An Analysis on Attitude of Users toward Akitsu-Ferry Line

Abstract

There are many small islands in Japan. Almost all of these islands have suffered from depopulation and population ageing. This situation has caused various problems. The problem relating to public transportation is one of most important things. Especially, the users of sea lines that run between these islands and the mainland have been decreasing and some of them are operated in deficit. Akitsu-Ferry Line, which runs between the Osaki-Kamijima Island and the mainland and is the target of this study, had also fallen into deficit previously because of decrease in its users. In this study, Attitude of its users toward the line is analyzed in order to reveal its actual use situation and the users’ opinion on the fare, the number of services and so on, based on a questionnaire survey to its users that we carried out.