A Study on Service Plan for Inter-city Express Train based on the Holiday Passenger Behavior

Abstract

Passenger demand on holidays is influenced by some factors, such as an economic growth and weather condition during in vacation week. In order to grasp a trend of inter-city passenger trips on holidays, the originally designed questionnaire survey is conducted to residents in Tokyo metropolitan area. Modal split models between inter-city train and automobile are calibrated using the preference data derived from the survey. This paper disasses some findings, which imply the increase of inter-city railway passenger demand on holidays.