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Title:

Evaluation of Community Café's Utility for Public Transportation Use in a Local Community in Japan

Accession Number:

01479251

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

Demographic aging and depopulation are forcing local communities in Japan to confront the dilemma of maintaining public transportation services while reducing public transport costs. As a solution, this study discusses the usefulness of a community café (a non-profit-managed public space for eating, drinking and deepening personal interactions) as a bus waiting place. The idea is that passengers can wait comfortably for a bus at a community café even when financial constraints have caused the waiting time to increase as a result of reductions in transportation service frequency. To analyze the relationship between passenger satisfaction with bus transportation when a community café is used as a bus waiting place, a multiattribute utility function (MUF) and orthogonal arrays were used. A questionnaire survey to collect data for analysis was conducted in Atsuma Town, Southern Hokkaido. The bus transport attributes to which MUF was applied in order to evaluate the passenger satisfaction included waiting time, bus fare, and type of waiting place. The analysis shows that the utility function scores for factor combinations such as community café as a bus waiting place and either longer waiting time, or higher bus fare are higher than those for the combinations of canopied shelter with seats and either shorter waiting time or lower bus fare. Such results indicate that using a community café as a bus waiting place may be able to make up for reductions in public bus transport services due to financial constraints.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AP045 Intermodal Transfer Facilities.

Monograph Accession #:

01470560

Report/Paper Numbers:

13-4157

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Kishi, Kunihiro

Pagination:

10p

Publication Date:

2013

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 92nd Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2013-1-13 to 2013-1-17
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; Maps; Photos; References; Tables

Uncontrolled Terms:

Multiattribute utility theory

Geographic Terms:

Japan

Subject Areas:

Economics; Passenger Transportation; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2013 Paper #13-4157

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Feb 5 2013 12:48PM