1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Merits for Bus Business by Cooperating with Welfare-Bus
| Project/Area Number |
04650488
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
交通工学・国土計画
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| Research Institution | Kyushu Tokai University |
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Principal Investigator |
WATANABE Chikae Kyushu Tokai University, College of Engineering, Professor., 工学部, 教授 (90029330)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIZOKAMI Shoshi Kyushu Tokai University, College of Engineering, Associate Professor., 工学部, 助教授 (20135403)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1994
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| Keywords | welfare transportation / welfare bus / route bus / deficit |
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| Research Abstract |
In Japan the welfare-buses have been increasing from 1980 for the disabled persons. According to the results of survey, the welfare-bus is carrying very few persons, and is not in efficient running. As the welfare-bus system has the poor finances, so it will be important to impose the fare to users, and to substitute the route-bus system for the welfare-bus system.
We would like to suggest a new system, "the route welfare-bus" (R-W-bus), which is a conbination of the route bus and the welfare-bus. The R-W-bus carries the disabled or elderly persons by the route-bus vehicle. We think that there can be two type in the "route welfare-bus" (R-W-bus) as shown in Table. In each case of A and B type, the fare is written as follows ;
A type : f=76,300 (LF/P)
B type : f=284,000 (LF/P)
f : fare (yen per person)
L : length of bus route (km)
F : running frequency (round/day)
P : number of passengers (persons/day)
We tried the calculation of the fare imaging the application to the big city. The results are shown in Table. The fare in the case A is clearly cheaper than in case B.It is desirable that the bus enterprises manage the R-W-bus system with their route-buses. However, still in the case of A type, the fare of R-W-bus is rather expensive than one of the ordinary route-bus. So it will be necessary for the local government to give the financial aid to R-W-bus.
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Research Products
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