Host: The City Planning Institute of Japan
Recently, users of the local railroad are decreasing year by year, and the continuance of the local railroad becomes difficult in the local city. The railroad is an indispensable movement means for local residents, and the railroad is an important facility as a help of the tourism promotion and a countermeasure method against environmental problem. In this study, we carried out a questionnaire on use of Manyo Line to local residents living along Manyo Line which runs between Takaoka City and Imizu City (formerly Shinminato City) in Toyama Prefecture, and we calculated the marginal willingness to pay to the railroad use using choice-based conjoint analysis. As a result, it was found that the air-conditioning perfection of the vehicles was the most important policy, and secondly the cut in price of the fare and shortening of the service interval were important policies.
