public transport users. Passengers in Nan-Ke Station with characteristics of lower fare, higher subsidy, and trip distance above 7 km would prefer to DRTS. DRTS users would highly be passengers with public transport usage fewer than two times a day, owners of motorized vehicles and completely few children under 18. The result of Bivariate Ordered Probit model has also shown that there are positive relationships between passenger preferences in both stations. It implies that once the government chooses one station as the demonstration project for DRTS, the passenger preferences of both stations would increase. The common influence factors for both stations consist of lower fare, higher subsidy, in-time reservation, and trip distance above 7 km. It is expected that results of this study can be a reference for planning of DRTS and feeder services for commuter rail.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/102NTU05015155 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Chien Lee, 李芊 |
| Contributors | 張學孔 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 101 |
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