A REORGANIZATION OF DAILY TRANSPORTATION AFTER DEREGULATION OF BUS BUSINESS

This paper describes the influences of deregulation of bus business, revision of public subsidy, and the consolidation of local governments on daily transportation in Kumamoto prefecture. In this research, a questionnaire for 59 local governments in Kumamoto prefecture was executed in order to surve...

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Published inDoboku Gakkai Ronbunshuu D Vol. 65; no. 4; pp. 521 - 533
Main Authors KAKIMOTO, Ryuji, TSURUMARU, Koji
Format Journal Article
LanguageJapanese
Published Japan Society of Civil Engineers 2009
Subjects
consolidation
deregulation of bus business
local bus
public subsidy
questionnaire
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Summary:This paper describes the influences of deregulation of bus business, revision of public subsidy, and the consolidation of local governments on daily transportation in Kumamoto prefecture. In this research, a questionnaire for 59 local governments in Kumamoto prefecture was executed in order to survey these influence. The trend of a reorganization of daily transportation was analyzed using the questionnaire data, and factors of the trend were made clear. Community bus tend to be adopted as a facility of future daily transportation. However, community bus may cause problems if regionality is disregarded. Then the issues were found in order to reorganize daily transportation in local area.
ISSN:1880-6058
DOI:10.2208/jscejd.65.521