A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN PATTERN OF MERGING MUNICIPALITIES AND PROGRESS OF LOCAL BUS TRANSPORT

Abstract

We carried out a questionnaire survey for all municipalities in Japan to grasp the present situation of managing public transits and local goverments' awareness of their public transportation problems the problem about local transportation policy. Especially, from the viewpoint of financial aspects, local goverments' involvement to transportation policies and their problems were examined. Moreover, we attempted to classify consolidation of municipalities. We aim to examine local goverments' effort for transportation policies and their problems in each consolidation category by analyzing the difference of their problems awareness and its difference. We found that consolidated manicipalities have much more problem awareness than non-consolidated ones. As the area of municipalities is larger, this tendency is clearer.